对《白鲸》的另种神话-原型批评分析

Another Myth-Archetypal Criticism Of Melville's Moby Dick

《白鲸》是美国作家梅尔维尔的代表作,也是美国乃至世界文学中的经典之作。小说围绕捕杀白鲸这一主题展开,中间贯穿了大量关于当时风土人情、航海捕鲸的描写。自小说问世以来,出现了众多的分析和评论。文章从美国历史文化中所独有的不同民族同性爱恋及"美国梦"原型来为《白鲸》经久不衰的艺术感染力作一诠释。

Moby Dick is one of the greatest novels of American and even world literature as well as Melville＇s masterpiece. It spreads out through the theme of hunting a white whale, with lots of elaborate descriptions on the local customs and whaling knowledge of the time. A variety of critical essays have emerged immediately after the publication of the novel, among which archetypal criticism has been applied, but with an emphasis upon the biblical archetypes in Moby Dick. My paper here aims at analyzing the American-rooted archetypes as embodied in the love relation between the same sex of the different races and American dream from the perspective of myth-archetypal criticism.