本文为哈佛大学英美文学系教授、系主任、著名生态批评学者劳伦斯·布依尔(LawrenceBuell)2002年春在北京大学讲学期间的一次演讲。文章对文学批评中忽视环境话语的人类中心主义传统进行了反思和批判,将环境问题放到了与人类生活、人类需要和人类问题同等重要的位置,并在此基础上讨论了生态批评的范围、生态批评与国别文学、文化研究关系等一系列重大问题。 This is a lecture given during the lecture time at Peking University by Lawrence Buell, a professor and director of Anglo-American Literature at Harvard University, and a noted ecologist. The article reviews and criticizes the tradition of anthropocentrism that ignored environmental discourse in literary criticism, put the environmental issue on the same important position as human life, human needs and human issues, and discussed the scope of ecological criticism on the basis of this, Ecological criticism and country literature, cultural studies and a series of major issues.