摘要
有关美人鱼(或水精、水妖)的故事自古即有,从希腊神话、中古传说以至格林童话中都有水精出现,而其中最引人入胜的还是美人鱼与人类男性结合的凄美故事。本文着重分析人鱼、水精的形象、其宗教的背景以及所反映的两性关系。
Stories about mermaids or water nymphs have been with us since ancient times.Such legendary creatures appear in literature from Greek mythology,medieval folklore,down to Grimm’s Fairy Tales.Among the most intriguing are those sad but fascinating stories about the union of mermaids with male humans.This paper tries to analyze these fairy tales in terms of their religious backgrounds,the gender relations reflected in these stories,and the images of mermaids and water nymphs.
作者
周跃新
汤仁云
ZHOU Yue-xin;TANG Ren-yun(School of Foreign Languages,Anhui University of Agriculture,Hefei 230036,China;Department of Foreign Languages,West Anhui University,Lu’an Anhui 237012,China)
出处
《湖北第二师范学院学报》
2019年第6期17-20,共4页
Journal of Hubei University of Education
关键词
水精
美人鱼
灵魂
希腊神话
中古传说
安徒生童话
water nymph
mermaid
soul
Greek mythology
medieval folklore
Grimm’s fairy tales
