论《鬣蜥之夜》中的伦理叙事

An Ethical Literary Narrative in The Night of the Iguana

美国二战后著名剧作家田纳西·威廉斯的作品之所以获得观众的认可和评论界的高度评价,主要在于它们在文本内部围绕人与社会、人与人、人与自然这三个伦理维度展开了对美国社会文化存在的文本叙事。其最后一部成功剧作《鬣蜥之夜》以异于前文本的后现代主义叙事模式对美国传统文化价值体系进行了消解。文章将其置于前文本的伦理叙事维度中,运用文学伦理学批评理论,结合作家生平对其进行解读,旨在透过文本差异性的内涵,考察作品中威廉斯对宽容、平等、和谐的人类生态伦理的诉求。

The reason why the plays by Tennessee Williams, American famous dramatist after WWII, are both critically acclaimed and commercially successful consists largely in their narratives about American society and culture in terms of three ethical dimensions, namely man and society, man and man, man and nature. The Night of the Igualza, his last successful play, deconstructs American traditional cultural values with the post-modern narrative pattern not as its pre-texts do. This paper sets it in the ethical narrative dimensions of its pre- texts and applies the ethical literary criticism, coupling with the writer＇ s life experience, to investigate Wil-liams＇ pursuit of the ideal ethics with the essence of tolerance, equality and harmony by penetrating the textu-al different connotation.