《亚历山大四重奏中的自我嬗变/外国语言文学博士文库》编著者徐彬。

考虑到达雷尔的流亡作家身份以及其长期以来对自我认同的思索，可以推断“自我嬗变”应是达雷尔这部四重奏小说关注的主题。在《亚历山大四重奏》中，达雷尔对自我的艺术呈现因语境不同而在每部小说中存在差异，作家由此为读者展开了一幅描绘现当代社会自我百态的全景画卷。本书以自我嬗变的主题为联结点对《亚历山大四重奏》中的四部小说——《贾斯汀》、《巴萨泽》、《芒特奥利夫》和《克丽》在不同语境下的自我逐一加以分析。本书由引言、主体和结论三大部分组成。主体分为四章。每一章探讨一种语境下的自我嬗变。

Introduction

Chapter One

Modern Selfhood in Justine

Ⅰ. Sexuality and Troubled Urban Selfhood in Alexandria

Ⅱ. Disintegration of Manhood and Womanhood

Ⅲ. Rejuvenation of Daley's Selfhood in the Countryside

Chapter Two

Postrnodern Seifhood from Justine to Balthazar

Ⅰ. Postmodern Self as a Chronotopic Narrator in Justine

Ⅱ. The Protean Self in Balthazar

Ⅲ. Objectification of Selfhood in Balthazar

Chapter Three

Postcolonial Selfhood in Mountolive

Ⅰ. Mountolive's Diasporic Selthood

Ⅱ. Egyptian Elites' Hybridity and Resistance

Ⅲ. Narouz's Shamanic Resistance and Sacrifice

Chapter Four

Consummation of Selfhood in Clea

Ⅰ. Self-consummation by Means of Love and Individuation

Ⅱ. Sainthood and Therapeutic Power of the Dead

Ⅲ. "Rebirth" of the Living

Conclusion

Bibliography

Acknowledgements