【作者】 宋丹丹；

【导师】 刘国清；

【作者基本信息】 东北师范大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2009， 硕士

【摘要】 亨利·詹姆斯是美国著名小说家、散文家和文学评论家。他被认为是意识流文学流派的前驱,现代派小说批评的鼻祖。亨利·詹姆斯善于刻画人物内心活动,善于表现“国际性题材”。在创作方法上他对小说进行了革新,被称为心里现实主义作家。他以独树一帜的文学表现手法,开创了现代小说的新纪元。他在小说上取得的斐然成就,使他被批评家推崇为英美文学史上最伟大的作家之一。虽然中国的评论界一直关注着对亨利·詹姆斯这位艺术大师的介绍和研究,但遗憾的是,长期以来,国内詹姆斯研究主要围绕着国际主义主题、道德主题以及詹氏写作风格等几个有限问题进行探讨。进入20世纪80年代,国际詹姆斯研究发生了新的转向,批评家们开始越来越多地对展示作品中体现出的政治意识、性别身份、种族偏见、文化观等进行全面的考察,其深度和广度扩展到詹氏作品的各个方面。亨利·詹姆斯的小说中创作了一系列鲜明的妇女及儿童形象,从不同程度上反映了妇女及儿童所遭受的苦难和压迫。妇女及儿童同属弱势群体,詹氏笔下的这些形象同样吸引了越来越多的批评关注。但就《梅西所知》这部作品而言,对其中妇女及儿童形象的系统论述相对较少。本篇论文试图通过《梅西所知》中妇女及儿童哭泣的意象,着力展示家长制社会中妇女及儿童所受的压迫,探寻其受害的社会根源。在本篇论文中笔者借鉴了女性主义及形式主义等文学理论作为论文的理论支撑,但在具体的论述上还是以《梅西所知》这部作品为基础,力图通过详细的文本分析,阐述詹姆斯对家长制社会下妇女及儿童所受压迫的批判,从而为亨利·詹姆斯研究提供一个全新的视角。更多还原

【Abstract】 Henry James is a noted American-born English novelist, essayist and critic. He is known as a pioneer of the school of“stream-of-consciousness”, and the originator of modern novel critique. Henry James is a master of characters’inner activity, and has a good command of the“international theme”. Furthermore, he innovated the writing technique, honored the mastery of psychological realism. With the unique method of writing, he created a new era of modern fiction. The fine art of his writing has led many academics to consider him the greatest master of the novel and novella form.Although the critics in China are always concerned about the introduction and study of Henry James, it is a pity that most critics in China only centered on the“international theme”, the“morality theme”, and his writing style. From the 1980s, the study of Henry James has a new shift. More and more critics have a comprehensive study of his novels, such as the political awareness, gender identity, racial prejudice, culture values, and etc, the depth and width of which expand into various aspect of his works.Henry James created a series of distinctive images of women and children in his novels, and reflected their sufferings and oppressions. The vulnerable group of women and children in Henry James’s novels offer themselves unusually well to critical examination. But as for What Maisie Knew, there are relatively few systematical critiques of its women and child. With the cry images of women and child in What Maisie Knew, this dissertation attempts to display the oppression on them in the patriarchal society, and explore the root causes of their sufferings in terms of social system.In the quest to understand more fully the complexity of James’s women and children, the author has studied critical theories of different schools, including feminist theories and formalistic theories and etc with aspects of each subordinated to the general scheme of the book which cuts across all of them. Informed by these theories, the author hopes to illustrate clearly the sufferings of women and child in the patriarchal society in What Maisie Knew, thus providing a new perspective for the study of Henry James.更多还原