摘要
荣获2007年埃德加·爱伦·坡最佳小说奖的《禁卫军之树》是一部以晚期奥斯曼帝国为历史背景的侦探小说,它讲述了一场充斥着野心的夺权阴谋事件。作者运用侦探小说这种喜闻乐见的通俗形式在作品中诠释了厚重的历史文化,并对现代性与民族性进行了人文思考。本文首先对这部作品中纵横交错的商业流行元素和历史文化元素进行诠解,然后对这两者在侦探小说框架下的形式与内容的和谐统一进行探究,最后对作品中形式的通俗性与主题的严肃性的巧妙结合进行阐释。
The Janissary Tree, the winner of the 2007 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Fiction, narrates a story of usurpation that happened in the late Ottoman Empire. In the form of popular literature, this novel, however, exhibits the author＇ s profound knowledge of history and culture and humanist view of modernity and nationality. The present paper then explores both the commercial success of the novel and its in-depth reflection on history and culture. It also purports to investigate the novel＇ s aesthetic value inherent in the unity of form and content , displaying how the novel pulls together popularity, seriousness and density as a bestseller.
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2009年第4期69-76,共8页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
