灵感的忽至与永逝——《离开科罗诺斯的路》主题新探  

The Dawning and the Vanishing of Inspiration:A New Thematic Approach to Foster’s The Road from Colonus

作　　者：梅申友[1] Shenyou Mei(School of Foreign Languages,Peking University,Beijing,China)

机构地区：[1]北京大学外国语学院,北京100871

出　　处：《外国语言与文化》2021年第4期1-11,共11页Foreign Languages and Cultures

摘　　要：《离开科罗诺斯的路》是福斯特最有名的短篇小说之一,长期以来评论者认为同它互文的只有索福柯勒斯的《俄狄浦斯在科罗诺斯》。实际上跟此短篇构成深层暗涉的乃是柯勒律治的《忽必烈汗》,探讨的都是灵感忽至继而被干扰,最终永逝的现象,在展现个体潜意识巨大力量的同时,又揭示了人际关系与灵感维系之间的关系。结合福斯特创作时的境况,此作品的自传成分不言而喻:作者在肯定灵感重要的同时,又担心身边因没有一个致力于连接的人而让灵感付之东流。As the most famous short story by Edward Morgan Forster,The Road from Colonus has been much studied in relation to Sophocles’s Oedipus at Colonus.This essay,by identifying Coleridge’s“Kubla Khan”as another important source text,argues that this Foster’s is mainly about the dawning of inspiration as a testimony to the enormous power of the subconscious and the vanishing of inspiration due to the intervention of outsiders.An investigation into Forster’s personal circumstances reveals his strong trust in inspiration,as well as his deep-seated anxiety about its vanishing in the absence of someone committed to the idea of“only connect.”

关 键 词：爱德华·摩根·福斯特 《离开科罗诺斯的路》 塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治 《忽必烈汗》 灵感 

分 类 号：I561[文学—其他各国文学]