《无人生还》的空间叙述理论解读_英语论文

A Study of Spatial Narrative  in And Then There Were None  

摘要

阿加莎•克里斯蒂是英国女侦探小说家，并且还是世界三大推理文学宗师之一。她是一名高产的作家，发表著作无数，《无人生还》更是被认为是历史上成就最高的推理小说之一。《无人生还》讲述了罪犯在封闭的黑人岛上通过儿歌预示谋杀了十个杀人犯，阿加莎的叙事技能在故事中展露无遗。约瑟夫•弗兰克1945年首次提出了空间形式的概念，标志着空间叙事理论的开始。从此，人们对文学作品的关注从时间维度转向了空间维度。空间不再是一个静止的实体。相反，它推动了故事情节的发展。通过空间叙事，时间顺序被打破了并且线性叙事也被分裂了。这篇论文采用空间叙述理论，对《无人生还》中的空间类型进行了解读。论文分为引言、论文正文和结论三部分。引言部分介绍了阿加莎生平和她的小说《无人生还》，并概述小说的主题及意义。第二部分简要介绍空间叙事的理论基础并且探索《无人生还》中三种空间类型：物理空间、社会空间、和心理空间。最后一部分总结研究，从空间叙事角度分析出阿加莎•克里斯蒂的叙事风格，发掘出阿加莎小说长盛不衰的魅力元素。

关键词：阿加莎•克里斯蒂; 《无人生还》;空间叙事理论;物理空间;心理空间;社会空间

Abstract

Agatha Christie is a female detective novelist in Britain and is one of the world's three greatest masters of reasoning literature. She is a prolific writer and  published numerous works. Among them, And Then There Were None is considered to be one of the highest achievements in the history of mystery novels. And Then There Were None is a story about 10 different kinds of murderers who were killed one by one according to the nursery rhyme, in which Agatha presents her masterful narrative skills. On space narrative research Joseph Frank for the first time put forward the concept of spatial form in 1945, which marked the beginning of the space narrative theory. And this makes people's attention to literary works shift from time dimension to space dimension. Space is no longer a static entity. Instead, it gets involved in the story. Through spatial narrative, temporal order is disrupted and liner narrative is fragmented. By adopting spatial narrative as a paradigm, the thesis tries to analyze the types of spatial form in And Then There Were None. This thesis consists of three parts: the introduction, the main body and the conclusion. The introduction part can be subdivided into the introduction of the writer and works. The main body primarily introduces the space narrative theory and then analyzes three different types of spatial narrative form in the novel. They are physical space, mental space and social space. Finally, the thesis summarizes the research conclusion and analyzes the narrative style of Agatha. Then it will explore the reasons why Agatha's novels sell well.

Key words: Agatha Christie;  And Then There Were None; space narrative theory; physical space; mental space; social space 

Contents

Acknowledgements.i

Abstract & Key words in English ii

Abstract & Key words in Chineseiii

Introduction.1

1. Theoretical Foundation.2

  1.1 The development of spatial narrative.2

1.2 The concepts of spatial narrative4

2. Physical space narrative in Agatha’s fiction.5

  2.1 Island model5

  2.2 Childish rhyme .6

3. Social space narrative in Agatha’s fiction7

4. Mental space narrative in Agatha’s fiction8

  4.1 Vera Claythorne's mental space.8

  4.2 Mr. Justice Wargrave's mental space10

Conclusion  11

Notes.12

References 13