艾丽丝·门罗与伊恩·麦克尤恩的互文性叙事——以《孩子的游戏》和《蝴蝶》为例

Intertextual narratology of Alice Munro's and Ian McEwan's short stories——Case studies on Child's Play and Butterflies

艾丽丝·门罗和伊恩·麦克尤恩两位作家均以擅长应用独特的叙事手法和叙事风格,创造出情节简单、短小精悍却震撼人心的故事而著称。此外,两位作家在叙事视角、叙事时间以及叙事效果等方面具有惊人的相似性。应用互文性叙事理论比照门罗的《孩子的游戏》和麦克尤恩的《蝴蝶》的叙事视角和叙事时间等叙事策略,对更好地阐释两部作品对于人性复杂面以及人在面临困境时的伦理道德抉择等问题的关注和探寻具有深远的意义。

Both Alice Munro and Ian McEwan are great artists of unique narrative style and technique, who created shocking and moving short stories famous for their simple but terse and forceful plots. Besides, their works demonstrate significant similarities in narrative perspective, narrative time and narrative effects. Thus, an intertextual reading of Munro＇s Child＇s Play and McEwan＇s Butterflies and exploration on their narratology can significantly enhance our understanding and interpretation of two authors＇ attention and exploration on such issues as the complexity of human nature and people＇s ethical choice in a predicament.