【英语论文】《了不起的盖茨比》中的叙述技巧(英文).doc
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1、外国语学院学生毕业论文题 目THE NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES IN THE GREAT GATSBY 了不起的盖茨比中的叙述技巧 专 业 英 语 班 级 01332 学生姓名 章 学 成 学 号 34 指导教师 方 文 开 2005年 05月10日CatalogueAbstract3摘要31. Introduction42. The new and unique point of view52.1 The Point of View of “I” as Witness52.2 The Transgression of the Point of View62.3 The Shif
2、t of the Point of View83. The Exquisite Arrangement of Spatio-temporal Structure93.1 The Narrative Time103.2 The Spatial Structure124. Conclusion13Bibliography15AbstractAs a perfect work of modern narrative art, Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby, with the union of its content and form, fully presents the
3、 authors effort for the development of traditional narrative techniques. Through using the new and unique narrative point of view and the exquisite arrangement of spatio-temporal structure, the author creates dramatic effects to strengthen the specific artistic charm and highlight the novels concept
4、 content. This article explores the narrative features in The Great Gatsby in terms of “I” as witness, the transgression and the shift of the point of view to demonstrate the special and distinct techniques in the point of view and also analyses the exquisite arrangement of spatio-temporal structure
5、 of The Great Gatsby from the perspective of narration key words.Key words: the point of view, narrative person, spatio-temporal structure, narrative time, The Great Gatsby摘 要 作为一部叙述艺术的精品之作,费茨杰拉德的了不起的盖茨比以其内容与形式的完美统一,有力地体现了作者对传统叙述技巧的发展。通过对新颖独特的叙述视角和独具匠心的时空结构的安排,作者使小说产生与众不同的戏剧效果,加强了作品其艺术感染力,同时也深化了作品的思
6、想内容。本文从第一人称见证人叙述视角、视角越界及视角转换等三个方向探讨作品中独特的叙述视角,从叙述学分析其别具一格的时空结构。关键词: 叙述视角;叙述人称;时空结构;叙述时间;了不起的盖茨比THE NARRATIVE TECHNIQUESIN THE GREAT GATSBY1. IntroductionThe Great Gatsby is considered not only the most prominent work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also one of the most outstanding novels in Modern Ameri
7、can Fiction. The detail on art world in the novel profoundly reveals the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dreams of love, splendor and gratified desires. It is a symbol for an age. On the art form, it characterizes clarity, imposing and proficient and still enjo
8、ys high reputation about it now. Born in Saint Paul, Mirnesota, in 1896, Fitzgerald was the only son of a socially prominent and genteelly poor family. With the financial aid of relatives he entered Princeton University. In 1917, he left before graduating to serve in the US Army in Alabama, where he
9、 became engaged to Zelda Sayre. After his discharge from the army in 1919, he took a job with an advertising agency and worded on short stories and a novel at night. Eventually his first novel, The Side of Paradise was accepted for publication and appeared in March 1920. It was an instant success an
10、d brought Fitzgerald fame and wealth. In the same year Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre were married. They plunged into the gaudy, wealthy society of their generation. The couple lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than Fitzgerald earned. In order to earn more money, Fitzgerald co
11、ntinued to write. In 1922 he published his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, and a collection of short stories, Tales of the Jazz Age. In 1925, Fitzgerald managed to complete The Great Gatsby. It was a critical success but a commercial failure. His next novel, Tender Is the Night (1934) was re
12、ceived coldly mainly because America was deep in the Great Depression and nobody wanted to read about expatriates in France. Battered by the failure of the book and Zeldas mental breakdowns, he drank to excess and grew seriously ill, died in 1940.The Great Gatsby is a story about American dreams. Ni
13、ck Carrawlly, a young man from the Middle Western American, leaves home to East American for live. During his adrift life, he knows the fictions protagonist Gatsby and eyes the whole process of Gatsbys tragedy. Nick uses a special narrative form to describe a story of this poor Mid-Westerner Jay Gat
14、sby. The young Gatsby loves Daisy who has married Tom Buchana, a brute of a man, for his various criminal activities, including bootlegging, seeks out Daisy and Tom. Drawn by his wealth and his devotion, Daisy becomes his mistress. When as a hit-and-run driver she kills Myrtle, a wife of a garage ma
15、n and Toms mistress. Gatsby tries to protect her. He is shot when Tom in a fit of jealousy betrays him falsely to Myrtles husband. At his death, all of his so-called friends abandon him.In this novel, Fitzgerald gets the context and form to connect perfectly. Through using the new and unique narrati
16、ve point of view and the exquisite arrangement of spatio-temporal structure, the author creates dramatic effects to strengthen the specific artistic charm and highlight the novels concept content. All these things appear fully the authors effort for the development of traditional narrative technique
17、s.2. The New and Unique Point of ViewThe point of view means “the narrators perspective to tell stories, and the readers basic rule to judge the world in stories” (Li Jianxin 2003:105). It prescribes narrators scope to narrate, often used with narrative person. The narrative person not only makes cl
18、ear tellers position but also demonstrates the narrative way the teller takes. Before the 20th century, fictions narration was always adopted sole narrative person to tell stories, using first person or third person. As far as the point of view, omniscience almost monopolized the narrative market. F
19、rom the beginning of the 20th century, novelists eyes on fiction tended from “its traditional society and ethic values to artistic performance” (Wu Weiren 1990:162). The narrative of modern fiction is not content with sole narrative person in whole fiction and broke out it to take two or multiple fo
20、ci of narrative person. So it turned up some new phenomena in narrative features like the transgression and the shift of the point of view. The Great Gatsby, as a bright pearl in the world literature, embodies the narrative features of modern fiction and also reveals Fitzgeralds mature artistic skil
21、l.2.1 The Point of View of “I” as WitnessThe whole story of Gatsby is based on Nicks memories, using the first person “I”. Nick is not only the teller of the story, but also a key character in the story. He is a witness of many things. This narrative way is called “I as witness” (Pilip Sterik 1967:1
22、25) in Pilip Steviks The Theory of the Novel. It makes the story more reasonable and infectious and creates “harsh critics and deepened connotive meanings” (Wu Weiren 1990:219). As a morality criticizer, Nick instead of the author judges every character in the story including him himself. This way o
23、f narrative strengthening storys reality and theme, makes the story as an integral whole and invulnerable. In the novel, Nike is “both in and out of the story” (Xu Dai 1992:105). Because of his multiple positions, he is in the story. Nick is the protagonist Gatsbys neighbor; Daisys brother once remo
24、ved; Toms classmate in college and the sweetie of Daisys close friend, Jordan. He is a tie, which joints many contradictions and conflicts between characters and a key figure in the complicate relations net, being everywhere and everything. Fitzgerald lets him use curious eyes to view Gatsbys action
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