《觉醒》的神学美学阐释

神学美学是一种新兴的文学批评视角,首次用神学美学来解读美国作家凯特o肖邦的小说《觉醒》。大海和格蓝岛被看作是人类初始的伊甸园,小说展示了人类遭受魔鬼诱惑与拯救灵魂的内心挣扎。主人公探索过程就是一个心路回归的历程,也就是寻找伊甸园的过程,表达了回归的主题。

Theological and aesthetic expatiation of The Awakening

As a newly-emerging perspective of literary,theological aesthetics criticism is for the first time adopted to interpret The awakening by Kate Chopin in which the sea and Grand Isle are seen as an primitive Garden of Eden to human beings.The novel exhibits the inner struggle undergone by humans at the temptation of the devil and in their salvation of soul.The process of the hero’s exploration is a process of psychological return as well as a process of seeking the Garden of Eden,which conveys the theme of return.