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出版社: 上海外语教育出版社; 第1版 (2009年8月1日)

丛书名: 外教社博学文库

平装: 211页

正文语种: 英语

开本: 32

ISBN: 9787544613484, 7544613488

条形码: 9787544613484

尺寸: 20.6 x 14.6 x 0.8 cm

重量: 181 g

内容简介

《追求和谐的完美:评马修·阿诺德文学与文化批评理论》全面和系统地研究了马修·阿诺德文学与文化批评理论。作者在梳理国内外相关文献的基础上，从马修·阿诺德的批评是否具有一致性这个在英美学术界中颇有争议的问题切入，从文学、文化和社会三个方面对马修·阿诺德的批评理论进行了深入的探讨，对贯穿他整个批评理论的“和谐的完美”这一崇高人文理想进行了充分的论证，并澄清了一些容易使人对他产生误解的问题。

《追求和谐的完美:评马修·阿诺德文学与文化批评理论》语言流畅，层次分明，论据翔实，是国内阿诺德研究的一项最新成果。

目录

Introduction

0.1 Amoldian studies in Britain and America

0.1.1 Controversies over Arnold's poetic and critical identity

0.1.2 Controversies over Arnold's gift for consistency

0.2 Amoldian studies in the Chinese context

0.3 Argument for Arnold's consistency in pursuit of an ideal of harmonious perfection

Chapter 1 Harmonious Perfection in Literary Criticism

1.1 An Amoldian definition of literature and literary criticism

1.2 Choice of subject matter for writing poetry and criticism

1.2.1 Considerations behind the choice of poetic models

1.2.2 Considerations behind the choice of critical objects

1.3 Notion of intellectual deliverance through literature

1.4 Criticism on the false practice in translating Homer

1.5 View of relationship between poetry and criticism

1.5.1 Poetry as a criticism of life

1.5.2 Poet's contribution to criticism

1.5.3 Critic's commitment to disinterestedness

Chapter 2 Harmonious Perfection in the Theorization of Culture

2.1 The conception of culture

2.1.1 Evolution of the concept of culture

2.L 2 Culture as a key word

2.2 Culture defined as an embodiment of the ideal of harmonious perfection

2.2.l Culture's union of scientific and ethical passions

2.2.2 Culture's combination of knowing and doing

2.3 Culture in criticism of the falseness of the middle-class values

2.3.1 Domination of the middle-class values in Victorian England

2.3.2 Culture's analysis on the falseness of the middle-class faith in machinery

2.3.3 Culture's rational attitude towards machinery as distinguished from the blind faith of the fanaticism

2.4 Culture in evaluation of historical movements and forces

2.4.1 Appreciation of the Oxford movement

2.4.2 Criticism on Philistinism and Jacobinism

2.5 Insistence upon the best that has been thought and known for all humanity

Chapter 3 Harmonious Perfection in the Conception of State

3.1 Disputes over Arnold's idea of the State

3.2 Desire to save the nation from the danger of anarchy

3.3 Sympathy for democracy and concern with popular benefit

3.4 Principle of authority as an institutional norm for the State

3.5 Faith in an idealized State based on the collective best self

Conclusion

Appendix 1 Matthew Arnold: A Chronology

Appendix 2 Transcriptions for Chinese Names and Titles

1.Transcriptions for Chinese Names

2.Selected Transcriptions for Chinese -titles

Bibliography