回归心灵与叙事意义——评格雷厄姆·斯威夫特小说中的历史叙事  

Returning to Spirit and the Significance of Narrative:The Study of the Historical Narrative in Graham Swift's Fiction

作　　者：王艳萍[1] 

机构地区：[1]集美大学外国语学院

出　　处：《国外文学》2015年第3期108-116,159,共9页Foreign Literatures

基　　金：教育部人文社会科学研究青年基金项目"后现代文学视域中的历史叙事--格雷厄姆.斯威夫特小说研究"(项目批号:13YJC752026)的阶段性成果

摘　　要：英国小说家格雷厄姆·斯威夫特历史小说中的人物都在不同程度上体验了失败、痛苦、空虚甚至死亡。为了获得心灵上的满足、慰藉、复苏和成长,他们都将目光投入家族和个人历史中,或按照自己的意愿与目的对过去的历史文本进行重新诠释,或以"讲故事"的叙事方式重构历史。本文解读了斯威夫特的三部小说,从中不难看出,作家对心灵与历史叙事之间的关系所作的思考和探索表达了他对历史的本质和意义的独特理解。他通过小说告诉读者:回归心灵是一切叙事的意义所在。The characters in British fictionist Graham Swift's historical fiction have all experienced failure,pain,emptiness and even death. In order to obtain spiritual fulfillment,consolation,recovery and growth,they all have their sights set into history,either familial or personal. This paper discusses how the protagonist in Shuttlecock achieves a sense of power by interpreting his father's war memoir,explores how the protagonist in Ever After obtains his self-identification by interpreting his ancestor 's journal,expounds how characters in Waterland use historical narrative as a tool to ward off the emptiness of reality and endow their lives with meaning. From the above three novels,we can understand Graham Swift's unique points of view concerning history and its significance.

关 键 词：格雷厄姆·斯威夫特 小说 历史叙事 心灵 

分 类 号：I561.074[文学—其他各国文学]