论《杯酒留痕》中的伦理混乱与秩序重构

外国文学研究 ›› 2018, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (5): 85-92.

论《杯酒留痕》中的伦理混乱与秩序重构

徐红

出版日期:2018-10-25 发布日期:2022-05-24
作者简介:徐红,杭州电子科技大学外国语学院副教授,美国衣阿华大学亚太研究中心访问学者,主要从事英美文学研究。

Ethical Confusion and Reconstruction of Ethical Structure in Last Orders

Xu Hong

Online:2018-10-25 Published:2022-05-24
About author:Xu Hong is associate professor of English at School of Foreign Languages, Hangzhou Dianzi University (Hangzhou 310018, China), and a visiting scholar at Center of Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Iowa. Her research focus is English and American Literature. Email: xh@hdu.edu.cn

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 英国重要作家格雷厄姆·斯威夫特擅长用多元的叙事手法来探究传统主题,注重主旨思想和艺术效果的完美呈现。在小说《杯酒留痕》中,他虽采用多种后现代叙事技巧,但没有回避功利性和政治性的伦理内容,以高超的叙事手法、明暗互动的多层次伦理线,不但凸显人物的叙事功能,而且展现普通个体的伦理反思。小说的解构叙事不仅呈现了当代英国社会的伦理结构,而且通过人物在现代社会中的身份困境和伦理混乱,以及人物伦理身份和伦理关系重构的过程,体现出对文学的伦理价值和教诲功能回归的期待。

关键词: 《杯酒留痕》, 叙事技巧, 伦理混乱, 秩序重构

Abstract: Graham Swift is well known for exploring traditional themes in narrative representation. In Last Orders, Swift employs various postmodern narrative techniques to address the questions of ethics and politics. By denying the closure and linear nature of traditional narrative, and weaving the complex narration with ethical threads interacting explicitly and implicitly, Swift leaves room for discussion of ethical issues. From the perspective of literary ethical criticism, this paper, through analyzing the characters’ identity crisis as embodied in ethical confusion, aims to reflect on the rupture and revision of the ethical structure in contemporary British society, and to comprehend Swift’s anticipation of ethical value and edification function in literature.

Key words: Last Orders, narrative techniques, ethical confusion, reconstruction of ethical order

徐红. 论《杯酒留痕》中的伦理混乱与秩序重构[J]. 外国文学研究, 2018, 40(5): 85-92.

Xu Hong. Ethical Confusion and Reconstruction of Ethical Structure in Last Orders[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2018, 40(5): 85-92.

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