以马修·阿诺德的文化理论视角解读贝娄小说《赫索格》

马修·阿诺德的文化理论认为希腊精神体现了人类智性冲动的特征,希伯来精神体现了人类理性冲动的特征,人类的文化主要体现为希腊精神和希伯来精神的对立与冲突。在美国小说家和诺贝尔文学奖获得者索尔·贝娄的代表性小说《赫索格》中,小说主人公赫索格对知识的热爱和对学术理想的追求体现了他身上的希腊精神而在现实生活中他体现了希伯来精神的深刻影响,而他内心的矛盾体现为希腊精神和希伯来精神的冲突。

An Interpretation of Bellow's Herzog from the Cultural Perspective

Matthew Arnold's theory of culture considers that Hellenism represents the intellectual impulse of mankind and Hebraism represents the rational impulse of mankind.Human culture shows the contradiction and conflict between Hellenism and Hebraism.In the representative novel,Herzog by Saul Bellow who is an American novelist and a winner of Nobel Prize for Literature,Herzog,the protagonist,has the Hellenism in his love for knowledge and pursuit of intellectual ideal and his Hebraism is shown in his daily life.H...