《美国悲剧》中水域自然的隐喻意蕴  

Metaphorical Meanings of Aquatic Nature in An American Tragedy

作　　者：舒奇志[1] 梁佳苇 Qizhi Shu;Jiawei Liang(School of Foreign Languages,Xiangtan University,Xiangtan,Hunan,China)

机构地区：[1]湘潭大学外国语学院,湖南湘潭411105

出　　处：《外国语言与文化》2023年第3期1-11,共11页Foreign Languages and Cultures

基　　金：湖南省社科规划一般课题“19—20世纪之交美国文学中的男性气质与城市空间想象研究”(18YBA396)。

摘　　要：西奥多·德莱塞的《美国悲剧》以20世纪初发生在美国的一起湖上情杀案为素材,没有将作为故事背景的湖区即水域自然视为固定的物理空间,而是将之作为城市空间的一种延展、文本意义的发生场和叙事维度,并结合地理物象和地理事象赋之以多重隐喻意义。这一水域自然既承载了主人公实现阶级跃升的欲望,也是其美国梦的幻灭之地,彰显了20世纪初期美国环境政治话语的权力运作方式,表达了德莱塞对美国社会转型时期阶级区隔、权力欲求和环境政治问题的独特思考。Based on source materials of a real-life lake murder occurring in the United States at the beginning of the 2oth century,Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy does not consider its background,the lake areathe aquatic nature,as a fixed physical space,but as an extension of the urban space,as a productive site for textual ideas and as narrative dimension,which is endowed with metaphorical meanings via geographical images and geographical activities.The aquatic nature in the work does not only bear the protagonist's desire for social climbing which turns out to be a space of disillusionment for his desire of the American dream,but also displays the power operations of the environmental politics of the United States in the early 2Oth century.Thus,it highlights Dreiser's unique thinking on the issues concerning class division,power pursuit and environmental politics during the period of social transformation in the United States.

关 键 词：西奥多·德莱塞 《美国悲剧》 水域自然 文学地理学 符号隐喻 

分 类 号：I712[文学—其他各国文学]