摘要
英国作家艾迪生在欧陆大旅行中产生了对钱币学的浓厚兴趣,在《意大利札记》的“记游”中,除了嵌入古典诗文外,还加入了对古罗马纪念章的描述。作者借古典诗文与纪念章的“诗画共证”,来发掘古罗马被掩埋的文化符码。纪念章还在彰显帝王功绩、颂扬历史人物美德时发挥了道德教化和政治宣传的功用。纪念章“旧币除锈”的隐喻,又凸显了这本游记的创作意图:艾迪生慨叹古罗马帝国的文明陨落,将古典文明复兴的希望寄托在英国身上,期望在新奥古斯都时代重现古罗马盛世。
With the keen interests in Numismatics sparked by the Grand Tour,British writer Joseph Addison embeds the classical quotations and sketches on the ancient Roman medals into his travel narrative Remarks on Italy.By the interaction between the classical poems and medal images,he endeavors to uncover the buried cultural codes in the ancient empire.Medals,in parading the imperial feats and human virtues,are crowned with the significance of moral teaching and political propaganda.The metaphor of removing the rust from the ancient medals manifests Addison's intention of writing this travelogue:he laments over the fall of ancient Roman Empire and pins the hope of classical revival on Britain with the expectation of retrieving the ancient Roman glory in this new Augustan Age.
作者
徐颖
Xu Ying(School of Foreign Studies,University of International Relations,Beijing,China)
出处
《外国文学》
北大核心
2023年第4期50-60,共11页
Foreign Literature
基金
中央高校基本科研业务科研特色培育项目“地缘政治与英国文学研究”(3262022T16)。
