舶来与本土化:澳大利亚殖民主义时期哥特式小说研究

Imported Genre of Local Characteristics:On Australian Colonial Gothic Fiction

在英美文学界,自从20世纪80年代以来,随着文化研究的发展,哥特式文学得到了热烈的讨论和研究。然而,由于白人历史不够悠久,澳大利亚长期以来被认为缺乏哥特式小说滋生的古堡文化,因而,哥特式小说在澳大利亚的新发展也未引起学术界的广泛重视。考察哥特式小说在澳大利亚殖民主义时期进行移植的可能性并且梳理哥特式小说在澳大利亚的本土化新发展,既可以拓宽澳大利亚文学研究的视野,也可以丰富哥特式文学研究。

With the burgeoning of cultural studies,the gothic has been hotly discussed in British and American academia since the 1980s.It has been a long held idea that Australia,which has a comparatively short history,hence of no castellated culture,has yielded few gothic tales.As a result,Australian gothic hasn＇t aroused much interest.The present paper firstly takes a view of the possibilities of Australia＇s importation of the gothic,then,studies its new development as a local genre.It will be of much importance to broaden and enrich both Australian literary study as well as gothic study.