赫尔曼·麦尔维尔(剑桥文学名家研习系列)(The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville)

分類: 图书,传记,文学家,美国,
品牌: 海斯
基本信息·出版社:上海外语教育出版社
·页码:140 页
·出版日期:2008年
·ISBN:7544608220/9787544608220
·条形码:9787544608220
·包装版本:1版
·装帧:平装
·开本:32
·正文语种:英语
·丛书名:剑桥文学名家研习系列
·外文书名:The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville
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内容简介1851年,《白鲸》问世,反应冷淡。而今,这部作品已成为美国文学的巨擘之作。《赫尔曼·麦尔维尔》侧重论述麦尔维尔创作的主题意蕴、生成语境和流传接受过程,全面展示了麦尔维尔及其文学作品,内容丰富、资料翔实、语言简练,融作者生平、文献综述、理论视角和文本分析于一体,为读者进一步阅读和研究麦尔维尔提供了必要的指导。
编辑推荐本系列旨在为学生引荐英美文学名家,内容亲和,语言生动,对有意提高西方文学素养的读者很有吸引力。
·学生、教师、专题主讲者均适用
·简明扼要、信息丰富
·配有进一步研究的书目
目录
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Life
Chapter 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 context
Chapter 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 revisions
Chapter 4 Reception
Notes
Guide to further reading
Index
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序言我们有幸将“剑桥文学名家研习系列”(美国卷)丛书推荐给我国有关专业的本科生、研究生和外国文学爱好者。这一套著名大学出版社的英文原版文学丛书,以普及、介绍和导读为宗旨,集权威性和可读性于一体,原汁原味但又浅近易懂,特色鲜明,十分难得。丛书是开放式的,我们首先推出第一系列共七册,包括诗人惠特曼、狄金森、庞德,作家霍桑、麦尔维尔、马克.吐温和菲茨杰拉德。这些美国作家和诗人都是我国知识界和文化青年熟知的名字--至少是应该知道的名字。他们都是美国主流文学的台柱,他们的作品影响巨大,能够反映或折射当时的历史和社会状况,并仍然能给今天的我们带来启示。他们是世界文化遗产的一部分,属于美国,也属于全世界。
文摘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 father's business duringHerman's 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 father's 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.