| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 第4-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT IN CHINESE | 第7-11页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第11-26页 |
| An Introduction to Wendell Berry and Jayber Crow | 第11-12页 |
| Literature Review | 第12-19页 |
| Berry studies in the United States | 第12-15页 |
| Berry Studies in China | 第15-17页 |
| Jayber Crow Studies in the United States | 第17-18页 |
| Jayber Crow Studies in China | 第18-19页 |
| Thesis Statement | 第19-20页 |
| Theory Introduction | 第20-21页 |
| Ecocriticism | 第20-21页 |
| Term Explanation | 第21-25页 |
| Agrarianism | 第21-22页 |
| Ecological return | 第22-25页 |
| Thesis Structure | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter I RESTORING THE GOOD QUALITIES OF THE YEOMANFARMERS | 第26-38页 |
| 1.1 Sticking to Independence | 第26-31页 |
| 1.1.1 Criticizing agribusiness | 第27页 |
| 1.1.2 Setting the independent model | 第27-29页 |
| 1.1.3 Dismissing progress as a modern superstition | 第29-31页 |
| 1.2 Practicing Diligence as the Work Ethic | 第31-34页 |
| 1.2.1 Conducting an economy of care | 第31-32页 |
| 1.2.2 In conformity with limits | 第32-33页 |
| 1.2.3 Farming as a pleasure | 第33-34页 |
| 1.3 Being the Benevolent Facilitator | 第34-38页 |
| 1.3.1 Embracing equality and mutual understanding: an answer toanthropocentrism | 第34-36页 |
| 1.3.2 Facilitating the balance | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter II CONSTRUCTING THE IDEAL AGRARIAN PLACE | 第38-54页 |
| 2.1 Returning to Place: A Recurrent Motif | 第38-40页 |
| 2.1.1 Place in ecocriticism | 第38-39页 |
| 2.1.2 Returning to place: a literary tradition Berry inherited and a practicehe took up | 第39-40页 |
| 2.2 Treating Domesticity as the Home Art | 第40-44页 |
| 2.2.1 Forming domesticity as the bond | 第41-42页 |
| 2.2.2 Regaining the lost art of homemaking | 第42-44页 |
| 2.3 Forming a Neighborly Membership | 第44-49页 |
| 2.3.1 A critique of individualism | 第44-46页 |
| 2.3.2 Forming a membership | 第46-47页 |
| 2.3.3 Safeguarding the community against cities and war | 第47-49页 |
| 2.4 Struggling for Place Autonomy | 第49-54页 |
| 2.4.1 Supporting the autonomy of the place | 第49-50页 |
| 2.4.2 A place governing itself | 第50-51页 |
| 2.4.3 The victimization of the community in fiction and reality | 第51-54页 |
| Chapter III PRESERVING MEMORIES AND TRADITIONS FORTHE AGRARIAN IDEAL | 第54-63页 |
| 3.1 Keeping Memories and Ensuring Succession | 第54-58页 |
| 3.1.1 Remembering the past | 第54-55页 |
| 3.1.2 Memories bringing people home | 第55-57页 |
| 3.1.3 Succession: connecting the past, the present and the future | 第57-58页 |
| 3.2 Upholding Traditions | 第58-63页 |
| 3.2.1 Prizing traditions | 第58-59页 |
| 3.2.2 Traditions as the means of identification | 第59-60页 |
| 3.2.3 Conserving traditions leading to rebuilding | 第60-63页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第63-66页 |
| Research Findings | 第63-64页 |
| Research Significance | 第64-65页 |
| Academic significance | 第64-65页 |
| Realistic significance | 第65页 |
| Further Research Possibilities | 第65-66页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第66-68页 |
