非自然叙事的伦理阐释——《果壳》的胎儿叙述者及其脑文本演绎

外国文学研究 ›› 2018, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (3): 30-42.

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非自然叙事的伦理阐释——《果壳》的胎儿叙述者及其脑文本演绎

尚必武

出版日期:2018-06-25 发布日期:2022-05-23
作者简介:尚必武,教育部青年长江学者,上海交通大学外国语学院教授,主要从事叙事学、文学伦理学批评、当代英美小说研究。
基金资助:
国家社科基金重大项目“中西叙事传统比较研究”(16ZDA195)

An Ethical Interpretation of Unnatural Narrative:The Foetus Narrator and Its Brian Text in Ian McEwan's Nutshell

Shang Biwu

Online:2018-06-25 Published:2022-05-23
About author:Shang Biwu is Professor of English at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai 200240, China). He is mainly engaged in the studies of narratology, ethical literary criticism, and contemporary Anglo-American fiction. Email: biwushang@sjtu.edu.cn
Supported by:
“A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Narrative Traditions” (16ZDA195), sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 本文聚焦麦克尤恩新作《果壳》的非自然叙事,从文学伦理学批评视角对其作出阐释,试图籍此回应安斯加尔·纽宁等人关于加强以形式研究为主的叙事学和以内容研究为主的文学伦理学批评之间对话的倡议。在这部戏仿莎士比亚《哈姆雷特》的作品中,麦克尤恩极尽其非自然叙事之能事,成功建构了一个关于弑亲、乱伦和复仇的不可能的故事世界。文章在从非自然叙述者、非自然心理两个层面来考察《果壳》的非自然叙事的基础上,引入文学伦理学批评,尤其是从脑文本概念入手,解读该小说的非自然性,由此挑战当前西方叙事学界关于非自然叙事阐释的两大主导模式——自然化解读和非自然化解读,开辟非自然叙事阐释的新进路。

关键词: 麦克尤恩, 《果壳》, 非自然叙事, 脑文本

Abstract: Taking Ian McEwan's Nutshell as its central concern, this article attempts to investigate the unnaturalness of the novel and offers an ethical interpretive option. In doing so, it attempts to respond to Ansgar Nünning's proposal for bringing narratology into dialogue with ethical literary criticism. As a parody to Shakespeare's classical drama Hamlet, Nutshell, in the form of unnatural narrative, presents an impossible storyworld of kinslaying, incest, and revenge. Apart form examining the unnatural narrative strategies of Nutshell from such aspects as unnatural narrator and unnatural mind, it resourcefully interprets the work from the perspective of ethical literary criticism, and the concept brain text in particular, which promises to challenge the naturalizing readings and unnaturalizing readings in the current conceptual framework of unnatural narratology, and thus opens up a new interpretive option to unnatural narrative.

Key words: Ian McEwan, Nutshell, unnatural narrative, brain text

尚必武. 非自然叙事的伦理阐释——《果壳》的胎儿叙述者及其脑文本演绎[J]. 外国文学研究, 2018, 40(3): 30-42.

Shang Biwu. An Ethical Interpretation of Unnatural Narrative:The Foetus Narrator and Its Brian Text in Ian McEwan's Nutshell[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2018, 40(3): 30-42.

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