《教授的房子》对日常生活的批判与救赎  

Critique and redemption of everyday life in The Professor's House

作　　者：张健然 ZHANG Jianran(School of English Studies,Sichuan International Studies University,Chongqing 400031,China)

机构地区：[1]四川外国语大学英语学院,重庆市400031

出　　处：《外文研究》2018年第4期35-40,46,104,共8页Foreign Studies

基　　金：教育部人文社会科学研究基金项目“当代美国西部小说中西部神话的改写研究”(17YJC752040);四川外国语大学校级青年项目“薇拉·凯瑟地域小说的世界主义研究”(sisu201639)

摘　　要：日常生活批判是薇拉·凯瑟《教授的房子》中的重要主题之一。小说以圣·彼得教授的日常生活为叙事主线,揭示启蒙现代性对人的日常生活产生的负面影响。小说中,异化是日常生活的病态症状,现代生活养育的"单面人"则构成了日常生活的景观。凯瑟在批判日常生活的同时,呼吁现代人将日常生活审美化,还原日常生活的丰富性,缓解渗透在日常生活中的异化,救赎被工具理性宰制的现代人。凯瑟对日常生活的批判叩问了崇尚"理性""进步"的启蒙现代性话语,而她对救赎日常生活做出的艺术构想则表现了艺术作品承担的审美救赎功能,进而赋予了小说深刻的社会批判意识和人文关怀。Critique of everyday life is one of the important themes in Willa Cather's The Professor's House.The novel,with St.Peter's everyday life as its narrative thread,debunks the negative effects exerted by Enlightenment modernity upon human beings'everyday life.In the novel,alienation is the morbid symptom of everyday life,and modern men nourished by modern life are“one-dimensional men”who constitute the landscape of everyday life.Cather,apart from criticizing these phenomena,advocates the aestheticization of everyday life,so as to restore its richness,relieve alienation that has permeated in everyday life and rescue modern men who are subjugated to instrumental reason.Cather's critique of everyday life questions the discourse of Enlightenment modernity that admires“reason”and“progress”,and her artistic conception of redeeming everyday life reflects the function of aesthetic redemption assumed by artistic works.Thus,the novel is endowed with profound social critical awareness and humanistic concern.

关 键 词：薇拉·凯瑟 教授的房子 日常生活的批判 救赎 

分 类 号：I712[文学—其他各国文学]