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The Revelation of the Western Maritime Literature’ Vicissitude

姓名：叶牡丹学号：2010520070 班级：1013

Literature Review

The Western Maritime Literature

In the western countries, from the 17th to the 19th century, there are producing a large number of literary works, which relate to sea or take sea as a description object. From a special angle, presenting the relationship between human and sea ,human and nature ,and various understanding of human’ own po wer at that time , all of these providing a kind of special literary reading. However ,after entering the 21st century ,when human conquer ocean and nature rapidly ,we lost the wonderful imagination of ocean ,and no longer take ocean as a medium to express human’s good qualities .We divert the attention to the damages done by human to the sea . The Western Maritime Literature shift from passionate to cool style .This change is worth literary studying and the common concern of the social studies.

Due to the kinship with the ocean, man has always taken the ocean as the aesthetic object and included it into the reflections upon history. The sea, one of the important regions of the Western, has become the common subject and theme in the Western literature. Sea literature as an important type of Western literature makes the ocean as a background or the narrative object, of reflects the relationship among ocean and human by describing shipping and island life. Western sea literature consisting of numerous outstanding works, distinctive artistic characteristics, a wide range of literary influence, such as The Old Man and the Sea ,Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe and Leagues Under the Sea and so on,has a long historical tradition and profound cultural significance. Western sea novel occupies a prominent place in Western literature; to some extent, it represents the highest level of the Western sea literature. Sea literature is an important component in Western literature as well as an indispensable part of the literary canon. No matter as a geographical area for production, living, transportation and colonization, or a cultural symbol of mystery, fortune, power, conquering, and promise, the sea plays a constructive part in sustaining and enriching Western literature. The large number of sea literature not only enriches narrative aesthetics, but also contributes to the molding of national character and culture.

However, t here is not a clear definition of “sea literature” or “maritime literature” in

English literature though it abounds in the sea-related texts. At present there are some multiple-misunderstandings on the concepts of maritime literature. While focusing on the pioneering work of British literature——Tempest, the paper aims to analyze and explore these concepts. The author defines maritime literature as those literary works reflecting the ocean, human beings themselves, and the relations between human and the ocean, with the ocean as a background, or as a narrative object, or the direct description of voyage, or even island life. The author holds that Tempest is a classic work of maritime literature.

The 21st century is all oceanic century. With the popularity of research into the sea literature ,research into the oceanic literature has increasingly caught the attention of people .The sea literature is the literary work of independent quality and style , which is infiltrated with sea spirit .people have gradually carried out research into the sea literature as a literary phenomenon since the end of the 20th century .ocean is the eternal theme of literature and art ,and the sea literature is mirror the development of the oceanic culture. Bibliography：

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