论罗伯特·勃朗宁戏剧性独白中的“反独白”叙事

On the Anti-monologue Narration in Robert Browning’s Dramatic Monologue

罗伯特•勃朗宁的戏剧性独白在叙事结构上体现出巴赫金所说的“双声语结构”,即在同一个语境范围内,有两个说话的中心,两套话语体系,一个是作者话语,一个是人物话语。这种结构中暗含的“作者声音”有时扮演一种“反独白”叙事的角色,暗中颠覆独白者的话语。从勃朗宁的名作《我的前公爵夫人》中,可以看出作者的声音不断对独白者进行破坏,从而打破独白者的谎言,使作品展现出一种出人意料的艺术效果,由此揭示了父权统治下女性的真实生活与命运。

Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue reflects what Bakhtin called the“double-voice structure”in its narrative,in which two speakers and two sets of discourse systems appear in the same context(one is the author’s discourse and the other is the character’s).The author’s voice implied in this narrative structure sometimes plays the role of anti-monologue,subverting what the speaker says.In Browning’s My Last Duchess,the speaker’s voice is constantly overturned by the author’s voice,his lies exposed.This gives the poem an unexpected artistic effect,and thus reveal the real life and destiny of women under patriarchal rule.