出版時間:2008-8-1 出版社:上海外語教育出版社 作者:海斯(Hayes, Kevin) 頁數:140
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前言
我們有幸將“劍橋文學名家研習系列”(美國卷)叢書推薦給我國有關專業(yè)的本科生、研究生和外國文學愛好者。這一套著名大學出版社的英文原版文學叢書,以普及、介紹和導讀為宗旨,集權威性和可讀性于一體,原汁原味但又淺近易懂,特色鮮明,十分難得。叢書是開放式的,我們首先推出第一系列共七冊,包括詩人惠特曼、狄金森、龐德,作家霍桑、麥爾維爾、馬克·吐溫和菲茨杰拉德。這些美國作家和詩人都是我國知識界和文化青年熟知的名字——至少是應該知道的名字。他們都是美國主流文學的臺柱,他們的作品影響巨大,能夠反映或折射當時的歷史和社會狀況,并仍然能給今天的我們帶來啟示。他們是世界文化遺產的一部分,屬于美國,也屬于全世界。
內容概要
1851年,《白鯨》問世,反應冷淡。而今,這部作品已成為美國文學的巨擘之作。本書側重論述麥爾維爾創(chuàng)作的主題意蘊、生成語境和流傳接受過程,全面展示了麥爾維爾及其文學作品,內容豐富、資料翔實、語言簡練,融作者生平、文獻綜述、理論視角和文本分析于一體,為讀者進一步閱讀和研究麥爾維爾提供了必要的指導。
書籍目錄
PrefaceAbbreviationsChapter 1 LifeChapter 2 Contexts The existential context The historical context The urban context The visual context The psychological context The American context The context of labor The context of slavery The world context The imaginative contextChapter 3 Writings The faces of Typee Omoo: the rover as flaneur Becoming a great writer: Mardi, Redburn,White-Jacket Confronting Moby-Dick Pierre. the making of a tragic hero Private letters Rewriting history: Israel Potter and “Benito Cereno” Modern man: “The Lightning-Rod Man,” The Confidence-Man, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” Contents Battle-Pieces: the voices of war Clarel, an American epic The return to prose: Burgundy Club sketches,John Marr Billy Budd: visions and revisionsChapter 4 Reception Notes Guide to further readingIndex
章節(jié)摘錄
Chapter 1 Life Traveling from Pittsfield, Massachusetts to Albany, New York one November tospend Thanksgiving with his family, Herman Melville, at eighteen, had time toreflect on his personal situation. Born in New York City on 1 August 1819, hehad enjoyed a comfortable boyhood, but reverses in his fathers business duringHermans adolescence had forced the family to relocate to Albany, where hisfather fared no better. Overambitious schemes and overextended credit tooktheir toll. He died a broken man, leaving his wife Maria and their seven childrento fend for themselves. Herman was twelve. His teenage brother Ganesvoortwent into business upon their fathers death and proved successful until theDepression of 1837 drove him into bankruptcy. To help the family, Hermanhad left Albany a few months before Thanksgiving this year to teach school inrural Massachusetts.
編輯推薦
這是一本兼具學術性和普及性的麥爾維爾的導讀書。本書在分析和闡述麥爾維爾文本世界的同時,特別關注批評視閾中麥爾維爾形象。海斯用適當篇幅對麥爾維爾研究的形成、發(fā)展及其國際影響做了簡要描述,重點介紹了各個不同時期研究麥爾維爾的代表人物和著作,基本上勾勒出自傳記批評以來麥爾維爾在歐美的流傳情形以及研究的發(fā)展軌跡,凸顯了麥爾維爾研究的學術內涵。海斯對麥爾維爾在批評界的沉浮以及不同時期他的作品所傳達的不同意義所做的歸納與分析給研究者展示了一個意義紛呈的麥爾維爾閱讀世界。
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