暗指视域下《木匠的哥特式古屋》的失败主题分析

On the Failures in Carpenter’s Gothic:An Allusive Perspective

本文探讨了威廉·加迪斯在《木匠的哥特式古屋》中通过'暗指'的写作手法,将不同时期、不同领域的历史、文化与文学等泛文本置于同一空间,使得小说的场景与人物皆沉浸于具有后现代意蕴的'历史'晕染之中。作品中,哥特式古屋映衬过往荣辉的消逝,传统基督文化在虚伪的侵蚀下日渐式微;另一方面,主要角色受制于此种'历史'的羁绊,或折射简·爱的虚影,或委身迷途的水手,其痛苦则源自与文本暗指及其历史文化内涵的关联;而当角色游离于该羁绊之外时,则象征了个体感知失败的缺位。

The paper intends to discuss Gaddis’juxtaposition of historical,cultural and literary texts through allusion,which dyes fictional scenes and characters with postmodern historicity in his Carpenter’s Gothic.Carpenter’s Gothic reflects the passing glory and the traditional Christian culture erodes under universal hypocrisy in the fiction.On the other hand,major unsuccessful characters,in the shadow of Jane Eyre and a strayed mariner,are entangled with the historicity,and their anguish derives from the association between the alluded and the allusion.However,there is no sense of failure when individual lives outside the bond.