吉卜林与福斯特笔下的印度镜像-比较文学与世界文学专业论文.docxVIP

I I 摘 要 鲁德亚德·吉卜林与爱德华·摩根·福斯特是英国作家中描写印度的巨匠。他们 的印度题材作品对我们研究殖民文学及其特征有着重要而独特的价值。 本文以后殖民理论为切入点，对吉卜林与福斯特的印度书写进行文本解读。 文章认为，吉卜林与福斯特的印度书写烙有鲜明的殖民印记。他们笔下的自然风 物气象万千，却有着各自的特征：前者优美清新，后者芜杂紊乱；在人文风情方 面，两人都趋向将印度进行神秘化。其次，在反映印度人民的反英斗争上，吉卜 林有意识弱化对斗争的描写，而福斯特则表现出直面的勇气；在人物形象的刻画 上，两者都描写了卑琐与高尚两种不同的殖民者，但运用了不同的话语策略。吉 卜林与福斯特都真诚地希望英印双方能实现文化融合，但他们的愿望并未真正实 现。由于其所处时代的不同，以及生活经历的迥异，二者的印度题材作品各具特 色。本文从历史的纵向维度与微观文本的横向比较出发，探讨了吉卜林与福斯特 的印度叙事，借以探索西方世界关于东西方文化融合的不同思考。 全文共由三章组成。第一章通过具体的文本比较来论述吉卜林与福斯特对印 度自然景观与人文景观描写的相同与不同之处；第二章论述两人对英国驻印度殖 民主义者与印度抗英斗争的不同描写；第三章探寻吉卜林与福斯特对东西方文化 融合的不同思考。 关键词：自然风物；人文风情；殖民意识；文化融合 II II Abstract Both Rudyard Kipling and Edward Morgan Foster were Englishmen and the winners of the Nobel Prize in literature. In fact, they are of great importance in the field of Indian description, and thus they are of great research value. Their works of the Indian description have important value of the colonial literature and contemporary postcolonial literary characteristics. Based on the postcolonial theory, we will interpret their works. We think that both of their works show the colonial ideology but with different features: Firstly, the former is beautiful and the latter is disorganized. In the humanities, both of them tend to describe the India in a mystery way. Secondly, in the struggle against the Britain, Kipling tended to weaken it, but Foster was just the opposite. In the description about the characters, both of them portrayed the colonists with mean and noble character though in different styles. Both Kipling and Foster hoped sincerely that the two country could be cultural integrate, but in fact, their hopes have never come true. Kipling and Foster lived in a different era and had completely different life experiences, which lead to their works with different features. We will discuss the narrative in their works in order to explore the thinking about the western culture in western perspective from the vertical dimension of history to horizontal dimension of micro text. This paper consists