艾丽丝•门罗《快乐影子之舞》中的叙事策略_英语论文

Narrative Strategies in Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy 

摘要

艾丽丝•门罗是当代文学界最负盛名的短篇小说家之一，2013年诺贝尔文学奖获得者。《快乐影子之舞》是门罗出版的第一部小说集。该书一经问世就引起了广泛关注，一举赢得加拿大最高文学奖项总督奖。

对于门罗作品的研究在国外已趋成熟，但在国内却少有人问津，且研究方向大多集中在其作品中的女性主义主题以及其代表作《逃离》的叙事策略方面。到目前为止国内还没有学者对门罗的作品及其叙事策略进行全面系统的研究。

《快乐影子之舞》是门罗的第一部小说集。仔细分析这部小说集会发现门罗的创作中所关注的主题以及其后来作品的叙事策略在这部小说集中均已初现成熟。论文运用热拉尔•热奈特的叙事理论分别从叙事时间、叙事视角和叙事话语三个方面分析艾丽丝•门罗的处女作《快乐影子之舞》中的叙事策略，表明艾丽丝•门罗不仅擅长于洞悉生活表象，更善于运用高超的叙事策略将所观察到的事物生动地再现在读者面前。

关键词: 《快乐影子之舞》；叙事时间；叙事视角；叙事话语

Abstract

Alice munro is currently one of the world’s most acclaimed contemporary short-story writer, she is also the 2013 Nobel Prize winner. The book Dance of the Happy Shades is Munro’s first published short story collection. It became a success immediately after publishing and won Munro the 1968 Governor General’s Award.                        

Around the world, studies of Munro’s works have already been carried out systematically. While in China, researches on her works are quite inadequate. The  researches already done focus either on feminist understanding of her fictional texts or on narrative strategies of her masterpiece Runaway (2004). Up to now, no scholars in China hava made systematic study of her works and her narrative strategy. 

Dance of the Happy Shades is Munro’s first collection of stories. A careful study of this collection will reaveal that the themes Munro is deeply concerned with in her later works and the narrative strategies applied in her later works have already come into being in her first collection. This paper tries to analyzes Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades, the analysis based on Gérard Genette’s narrative theory falls into three aspects: narrative time, narrative focalization and narrative discourse. Through detailed analysis, this paper comes to the conclusion that Alice Munro is not only a marvelous observer of life, but also is an excellent story teller equipped with enormous knowledge of narrative strategies.

Key words: Dance of the Happy Shades; time; focalization; narrative discourse