符号界和象征界理论在《激情》中的批评实践

Interpretation of The Passion From Theory of the Semiotic and Symbolic Spaces

《激情》以拿破仑战争为叙事背景,男女主人公亨利和维兰妮的叙事相互交织,各自讲述他们在巴黎和威尼斯遭受当权者的操纵与剥削,在俄罗斯相遇,一起逃离被宰制空间的故事。然而由于性格等因素,这个爱情故事最终不得不以各自在不同的空间找到归属感而结尾。文章借助克里斯蒂娃的符号界和象征界理论,探讨小说中人物主体如何受到两种空间的拉扯而呈现出不稳定状态,揭示诗性语言在建构主体自我意识过程中所起的重要作用,由此看到温特森与克里斯蒂娃的契合:两人都强调主体是开放不稳定的,在符号界与象征界两种空间中摆动,并以此来抵抗父权文化的二元对立。

Set the Naponion Wars as its background,interwoven with two narrators,Henri and Villanelle,The Passion describes the story of the two lovers who undergo a series of manipulations and exploitations from those- in- power in Paris and Venice respectively,later encounter each other in Russia and determine to escape. On account of the radical differences in personality and preference,this romantic story ends up with the permanent separation in two diverse spaces where both protagonists eventually feel the sense of belonging. The thesis aims to interpret the novel from Kristeva＇s theory of the semiotic and symbolic spaces,between which the subjectivity of the characters oscillates,then recounts the importance of poetic language in the process of protagonists＇ voyage from innocence to self- awareness,and eventually displays the correlativity between Winterson and Kristeva,both stress the dialectical oscillation of two realms as their position against the patriarchal binary position.