| 摘要: |
| 美国作家赫尔曼·麦尔维尔的著名小说《白鲸》讲述了壮阔海洋上的捕鲸壮举,反映了19世纪美国社会经济生活的真实历史,成为美国文学史上的一道独特风景。文本叙述了亚哈船长率领“裴廓德号”惊心动魄的捕鲸及复仇的故事,在海洋叙事背后展现的是捕鲸人丰富而生动的海上生活及捕鲸业发展的全景式社会画卷。从能源视角出发,作为美国19世纪财富重要来源的捕鲸船,无异于一座集“开发—提取—炼制”于一体的、漂浮在海上作业将其能源产品加工完成并推销至世界各地的能源加工厂,捕鲸船的航程涵盖大西洋、太平洋和印度洋,其广阔的海洋地理空间体现了美国对能源行业垄断及全球拓展的雏形。 |
| 关键词: 《白鲸》 能源叙事 美国捕鲸业 全球化 |
| DOI：10.13216/j.cnki.upcjess.2020.06.0005 |
| 分类号:I109.5 |
| 基金项目:青岛市社会科学规划项目(QDSK2001061) |
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| American Whaling Industry and Its Global Expansion in Moby-Dick from the Perspective of Energy Narration |
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ZHAI Li
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(School of Foreign Studies, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, Shandong 266580, China)
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| Abstract: |
| Melville 's unique and enduring novel Moby-Dick is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage, reflecting the realities of the social economic life of the United States in the 19th century. In the framework of the exciting whaling and revenge story of Pequod whaling ship headed by Captain Ahab, the story unfolds a panoramic social scroll of the colorful life on the sea and the development of the whaling industry. Viewed from the perspective of energy narration, the whaling ship, as one of the major and direct sources of national wealth of 19th century America, is virtually a floating oil factory which projects, pursues, processes, refines and markets its oil products on a global scale, since the whale oil had to be extracted and stored aboard. The whale-pursuing voyage covers the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean. Thus,Melville actually unfolds a story of America 's early monopoly and global expansion of the energy industry. |
| Key words: Moby-Dick energy narration American whaling industry globalization |
