人情与反人情之争——《伊坦·弗洛美》悲剧主题认知新论  

The Debate between Relationship and Anti-relationship:A Cognitive Perspective into the Tragic Theme of Ethan Frome

作　　者：朱妤双 胡作友[1] Zhu Yushuang;Hu Zuoyou(School of Foreign Studies,Hefei University of Technology,Hefei 230601,China)

机构地区：[1]合肥工业大学外国语学院

出　　处：《外国语文研究》2024年第3期11-21,共11页Foreign Language and Literature Research

基　　金：安徽省哲学社会科学规划青年项目“认知图式视域下伊迪斯·华顿与张爱玲小说中的怀旧书写比较研究”(项目编号:AHSKQ2021D112)的阶段性成果。

摘　　要：自出版之日起,《伊坦·弗洛美》的悲剧主题和阴郁情感基调一直是评论界最大的争议点。虽然当代研究陆续提出作者伊迪斯·华顿彼时的情感道德矛盾对此的影响,但对于其具体的互动过程尚缺乏策略性、系统性和认知性的探究。结合认知和人格系统理论看这本小说,它叙写了华顿的自我认知失调与救赎历程。她把源于人格矛盾的冲突性认知投射成相应的人物角色、不和谐的叙事声音和冷漠的文化现状,以缓解痛苦。可由于这些调节机制和情感认知经不起群体理性认知的质疑,不能被合法化,导致她逃不掉理性的罪与罚。真实的关系人情需求、反人情的现实历史文化与群体理性的三方博弈未能协调她内在的认知失调,也导致了故事的阴郁结局。Since publication,no elements of Ethan Frome have received more critical controversy than its tragic theme and gloomy tone.Although they are thought to be related to Edith Wharton’s passion and moral contradictions at that time,there has been a lack of strategic,systematic and cognitive study on it in contemporary research.Reading the novelette via cognitive and personality systems approaches suggests that Wharton draws on the tragedy to narrate her own cognitive dissonance and redemption.She attempts to redeem the inconsistent self derived from her personality conflicts by projecting it onto conflicting characters,disharmonized narrative voices and a culture that overlooks emotional needs.However,she cannot counteract her guilt of crime and punishment because the emotional adjustments and cognition cannot stand up to the scrutiny of reason identified by social group.The interplay among her true needs of relationships,alienated social culture and the universal reason fails to reconcile Wharton’s cognitive dissonance and results in the gloomy ending of the story.

关 键 词：《伊坦·弗洛美》 伊迪斯·华顿 人情 理性 认知失调 投射 

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