Tales of Buddha, Dreams of Arabia: Joyce and Images of the East
Tales of Buddha, Dreams of Arabia: Joyce and Images of the East
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佛陀故事、阿拉伯之梦：乔伊斯与东方意象
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10.1034/j.1600-0730.2002.570102.x
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2002
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0.2
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I. Almond
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I. Almond
本文试图对乔伊斯的两个文本--短篇小说《阿拉比》和《尤利西斯》中对东方的呈现进行考察和比较。年轻的乔伊斯对东方的态度基本上是浪漫主义的，几乎是超验的(东方是一种来世，一切都会变得更好)，而在《尤利西斯》中，我们看到了更聪明的东方意识，认为东方是西方的构建--一个与现实几乎没有关系的异国形象画廊。在《阿拉比》中，东方的语义空虚产生了一种悲哀和忧郁的感觉，而《尤利西斯》的作者肯定了这种空虚，似乎并没有被小说中出现的各种佛像、骆驼和肚皮舞者背后的任何现实所困扰。
我在不同的国家看到过人类，发现他们同样卑鄙，如果说有什么不同的话，那就是平衡相当有利于土耳其人。--拜伦，《备忘录》，1811年5月22日
This article attempts to examine and compare the presentation of the Orient in two separate texts by Joyce, the short story “Araby” and Ulysses. Whereas the attitude towards the ‘East’ in the young Joyce is essentially Romantic and almost transcendental (the Orient as a kind of afterlife where everything will be better), in Ulysses we see a more intelligent awareness of the Orient as a Western construct – a gallery of exotic images which has little to do with reality. Where the semantic emptiness of the Orient in “Araby” produces a sense of woe and melancholy, the author of Ulysses affirms the emptiness and appears unpertubed by the absense of any reality behind the various Buddhas, camels and bellydancers that appear in the novel.
I have seen Mankind in various Countries and find them equally despicable, if anything the Balance is rather in favour of the Turks. – Byron, “Memorandum”, May 22nd 1811