《白鲸》是美国小说家赫尔曼·梅尔维尔(Herman Melville 1819一1891)于1851年发表的一篇长篇小说，被誉为美国文学史上第一部真正意义上的“伟大的美国小说”。小说描写了亚哈船长执意追逐白鲸莫比·迪克复仇，却最终自取灭亡的故事。小说提出的问题仍是困扰我们这个时代的问题，如人与自然的关系、种族与社会的不平等、性别、同性情结以及心理异化等。然而对作者书中要表达的意义和态度，一直以来部是众说纷纭。
朱瑞青著的《映照的认知诗学研究(隐喻象征和讽喻)(英文版)》从生态、社会政治和酷儿理论三个角度，对小说中的隐喻、象征和讽喻的映照进行了研究，有机结合了读者、文本和社会文化语境，为作品的意义建构提供了一种可以参照的范式，并通过隐喻的连贯性、象征的系统性和讽喻的一致性等冈素对阅读的有效性进行评价。

朱瑞青 男，生于1977年12月，山东曲阜人，主要研究领域为文体学、语篇分析、英美文学等，主要著作有《文体学概论》(与刘世生教授合著)。

Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Moby-Dick: Interpretations never end
1.2 Allegory, symbol, metaphor and literary interpretation
1.3 Cognitive linguistics and metaphor, symbol and allegory
1.4 A new model for interpretation
1.5 Questions to answer
1.6 Methodology to apply
1.7 Significance of the study
1.8 Organization of the book
Chapter Two Metaphor, Symbol, Allegory and Moby-Dick
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Interpretation
2.3 Metaphor, symbol and allegory
2.3.1 Conceptual metaphor in literary discourse
2.3.2 Symbol and allegory in light of cognitive linguistics
2.3.3 The call for a new model for interpretations
2.4 Moby-Dick studies: Status quo
2.5 Summary
Chapter Three Mapping and Literary Interpretation
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Mapping
3.2.1 Mappings in cognitive linguistics
3.2.2 Comparison of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Structure
Mapping Theory and Blending Theory
3.2.3 Mapping and metaphor, symbol and allegory
3.2.4 A comparison of mappings in metaphor
symbol and allegory
3.3 Literary criticism
3.3.1 Literary criticism: From text to context
3.3.2 Cognitive linguistics and literary criticism
3.4 A model for literary interpretation of Moby-Dick
3.4.1 Metaphoric mapping
3.4.2 Symbolic mapping
3.4.3 Allegorical mapping
3.5 Summary
Chapter Four Anthropoeentricism or Ecocentrism: Eeocritieal
Reading
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Metaphoric mapping: Discourse level
4.2.1 Metaphoric mappings of human beings as target domain
4.2.2 Metaphoric mappings of nature as target domain
4.2.3 Traditional hebraic anthropocentrism or
ecological centrism
4.3 Symbolic mapping: From text to nature
4.3.1 Moby Dick: Symbol of nature
4.3.2 Ahab: Emblem of anthropocentrism
4.3.3 Ishmael: Nature's spokesperson
4.3.4 Fedallah: Fire worshipper
4.3.5 Elijah: Ecocritics' warning
4.3.6 Queequeg and his affinity to nature
4.3.7 Pequod: The other Ahab
4.3.8 The doubloon: Incentive of the pursuit
4.3.9 The coffin: Resurrection
4.3.10 Hearse: The future of anthropocentric science and
technology
4.3.11 Hat: Ahab and King Tarquin
4.4 Allegorical mapping: Ecocritical reading
4.5 Summary
Chapter Five Egalitarianism or Totalitarianism: Social Political
Reading
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Metaphoric mapping
5.2.1 The social version of the Great Chain of Being
5.2.2 The mapping of Social Chain of Being
5.2.3 Space as hierarchy
5.2.4 Ishmael and Queequeg: Marriage as race communication
5.3 Symbolic mapping
5.3.1 Pequod: Symbol of the America
5.3.2 Ahab the great dictator
5.3.3 Moby Dick: Stranger and otherness
5.3.4 Ishmael with an equal eye
5.3.5 Queequeg: A symbol of democracy
5.3.6 The first mate and his hesitation
5.3.7 Hypooners, the mainstream force
5.4 Allegorization: A social political reading
5.5 Summary
Chapter Six Friendship or Homoeroticism: Queer Theory Reading
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Metaphoric mappings
6.2.1 Ishmael and Queequeg marriage metaphors
6.2.2 Ishmael and Queequeg love metaphors
6.3 Symbolic mapping
6.3.1 Queequeg: Homosexual pal
6.3.2 Moby Dick: Symbol of phallus
6.3.3 Ishmael: Homoerotic yearning
6.3.4 Ahab: Homophobia of the heterosexual world
6.3.5 The sea: The male world
6.3.6 Homoeroticism of"squeezing
6.3.7 The tail: Unity of masculinity and femininity
6.3.8 Pequod: Paradise of male-specific world
6.4 Allegorization: A Queer Theory reading
6.5 Summary
Chapter Seven Conclusion
7.1 Major fndings
7.2 Limitations
7.3 Future studies
References
Acknowledgements
Appendix A: Mapping of Human beings and Nature
Appendix B: Social Po