宗教爱的世俗化与世俗爱的宗教化——《坎特伯雷故事集》与《红字》比较研究

Secularization of religious love and religionization of secular love

自文艺复兴以来,宗教与世俗之间孰去孰从的两难抉择一直是困扰着西方作家的一个难题。本文通过对乔叟和霍桑作品的分析,揭示二者在宗教和世俗问题上的共同立场和对这一难题的共同答案:宗教爱的世俗化与世俗爱的宗教化,而这也是文艺复兴以来西方文学永恒的主题。

The dilemma between religious piety and secular pleasure has been haunting the Western writers since the Renaissance. This paper, making an analysis of the representative works by Geoffrey Chaucer and Nathaniel Hawthorne, reveals their shared views on religion and secular affairs, and their solution to the dilemma: secularization of religious love and religionization of secular love, which is also the theme of Western literature since the Renaissance.