"我们人是多么小,多么小!" ——社会学和心理学视野中的张爱玲与奥斯丁

从社会学角度观察张爱玲与简·奥斯丁作品中的婚恋描写,会发现作家在自己情感之外,都把实用主义的婚恋当作社会常态而接受下来,因而无论是张爱玲还是奥斯丁,均拒绝了爱情的浪漫性。但从心理学的角度看,其一“悲剧”一“喜剧”的表现方式,则通向两位作家不同的心灵世界,并折射出各自所处的不同的时空背景。

"How Petty We Human Beings Appear!" —— A Comparatiwe Study of Zhang Ailing and Jane Austen

From the sociological point of view, both Zhang Ailing and Jane Austen described practical rather than romantic marriage in their works, taking it as a normal pattern of marriage. But from the psychological point of view, Zhang tended to depict with a tragic tone love affairs and marriages of insincere minds, while Austen liked to describe marriages permeated with a kind of comic atmosphere.