狄更斯的幽默叙事艺术研究

Research on Charles Dickens' Humorous Narrative Art

狄更斯是这位19世纪杰出的现实主义作家,为英国文坛留下了一笔卓越而宝贵的财富:他创造了千姿百态的、形象明晰的个性人物和无数荒谬怪诞的空间场景。尽管有些学者认为其作品夸张得有失真实感,但我们无可否认的是其作品中的这些元素既生动而又鲜活,充满着强大的叙事力量,即使在今天也同样激荡着读者的内心世界。狄更斯正是用这种独特的幽默叙述艺术展现着维多利亚时期、英国社会各阶层的现实生活。他独特的幽默艺术以及在其作品中的自觉运用,使之成为其小说的基本特色,也是为何其作品流传至今而魅力不朽的主要源泉。本文主要综合运用西方美学原理、叙事学理论和乖讹理论来阐释狄更斯幽默叙事艺术的基本特征。

Charles Dickens is also acclaimed as the most prominent realistic novelist in the 19th century. His significant contribution to the history of English literature is to create various distinguished characters with distinctive eccentricities and innumerous absurd spatial scenes in his works. Admittedly, these striking characters and grotesque spaces in the novels which, despite some scholars criticized lacking reality, are not only highly vivid and moving, but also filled with the exceeding power of narrative. Even now, they still keep fresh and can stir the strong emotions in the readers＂ minds. Dickens actually presents a real British life of different social classes in the Victorian era through his unique narrative techniques of humor. Therefore, his conscious employment of this characteristic humorous technique of narrative becomes the basic feature and is also the main source of the sensational immortality in his works. Based on the theory of western aesthetics and the theory of narrative as well as Incongruity-Resolution Theory, this research is intent to explore the basic artistic features of Charles Dickens＇ s remarkable narrative techniques of humor in his novels.