"坦白"仪式的文学呈现——再论《简·爱》叙述者与读者的关系

夏洛蒂·勃朗特的小说《简·爱》中,简·爱的女性个人叙述声音使得小说成为女性主义批评的经典文本,叙述者＂读者啊＂的呼唤也成为文本的一个重要叙事特征。借助福柯关于＂坦白＂仪式的论述,将《简·爱》读作＂坦白＂方法论的范例,以此理解叙述者与读者的关系问题。文本成为叙述者的坦白过程,一方面是叙述者作为坦白者确立身份,另一方面是读者作为聆听者确立权威。文本意义在作为坦白者的叙述者和作为聆听者的读者二者相互作用中产生,同时也展示了夏洛蒂的叙事观念。

A Review of the Relationship between Narrator and Reader in JANE EYRE

Charlotte Bronte’s novel JANE EYRE has come to occupy a position of privilege in the feminist canon since it has a special female voice. Meanwhile, the call on the ‘reader’ becomes one of the important features of the novel. The paper tries to analyze the relationship between the narrator and the reader depending on Michel Foucault’s theory about the confession.The work is a course of confession, which means the narrator gets identity by the act of confiding, while the reader gets power by the act of confiding.The work’s meaning comes from the mutual action between the narrator and the reader, which also shows Charlotte Bronte’s idea about narration.