珍妮特·温特森《时间之间》中父亲们的伦理选择

Ethical Choices of Fathers in Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time

珍妮特·温特森的《时间之间》提及多对亲子关系,是一部家庭伦理小说。对父亲们的伦理选择的探讨有益于该小说的研究,但目前国内外学者对此研究还不深入。文章采用文本细读和文学伦理学批评的方法,梳理小说中主要的亲子关系,分析遗弃亲生子女的父亲们的错误伦理选择,探讨其道德批判,分析领养异族孩子的父亲们和真心悔过的父亲们的正确伦理选择,探讨其道德教诲,旨在从父亲们正反对位的伦理选择中丰富对小说爱与宽恕主题的研究。

Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time mentions several parent-child relationships,making itself fiction of family ethics.The discussion of ethical choices of fathers is beneficial to the study of this fiction,but at present there is little in-depth research on this topic in the academic worldwide.In light of close reading and ethical literary criticism,this paper deals with the major parent-child relationships,analyzes the wrong ethical choices made by fathers who abandon their children,and thus the moral criticism,and analyzes the right ethical choices made by fathers who adopt children of other races and fathers who sincerely repent,and thus the moral teaching,aiming at enriching the study of the theme of love and forgiveness from counterpointing ethical choices made by these fathers.