新教伦理景观图——济慈《圣亚尼节前夜》的修辞伦理批评

外国文学研究 ›› 2018, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (3): 99-109.

新教伦理景观图——济慈《圣亚尼节前夜》的修辞伦理批评

陈军

出版日期:2018-06-25 发布日期:2022-05-23
作者简介:陈军,中山大学外国语学院副研究员,研究方向为英语诗歌和修辞学。
基金资助:
教育部哲社科重大招标课题攻关项目“中国百年诗歌翻译的诗学谱系研究”(17JZD046)

The Landscape of Protestant Ethic: A Critique of Rhetorical Ethic in John Keats's The Eve of St. Agnes

Chen Jun

Online:2018-06-25 Published:2022-05-23
About author:Chen Jun, Ph.D., is research fellow at School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou 510275, China). His academic interests include English poetry and rhetoric. Email: chenjun26@mail.sysu.edu.cn

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 济慈常被误认为一位对社会现实漠不关心的浪漫主义诗人。本文从修辞伦理视角阐释济慈的长篇叙事诗《圣亚尼节前夜》,援引韦伯关于新教伦理的论述,说明诗人将新教伦理融入诗歌,试图赋予社会生活以新教伦理,以此积极介入社会。通过考察诗歌中的修辞伦理,本文从三个方面说明济慈倡导的新教伦理观：以苦修作为职业的苦行僧象征新教的职业伦理观,普菲洛与玛德琳的爱情故事寓意新教调和平衡的情爱伦理观,对奢侈品消费的克制意旨新教的消费伦理观。济慈标举新教伦理的目的在于摧毁冲动性享乐,使社会生活变得更加有秩序。诗歌中的人物、事件、意象等元素呈现了一幅新教伦理景观图,彰显了诗人以文学影响读者伦理观的书写策略。

关键词: 济慈, 《圣亚尼节前夜》, 新教伦理, 修辞伦理

Abstract: Though often misunderstood as showing little concern for social reality, John Keatsdemonstrates a strong sense of social engagement. From the perspective of the rhetorical ethic, and Max Weber's theory of the Protestant ethic in particular, this article offers a new reading of Keats's narrative poem “The Eve of St. Agnes,” illuminating how Keats attemps to impose the Protestant order upon the world depicted. The article elaborates the Protestant ethic proposed by the poet from three aspects: the Protestant ethic of occupation, the Protestant ethic of love, and the Protestant ethic of consumption. For Keats, the purpose of proposing such an ethic is to destroy the irrational impulse for pleasure and to make the social life more orderly. The characters, events, and images in the poem shape the landscape of the Protestant ethic, displaying the poet's strategy of writing that influences the reader.

Key words: John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes, Protestant ethic, rhetorical ethic

陈军. 新教伦理景观图——济慈《圣亚尼节前夜》的修辞伦理批评[J]. 外国文学研究, 2018, 40(3): 99-109.

Chen Jun. The Landscape of Protestant Ethic: A Critique of Rhetorical Ethic in John Keats's The Eve of St. Agnes[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2018, 40(3): 99-109.

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