• 主题
高级搜索  >
历史搜索 清空历史
首页> 外文学位 >Perfecting Adam: The perils of innocence in the modern novel.
【24h】

Perfecting Adam: The perils of innocence in the modern novel.

机译：完善亚当：现代小说中纯真的危险。

获取原文
获取原文并翻译 | 示例
页面导航
  • 摘要
  • 著录项
  • 相似文献
  • 相关主题

摘要

This dissertation is a comparative study of the concept of innocence in three modern novels: Don Quixote (1605), The Idiot (1868) and Billy Budd (1891). Examining a range of classic religious and literary texts from the Hebrew Bible to Paradise Lost, it draws attention to a little known counter-narrative that views innocence not as an Edenic state of moral perfection prior to the acquisition of knowledge but rather as a rare and virtuous state of the soul that can be sought. This dissertation argues that Cervantes, Dostoevsky and Melville fundamentally reshape our understanding of innocence by reviving and re-animating an ancient meaning of innocence as a virtuous way of life. They explore the consequences of innocence while also giving innocence tremendous scope for imagination, knowledge and aesthetic creativity, fundamentally upending and challenging our traditional understanding of innocence as a blithe state of ignorance and bliss. The dissertation is divided into three parts. Part I analyzes a variety of meanings of innocence in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and in a selection of early Christian writings. It establishes the religious grounds for viewing innocence as a virtuous state of the soul while suggesting that the gradual identification of innocence with the historical state of Eden represents a genuine loss of complexity in how innocence is understood in the Bible. Parts II & III are devoted to literary portraits of innocence, including Dante's Purgatorio, Milton's Paradise Lost and the three modern novels that are the primary focus of this study. The dissertation shows how each of these modern writers understand innocence as a moral virtue closely resembling Augustine's view of innocence as "the whole of righteousness." It establishes how Cervantes, Dostoevsky and Melville employ innocence as an anti-modern symbol to challenge modernity's overvaluation of knowledge and its oversimplification of the morally pure. And it explores the perils of innocence and argues that for Cervantes, Dostoevsky and Melville innocence is a form of moral perfection that, although it may temper the ills of modernity, is nevertheless a form of life ultimately unsuited to the modern world.
机译：本文是对三本现代小说中无罪概念的比较研究：唐吉x德（1605），白痴（1868）和比利·巴德（1891）。从希伯来语圣经到失落的天堂，研究了一系列经典的宗教和文学文本，它提请人们注意一种鲜为人知的反叙述，即将纯真不是获取知识之前的道德理想状态，而是一种稀有的可以寻求灵魂的良性状态。本文认为，塞万提斯，陀思妥耶夫斯基和梅尔维尔通过复兴和重新赋予一种古老的纯真含义作为一种良性生活方式，从根本上重塑了我们对纯真的理解。他们探索了纯真的后果，同时也给纯真提供了广阔的想象空间，知识和美学创造力，从根本上颠覆和挑战了我们对纯真的传统理解，将其理解为一种无知和幸福的幸福状态。本文共分为三个部分。第一部分分析了《希伯来圣经》，《新约》和一系列早期基督教著作中纯真的各种含义。它为将纯真视为灵魂的一种良性状态奠定了宗教基础，同时表明，将纯真与伊甸园的历史状态逐渐识别，意味着对圣经纯真理解的真正丧失。第二部分和第三部分专门研究纯真的文学肖像，包括但丁的《炼狱》，米尔顿的《失落的天堂》以及本研究的三大现代小说。论文展示了这些现代作家如何将纯真理解为一种道德美德，这与奥古斯丁的纯真“正义整体”观点十分相似。它确立了塞万提斯，陀思妥耶夫斯基和梅尔维尔如何将纯真作为一种反现代的象征，来挑战现代性对知识的过高评价和对道德纯朴的过分简化。它探究了纯真的危险，并认为对于塞万提斯而言，陀思妥耶夫斯基和梅尔维尔的纯真是一种道德完美的形式，尽管它可以减轻现代性的弊端，但最终还是不适合现代世界的一种生活方式。

著录项

  • 作者

    Findley, Carl E., III.;

  • 作者单位

    The University of Chicago.;

  • 授予单位 The University of Chicago.;
  • 学科 Literature Modern.;Philosophy.;Literature American.;Religion General.;Literature Slavic and East European.;Literature Romance.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2011
  • 页码 256 p.
  • 总页数 256
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 宗教;
  • 关键词

相似文献

  • 外文文献
  • 中文文献
  • 专利
获取原文

客服邮箱：kefu@zhangqiaokeyan.com

京公网安备：11010802029741号 ICP备案号：京ICP备15016152号-6 六维联合信息科技 (北京) 有限公司©版权所有

  • 客服微信

  • 服务号