奥斯卡·王尔德《道连·格雷的画像》中的东方想象

The Oriental Imagination in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

王尔德是维多利亚时期著名的作家,受东方文化影响很深,他的唯一的一部长篇小说《道连.格雷的画像》里面充满了对东方不同国度的想象,比如把中国和日本当作他的审美乌托邦,把印度和澳大利亚当作淘金和罪犯的天堂,中东等国家充满异域情调,犹太人依然被鄙视和嘲讽。这些想象或者是为了批判当时的实用和功利主义,或者是为了彰显宗主国文化的优越性,让作品充满东方浪漫异域情调的同时,也让我们了解了作为宗主国文化的对立面"他者"的东方是如何被审视的。

Oscar Wilde,as a famous Victorian author,deeply influenced by oriental culture.His only long novel The Picture of Dorian Gray is full of colorful imagination of different oriental countries.For example,China and Japan is viewed as an aesthetic utopia;India and Australia is imagined as a paradise for wealth and criminal;mid-east countries are viewed as egoistic ones;Jews are still prejudiced and satirized.All of this is either for the criticism of pragmatism and utilitarianism or for the revealing of the superiority of sovereign state.While making the novel full of egoistic tone,the author and the works make us aware of the way that orient as an OTHER is treated.