The Quest for Place and Identity in under the Tuscan Sun

＜托斯卡尼艷陽下＞書中對地方與自我的追求

黃永裕(Yung-Yu Huang)

《淡江外語論叢》 15期 (2010/06) Pp. 1-24

https://doi.org/10.29716/TKSFLL.201006.0001

摘要

面對工作壓力和婚姻挫折，如何找到安身立命的處所，正是＜托斯卡尼艷陽下＞描繪的過程。梅耶思是詩人作家兼大學教授，住在舊金山，卻到義大利鄉下買一棟百年古厝，看似突發奇想，實爲一段療傷止痛的追尋過程；在文明與荒野的中間地帶，過著梭羅式的邊界生活。本文先從生態批評與道家思想的角度，釐清在地感、邊界生活和人與自然之關係，探討作者如何跳脫個人困境，追求地方歸屬感與自我定位，以中庸之道進入天、地、人合一的生活境界。

關鍵字

在地感 ； 自我 ； 生態批評 ； 邊界生活 ； 平衡 ； 天地人合一

並列摘要

How an urbanite responds to the impact of stressful workload and marital setback is portrayed in Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun as a therapeutic process for the rehabilitation of personal integrity. As a professor and writer living in San Francisco, Mayes intends to buy a century-old house in Italy. It proves to be a fruitful venture for her to achieve equilibrium between mind and body by living a border life in the middle landscape between civilization and wilderness. With a basic account of the concepts of sense of place, border life, and man-nature relationship, this paper explores the process of Mayes's quest for place and identity.

並列關鍵字

sense of place ； identity ； ecocriticism ； border life ； equilibrium ； unification of heaven ； earth and humanity

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