摘要
本文探讨《荒原》中的优生学主题,结合艾略特在其诗歌、散文作品中关于人口和阶级问题的描写和论述,认为《荒原》通过描写具有不同阶级背景人物的生育问题,不仅反映了20世纪初英国社会中的人口发展问题、特别是各阶层具有差异性的生育率情况,而且还关注甚至试图参与当时英国优生学家群体关于优生学的讨论,而其在该议题上所持的观点具有较为明显的阶级导向特点。
This article explores the theme of eugenics in The Waste Land.Drawing upon T.S.Eliot's description and discussion concerning demographical and class issues in his poetry and prose,this study argues that,by means of describing the fertility of characters from various social classes,The Waste Land not only reveals the population development in early twentieth-century British society,notably the differential birth rates among different social classes,but also pays attention to or even would like to participate in the contemporary British eugenicists'discussion of eugenic issues,with his point of view being clearly class-oriented.
作者
黄强
Huang Qiang(School of English and International Studies,Beijing Foreign Studies University,Beijing,China)
出处
《外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2022年第5期151-160,共10页
Foreign Literature
基金
北京市社科基金青年项目“托·斯·艾略特文学作品中的战争书写研究”(19WXC010)。
