论《湖滨饭店》的现代性与后现代性

上海大学学报(社会科学版)

论《湖滨饭店》的现代性与后现代性

北京第二外国语学院英语学院

出版日期:2010-04-25 发布日期:2010-04-25
作者简介:男，江苏连云港人。北京第二外国语学院英语学院讲师，美国少数族裔文学研究中心成员，上海外国语大学文学博士，主要研究方向为英国文学与文论。
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北京第二外国语学院研究项目

The modernity and Post-mordenity inHotel du Lac

Online:2010-04-25 Published:2010-04-25

摘要/Abstract

摘要：

《湖滨饭店》的现代性很突出：小说深入探讨了颇具现代意识的孤独感，展示出主人公对个人身份与生存意义问题的茫然及其虽然徒劳但却执着的追寻；小说在描绘主人公的性格与心理发展时，受到了弗洛伊德心理分析学的影响，除了纯客观叙事的传统叙述方式，小说还灵活地使用了意识流，成功地揭示出主人公的“心理真实”。同时，该作品中也隐现着后现代性元素，这也是不容忽视的。就其后现代意义而言，小说多处暗示了拉康的想像界与象征界，大量使用男性话语，刻意从男性视角描写女性，关注男权社会中单身知识女性的焦虑；此外，该小说还采用了互文、元小说与印象画等表现技巧。因而，该作品不应该被仅仅视为属于典型的、传统的现实主义，而应归于英美正在兴起中的新现实主义。

关键词: 《湖滨饭店》；现代性；后现代性；男性话语；后现代图片

Abstract:

The modernity of Hotel du Lac is very distinct: not only does the novel make a deep approach to the loneliness of modern consciousness, showing the protagonist' s confusion of personal identity and existential meaning as well as the persistent pursue of them although being in vain, but also the novel, when describing the protagonist' s development of character and psychology, is so influenced by Freud' s psychoanalysis as to make a good use of stream consciousness, disclosing the protagonist' s "psychological reality", in addition to the traditional description of purely objective way. At the same time, the novel also comprises the elements of postmodernity, which is not able to be ignored. As far as the postmodern meaning is concerned, the novel implies, not more than once, Lacan' s imaginary order and symbolic order, and, by using a lot of male discourse, depicts the female in the novel, showing a deep concern for the singular intellectual female' s anxiety in the present British society. Moreover, it adopts such techniques of postmodernism as intertextuality, metafiction and impression pictures. Therefore, instead of just a novel characteristic of classic, traditional realism, it should be considered as a new realistic novel, which is on the rise both in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

Key words: ]Hotel du Lac; modernity; postmodernity; male discourse; post modern picture

中图分类号:

I106.4

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