黑色浪漫:凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德短篇小说中的哥特元素

Black romance:Gothic elements in Katherine Mansfield's short stories

作为20世纪初现代派短篇小说的杰出代表之一,新西兰短篇小说家凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德对英语短篇小说的发展作出了不可磨灭的贡献,国内外学者对其研究越来越广泛深入,但我国鲜有学者对曼斯菲尔德作品中的哥特元素进行探究。文章以曼斯菲尔德的《女店主》《老安德伍特》《米利》为切入点,从作者对原生态自然环境的描写与悬念设置、主人公心理刻画与人物塑造、小人物甄选与主题烘托三个方面入手,对曼斯菲尔德在这三篇小说中运用的哥特元素进行解读。曼斯菲尔德在创作中运用哥特元素,旗帜鲜明地表达了她惩恶扬善的思想,强烈谴责了殖民地边疆生活对人们精神和肉体的双重摧残,同时,也表达了她对社会底层人们的无限同情与密切关注。

Being one of the outstanding representatives of modernist short story writers in the early 20th century,Katherine Mansfield has made an indelible contribution to the development of the English short stories,attracting increasingly extensive and profound research from scholars both home and abroad.However,few domestic scholars have delved into the Gothic elements in her works.This paper takes Mansfield's The Woman at the Store,Ole Underwood and Millie as the starting point,offering a concise interpretation of the Gothic elements employed by the author in these three short stories from the depiction of the original natural environment and suspense setting,psychological portrayal and characterization of the protagonists,choice of minor characters,and thematic contrast.By employing the Gothic elements in her writing,Mansfield clearly expresses her thoughts about praising virtue and punishing vice,strongly condemning the dual devastation of colonial frontier life on people's spirits and bodies.In the meanwhile,she also expresses her infinite sympathy for and close attention to those from the bottom of the society.