摘要
文学伦理学批评的理论建构近几年颇有建树,尤其是聂珍钊教授提出的斯芬克斯因子,凝练了人性善恶论,将伦理看作定义人性的本质特征,将文学理解为特定时期伦理的艺术表达形式,但斯芬克斯因子以及其它批评术语的适用域尚缺少足够的研究。《老人与海》是国内文学伦理学研究领域的高频引用文本,通过代入斯芬克斯因子等伦理批评术语进行经典重读,发现伦理学术语的有效性和文本语境有密切关系,甚至存在自我兽化的反伦理结构,这是当下多数研究者所忽略的问题。因此文学伦理学批评的主要概念还需要更明确的逻辑推演以及多维度的批评阈值推敲,这样才会使伦理批评体系根深叶茂。
Ethical literary criticism has been developing in Chinese academia for more than a decade. A theoretical breakthrough is made in the introduction of Sphinx factor, a combination of rational and animal factors, to label complicated human nature. Such a poetic and metaphorical terminology regards literature as manifestation of ethical conflicts among rational will,natural will and irrational will, e. g. expression of Sphinx factor and its variations. However, the register of such a fresh term as well as its relationship with other well-established critical terms needs more verification in critical practice. The Old Man and the Sea as a frequently-cited text in ethical literary criticism can be reread in the framework of Sphinx factor,ethical trespass and other key terms to test their terminological value and limitation. It is found that terminological efficiency well depends on contextuality and anti-ethical self-animalization is no rare case for a rational purpose. So more conceptual work is need in terminology to strengthen ethical literary criticism as a promising field.
出处
《英美文学研究论丛》
CSSCI
2018年第2期388-398,共11页
English and American Literary Studies
基金
作者主持的上海海洋大学海洋科学研究院项目“美国海洋生态思想及其文学呈现”,上海海洋大学教务处项目“涉海类高校课程德育的构想与实施研究”的阶段成果
