从新历史主义角度解读《第五个孩子》-英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

摘 要 多丽丝·莱辛是在当代世界文学界占有重要的地位的英国女作家。近六十年的创作 生涯,莱辛以高产的作品和多变的写作风格享誉文坛，并最终在 2007 年获得了诺贝尔文 学奖，成为了这一奖项年龄最大的得主，同时也得到了评论界和学者们对其作品和写作 方式更多的关注。 莱辛多重的文化背景和多维的视角使得作品有着较为宽泛的主题。 对莱辛的研究国内多见于用后殖民主义、女性主义、马克思主义及苏菲主义等理论解读 《金色笔记》和《青草在歌唱》等代表作；而国外则大多集中于莱辛作品的主题研究。 本文选取莱辛创作中期系列小说《第五个孩子》作为研究对象，虽然这部现实主义 的系列小说并没有给莱辛带来很多的荣誉，但是在作者的创作生涯中，作者对这部作品 有着独有的感情。 《第五个孩子》是多丽丝·莱辛运用新历史主义这一文学理论表达 其社会责任感和道德责任感的一次成功尝试。同时，小说中新历史主义的运用正是多丽 丝·莱辛从太空小说回归到现实主义小说创作的一个表现。此外，本论文结合了佛洛依 德的精神分析法，表达作者对人性黑暗面的揭露和对边缘人物处境的同情，对理性与文 明的思考。 本论文由四个部分组成。第一章介绍作家多丽丝·莱辛和其小说《第五个孩子》， 并简述《第五个孩子》在国内外的研究现状。第二章介绍新历史主义，阐述新历史主义 主要观点。第三章是新历史主义结合精神分析法在小说中的运用。第四章为总结部分， 揭示人性黑暗面和传递莱辛对边缘人物的人文主义关怀。 关键词：多丽丝·莱辛；《第五个孩子》；新历史主义；历史的文本性和文本的历史性； 抑制和颠覆 i Abstract Doris Lessing is one of the most significant British writers in the contemporary literature world. She is famous for her productive works and various writing styles during her nearly sixty years career. In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize for literature and became this awards oldest winner, which also aroused more widely attention of the critics and researchers for her. The multiple cultural background and multidimensional perspective of Lessing make her works have respectively broad themes. The researches on Doris Lessing in China are mainly concentrated on her masterpieces The Golden Notebook and The Grass Is Singing with the theoretical view of post-colonialism, Feminism, Marxism, and Sufism; and it mainly focuses on the themes in abroad. This thesis selects her novel The Fifth Child as research object, which belongs to the mid-term works in which period Lessing focused on the social reality. Although the realistic novel does not bring so much honor to Lessing, it also shows the authors unique feelings to the work which is uncommon in the authors writing career. It is a successful trial which conveys her strong sense of social and moral responsibility through the application of historicism in The Fifth Child. Meanwhile, it symbolizes Lessing turns back to realistic writing from out-space fiction wi