从平淡情节中的精神突转见主题——评詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《死者》

爱尔兰作家詹姆斯·乔伊斯注重在平淡、客观性叙述中,突现人物精神的突转,含蓄揭示作品主题。其短篇小说《死者》复杂独特的主题即是从主人公加布里埃尔的两次大的精神突转中呈现的。     

Philosophy as Literature

How best to introduce philosophical ideas? Is the best and only way by studying the history of philosophy and its rational arguments and discussions? But can literature, usually hived off from philosophy, be used instead and can this be as effective as rational argument? This paper explores these questions. First it considers a text which introduces philosophy through the analysis of literature, in particular James Joyce's 'Araby', arguing that the traditional analytic approach employed by the text, by concentrating on epistemology, obscures other philosophical insights offered by Joyce. It then turns to French philosophy and literature and suggests that Sartre, Beauvoir and Camus by 'blurring' the analytic distinction between philosophy and literature have much to offer to the grasping and understanding of philosophical ideas and principles.