"少年侃"的叙事特征分析--以《哈克贝历·费恩历险记》和《麦田里的守望者》为例

“Skaz”是一个源于俄语skazat的术语,意为“神侃”,“Teenage Skaz”可译为“少年侃”。它一般采用第一人称的儿童叙事手法,以口语化的语言来叙述故事。故事的叙述者往往是小说的主人翁。文章以马克.吐温的《哈克贝历.芬恩历险记》和塞林格的《麦田守望者》为例,主要从第一人称叙事、句法结构、语言特征、艺术效果四个方面来分析“少年侃”的叙事特征,从而凸现“少年侃”叙事手法对美国小说的创作手法的革命性影响以及它对美国文学的意义。

Narrative Features of Teenage Skaz--From "The Adventures of Huckberry Finn" to "The Catcher in the Rye"

Skaz originates from a Russian term skazat,meaning "to tell".Teenage skaz is a writing style which employs first-person narration from the perspectives of children to narrate the stories in colloquial speech.The narrators are also the protagonists in the stories.The paper aims to analyze the features of teenage skaz from the angles of first-person narration,syntactic structures,language style and effects of style to reveal the breakthrough influences on the American literature by taking "The Adventures of Huckberry Finn" by Mark Twain and "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D.Salinger as an example.