摘要
从古希腊亚里士多德开始,叙事研究一直围绕情节发展展开。然而,在曼斯菲尔德的《心理》中,像在其他很多作品中一样,在情节发展的背后还存在贯穿全文的隐性叙事进程。在《心理》的情节发展中,男女主人公相互激情暗恋却竭力保持柏拉图式的纯洁友谊,视角在两人之间来回变换;而在隐性进程里,我们却一直从女主人公的视角来观察,看到的是女主人公单相思,把自己的激情暗恋投射到并未动情的男主人公身上。与此同时,隐性进程从情节发展里得到多层次的反衬,在对照中微妙而戏剧性地揭示出女主人公复杂的心理活动,并不断为其结局性的转轨做出铺垫。隐性进程与情节发展构成一实一虚、一真一假、暗明相映的双重叙事运动。两者相互补充又相互颠覆,塑造出双重人物形象,表达出丰富的主题意义,生产出卓越的艺术价值。
Ever since Aristotle,critical attention has focused on the plot development.But in Mansfield's'Psychology',like in many other literary narratives,there exists a covert progression behind the plot development.In the latter,the male and female protagonists secretly love each other but try hard to suppress their feelings in order to maintain a Platonic friendship,and the focalization shifts between them.By contrast,in the covert progression,the female protagonist,who consistently functions as the focalizer,cherishes passionate unrequited love for the male protagonist and constantly projects her feelings onto him until the resolution.The plot development serves as a multi-dimensional foil for the covert progression which reveals in a very subtle and dramatic way the complicated psychological activity of the female protagonist.The two parallel narrative movements,which both complement and subvert each other,present dual images of the characters,convey rich thematic significance,and generate remarkable aesthetic va^lues.
出处
《外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2015年第1期27-39,157,共13页
Foreign Literature
