突破时间“桎梏”:爱丽丝·门罗《好女人的爱情》叙事策略分析

Breaking the Shackle of Time:Analysis of Narrative Strategies In Alice Munro's The Love of a Good Woman

爱丽丝·门罗在其众多短篇中对叙事时间的娴熟运用,常常能够突破传统的线性叙事时间的桎梏,让平淡无奇的故事在错综复杂的叙事时间中展示出神奇的魔力,也最大限度地调动了读者的参与性。本文尝试以爱丽丝·门罗的《好女人的爱情》为例,通过文本细读的方式,探讨作品中叙事时间的断裂、跳跃、衔接与省略的特点,故事在碎片化的叙事时间中逐步生成,融入了读者的参与意识。门罗的叙事手法不仅激发了读者的好奇心,而且引发了读者强烈的参与意识和对现实的反思。

Alice Munro is good at dealing with narrative time in her short stories,which makes in her stories break the shackle of traditional linear time so as to show the magic of the plain stories in the mixed narrative time.With the help of the strategy of dealing time,readers could have opportunities to take part in the creation of short stories.This paper aims to take The Love of A Good Woman as an example to discuss the fracture,jump,cohesion and ellipsis of time in this short stories with the method of close reading.Combined with readers＇ participation,stories can be produced in the fiagmentary time.Munro＇s narrative strategies not only stimulate readers＇ curiosity,but also arise readers＇ strong sense of participation and the reflection of reality.