断裂时代的文化隐喻:论《历史人》中知识分子身份的反文化建构

The Cultural Metaphor of Fractured Times:Anti-Cultural Construction of Intellectual Identity in History Man

作为英国学院小说的代表作之一,《历史人》展现了战后文化危机时代学院知识分子如何建构自我。主人公科克夫妇在战后英国高等教育大众化背景下跻身大学校园,成为历史转型时期的学院知识分子。他们摒弃传统价值观念,以肉体的放纵、知识的消费、激进主义思想和行动成就自己的历史性存在,完成了自己知识分子身份的反文化建构。布雷德伯里以此间接表达了以人文主义引领文化并使其重新进入学院知识分子身份建构的思想。

As a representative academic novel in Britain after World War II, History Man presents how academics construct their identity as intellectuals in the fractured times of cultural crisis. Howard and Barbara Kirk in this novel try their best to live up to the social conventions of the 1960s and infiltrate anti-cultural traits in their construction of identities as intellectuals with permissive sexual behaviors, consumption of academic achievements and radicalism in their political attitude. Malcolm Bradbury intends to show that humanism should be responsible in leading culture back into the construction of intellectual identity.