两寸象牙上的辉煌——从《傲慢与偏见》看简·奥斯丁的小题材创作

Glory on Two Inch Ivory——Analysis of Jane Austen’s works of small subject from Pride and Prejudice

简·奥斯丁是"第一个现实地描绘日常平凡生活中平凡人物的小说家"。她的作品反映了当时英国中产阶级生活的喜剧,显示了"家庭"文学的可能性。她多次探索青年女主角从恋爱到结婚中自我发现的过程。这种着力分析人物性格以及女主角和社会之间紧张关系的做法,使她的小说摆脱了十八世纪的传统而接近于现代的生活。《傲慢与偏见》是作者的代表作之一,它以男女主人公的爱情纠葛为主线,共计描写了四起姻缘,是作者最富于喜剧色彩,也最引人入胜的一部作品。通过对《傲慢与偏见》的分析与研究,深入探讨了奥斯丁的小题材创作"以小见大"、"以细见广"、"以小寓讽"的艺术特色。

Jane Austen was "the first writer depicting ordinary people in plain life." Her works reflected the life comedy of British bourgeois at that time,indicating the possibility of family literature.Several times,she explored the heroine’s self-recognition process from dating to marriage.Her writing always focused on the characters and analyzed the tension relations between the heroine and society.This kind of writing style made her works free from the traditional writing model of 18th century.Pride and Prejudice is one of Jane Austen’s masterpieces which describes four marriages with the link of love between the hero and the heroine,it is the most comedic and attractive works of hers.Through the analysis and study of Pride and Prejudice,we can see the delicate and satirized characteristics of Jane Austen’s writing style.