《黑暗的心脏》与解读误区

小说《黑暗的心脏》完整地见证了20世纪西方文论风云激荡的过程。《黑暗的心脏》这部公认的文学经典,具有一定的复杂性,立足人性批评、形式批评、后殖民批评和女权批评的多个角度对它进行的解读,拓展了我们的阐释思路。《黑暗的心脏》寓意深远,人性批评与语言形式批评充分揭示了作品的多元内涵,而后殖民批评和女权批评对于丰富我们对于小说的理解也大有裨益。

Reading or Misreading?——The Case of Heart of Darkness

Critics in China have recently written against that they see as a whole series of misreadings of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.This article offers a critique of monistic views of literary meaning underlying such attacks by calling attention to some of the most interesting insights produced by the symbolist,the formal-linguistic,the postcolonial and the feminist perspectives on the novella.I argue that,while it's perfectly right to warn against overinterpretation,the complexity of a work such as Heart of Darkness does seem to invite new interpretations.Reexamining Conrad's use of symbols and language,for instance,enables us to get a glimpse of the semantic complexity of the text while analyzing cross-racial and gender politics helps reveal other possibilities of the book's interpretation.Heart of Darkness does more than condemn the evils of colonialism.As a literary text,it still carries numerous other things awaiting readers' discoveries.