【作者】 王玲丽；

【导师】 张耀平；

【作者基本信息】 山西大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2008， 硕士

【摘要】 《米德尔马契》自其出版,就被公认为英国伟大小说之一。它描绘了埋藏在历史深处一个英国中部小镇的乡村生活。它是乔治·爱略特写作顶峰时期的一部力作。《米德尔马契》是一部评说社会,分析人物的力作。小说真实再现了当时的历史风貌,成功塑造了生活在其中的150多个鲜活而富有生气的人物。很明显,这些人物形象最集中地体现了乔治·爱略特的艺术才华,因而,深入分析塑造这些人物所使用的手法,无疑具有重要研究价值。论文的导论部分首先对作者乔治·爱略特和小说《米德尔马契》的主要情节作了简要介绍,然后对小说理论中的人物和人物形象的塑造手法等问题加以梳理。第二部分从整体上分析小说的主要主题。第三部分为论文核心部分,重点分析了乔治·爱略特所运用的三种主要的人物刻画策略——“刻意渲染”过度、反讽和心理分析,同时也涉及到了作者在小说中所使用的诸如喜剧、作者介入、描写和语言等次要的人物刻画手法。最后为论文的结论部分。更多还原

【Abstract】 Middlemarch has been recognized as one of the great English novels since the date of its publication. It portrays the provincial life of a small town standing in the middle of England and English history. It is widely regarded as George Eliot’s finest achievement, written when she was at the height of her powers. Middlemarch is a very carefully woven work of social commentary and human analysis, with many living, breathing characters who are as real as the historical time period they inhabit. There are more than one hundred and fifty characters in the novel. To create so many living characters is obviously not an easy job and to study the way George Eliot has portrayed so many characters is, no doubt, of important research value.This thesis begins with a brief introduction of George Eliot and her novel Middlemarch. And then it provides a theoretical exposition of the concepts of Character and Characterization. The second part is a thematic analysis of the novel, which is intended to prepare for the investigation of characterization in the next part. The focus of the present study is placed on George Eliot’s strategies of characterization. My study claims that George Eliot has mainly adopted three major characterization strategies: excessiveness, irony and psychological study. Some other minor approaches of characterization such as dramatic scenes, authorial intervention, direct exposition and linguistic features peculiar to characters have also been discussed. The last part is the conclusion of the present study.更多还原