摘要
19世纪后期,英国文学作品中出现诸多对于原始社会的想象与建构,当时逐渐兴起的进化人类学起到决定性作用。本文探讨英国小说家哈格德如何将人类学理论、民族志与罗曼司写作交织在一起,接受、挪用和改造来自帝国边疆的非洲神秘主义,对19世纪末神秘主义复兴运动中科学与信仰,理性与灵性之间的界限进行反思。受到比较研究方法论的启发,哈格德将非洲部落视为为欧洲早期文化发展阶段,暗示了神秘主义复兴运动试图“揭开自然之面纱”的盲目乐观,凸显出非理性信仰对于认识世界的价值。“神秘非洲”在哈格德笔下本质上是一个时间概念,是他批判“文明社会”并推进其自我认识的有效尝试。
Evolutionary anthropology is crucial for the imagination of primitive societies in the British literary works at the end of 19th century.British writer H.R.Haggard intertwines anthropological theory,and ethnography into the genre of romance.He appropriates and transforms African occultism from the frontier of the Empire to explore the blurring boundary between science and belief,rationalism and occultism in the Victorian Occult Revival.Enlightened by comparative methodology,Africa is regarded by him as the early stage of European cultural development,through which he criticized the blind optimism in“unveiling nature”and demonstrated the importance of a spiritual belief in understanding the world.“Mystical Africa”,an essentially temporal concept for Haggard,represents his active endeavor to critique the“civilized society”and call forth its introspection.
作者
王荣
WANG Rong(School of Foreign Languages,Hangzhou Dianzi University,Hangzhou 310018,China)
出处
《山东外语教学》
北大核心
2023年第6期94-102,共9页
Shandong Foreign Language Teaching
基金
教育部人文社会科学研究青年项目“赖德·哈格德罗曼司的非洲想象与身份建构研究”(项目编号:17YJC752032)的阶段性成果。
