论文标题:马克思的世界历史理论及其当代意义
Who is Afraid of William Faulkner?
论文作者 鲍忠明
论文导师 洪增流,论文学位 硕士,论文专业 英语语言文学
论文单位 安徽大学,点击次数 310,论文页数 48页File Size2109k
2002-05-01论文网 http://www.lw23.com/lunwen_2289227/ 克隆人;技术;本质特征
Cloning man;Technology;Essential characteristic
《我弥留之际》因其创作方法独特，风格怪异令读者望而生畏，评者争论种种。令人遗憾的是，虽然国内外相关评析众多，却少有突破。鉴于此，本篇论文对其进行多角度“解谜”，逐章拨开笼罩该书的团团迷雾，澄清一些争论的本原。 首先，透过“神品妙构”妙手偶得的虚假表面，揭示小说作者苦心经营，作品厚积薄发的本质；其次，追溯作品渊源，展示作品深广的文化积淀；再者，本文作者提出“漩涡假说”，其核心内容是论文作者认为福克纳一定以小说女主人公名“Addie”谐音“Eddy”(漩涡)，为揭示作品主题提供理想的文本架构。漩涡扩张过程即艾迪死亡及葬礼之旅，二者并驾齐驱共同演绎出本德仑一家葬礼之行的主题：对人生真谛的探索。充足的文本证据使得一些“谜团”、“争端”纷纷迎“假说”而解。紧接着本论文运用利奇(Leech)和萧特(Short)在《小说文体》中提出的“心智文体”、“言语与思想表达”等相关小说文体学理论对“福克纳文体”，尤其是小说中运用广泛的意识流手法及其主题旨趣进行阐释。最后，本篇论文得出结论：一方面，有限的“解谜”无法也无意穷尽《我弥留之际》之个中奥秘；另一方面，表面看来相互独立、不同角度的“解谜”由同一的向心力(成功小说的内在魔力)聚合并构建成一有机整体。
As I Lay Dying has since long become a target of heated discussion largely because of its deviance and opacity. Considerable research has been done on it both at home and abroad without significant breakthroughs at certain controversies haunting the book. The thesis is devoted to a multi-level demystification of the book on the basis of close reading by disclosing chapter after chapter the mystery hanging over the book. Firstly, it tries to penetrate the apparent simplicity of a "tour-de-force" to expose a conscious mind bent on dramatization, namely, the "mythical" method of rendering chaotic contemporary experience by manipulating a continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity; secondly, it traces various literary formative factors that make the book possible to show how flagrantly Faulkner has "robbed" to make his story plump up. More importantly, it puts forward (he "Eddy Hypothesis", the gist of which postulates that Faulkner must have punned on the name of the heroine Addie to mean an "Eddy". This interpretation, as supported by substantial internal evidence, provides an ideal paradigm to lay bare the nature of the journey: quest for truth of life with the eddy reaching out to spark repercussions in everyone drawn into its vortex. Fourthly, the thesis avails itself of relevant theories concerning Mind Style and Speech & Thought Presentation introduced in Style in Fiction by Leech and Short to bring to light in some measure the Faulknerian Style, the pervasive stream-of-consciousness technique in particular. Very limited and superficial as the interpretation is, it displays the target style bears thematic concerns and helps to acquire a fuller understanding and appreciation of the author"s artistic achievement. Finally, the thesis concludes on one hand, the limited demystification can never wish to exhaust the labyrinthic book, on the other, the different levels of demystification are governed by one and the same centripetal force - the magic inherent in a master fiction to form an organic whole.
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