摘要
本文从犹太伦理叙事的视角出发来观照贝娄的短篇小说代表作"如烟往事"。所谓"犹太伦理叙事"包括三方面内涵:其一,小说中人物形象的塑造、主题的显现具有犹太伦理特征;其二,作品中蕴含着的犹太伦理意识及其背后蕴含着的深厚的犹太文化底蕴是通过其高超的叙事手法来呈现的;其三,这些叙事手法的采用不仅体现出了叙事主体的伦理取向和价值判断,同时也表现出贝娄叙事艺术的主要特征。这部小说以双重聚焦和转换式内聚焦混合的叙事方式展现了以金钱为重和珍惜自我的犹太商业伦理观是如何让位于注重亲情的家庭伦理观,艾萨克的自我救赎使得他回归了亲情的怀抱,同时也隐含着作者的犹太伦理价值取向,从而显示出传统犹太伦理价值观在当今世界的现实意义。
"The Old System" is studied from the perspective of Jewish ethical narrative which is due to the three implications it conveys: Firstly, the main features of character portrayal and theme are connnected with the Jewish ethics; Secondly, Jewish ethics and Jewish culture are described with narrative strategies;Thirdly, it makes an attempt to prove that the employment of these narrative strategies is an effective technique to convey narrative subject' s ethic orientation and view of values. In "The Old System", the mixed use of double focalization and shifting internal focalization shows that the money-centered Jewish economic ethic was substitued for the emotion-centered Jewish familial ethic. Finally, Issac was embraced with relatives by his self-salvation. The story also implies the author' s Jewish ethical value orientation.
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2008年第6期57-65,共9页
Foreign Literature Studies
基金
教育部人文社会科学研究青年基金项目"犹太伦理与叙事艺术:索尔.贝娄小说研究"【项目编号:08JC752008】的阶段性成果
关键词
“如烟往事”
犹太伦理叙事
商业伦理观
家庭伦理观
多元聚焦叙事模式
"The Old System" Jewish ethical narrative the view of economic ethic the view of familial ethic pluralistic focalization narrative mode