简析《呼啸山庄》中的叙述时间艺术.docVIP

简析《呼啸山庄》中的叙述时间艺术 　　【摘要】小说《呼啸山庄》以其深刻的主题,诗一般的语言,生动的人物描写,以及令人赞叹的艺术表达形式而闻名。在小说中,艾米丽?勃朗特大胆探寻叙述时间的技巧,并进行了实践。通过分析这部小说的人物,情节及结构,本篇论文旨在解读叙述时间的方法如何帮助展现小说的主题―男女主人公之间超越生死的爱情。 　　【关键词】呼吸山庄;时间哲学;线性 　　 　　1.Introduction 　　Time is a primary part in the structure of a novel. In Wuthering Heights, “one of the most perplexing English novels”, Emily Bronte has artfully arranged the narrative time, which makes the time become an important factor not only in pushing forward the development of the plot in this novel but also in constructing the aesthetic structure of the novel, as well as in presenting emotions of the characters. 　　2.The Narrative that Breaks Time Order 　　According to its characteristics, time has three basic types: cosmic (the nature of which is annular), history (the nature of which is linear), and existential ( psychological, the nature of which is vertical). J.H.Roley, in his “English novels and three kinds of time”, has a further description of the differentiation of the three basic types of time history by Berdyayev. 　　The disorganization of linear time of narrative means a treatment of spatialization and the multiplex nature of time. 　　In the opening part of Wuthering Heights, the past and the future knock together: 1801―I have just returned from a visit to my landlord―the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. The relater takes a present angle and, at the same time, leads the narration to the past and the future by “just” and “shall”. Chronological order, flash-back and flash-forward have their manifestation in one sentence, which intensify the consciousness of time. Thus, in such a scanty and close space, the game of time unfolds. 　　In the middle part of this novel, the authoress mainly adopts the art of flash-back and narrates the moral degeneration of Heathcliff. Hindley, after the death of his father, deprives Heathcliff of the right to get along with Catherine and love her equally, which has fostered the revengeful seed in Heathcliff’s