摘要
英国女作家艾丽丝·默多克对现实主义传统的继承与发展一直颇受西方学界关注。本文试图立足现实主义的认识论与美学两个维度,重新考察默多克小说所呈现的道德现实主义。从认识论角度来看,默多克笔下的人物以及作家自身的创作全方位诠释了走出臆想、关注他人、去除自我的道德旨归。在美学意义上,她的人物塑造竭力摆脱水晶体与报刊体的模式束缚,以混杂和开放的叙事形式,切近他人立体而丰富的个性与情感世界,以启发一种高层次的善。"他人"不仅是默多克小说的认知与塑造的对象,从根本上来说,它还是作家道德立场的具象表征。默多克的道德现实主义创作以"描绘他人"为指向,展现出现实主义概念在认知诉求与美学形式上有机统一的可能。
Making a departure from the ongoing academic discussion on Iris Murdoch’s realism,the present article is intended to revisit the issue from epistemic and aesthetic dimensions of the concept of realism per se.Murdoch’s moral realism,as registered by a steady endeavor to picture other people,embodies a moral visioning of characters’as well as the writer’s breakaway from fantasy towards unselfing.Opposed to crystalline and journalistic modes of narration,her characterization,by employing hybrid and open narrative forms,aims at fleshing out other people with three-dimensional personalities and enriches sensibilities in order to inspire a higher measure of goodness.Other people therefore not only make for objects of epistemological discovery and aesthetic rendition in Murdoch’s fiction,but also configure the writer’s moral position.Oriented towards picturing other people,Murdoch’s moral realism hence gestures toward an organic integration between realism’s otherwise incompatible epistemic and aesthetic claims.
出处
《英语研究》
2021年第1期92-102,共11页
English Studies
基金
国家社会科学基金项目“当代‘新维多利亚小说’的历史书写研究”(19BWW044)的阶段性成果
关键词
默多克
道德现实主义
他人
认识论
美学
Iris Murdoch
moral realism
other people
epistemology
aesthetics
