【作者】 刘艳；

【导师】 傅俊；

【作者基本信息】 南京师范大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2008， 硕士

【摘要】 阿特伍德的作品,无论是诗歌、长篇小说、短篇小说、还是文学评论,都表现出三大侧重点,它们以“振兴加拿大文学”的民族主义倾向、“关注女性生存状态”的女性主义意识和“担忧文明侵害自然”的生态环境关怀为中心主题反复出现在她的文学创作中。它们既是阿特伍德所处时代的关注热点,也是她从自己生活经历中得出的深切体验。这三个侧重点又被同一重要主题——“生存”——有机地结合在一起。阿特伍德同许多加拿大作家一样,在探讨“生存”主题时,常将加拿大与女性相连,以女性的生存状况为切入点,隐喻加拿大在夹缝中求生存的尴尬处境。与此同时,她在作品中将自然与与女性进行类比,探讨二者的共通之处。她的第二部小说《浮现》(1972)就是一个很好的例子。本文尝试分别从后殖民主义、女性主义、生态批评三个角度对该小说进行分析,从女性作为个体如何在男权传统观念主导的社会生存、加拿大作为主权国家如何在曾为法、英殖民地的历史阴影中及强邻美国文化入侵的现实威胁下生存,以及作为全人类生存的家园——大自然——如何在人类文明的现代化进程的入侵和破坏下生存等三方面入手,阐释和解读这部作品,揭示它在加拿大文学发展史上所起的重要作用。更多还原

【Abstract】 In her works, Atwood not only concerns over the plight of women in a society dominated by patriarchic ideas, but also over Canada as a country against cultural colonialism and the discordance between the natural world and modern materially -oriented human civilization. These three concerns are often closely united by the same theme--" survival", which is also the recurring theme in Atwood’s literary creations.Like many Canadian writers, Atwood often relates Canada and women together. Moreover, women have many affinities with nature. Atwood’s second novel Surfacing (1972) is a good example to be studied from diverse perspectives. This dissertation aims at making a detailed analysis of the survival theme in Surfacing, mainly from the perspectives of post-colonialism, feminism and ecocriticism. My dissertation is not to narrow the scope of the original work of Atwood in light of a particular approach, nor to expand Atwood’s texts for the scale of one given theory, but in the hope of gaining a view of Atwood’s survival theme from three different angles and find a way to better understanding of Atwood’s early novel--Surfacing.更多还原