摘要
荣获诺贝尔文学奖的英国作家多丽丝·莱辛2000年发表的小说《本,在人间》还没有引起评论界应有的重视。本文认为这篇小说是莱辛的又一部力作。她巧妙地利用玛丽·雪莱的小说《弗兰根斯坦》作为桥梁,借用了经典的普罗米修斯神话,并把它颠覆性地改写成了一个后现代的悲剧。追寻普罗米修斯从"英雄"到"怪物"形象转化的轨迹,我们发现这两个悲剧之间跨越时空的联系映照出今天人性的退化和人类文明的悲剧。
Critics do not pay due attention to Ben,in the World published in 2000 by Doris Lessing,the Nobel Prize winner.This paper shows that this novel is very significant in that Lessing,tactfully using Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a bridge,has borrowed the tragic plot from the classic Prometheus myth,and subverted it into a postmodern tragedy.Tracing the transformation of Prometheus from a'hero'to a postmodern human'monster'in this novel, we find that the connection crossing time and space between the two tragedies mirrors the tragic deterioration of human nature and human civilization.
出处
《英美文学研究论丛》
CSSCI
2008年第1期246-256,共11页
English and American Literary Studies
