《一个青年艺术家的画像》的意象分析 .docVIP

【标题】《一个青年艺术家的画像》的意象分析 【作者】杨宜 【关键词】意象；混沌；净化；再生；三位女性意象 【指导老师】赵洪尹 卢德春 【专业】英语 【正文】I?.IntroductionJames Joyce?(1882—1941) is one of the most influential novelists in the history of world literature. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, as his first important novel, is abundant in meaning that can never be fully explained. Although all those countless interpretations and comments in existence do lead to better understandings of this novel, none of them has actually exhausted its meaning. In another sense, the existence of such interpretations can also assure readers of the enormous possibilities and great potentials to further understand A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.?Ever since its publication as a book in 1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a book frequently bought but seldom read, has received showers of criticisms, either positive or negative, and it is true that few novels have been questioned so deeply, so persistently and so impressively. For over four decades, an untold number of essays and monographs on James Joyce and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man have come out, pushing the jungle of Joyce study far behind.?“The Joyce Industry” takes on a new appearance with more and more scholars and students joining the enterprise.While the image approaches constitute the form or vesture that the content takes on or clothes in. Although the image techniques are not the only writing skills embodied in the novel, Joyce’s artful employment of them help to forge the haphazard, fragmentary moments of thoughts into consciously meaningful, life-like episodes that can be substantially interpreted. By the dexterous arrangements of the form and content, Joyce succeeds in paralleling the shock of reality in Stephen’s life with a similar shock for the reader through the change of style, both of which help to reinforce the impact of the Stephen’s sudden enlightenment of his life and his awareness of the sordid reality of Dublin. A Portrait o