航行于锡拉岩礁和卡律布迪斯漩涡之间——从沃顿的战争小说看沃顿写作战争的独特方式

伊迪丝.沃顿写作战争的方式跟一般男性作家和一般女性作家写作战争的典型方式都不同:她总是以一种尽力接近前线而不真正踏上前线的姿态写作战争。这一写作姿态在其战争小说中主要表现为对不适于上战场的男性主人公的塑造、以及对前线与后方之间的中间地带景观的描写。沃顿笔下的中间地带为我们了解一战提供了一个独特的视角。

Navigating Between Scylla and Charybdis——Study on Edith Wharton's Special Way of Writing War in Her War Novels

Edith Wharton wrote about war in a way different from common male and female writers: she generally wrote from a position that was as close to the front line as she could get without actually stepping over them.In her war novels,this special way of writing war is realized through her portray of male protagonists who are not fit for the battlefield and delineation of the "middle area" between the front line and the home front.Wharton's delineation of the "middle area" provides us a special perspective to understand the Great War.