感觉中的现在:论《呼啸山庄》的时间叙事艺术

Specious Present;The Time form in the Narrative of Wuthering Heights

《呼啸山庄》最引人注目的特点之一就是艾米莉·勃朗特对时间的复杂设置和精妙运用。小说浓缩了丰富且严谨之场景所有的要素,以巧妙的手法,展现了精密细致的文本时间和故事时间之来龙去脉,在时间的交错颠倒中展开情节,在时序的复杂交织中突出主题。对天气和季节的描述,更使得小说人物角色的情感和举动跃然纸上,使得故事场景生动逼真、富于戏剧效果,揭示了这部惊心动魄的原创小说的活泼本质与奥秘。在有限的时空里,使过去和现在于恍惚中得到了有机的融合。

One of the most striking characteristics in Wuthering Heights is the accurately handling of the time by Emily Bronte. The novel boils down all the elements making up the fully and precisely created setting. With a skilful handling, Emily demonstrates her meticulous text time and story time in the novel; with time crisscrossing, the plot is developed; with order reversing, the theme is heightened. Her description of the weather and seasons symbolizes the feelings and actions of the characters, making the setting vivid and full of dramatic effects, enhancing the vigorous quality and profundity of this startlingly original novel. In the limited space and time, the past and present is integrated in a trance.