赫尔曼·麦尔维尔
2008-8-1
上海外语教育出版社
海斯（Hayes, Kevin）
140
无
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。
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。本书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。
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
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.
这是一本兼具学术性和普及性的麦尔维尔的导读书。本书在分析和阐述麦尔维尔文本世界的同时，特别关注批评视阈中麦尔维尔形象。海斯用适当篇幅对麦尔维尔研究的形成、发展及其国际影响做了简要描述，重点介绍了各个不同时期研究麦尔维尔的代表人物和著作，基本上勾勒出自传记批评以来麦尔维尔在欧美的流传情形以及研究的发展轨迹，凸显了麦尔维尔研究的学术内涵。海斯对麦尔维尔在批评界的沉浮以及不同时期他的作品所传达的不同意义所做的归纳与分析给研究者展示了一个意义纷呈的麦尔维尔阅读世界。
无
这本书不错n_n