斜目而视下的英国20世纪60-70年代社会景观--《历史人物》中作为“歪像”的大学校园、现代都市与日常生活空间

Spectacle of 196070s British Society When Looked Awry—Campus,Modern City and Domestic Spaces as“anamorphosis”in The History Man

马尔科姆·布雷德伯里的学院派小说《历史人物》所描述的文化空间——大学校园、现代城镇和人们的日常生活空间——提供了一系列“歪像”,让读者得以从不同侧面审视20世纪60—70年代英国的社会景观,探察其背后的现实。虚构的大学校园反映了现实中英国的“新大学运动”及遍布国内外的激进主义潮流;沿海的南方城镇影射了英国区域间的发展差距以及人们意识形态的发展变化;日常生活空间里上演着女权主义运动的戏剧性故事,同时也揭示了女性抗争所受到的局限。小说以小见大,以戏仿反映现实,虚实之间既关照了历史,也彰显了空间与文化的关联与互动。

In Malcolm Bradbury’s academic novel The History Man,the cultural arenas portrayed—university campuses,contemporary urban settings,and domestic spaces—serve as a canvas for a series of“anamorphosis”.These depictions afford readers the opportunity to scrutinize the societal panorama of 1960s and 1970s Britain through diverse vantage points,thus uncovering its latent truths.The fictitious university campus,emblematic of the“New University Movement”and the era’s pervasive radicalism,acts as a microcosm reflecting broader ideological currents in British and global contexts.Concurrently,the coastal town in the southern locale symbolically mirrors regional disparities in development and the ideological evolution of its inhabitants.Additionally,the domestic spaces,where compelling feminist narratives unfold,illuminate the inherent constraints faced by women in their struggles.Employing parody as a narrative device,the novel contextualizes individual narratives within a broader framework of societal discord,thereby offering a nuanced examination of historical pertinence amidst the interplay of imagination and reality.Furthermore,by underscoring the nexus between space and culture,the novel affords an insightful exploration of the dynamic relationship between societal landscapes and cultural ethos.