英国荒岛小说中的时间图腾

现代性时间意识构成了现代性的核心内涵，现代性时间图腾以不同面目反复出现在英国荒岛小说传统中。《鲁滨孙漂流记》表现了乐观现代性时间观念，《格列佛游记》则质疑了现代性时间迷信。19世纪以后，荒岛小说开启了疏离、背反到拆解乐观现代性时间图腾的过程。而《海滩》表达了当代人摆脱同时性纠缠、寻找新的时间方向的无奈。这一否定之否定的嬗变正昭示了“现代性悖论”的深化过程。

Time Totem in British Desert Island Novels

The sense of time of modernity is the core connotation of modernity.The totem of time has been appearing more frequently in various forms in theBritish Desert Island novels.The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe expresses an optimistic attitude toward the sense of time of modernity while Gulliver’s Travels questions the blind belief in it.Since the 19th century,British Desert Island novels have begun to alienate,oppose,and deconstruct the optimistic attitude toward it.The Beach manifests the futility of the contemporary men in releasing the bondage of simultaneity and pursuing the new sense of time.The “negation of negation” transformation throws light on the intensification of the paradox of modernity.