伍尔夫《达洛维夫人》中的疾病幽灵

The specter of disease in Woolf’s Mrs.Dalloway

20世纪初标志着英国现代小说与现实主义小说的断裂,也见证了西方医学在现代疾病诊疗手段上的突破。时间上的巧合促使我们思考英国现代小说与疾病的交集,探索以弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫为代表的英国现代小说家作品中的疾病幽灵。研究发现,面对"物质主义小说"与"精神主义小说"的世纪之争时,伍尔夫把疾病当作特殊的美学体验和小说书写对象,借此论证小说家应该关注人物的精神世界,再现客观世界引发的思绪、情感、意识和感知。通过书写疾病,伍尔夫对现代小说的形式和主题进行实验性创新,疾病的幽灵潜伏在《达洛维夫人》的结构、人物塑造、叙事视角和主题中。

The early 20th century marks the break of modernist British novels from their realist predecessors,and witnesses several breakthroughs in prescription and treatment of modern diseases.The coincidence in time calls for a crosscheck of the intersection of modern British novels and disease,and exploring the specter of disease in novels created by modern British writers such as Virginia Woolf.It is found that Woolf regards disease as a special aesthetic experience and ideal subject for modern novels and uses disease writing to show that a modern writer should be more concerned with spiritual world of characters and work to represent their thoughts,emotions,consciousness and cognition when she is confronted with the debate between the materialist and spiritual novelists.By writing disease in Mrs.Dalloway,Woolf makes creative attempts in both the form and content of modern novels,and the specter of disease looms in the structure,characterization,narrative perspectives and themes of Mrs.Dalloway.