西方叙事学理论演变与吴尔夫小说中的女性主义立场——也谈弗吉尼亚·吴尔夫小说《到灯塔去》

运用女性主义叙事学代表人物之一苏珊.兰瑟关于叙事权威的理论来解读弗吉尼亚.吴尔夫的经典小说《到灯塔去》可以看到,吴尔夫在小说的公开叙事层构建了一个"自我消抹"的叙述者形象,而在隐蔽叙事层,却勾勒出一个无处不在的叙述者形象。通过分析探讨小说的叙述者在隐蔽叙事层的所作所为,可以证明《到灯塔去》的叙述者就好比是1 9世纪经典现实主义小说所推崇的那种高高在上、无所不能的"上帝",这样一个"上帝"型叙述者依靠和分享了男性作家的叙事权威,而吴尔夫本人对叙事权威的追求和依赖决定了她缘何可以在现代派和女权主义运动中树立自己的双重地位。

An analysis of Virginia Woolf's feminist stand from the narration of To the Lighthouse

This paper makes an analysis of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse by using the theory of narrative authority proposed by Susan Lancer,one of the representatives of narratology.Woolf composes on the open level of narration a narrator who hides himself but on the concealed level of narration a narrator who seems everywhere.By analyzing what the narrator does on the concealed level of narration,it can be proved that the narrator of the novel is just like the omnipotent God highly praised in those classic realistic novels of the 19th century.Such a powerful narrator relies on and shares the narrative authority of male writers.Woolf's pursuit and dependence of this authority explains why she established her status in both modernist and feminist movements.