摘要
麦克尤恩的《星期六》被批评界普遍定性为"9·11小说",但"9·11"事件及其喻指的"政治"命题绝非小说的终极旨趣。在更深层次上,《星期六》暗藏的是"两种文化"即神经外科医生贝罗安所代表的科学与诗人黛西所代表的文学之间的冲突与融合。借助小说,麦克尤恩喻指了"两种文化"在排他性背后的互补可能,即科学之于人的肉体犹如文学之于人的精神,二者须臾不可分离,由此为横亘在两大学科之间的"斯诺命题"作出了自己的注解。
As a rejoinder to the current critical view of labeling McEwan’s Saturday as"9·11"novel,this paper argues that"9·11"attack and its related political concerns are not the ultimate pursuit of the novel.To a large extent,Saturday is a novel about the conflicts and integration of two cultures,namely science represented by a neurosurgeon Henry Perowne,and literature represented by his daughter Daisy.Metaphorically speaking,what science can do to humans’physical world is like what literature can work on their spiritual world.In doing so,McEwan revisits C.P.Snow and explores the possibility of complementarity of two cultures,despite of their seemingly exclusiveness.
作者
尚必武
SHANG Bi-wu(School of Foreign Languages,Shanghai Jiaotong University,Shanghai 200240,China)
出处
《湖南科技大学学报（社会科学版）》
CSSCI
北大核心
2020年第2期36-43,共8页
Journal of Hunan University of Science and Technology(Social Science Edition)
基金
国家社会科学基金一般项目(14BWW039)。
