“感性罩壳”下的诗意——论《大地》中土地意象的多重构成

The Poeticality Below the Emotional Shell——On the Multiple Earth Imagery of The Good Earth

赛珍珠《大地》蕴含丰富的土地意象。同类题材作品中的土地意象仅是作用于视觉物体的描写,恰当地点缀在人物所在情节的必要部分即适可而止;而《大地》中却延伸至听觉的、触觉的、嗅觉的、味觉的乃至温觉的、幻觉的,土地这一景物在作品中已被多重感觉所具有的品质、价值和意义多重再现和表现;进而土地的意象还联结了主人公与自然与他人的种种关系,使得上述两个层面的描写渗透到作品的深层文化意蕴。由此,土地与大地的意象同广袤的自然社会无不相连,所指向种种层次的意旨成了再也剥不开的浑然一体。

Pearl S.Buck＇s The Good Earth teems with the earth imagery.The earth imagery in other works of similar theme is but used in the depiction of visual objects,dotting the plots,but such imagery has extended to be visual,tactual,olfactory,and even to be thermal and illusionary in The Good Earth.The earth is reproduced and represented in various ways by the character,value and meaning possessed by multiple senses.The imagery of earth forges the connections between the protagonist and the nature and the other characters that the two layers mentioned above are endowed the profound cultural artistic conceptions and implications.Thus,the earth and the earth imagery are brought to be related with the immense nature and society,and the intentions at various levels that the layers of meaning become an indivisible integrity.