珍妮特·温特森小说的叙事策略解读-以《橘子不是唯一的水果》为例_英语论文

A Narrative Strategy Analysis of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 

摘要

《橘子不是唯一的水果》是其作者珍妮特·温特森处女作品，书中讲述了主人翁珍妮特在养父母家的成长经历，以及其情感经历对她人生所造成的巨大变化。本论文将从作品的叙事策略入手，探讨珍妮特在《橘子不是唯一的水果》中的写作手法。从后现代主义出发，分别以元小说叙述，自传体小说，反讽，戏仿，互文等角度分析作品的叙事策略。首先，作为后现代主义的主要叙述策略，元小说将叙事分为自省和传统叙事两条路线，使文中对于现实的把握呈现一种非确定性的状态。另外自传体小说是珍妮特·温特森小说鲜明的特色之一，在每部小说中主人翁与作者都有着相同的名字，故事的整体叙述架构是在作者亲身经历的基础上进行的自我创作。不同于传统的叙事，文中经常运用到互文，戏仿等反讽叙事手法，达到犀利地嘲讽现实社会中错位的价值观和宗教观的作用。反讽的叙事手法还表现在对于文学人物的塑造上，尤其是作品中为数不多的几位男性都被作者有意识地消音或者丑化，从而达到最为明显的反讽效果。

关键词:  珍妮特温特森  《橘子不是唯一的水果》  后现代主义   叙事策略

Abstract

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is Jeanette Winterson’s first published novel which tells a growing story of Jeanette with her adoptive parents and the unprecedented changes on her life by her out of ordinary emotional experience. Starting from the novel’s unique narrative strategy this thesis studies Jeanette Winterson’s writing style. Based on postmodernism, the thesis tries to analyze the narrative strategy of the work from many aspects like: metafiction, autobiography, satire, intertextuality and parody. First of all, as a strategy of postmodernism, metafiction separates the narrative into self-reflection and classical narrative brands that makes the real plots become unstable in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Another feature of Jeanette Winterson’s novel is autobiographical narrative, in the novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the master shares the same first name with her - “Jeanette”, which means the whole narrative structure of the plots is based on the real experience of the author. Bing different from the traditional narrative, parody and intertextuality as the ironic narrative strategy are always put together to sneer the misplaced values and religious views. Satiric strategy also includes characterization, especially the soundmufling and uglified male characters in the work. 

Keywords: Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Postmodernism  Narrative Strategy

Contents

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Jeanette Winterson and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 1

1.2 Literature Review 2

1.3 Theoretical Framework 4

1.4 Thesis Structure 5

2 Conscious and Natural Narrative Strategy – Metafiction 7

2.1 Classical Narrative 7

2.2 Self-reflection Narrative 7

3 The Autobiographical Narrative strategy 9

3.1 Autobiography 9

3.2 Fiction 9

4 Satiric Narrative Strategies 11

4.1 Intertextuality 11

4.2 Parody 12

4.3 The Dramatic Characterization 13

Conclusion 15

Acknowledgements 16

References 17