论霍桑的超验主义倾向——解读《美的艺术家》

作为美国19世纪最伟大的小说家之一,纳撒尼尔·霍桑的作品总是与清教紧密地联系在一起,但无论如何霍桑还是无法超越所处的时代,彻底摆脱盛行的超验主义语境对其作品的潜在影响。霍桑小说《美的艺术家》中艺术家欧文对于超凡之美的追求充分体现了超验主义强调超灵、自我以及自然的主要思想,从中也折射出19世纪超验主义对霍桑的影响以及霍桑对超验主义的辩证思考,引发身陷现代性危机的当代读者对于美及精神追求的凝重反思。

On Hawthorne's Transcendental Tendency——An Interpretation of The Artist of the Beautiful

As one of the greatest writers in the 19 th century,Nathaniel Hawthorne＇s novels were popularly associated with Puritanism.However,Hawthorne could not transcend his time and get rid of the unintended influence of the prevailing transcendentalism context over his works.In Hawthorne＇s novel The Artist of the Beautiful,the hero Owen＇s persistent pursuit of the beautiful fully embodies the main ideas of transcendentalism,which attach great importance to the oversoul,the individual,and the nature.The novel also reveals the influence of transcendentalism upon Hawthorne and Hawthorne＇s dialectical thinking of transcendentalism,in which Owen＇s spiritual pursuit is still thought-provoking for contemporary readers in the crisis of modernity.