美国小说中的英雄原型形象解析

运用原型批评理论解读几部美国小说中共有的“英雄原型”的母题形象。该母题在美国文学中的首次出现是在华盛顿·欧文的《瑞普·凡·温克尔》中，后来在纳撒尼尔·霍桑的《年轻的古德曼·布朗》、马克·吐温的《哈克贝里·费恩历险记》、欧内斯特·海明威的《太阳照样升起》、D·J·塞林格的《麦田守望者》等经典小说中以不同的方式重复出现，并成为小说的主题思想之一。不仅如此，该母题还被其它许多美国文学作品采用和演绎，形成丰富多彩的文学形象和思想内涵，在美国文学传统主题中占有重要一席。

ArchetypalApproachandAmericanFictionalReading

This paper, modeled upon the literary criticism of Archetypal Approach, makes analyses of the motif of ＂Hero Quest＂ shared by the following classical short stories and novels in American literature, namely, Washington Irving＇s ＂Rip Van Winkle＂, Nathaniel Hawthorne＇s ＂Young Goodman Brown,＂ Mark Twain＇s Huckleberry Finn,Ernest Hemingway＇s The Sun Also Rises,and D · J ·Salingerms The Catcher in the Rye. The archetype, first represented in ＂Rip Van Winkle,＂ characterizes the fives works from different eras in different artistic and aesthetic forms. The archetype has become one of the themes of the short stories and novels mentioned above. Furthermore, it has found its way into many other novels in the storehouse of American literature and has been part of the traditional literary themes.