艰难的涉渡之舟:曹禺早期戏剧叙事伦理

Boat Staggering across River: Narrative Ethics in Cao Yu's Early Drama

曹禺早期剧作所处理的题材常具有明显的伦理意味,时常通过塑造矛盾人物形象,从伦理角度深刻地开掘人类行为动机及其复杂后果。叙事伦理批评开创了审美和价值研究的新思路,笔者拟从叙述伦理的维度去解读早期曹禺创作中的价值取向,以期开掘出作者隐匿于文本背后的伦理取向及其功能意义。

The dramas written by Cao Yu in his early career often bears explicit ethical signifi cance in that the dramatist sought to dig out people's motivations and consequences in shaping contradictory personal images. Ethnical narrative critics explore a novel approach to aesthetic and value research. The author interprets those dramas from perspective of ethnical narrative, in an endeavor to reveal ethnical orientation and functional implication underlying the text.