《[CPS世界文学]福谷_霍桑探讨权力运作机制的舞台》.pdfVIP

福谷 :霍桑探讨权力运作机制的舞台 方文开 内容提要:霍桑在创作《福谷传奇 》时的确有意无意地把美国社会权力的运作机制纳入视 域。他之所以一再否认“福谷 ”与“布鲁克农庄 ”之间的关联 ,是为了强调福谷是一个完全虚 构的乌托邦改革社团 ,是作者搭建的舞台以表达他对 19世纪上半叶美国社会现实的关照。 作品彰显新历史主义的“历史的文本性 ”, 以布鲁克农庄为叙述原型,通过书写催眠术和偶 像崇拜 , 以普通人物的“小写历史 ”从微观上探讨了人际关系动力学, 即一种“主宰与顺从的 权力关系 ”;通过考察福谷“全景监狱式 ”的社会模式 ,作者以文本的隐喻意义宏观地探讨了 监狱改革及权力在社会中的运行机制 ,凸显了作家对社会改革所作的思考。 关键词 :霍桑 　《福谷传奇 》　催眠术 　权力 作者简介 :方文开 ,湖州师范学院外国语学院教授 ,主要研究方向为美国文学。 T itle: The B lithedale, a Stage for Hawthorne to Exp lore the Working System of Power Abstract: W hile writing The B lithedale R om ance, actually Hawthorne has taken the working sys tem of American social power into consideration, whether he realizes it or not. The reason why Hawthorne denies the relation between the B lithedale and B rook Farm is that he wants to use the fictional U top ian reform community as a stage to show his concern about the American social real th ity in the first half of the 19 century. Through describing mesmerism and idolatry and taking B rook Farm as narrative archetype, the romance discusses common peop le ’s histories and ex p lores the m icrocosm ic interpersonal dynam ics, the power of dom ination and subm ission. A t the same time, by studying the social model of panoticon in the B lithedale, the author uses the text’s metaphoric content to show his retrospection on the p rison reform and working system of power in society from macroscop ic perspective. Key words: Nathaniel Hawthorne　The B litheda le R om ance　mesmerism 　power Author: Fang W enka i is professor at the Foreign Languages School of Huzhou Teachers College (Huzhou 313000, China) , majoring in the research of American literature. Email: fang2004sky@ sohu. com ( ) 《福谷传奇 》The B lithedale R om ance, 1852 是纳撒尼尔 ·霍桑新英格兰三部曲中创作 最仓促的小说 ,也是唯一一部以第一人称叙述写成的长篇小说。它以 1840年代的新英格兰 为背景 ,叙述了一群具有超验主义思想和改革倾向的知识分