《心之死》的趣味与伦理焦虑

Anxiety over Taste and Ethics in The Death of the Heart

本文从英国作家伊丽莎白·鲍温代表作《心之死》中的"烤火场景"入手,探讨这部作品如何表征了20世纪初英国社会中趣味和伦理方面的焦虑,批判了审美趣味和社会伦理的失衡与背离。该作表达出鲍温对英国社会转型所产生的文化焦虑,其关注点在20世纪的英国文化批评史上具有一定的代表意义。

Focusing on the scene of "sitting round a painted,not a burning,fire" in Elizabeth Bowen’ s representative work The Death of the Heart,this paper argues that the novel represents Bowen’ s anxiety over taste and ethics in the early 20 th century Britain,and shows her criticism of the imbalance between taste and ethics.Through this work,Bowen expresses her cultural anxiety over social transition,and her concern displays a representative attitude in the history of British cultural criticism in the 20 th century.