摘要
在众多读者的眼里,赫尔曼·麦尔维尔的《白鲸》是一部"伟大的美国小说"。自其问世以来,人们已经借鉴不同文学理论和创作观念,并从各不相同的视角对其进行阐释,呈现出不同的《白鲸》面貌,其深邃而复杂的意义链像谜一样始终吸引着读者,并引导他们深入到麦尔维尔创设的"白鲸"世界中,进而感受其复杂的文本世界以及多维人生经历和所处的社会历史文化语境等。由美国学界建构的《白鲸》意义群其实与各个时期流行的文学理论有着密切的联系。虽然著名文学理论家特里.伊格尔顿在2003年声称"理论热已经消退",但今天的美国文学批评中理论的运用依然十分普遍。本文将以《白鲸》为例,着重论述"理论热消退后"美国学界对其所作的不同读解,旨在揭示理论对文本意义生成的作用。
Moby-Dick is considered by many readers to be a Great American Novel. Ever since its birth, the book has generated a marvelous body of scholarship to define. It exists in a myriad of multiple meaning, but various projections of the novel have offered unprecedented access to the hidden world of the White Whale Melville cultivated in his time, continuously engaging readers in the personal, social, and cultural context of the book, Melville＇ s life, and his writing process. The critical history of Moby-Dick marks a movement in the appreciation of the book from literary curiosity to masterpiece of American expression. This paper is to explore the possible prevalence of cultural theory in the study of Moby-Dick and examine how this novel is approached ＂after theory ＂.
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2009年第1期88-94,共7页
Foreign Literature Studies
