文档介绍：河北大学
硕士学位论文
凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德短篇小说的矛盾特点分析
姓名:郑超
申请学位级别:硕士
专业:英语语言文学
指导教师:李文良
20100601
摘要
摘要
20 世纪初期新西兰小说家凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德以其自然的笔触和清新淡雅的文风
独树一帜活跃得在欧洲文坛, 并使短篇小说这一历来不受重视的文学样式逐渐为人们
所熟知,对整个英语文学作出了不可磨灭的贡献。曼氏小说的魅力之处不仅在于它继承
了维多利亚时期女性文学传统,精通于雕琢普通生活的细微之处和平凡人物的典型形象,
更在于作者将自身复杂丰富的经历感受和价值观融入作品之中,使作品具有矛盾性、双
重性的基调。本文诣在透过对曼斯菲尔德作品的深入解读,挖掘其多舛命运与作品的联
系,进而探讨作者渗透于创作之中的矛盾价值观。
本论文包括五部分。序言包括对凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德生平、作品的简介。第二部分
重点分析作者通过印象主义和象征主义的对比运用来渲染自然场景的对立。第三部分作
者试图分析曼斯菲尔德作品中人物凸显的矛盾性格。从对生死矛盾的比对,婚姻中的男
女关系的探讨,到对具有自恋情节的主人公描写,再到作者眼中纯洁无辜的儿童形象的
解读,无疑都渗透着作者对现实残酷性的逃避与顿悟以及对自我身份的怀疑。第四部分
论证了曼斯菲尔德边缘地位对小说主题的影响:在她的大多数作品中都存在着幻灭感与
孤独感,即虚幻美好与人在现实中的无助形成的强烈对比。文章的第五部分是结论。通
过矛盾主题的揭示,读者体会到了曼斯菲尔德短篇小说所要传达的意境。
关键词凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德短篇小说矛盾特点
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Abstract
Abstract
New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield is one of the masters in modernism with the
pure style and delicate words. She devotes herself to innovations of short story genre and thus
makes the great contribution to the development of literature in Europe. Inheriting the
Victorian female literary tradition, Katherine Mansfield portrays a series of ordinary lives and
images with subtle observation and rating insight. Consciously somewhat, she integrates
her own experience and the ambivalence about her identity into the process of her writing,
which gives the works a unique style of paradoxes and ambiguities as a result. The present
study attempts to discover the link between the author’s suffering fate and her works, and tries
to probe into her ambivalent value in the stories by deep appreciation.
This thesis falls into five parts. Part one includes a brief review of Mansfield’s life,
works and the themes of her short stories. Part two focuses on the ambivalent descriptions in
nature from Mansfield’s view. In this part, the employment parison of impressionism
and symbolism are discussed in her stories. The third part stresses on analyzing the characters’
paradoxes in her stories. The paradoxes contain the relationship between m