笔端流云 诗意叙写——论凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德文本中的叙事策略

Streaming,Poetic Prose:An Analysis of Katherine Mansfield’s Modernist Narrative Strategies

凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德一直以其在短篇小说叙事方式上的创新为评论界所称道,她打破了传统小说以情节为基础的叙事框架,注重挖掘人物的内心世界,不断变换叙事视角;运用叙述者内隐的自由间接引语模式,传达出叙述者和人物的双声效果,使小说融入朦胧的审美色彩;采用透视人物意识活动的意识流手法,重新组合时空秩序,模糊了现实和心理的界限,增强了作品的张力;描写印象式人生场景的片段,捕捉心灵瞬间的顿悟,利用声、光、色等意象和自然景物的象征赋予了作品散文诗的意蕴。

Katherine Mansfield is well known for her innovative narrative techniques employed in her short stories. The traditional plot-based framework is broken. Mansfield focuses on discovering the characters＇ inner world and changes the narrative perspective frequently. Free indirect speech is applied to convey a binaural effect, which covers the novel with a hazy aesthetic color. The adoption of stream of consciousness and the recombination of space-time order blurs the boundaries between reality and psychology, thus enhancing the work＇s extensibility. With the depiction of the impressionistic fragment, the capture of the momentary epiphany, the use of such imageries as sound, light, and color, and the description of the symbolic scenery, Mansfield＇ s works are given poetic conception.