文档介绍：《道连·格雷的画像》的期待视野解读
摘要
《道连·格雷的画像》是英国唯美主义运动领袖奥斯卡·王尔德仅有的一部长篇小说。然而这部小说的问世,带给他的是两年的牢狱之灾和短暂余生的黯然。但是一个世纪之后,这部曾经令人深恶痛绝的小说,非但没有走出广大读者和文学评论家们的视野,而是如同磁石般深深吸引着他们。
本论文从“期待视野”理论的角度,主要分析了三个不同历史时期的读者对
《道连·格雷的画像》的反应情况。论文由三部分组成。第一章主要分析了维多利亚晚期读者对该小说的消极期待视野。一方面,该小说没有遵循传统小说的创作原则。另一方面,因为书中涉及的新享乐主义,***潜台词等信息,使得该小说备受诟病。第二章从两个方面探究现代主义读者的期待视野,其一研究人们对颓废主义的渐变态度,其二分析《道连·格雷的画像》的现代主义特征。第三章主要研究后现代主义读者的期待视野。以开放的后现代社会为背景,《道连· 格雷的画像》如同其作者王尔德一样,受到了广大后现代读者的欢迎。一方面, 得益于消费主义和“反叛团体”的影响,颓废主义和新享乐主义已经成为一种时尚,一种争取权利的手段。另一方面,二战结束后,争取自由和权利的斗争随之而来。加之受酷儿理论和心理分析理论的影响,故事邪恶的主题和***潜台词逐也渐被大众所接受。
通过分析三个不同历史时期的读者对该小说的不同反应,可以得出这样的结论:好的文学作品终究能经得起时间的考验。如同《道连·格雷的画像》的遭遇, 一个世纪后,它成功走进大众视野。
关键词:期待视野;维多利亚社会;现代主义;后现代主义
Horizon of Expectations of The Picture of Dorian Gray
Abstract
Oscar Wilde, the leader of the British Aesthetic Movement, is a universally recognized genius in the history of British literature nowadays. However, when The Picture of Dorian Gray was published, Oscar Wilde’s fate changed dramatically. What awaited him was not the growing reputation but a two-year-prison custody and an infamous remaining life. However, a century later, the late-eenth-century prohibited book is a for numerous readers and the focus of literary critics.
This thesis analyzes readers’ response towards this novel in three major different periods by the theory of horizon of expectations. It is divided into three parts. Chapter One deals with late Victorian readers’ negative response to this story. On the one hand, most Victorian readers do not accept it because Oscar Wilde does not obey the traditional novel standards. On the other hand, it does not have a large Victorian readership because of those pioneering artistic ideas embedded in this book, such as new hedonism, male-male desire message. Chapter Two is concerned with the horizon of expectations of modernist readers from two major respects. One is people’s changing attitude towards decadence, and the other is the overlap between The Picture of Dorian Gray and modernist texts. C