Reality of the Remote Wilderness―Krakauer’s Into the Wild and the Inner Desert

作     者：Masato Tobari 

作者机构：Nippon Institue of TechnologySaitamaJapan 

出 版 物：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》 (文学与艺术研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第8卷第12期

页      码：1653-1660页

摘      要：In Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction writing,Into the Wild(1996),away from the early 1990s’American society filled with products and information,young McCandless headed for the Alaskan Wilderness which was believed as the last *** remote wilderness far beyond several designated wilderness areas in the American West was a destination of his spiritual *** image of the wilderness overlaps with the desert in the fourth-century hagiographic literature in terms of solitude,pure and *** the image of the wilderness is an illusion,harsh experience quite different from daily routine give McCandless a sense of *** his purpose of going to wildernesses was searching for“authentic self”through“bodily feelings”(Wang,361),the remote wilderness would be reckoned to have“existential authenticity”(Wang,358)which makes him feel ***,when the wilderness experience inspired McCandless to go back home,a sense of reality shifted from the remote wilderness to *** the Wild is probably not literature to praise desert solitude,rather,Krakauer focuses on the relative self among people.

主 题 词：wilderness reality deseert solitude self monk experience authenticity 

学科分类：0401[教育学-教育学类] 04[教育学] 

D　O　I：10.17265/2159-5836/2018.12.004

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