论文标题:论索尔·贝娄关于人类存在的思考
Saul Bellow"s Ideas on Man"s Existence
论文作者
论文导师 刘蓓,论文学位 硕士,论文专业 英语语言文学
论文单位 山东师范大学,点击次数 156,论文页数 89页File Size1196K
2006-10-10论文网 http://www.lw23.com/lunwen_7506162/
Saul Bellow; Herzog ;existence ;existentialism ;idea
索尔·贝娄是二战后美国最重要的作家之一。作为诺贝尔文学奖及众多其他奖项的获得者,贝娄被看作是继福克纳和海明威之后美国主要的小说家。贝娄善于通过对他所熟悉的知识分子的描写,来剖析现代社会中人类对于自身意义的探索及其对社会生活真谛的追寻。 《赫索格》发表于1964年,被视为贝娄最有价值的一部作品,成为美国轰动一时的畅销书。小说讲述了一名犹太知识分子在现代社会中对于自身存在意义的执著追寻以及他对于人类真正存在的最终理解。这部小说不仅反映了存在主义哲学思想对贝娄的影响,而且也体现了贝娄对于人类及其存在意义问题上独到的见解。而这也正是本论文试图论述的核心。 本论文共分为五部分: 第一部分,前言。该部分简单回顾了一下前人对于《赫索格》所作的研究并简要指出本论文写作的目的及意义。出版以来,索尔·贝娄的代表作《赫索格》吸引了众多的读者和评论家,并以其对一名犹太知识分子在充满焦虑的六十年代寻找自身意义的深刻细致而又不乏幽默的描述,赢得了众多的赞扬。它标志着贝娄在写作艺术上的进步与发展。评论家们曾就这部小说的诸多方面进行过研究,如主人公的性格与心理模式,小说的结构及叙事技巧,小说的思想主题,以及小说中体现出的犹太性。许多评论家在分析和研究《赫索格》时,将贝娄与存在主义联系起来。 本论文写作的目的是要通过对《赫索格》哲学意蕴的探索,试图更加全面地分析贝娄对现代社会中人类及其存在的理解与思考,同时对于索尔·贝娄与存在主义的关系,给予一个新的,更加客观的评价。 第二部分主要讨论索尔·贝娄与存在主义哲学的关系。指出贝娄小说的主题与存在主义哲学所关注的核心是一致的,即对人类生存现状的探索。作为西方一
Among the many great writers in postwar America, Saul Bellow is considered one of the most important. Winner of the Nobel Prize and numerous honors, Bellow is acknowledged as a major American novelist and the inheritor of the place of Faulkner and Hemingway. He devotes himself almost passionately to the searches for a definable self and the attempts to imagine life in the modern society by exposing the social and intellectual issues he is familiar with. Herzog was published in 1964 and is generally considered Bellow’s worthiest achievement. The publication of the novel raised a stir in America and remained a bestseller for many weeks. Herzog, which tells an intellectual’s experience in the wicked society, his perseverance in the quest for authentic being, and his final recognition of the truth of life, is an embodiment of Bellow’s understanding and evaluation of human beings and their lives. The novel not only shows the influence of the ideas of existentialism on Bellow in his evaluation of human condition and their existence, but also exhibits Bellow’s own understanding of human beings and the significance of their existence in the modern world. And this is the point that my dissertation attempts to demonstrate. The dissertation consists of five parts: Part One, Introduction. This part gives a brief review of the criticisms on Bellow’s novel Herzog and introduces briefly the aim of this thesis. Herzog is the masterpiece of Saul Bellow, which has raised the interests of many readers and critics since its publication. It has won praise for its penetrating and humorous portrait of a Jewish intellectual searching for meaning and selfhood in the anxiety-ridden America of the 1960s. It marks some sort of new development in Saul Bellow"s art. Critics
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