论简·奥斯丁的女性叙事策略

On Jane Austen's Female Narrative Strategies

简.奥斯丁的女性叙事策略体现在叙事内容和叙事方法两个方面。在叙事内容上,她摒弃男性的宏大叙事模式,将长期处于边缘地位的女性推上前台,让女性人物成为小说的主人公,而且一反男性叙事文学对女性的歪曲和贬抑,还女性人物以真实的形象,她提倡一种恋爱时理智与感情平衡,婚姻中爱情和财产并需,家庭内男女人格平等的婚恋观念。在叙事手法上,她广泛使用第三人称隐含的女性的叙事视角和自由间接引语、反讽等“间接手法”,借小说人物之口隐蔽地表达自己的见解,谴责男权社会中种种不合理的现象。奥斯丁采用理智而克制,冷静而平和的女性叙事策略不动声色地摆脱了男性话语的控制,凸显了女性意识,并建构了女性的写作立场。

Jane Austen＇s female narrative strategies are reflected on two ways： narrative content and narrative method. In narrative content, Austen concentrates on women＇s routine life, love and marriage, so she neglects the narrative modes used by male writers of her time who concerns much about important historical events. In her novels, Austen always makes the female figures main characters of her novels, and they are the centers of the stage. She describes women as they really are and advocates a new idea of love and marriage. In narrative method, Austen uses the feminine covert narrator, the third - person point of view and indirect narrative techniques. With her calm and sensible female narrative strategies, Austen effectively gets rid of the control of masculine discourse. For the first time, Austen establishes the female writing style in English Literature.