“学到东西的感觉”—《看得见风景的房间》的伦理主题分析.pdfVIP

English Abstract Abstract Edward Morgan Forster is a prominent novelist in the twentieth century English literature. American critic Lionel Trilling once explicitly pointed out that Forster provided readers with “the sensation of having learned something”. Forster attracted critics’ attention as early as his first novel was published. A majority of research in China is confined to his A Passage to India and Howards End from different perspectives; while the research from the ethical perspective on his Italian novel, A Room with a View, can rarely be seen. A Room with a View is called Italian novel by critics. It is a work with rich moral significance, Morality functions as an indispensable part in the figures ’ characterization. Living in an era of drastic social changes, Forster deeply felt the spiritual crisis resulted from the drastic vicissitudes of the “structure of feeling” in the Edwardian period. According to Forster, the “undeveloped hearts” of modern English people would undoubtedly result in the English, particularly the English middle-class in an “uncompleted” state. Forster put his whole effort into concerning how to realize the “completed state” of human nature. Ethical literary criticism has attracted Chinese critics’ attention in recent years. Ethical literary criticism focuses on ethical, moral and objective review on literature and gives historical dialectical explanation to it. It is a kind of methodology applied to literary criticism, which has to combine literary reading and understanding together and meanwhile to emphasize the social responsibility and moral obligation of literature as well. Alan Wilde hol