隐形的美杜莎——《蝴蝶梦》的认知诗学视域

Hidden Medusa:A Cognitive Approach to Rebecca

文学文本是一种潜在的结构,关涉读者的非文学规范、价值观和个人体验,阅读使之具体化。文学对象是一个由诸多不确定因素构成的潜在图式,读者需要靠认知搭建一个图式,修复和消解文本的不确定之点。文学文本的理解和阐释是富含创造性和想象力的实践活动。从认知诗学的角度,读者可对达芙妮·杜穆里埃的《蝴蝶梦》做出新的理解和修正。通过分析图形与背景的动态关系、叙事视点的转换以及情节发展背后的隐性进程,小说文本成分得到合理的解释,文本的审美价值得以彰显。

Literary text tends to be regarded as a potential structure which is concretized by readers in relation to his or herextra-literary norms, values and experiences. Literary object is a latent schema consisting of indeterminate elements.Readers have to construct a schema to revise and adjust indeterminacies in literary texts relying on their cognitive abilities.The practice of literary understanding and interpretation contains readers＂ creativity and imagination. Reading from theperspective of cognitive poetics can lead to a fresh understanding and modification of Maurier＇s Rebecca. The narrativeelements of the text can be validly interpreted and the aesthetic values of the novel can be demonstrated with an analysis ofthe dynamic relationship between figure and ground, the shifts of narrative perspectives and the covert progress behind plotdevelopment.