海上的探索--解读《白鲸》

《白鲸》是美国文学史上最伟大的经典作品之一，它那光怪陆离的情节构思以及充满诡谲矛盾的奇特象征引起人们不尽的思考。《白鲸》折射出的是梅尔维尔对于19世纪上升时期美国社会所生产的物质与精神文明的哲理性、宗教性、批判性和悲剧性反思，而反思的根源便是所谓的现代化进程肇始以降西方文明就始终难以摆脱的梦魇似的两难境地。

Ask and Asked for Maritimly:About Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick,one of the greatest classics in American literature, is simply too large a book to be contained within one consistent consciousness subject to the laws of identity and physical plausibility.The novel has always been challenging a reader to a simple,definite,all-encompassing guideline to direct his reading and offering the fertile soil for different interpretations with its depth and dimensions in its saliently paradoxical themes and symbols.The author of this paper holds that the book is still meaningful today with its philosophical,critical, religious reflection of a tragic Herman Melville in his speculation on the dilemma of western civilization in general and American civilization in particular of the nineteenth century.