移位的神话,命定的悲剧——《威尼斯之死》的原型批评

Displaced Myth,Destined Tragedy——The Mythological Archetype in Death in Venice

托马斯·曼的小说《威尼斯之死》因其扑朔迷离的神话色彩成为一部光芒璀璨的经世之作。许多批评家都从神话原型对艺术家的悲剧进行分析。但是大部分评论文章都简单地把艺术家悲剧的原因归咎于情感与理智的失衡,没有对艺术家悲剧的源头进行分析和论证。文章运用神话原型批评对小说中的神话元素加以分析,论证了艺术家的悲剧是他们追求唯美主义的必然结果,这一悲剧是注定的。

Death in Venice, a novel by Thomas Mann, the whirling myth in it. Many critics studied the artist＇s becomes a shining and classical tragedy from the perspective works due to archetype, but most of them attributed the reason to the balance of emotion and reason without analyzing the roots of tragedy. By analyzing the myth elements in the novel with the help of myth archetype criticism, the paper argues that the tragedy of the artist, which is doomed, is an inevitable outcome of their pursuit of aestheticism.