她为何不恸哭?——《古德隆恩的第一首歌》中的伦理与情感问题解析

外国文学研究 ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (4): 41-53.

她为何不恸哭?——《古德隆恩的第一首歌》中的伦理与情感问题解析

陈彦旭

出版日期:2020-08-25 发布日期:2021-02-25
作者简介:陈彦旭,东北师范大学外国语学院教授。主要从事英国文学、比较文学与世界文学研究。
基金资助:
教育部人文社科青年项目“19世纪英国文学中的北欧文化因子研究”（1702119）

Why Didn't She Weep? The Ethical and Emotional Issues in “The First Poem of Gudrún”

Chen Yanxu

Online:2020-08-25 Published:2021-02-25
About author:Chen Yanxu is a professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Northeast Normal University (Changchun 130024, China). His major research interests include British literature, comparative literature, and world literature. Email: chenyx525@nenu.edu.cn
Supported by:
A Study of the Nordic Elements in the Nineteenth-Century English Literature ” (1702119) sponsored by China's Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund for Young Scholars

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： “哭泣的古德隆恩”是北欧中世纪诗体《埃达》中著名的女性悲剧形象。其哭泣行为之延宕,有着深刻的文化解读空间,隐藏着独特的伦理观念与情感结构。作为“埃达挽歌”之代表,《古德隆恩的第一首歌》颠覆了《埃达》神话诗中强有力的女性刻板印象,塑造了新型的善感女性形象,在此基础上形成了以“同情”为特征的北欧女性情感共同体。这与罗曼司与基督教的文化影响有关,也与社会进步而发生的个人观念的觉醒以及对死亡的认识有关。《古德隆恩的第一首歌》中细腻的抒情叙事有助于我们摆脱对北欧文化野蛮、尚武的刻板印象,从而对北欧中世纪文学产生更加深刻与全面的认识。

关键词: 北欧, “埃达挽歌”, 伦理, 情感

Abstract: The “weeping Gudrún” is a well-known female tragic figure in the medieval Nordic Poetic Edda. Her delayed weeping offers plenty of wiggle room for profound cultural elucidation and conceals unique ethical concepts and emotional structures. As a representative piece of “eddic elegies”, “The First Poem of Gudrún” subverts the stereotype of powerful women in the mythical poems of Edda and creates a brand new image of sentimental women, thereby establishing an emotional community of Nordic women characterized by “sympathy”. All this has a lot to do with not only the cultural influence from romance and Christianity, but also the awakening sense of individuality and the reckoning with death in the wake of social progress. The exquisite lyric narrative in “The First Poem of Gudrún” helps us renounce our stereotypes of the Old Norse culture as something savage and bellicose, thus developing a deeper and fuller understanding of the Old Norse literature in the Middle Ages.

Key words: the Nordic, “eddic elegies”, ethics, emotion

陈彦旭. 她为何不恸哭?——《古德隆恩的第一首歌》中的伦理与情感问题解析[J]. 外国文学研究, 2020, 42(4): 41-53.

Chen Yanxu. Why Didn't She Weep? The Ethical and Emotional Issues in “The First Poem of Gudrún”[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2020, 42(4): 41-53.

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