摘要
用文学伦理学批评的斯芬克斯因子来解释美国当代小说家多克特罗的寓言体小说《欢迎来到哈德泰姆斯镇》(1960)所表现的文学现象并分析小说文本,我们发现这部后现代主义小说揭示了人类自身善恶并存的本质和资本主义社会中导致人类社会自我毁灭的人的内在邪恶。布鲁与"来自博迪的坏人"在对小镇实施重建和破坏的行为中构成了是当保护人类社会的英雄还是当毁灭人类社会的魔鬼的伦理冲突。小说通过这一伦理冲突展现出何为善与何为恶的道德教诲价值。从文学伦理学批评这一新的视角,我们看到后现代主义文学同以前任何历史时期的文学一样,其本质也是伦理的,其最基本的功能也是道德教诲。
The essay uses the Sphinx Factor in the theories of ethical literary criticism to explain the literary phenomena represented in Welcome to Hard Times （1960）, an allegorical novel by E. L. Doctorow, the American contemporary novelist. Analyzing this postmodernist novel reveals the essence of human beings in whom good and evil coexist and the immanent evil in man leads human society to self-destruction in a capitalist society. In the actions of reconstructing and destroying the small town Hard Times, Blue and the Bad Man from Bodie form an ethical conflict about whether to be a hero who protects the human society or become a demon that destroys human society. The novel embodies through this ethical conflict the value of moral edification to tell what is good and what is evil. From this new angle of ethical literary criticism, we see that, similar to literatures in any historical periods in the past, postmodernist literature＇s essence is also ethical and its most essential function is also moral edification.
作者
陈世丹
Shidan Chen/ Professor(School of Foreign Languages, Renmin University of China, Beijing, Chin)
出处
《外国语言与文化》
2018年第1期48-56,共9页
Foreign Languages and Cultures
基金
中国人民大学科学研究基金(明德学者计划)项目"美国作家E.L.多克特罗研究"(10XNJ056)
