人、房子与大地:《霍华德庄园》中“家”的重构  

Human,House and Earth:Reconstruction of“Home”in Howards End

作　　者：南佳丽 NAN Jiali(School of Foreign Studies,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210023,China)

机构地区：[1]南京大学外国语学院,江苏南京210023

出　　处：《东北大学学报（社会科学版）》2024年第1期143-150,共8页Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science)

摘　　要：目前学界关于福斯特《霍华德庄园》的研究多聚焦在社会、政治层面,而较少关注其中“霍华德庄园”表意的物人关系。20世纪初,伦敦城市化进程加快,租房成为主流的住房消费模式,人与房子之间的紧密关系受到挑战。小说通过刻画威尔科克斯家族、伦纳德和施莱格尔姐妹与房子不同的连接关系,描绘了三组人物各自对“家”的认知和情感关系,展现出英国土地制度改革背景下家园想象的复杂性及当时的家园焦虑问题。福斯特认为,人与房子的融合有助于形成空间感,摆脱流动感,回归大地之家。霍华德庄园不仅是“家”的具象表征,还是福斯特新物质主义式“家”思想的具体体现,反映了作家对英国现代社会中物人关系的前瞻性思考。While focusing on social and political implications,the current studies on E.M.Forster s Howards End pay little attention to the relationship between human and thing“Howards End”connotes.With the advance of urbanization in the early twentieth century,private renting became the dominant mode of housing consumption in London and people were not as connected with their houses as before.Recounting how the Wilcoxes,Leonard Bast and the Schlegels relate themselves to their houses,Howards End presents the characters understanding of“home”and their different interpersonal relationships and therefore discloses the complexity of home imagination in the context of English land system reform and the home anxiety at that time.As far as Forster is concerned,the connection between people and their houses contributes to the formation of sense of space and elimination of sense of flux,thus getting back to the earth.“Howards End”not only configures the home of earth,but also reflects the new materialism dimension of Forster s“home”,which shows that the writer anticipates the relationship between human and thing in the modern society.

关 键 词：《霍华德庄园》 家园焦虑 空间感 流动感 物人关系 

分 类 号：I106.4[文学—世界文学]