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标题：Landscape, Culture, and Education in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
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作者：Vandermeersche, Geert ; Soetaert, Ronald
期刊名称：CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
印刷版ISSN：1481-4374
电子版ISSN：1556-2905
出版年度：2012
卷号：14
期号：3
页码：9
出版社：Purdue University
摘要：In their article "Landscape, Culture, and Education in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe" Geert Vandermeersche and Ronald Soetaert discuss Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as a narrative that translates nature and our dealings with it into a literary text. Vandeermeersche and Soetaert postulate that the novel can be read as a quintessential fable of humans' cultivation of nature and the creation of individuality, which, at the same time, provides its readers with strategies for describing processes such as education. Robinson Crusoe and its characters, metaphors, and scenarios function in the "auto-communication" of culture as an enduring equipment for living (Burke), a company readers keep (Booth), and a cognitive tool in modern Western culture.