英语语言隐喻在小说《都柏林人》中的体现

The Embodiment of English Language Metaphor in Dubliners

对于现代派小说家而言,语言便是其小说存在的意义,写小说即写语言。詹姆斯·乔伊斯创作的小说《都柏林人》在外在形式上属于短篇小说,而在主题结构上则属于长篇小说,小说的语言则具有独特的艺术风格。小说《都柏林人》的英语语言艺术特色主要体现在词汇方面和句法方面,乔伊斯把具有丰富内涵的词汇进行艺术性组合,为整部小说主题赋予深刻的象征意蕴,并充满意味深长的弦外之音。

What matters modernist novelists is language,which can indicate the existence of their novels;in a sense,writing novels means the description of language.James Joyce’s novel Dubliners is a short story in its external form,but a novel in its thematic structure.The language of the novel has unique artistic styles.The artistic features of English language in Dubliners are mainly refl ected in its vocabulary and syntax.Joyce artistically combines the rich vocabulary to endow the theme of the novel with profound symbolic meaning and profound implication.