肖邦寡妇题材故事叙事策略背后的道德问题

发布时间：2018-06-02 13:01

本文选题：凯特·肖邦 + 寡妇　；参考：《电子科技大学》2016年硕士论文

【摘要】：凯特·肖邦是女性主义文学的代表作家,但她创作的多篇关于寡妇的故事却被认为主题偏于保守。本论文旨在探寻这些寡妇故事为何显得保守,这种保守到底是作者的真实态度还是女性主义的表达策略。肖邦作品中以寡妇为主题的短篇故事主要有五篇,分别是《塞莱斯坦夫人的离婚》(Madame Celestin’s Divorce),《一位圣牛轭湖的女士》(A Lady of Bayou St.John),《一小时的故事》(The Story of an Hour),《马尔泰夫人的平安夜》(Madame Martel’s Christmas Eve)和《小盒吊坠》(The Locket)。基于互文分析、叙事学以及女性主义批评等理论,笔者将分析以上五篇短篇故事中肖邦在人物塑造,环境描写以及情节编织的叙事策略中体现出的道德迎合或道德规避,而这实际上也是更为隐秘的女性主义表达方式。第一章为论文介绍部分,包含作者肖邦生平及国内外对其作品的研究,论文意义、理论和框架介绍等;第二章主要围绕故事中人物形象塑造的叙事策略展开讨论,以分析背后的道德目的;第三章中关于外部自然环境和内部空间的叙事策略使其具有独特象征意义及道德意义,而故事中出现的与肖邦本人现实生活相关的叙事则为分析故事背后的道德目的提供现实依据。第四章重点分析寡妇们各自不同的觉醒表现以及觉醒过后意外且保守的故事结局,而这些故事结局进一步揭示了寡妇艰难的生存状况。在道德束缚下,女主人公日常生活中都在不同方面刻意表现出自己身为寡妇应有的表现,她们的那些保守表现很可能是违背内心真实意愿的,以达到道德迎合的目的。此外,这些故事也不同角度的描写了寡妇内心的觉醒,过于直白和大胆的女性觉醒与当时社会道德对女性的要求不符,而与之相关保守的叙事可避免受到道德的责难,以达到道德规避的目的。道德迎合和道德规避使故事充满反讽性,凸显出寡妇这一特殊女性群体当时的艰难生存状态,体现肖邦女性主义关怀。
[Abstract]:Kate Chopin is the representative writer of feminist literature, but many of her stories about widows are considered conservative. The purpose of this paper is to find out why these widows' stories are conservative and whether this conservatism is the author's true attitude or feminist expression strategy. There are five short stories about widows in Chopin's works. They are Madame Celestin's divorce, A Lady of Bayou St. John, the Story of an of the hour, Madame Martel's Christmas Eve) and the Box pendant. Based on the theories of intertextuality analysis, narratology and feminist criticism, the author will analyze the moral pandering or moral circumvention embodied in the narrative strategies of characterization, environmental description and plot weaving in the above five short stories. And this is actually a more secretive form of feminist expression. The first chapter is the introduction of the thesis, including the life of Chopin and the study of Chopin's works at home and abroad, the significance of the paper, the theory and framework of the introduction, etc. The second chapter focuses on the narrative strategy of portraying the characters in the story. In order to analyze the moral purpose behind it, the narrative strategy of external natural environment and internal space in the third chapter makes it have unique symbolic and moral significance. The narration related to Chopin's real life provides a realistic basis for analyzing the moral purpose behind the story. The fourth chapter focuses on the different awakening performance of widows and the unexpected and conservative story ending after awakening, which further reveals the difficult living conditions of widows. Under the restraint of morality, the heroine in her daily life deliberately shows her due performance as a widow in different aspects. Their conservative performance is likely to be contrary to the true will of her heart, in order to achieve the goal of moral pandering. In addition, these stories also depict the awakening of widows from different angles, and the overstated and bold awakening of women does not correspond to the demands of social morality on women at that time, and the relevant conservative narratives can avoid being criticized by morality. In order to achieve the purpose of moral circumvention. Moral pandering and moral circumvention make the story full of irony and highlight the difficult living condition of this special group of women and reflect Chopin's feminist concern.
【学位授予单位】：电子科技大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2016
【分类号】：I712.074

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