从陆地到海洋：库柏小说中的“边疆”及其国家意识的演变

外国文学研究 ›› 2017, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (3): 92-103.

从陆地到海洋：库柏小说中的“边疆”及其国家意识的演变

段波

出版日期:2017-06-25 发布日期:2022-06-15
作者简介:段波,博士,宁波大学外国语学院教授,主要研究方向为英美小说和海洋小说。
基金资助:
本文系国家社科基金项目“美国小说中的太平洋书写与国家想象研究”【项目批号：16BWW079】的阶段性成果,并受到宁波大学王宽诚幸福基金资助

From Land to Sea: Frontiers in Cooper's Novels and the Development of His National Consciousness

Duan Bo

Online:2017-06-25 Published:2022-06-15
About author:Duan Bo is a Ph.D. and professor of English at Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ningbo University (Ningbo 315211, China). His research interests are British and American novels in general, and sea fictions in particular. Email: Duanbo@nbu.edu.cn.

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 探讨詹姆斯·库柏的西部小说或海洋小说时,“边疆”始终是一个无法绕开的话题。历史地看,库柏的西部小说正是美国史学中影响深远的“边疆假说”的文学注解;同其扎根于“边疆”传统的西部小说一样,库柏的海洋小说,通过建构美国的太平洋、大西洋国家叙事来拓殖太平洋、大西洋“边疆”;西部小说和海洋小说不仅充实、强化了“边疆假说”,而且还进一步拓展了美国的疆域意识和国家意识,使其从西部陆地延展到浩瀚的蓝色海洋。

关键词: 库柏, 边疆, 海洋荒野, 太平洋书写, 大西洋书写, 国家意识

Abstract: Whenever we explore James Fenimore Cooper's frontier novels and sea fictions, frontier is often a recurring motif. Deeply rooted in the frontier tradition like his frontier writings which serve as literary notes to the historically influential “Frontier Thesis”, Cooper's sea writings, by creating Atlantic and Pacific national narratives to cultivate the ocean wildness and fluid frontiers, not only consolidates the “Frontier Thesis” in American history, but also extend the national consciousness as well as geographical consciousness to include not only the western frontiers but also the vast fluid frontiers.

Key words: Cooper, frontiers, ocean wildness, Pacific writings, Atlantic writings, national consciousness

段波. 从陆地到海洋：库柏小说中的“边疆”及其国家意识的演变[J]. 外国文学研究, 2017, 39(3): 92-103.

Duan Bo. From Land to Sea: Frontiers in Cooper's Novels and the Development of His National Consciousness[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2017, 39(3): 92-103.

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