摘要
"琐事"是美国作家苏珊·格拉斯佩尔的首部戏剧作品,"女陪审团"则是她根据"琐事"改写而成的短篇小说。两部作品中的人物完全一致,故事情节大体相同。不过,作家在将戏剧再创作为小说时仍对原作进行了一些改动,对情节有所删减或增添,因而产生了不同的艺术效果。目前国内外有不少学者研究这两部作品,但其讽刺艺术很少有人问津。本文作者在广泛阅读、借鉴前人研究成果的基础上,通过比较两部作品讽刺效果的方法来探讨作家精湛的改写技巧。笔者认为,改写后的小说不但主题更加深刻,而且讽刺更为犀利,更耐人寻味。
Trifles is the short story that she later first dramatic work of the American writer Susan Glaspell. A Jury of Her Peers is a adapted from that play. The characters in the two works are the same and the plots essentially Mike. Nevertheless, in the process of rewriting the play the author made some alterations, including some omissions and additions of the plot, which enabled the short story to present a different artistic effect from the original play. Many scholars, home and abroad, have studied the two works from different perspectives, yet among whom few have focused their study on the irony in both works. On the basis of reading and referring to the research of many experts, the author of the present thesis studies the brilliant rewriting skills of Susan Glaspell through a comparative study of the irony in these twin writings. The author of the present thesis concludes that the adaptation presents the reader a short story whose theme is more profound and whose irony is sharper and more thought provoking than those of the original play.
