论默多克小说《钟》的纹心结构  

On mise en abyme"in Iris Murdoch's The Bell

作　　者：盛越 Sheng Yue(Department of English,School of Foreign Languages,Peking University,Beijing,China)

机构地区：[1]北京大学外国语学院英语系,北京100871

出　　处：《外国文学》2023年第5期159-168,共10页Foreign Literature

摘　　要：评论界很早就注意到艾丽丝·默多克小说《钟》中的重复手法。小说第3章借历史学家保罗·格林菲尔德之口讲述了茵波修道院手稿中记载的古钟传奇,传奇中的主要事件与小说的情节构成了重复,但古钟传奇本身的重要性及其与小说叙事间的相互作用并未因此受到足够重视。本文认为,默多克在《钟》中运用了一种创新的叙事形式--纹心结构,用古钟传奇与小说情节间的映射展现人物的道德心理,揭示茵波共同体失败的根源;又用小说映射现实,反思战后英国社会的道德重建。Iris Murdoch's The Bell has drawn a lot of critical attention to its use of repetitions,among them the recurrence of major events in the old bell legend,recorded in manuscripts kept in Imber Abbey and narrated in Chapter Three of the novel by the historian Paul Greenfield.However,little importance has been attached to the legend as a narrative itself and to the reciprocity between the legend and the novel.This essay argues that in The Bell Murdoch employs the innovative narrative form of"mise en abyme."The inter-reflection between the embedded legend and the embedding narrative sheds light upon the characters'moral psychology and explains the reason behind the breaking-up of Imber community.The use of mise en abyme shows Murdoch's effort to depict reality and is a vehicle for Murdoch to reflect upon the moral reconstruction in postwar Britain.

关 键 词：默多克 《钟》 纹心结构 现实 

分 类 号：I561[文学—其他各国文学]