《人面狮身的女人》的叙事文体特征分析

On the Narrative and Stylistic Features of the Sphinx without a Secret

《人面狮身的女人》是19世纪末英国唯美主义代表人物奥斯卡.王尔德所著的一篇短篇小说,描写了阿洛依夫人与穆奇森邂逅的一段奇遇,利用大量对话构成独特的篇章布局,运用直接引语营造虚幻又真实的情境,以错落的叙事视角和层次讲述故事,唯美的辞藻、灵活的句式和修辞则巧妙地突出了小说细节和人物情感的变化,打造了一个短小精悍,构思精彩,意蕴无穷的故事。

The Sphinx without a Secret is a short story written by Oscar Wilde who was the representative of British aesthetic movement in the late 19th century.This fiction has a very special text layout with plenty of conversations,describes the experience between enigmatic Lady Alroy and Lord Murchison,forms a situation both false and true,tells the story by way of a patchwork of multi-level narrative structure and narrative perspective.The elegantly written words,flexibly chosen expressions,and reasonably adopted rhetorical devices highlight the slightest changes in details of the plots and emotions of the characters in this novel,and make an exquisite and well-created story endowed with enormous connation.