詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《一个青年艺术家的画像》之角色学解读

Analyzing William Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from the Viewpoint of Role Theory

詹姆斯·乔伊斯是二十世纪最伟大的作家之一,他突破了传统小说的写作手法,采用对后世影响颇大的意识流技巧塑造了一系列鲜活的人物形象。其代表作《一个青年艺术家的画像》全方位地为读者展示了一个有血有肉的爱尔兰青年的成长过程。试以社会学中的角色学为切入点,深入分析随着自我意识的发展,主人公斯蒂芬的角色行为的变化过程,即从童年时的角色扮演、青少年时的角色冲突最后到青年时的角色创新。

James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in the 20th century. He broke through the writing technique of traditional novels, and adopted the skill of stream of consciousness which had the great influence on the later generations to shape a series of vivid characters. His masterpiece, a portrait of the artist as a young man, showed a lively Irish youth's growing process to readers. Author tries to regard role theory in sociology as the point of penetration to analyze the changing process of Stephen's behavior with the development of his self-consciousness. That is, from role playing in childhood, role conflict in adolescence and finally to role innovation as a youth.