福克纳与沈从文的地域文化观刍议

On Faulkner and Shen Congwen’s Views of Regional Culture from the Perspective of Analytical Psychology

福克纳与沈从文分别通过对美国南方文化和中国湘西文化的探索,形成了对各自地域文化的独特看法。以分析心理学原型批判理论为工具,分析福克纳和沈从文代表作中的典型意象,阐述福克纳和沈从文地域文化观,进而研究形成两人地域文化观的时代因素及其必然性。福克纳和沈从文试图从农业文明中寻求对都市的文化救赎。两个国家所处的不同历史阶段决定了福克纳和沈从文不同的思想归宿。

Through lifelong exploration on American Southern culture and the regional culture of Western Hunan respectively, Faulkner and Shen Congwen developed their unique views of regional culture. With the help of Archetype Theory of Analytical Psychology, the present paper firstly analyzes the typical images in both Faulkner and Shen Congwen’s works. Then, their views of regional culture are illustrated. Finally, the inevitability and historical background of their views are studied. The study concludes that both Faulkner and Shen Congwen tried to seek cultural redemption for industrial civilization from agricultural civilization and their views of regional culture are the result of a certain time.