《猫头鹰恩仇录》叙事的拓扑结构及心理空间构建

Narrative Topology and Mental Space in Alan Garner's The Owl Service

英国经典奇幻小说《猫头鹰恩仇录》采用神话传说切入现实世界的幻想手法,通过多重叙事,在对话中实现人物塑造和情节发展的拓扑结构,形成结构性戏剧张力。神话传说和现实世界彼此嵌入、重合、分离,进而抽象出"昨日"、"今日"和"明日"三个时间概念中的悲剧轮回。叙事所产生的不同世界之间的关系有助于读者通过建构心理空间获得文本的现实意义。

In The Owl Service Alan Garner creates a dramatic tension through the interweaving of myth and reality, the use of dialogue, and the employment of multiple points of view. All these strategies allow the reader to reach a fresh understanding of the spatial correlation between different worlds and the time cycle of past, present and future. This paper attempts to look into the fiction＇s narrative structure and examine how a mental space is constructed in order to generate its textual meaning.