The Education of Mr. Pickwick
The Education of Mr. Pickwick
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匹克威克先生的教育
DOI：
10.2307/2932599
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发表时间：
1969
影响因子：
0.3
通讯作者：
James R. Kincaid
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作者：
James R. Kincaid
《匹克威克先生的论文》是对不合格的天真的告别，而不是对它的庆祝。伊甸园的匹克威克先生被引入一个堕落的世界并取得了胜利，但在他的胜利中，他必须修改他对天真的看法，以便成为完全的人。我认为，这部小说之所以如此滑稽地令人满意，正是因为它拒绝田园诗般的愿景，坚持一个残酷的真实的世界;它之所以如此具有艺术说服力，是因为成长的中心主题的力量和微妙。的确，任何统一的中心主题的存在通常被否认，2并且显然有很好的理由：首先，
HE PICKWICK PAPERS is a farewell to unqualified innocence rather than a celebration of it. The Edenic Mr. Pickwick is initiated into a fallen world and triumphs, but in his triumph he must modify his vision of innocence in order to become fully human. The novel is so comically satisfying, I suggest, precisely because it refuses the idyllic vision and insists on a world which is brutally real; it is so artistically persuasive because of the strength and subtlety of the central motif of initiation.' It is true that the existence of any unifying central motif has generally been denied,2 and for apparently good reasons: first,