米利特的女性主义读解与劳伦斯的艺术创意和思想之对抗——《骑马出走的女人》之评析

Feministic Reading of Kate Millet Vs Artistic Creation and Ideology of D.H.Lawrence——On The Woman Who Rode Away

凯特·米利特在《性政治》中以批驳劳伦斯的男子至上主义而大肆攻击劳伦斯的小说,其短篇小说《骑马出走的女人》也难逃她的鞭挞。其实,这篇小说引发争执的焦点在于女主人公出走后为何走向"色情虐待和邪恶中的死亡"。米氏的女性主义批评和读解,她那激烈而又辛辣的措辞和对文本内容锱铢必较的态度倒也颇具启发性。读者可以换一个视角,暂时不去细究作品的语言或结构,而是深入到艺术家的心灵深处,从其文学创作的整体和思想历程来探索作品的主题、思想性和艺术价值。

In her Sexual Politics Kate Millet lashes out at D .H . Lawrence＇ s fiction in the name of his male chauvinism. His short story The Woman Who Rode Away was unavoidably included in her critical list. In fact, the controversy the story has pro- voked so far focuses upon why the heroine rode to ＂sexual abuse and evil death＂. Millet＇ s feministic criticism and understanding of Lawrence＇ s works and philosophy, her sarcasm and meticulous anatomy of the text shed a new light on the problem. Are the readers to look at it from another prospective, or to put the language and structure of the story aside for a little while？ Thus they may go deep into the innermost of the artist. While taking Lawrence＇ s literary creation and spiritual pilgrimage as a whole we may form a better idea of the theme, ideology and artistic value of the story.