摘要：Conrad's Marlowe and Reagan's Rambo can still speak with one another. Despite what we could call a diminution in aesthetic language they address the same epoch-the epoch of imperialism, what we call the last stage, grimly and optimistically, of capitalism-and its violent transformation in wars and revolutions. Marlowe's tale is the tragic derangement of the ennobling mission, civilization imperilled by the wilderness's evil impulsesin the tradition of the nineteenth century realist novel, both romanticisation and lament over advancing capitalism and its ideological contradictions. Rambo, equally enamoured of imperial adventure but hardly gesturing at 'the idea', is merely ready for tactical duty, rhetorically and physiologically fitted to serve the chief imperialist's bitter, if laconically phrased, vengeance.
其他摘要：Conrad's Marlowe and Reagan's Rambo can still speak with one another. Despite what we could call a diminution in aesthetic language they address the same epoch-the epoch of imperialism, what we call the last stage, grimly and optimistically, of capitalism-and its violent transformation in wars and revolutions. Marlowe's tale is the tragic derangement of the ennobling mission, civilization imperilled by the wilderness's evil impulsesin the tradition of the nineteenth century realist novel, both romanticisation and lament over advancing capitalism and its ideological contradictions. Rambo, equally enamoured of imperial adventure but hardly gesturing at 'the idea', is merely ready for tactical duty, rhetorically and physiologically fitted to serve the chief imperialist's bitter, if laconically phrased, vengeance.
