英国元小说中的概念空间冲突--以两部新维多利亚小说为例

Conflicting Conceptual Spaces in British Postmodern Metafiction

英国后现代元小说实验性与传统性并重,一方面以真实历史阶段为背景,以现实主义描写为主线,另一方面又对自身作为艺术品的地位以及对小说与现实和历史的关系进行考量,其中的矛盾内容一直是识解难点。本文以两部涉及维多利亚时期历史或文本的元小说为例,利用Fauconnier和Turner(2002)的概念整合理论分析英国后现代元小说中的特异语言现象,即有关小说真实性的探讨、人物塑造、叙述视角等方面的矛盾语句。读者在解读这些语言现象时,会在脑中产生互相冲突的概念空间,而冲突空间整合后出现的新显结构展现了读者对英国元小说这种特殊文本写作的意义整合与建构方式。

British postmodern metafiction exhibits attraction towards history and realism on the one hand and experiment on the other for the reflection over its own status as artifact and over relationship between fiction and reality or history, posing difficulties for the constrnal with its contradictory elements in language. This article, applying Fauconnier ＆ Turner＇ s Conceptual Integration Theory （2002） to two British metafictional novels with Victorian history or text as background, analyzes metafictional idiosyncratic language about the authenticity of fiction, characterization and focalization. It displays that these idiosyncrasies will conjure up conflicting conceptual spaces in readers＇ mind and that the emergent structure in the integrat- ed space presents the manners of integration and construction of meanings on the part of readers for the special narrative writing of British postmodern fiction.