摘要
福斯特的小说以其主题复杂隐晦令人困惑。互文性理论为解读福斯特小说提供了新的视角。借助这一视角对福斯特所有六部小说进行纵横审视 ,可以看出其小说的主题意义主要在于对英国爱德华时代知识分子之所思所虑作出回应 :一是寻找新的伦理道德标准 ,界定“极善”的境界 ;二是探索通达“极善”境界的途径。
E.M.Forster is believed to be one of the most puzzling authors of the twentieth century.The themes in his novels can be clarified and familiarized when looked into from the perspective of the theories of intertextuality.A synchronic intertextual reading reveals that his Italian novels were meant to advocate the Jamesian sumum bonum ,and a diachronic intertextual reading discloses Forsters attempt in his England novels to devise the means by which the sumum bonum can be achieved.An intratextual reading of Maurice and A Passage to India sees the two extreme novels as explications of the intension and extension of Forsters thematic concerns.
出处
《外语研究》
2001年第4期49-53,共5页
Foreign Languages Research
