【作者】 王莹；

【导师】 任静生；

【作者基本信息】 合肥工业大学 ， 外国语言学及应用语言学， 2012， 硕士

【摘要】 伊迪丝·华顿是美国二十世纪初杰出的小说家，尤其擅长风俗小说的创作，其文学作品的社会背景多为十九世纪末二十世纪初的美国“老纽约”上流社会，着重描述了个人与社会之间的矛盾以及男权社会里女性的从属地位和悲惨命运。《纯真年代》就是其中的一部经典之作。作者以其细腻的笔触刻画了“老纽约”上流社会的刻板和伪善，向读者展示了一幅丰富生动的社会风俗画。本文从神话原型角度来分析华顿的代表小说《纯真年代》。根据神话原型理论的代表人物弗莱的观点，神话是文学的结构因素，文学是移位的神话。他认为原型可以作为文学独立交际的单位，原型以主题、人物、意象等多种形式在不同时代的不同体裁的作品中以象征的方式反复出现。因此对于小说读者来说，必须借助特定的文学语境去深入地分析作品中的神话蕴涵及其象征意义才能真正地把握作品的思想内涵。本文主要从原型意象、原型人物和原型母题这三个方面对小说进行原型分析。追寻原型、成长原型和替罪羊原型都是一些原型母题的置换，他们丰富了小说的内涵。从原型人物这一角度来说，小说的的人物梅和艾伦与神话中的人物相对应。除此之外，小说还含有丰富的原型意象。通过小说中各种原型的分析，笔者认为华顿创造性地运用神话原型，赋予小说人物以神性是因为她关注男权社会里女性及其生存状况，寄托了她对理想的社会秩序和理想新女性的探求。更多还原

【Abstract】 Edith Wharton is a prominent novelist of the twentieth century in Americanliterature. Her fiction, The Age of Innocence, which is deeply rooted in the old NewYork upper-class society in the late nineteenth century, depicts the conflict betweensocial and individual fulfillment, and woman’s tragic fates in the patriarchal society.As Wharton’s masterpiece, it presents the stiffness and hypocrisy of the "Old NewYork" with exquisite style, and lays out a vivid genre painting before us.This thesis adopts myth and archetypal criticism to analyze The Age of Innocence.Northrop Frye, representative of this theory believes that myth is a "structuralorganizing principle of literary form" and that an archetype is essentially an "elementof one’s literary experience" while "literature is a displaced myth". Archetypes arevehicles which recur in the form of characters, plots, and themes in different timesand various genres. Comprehending and elaborating the symbols and metaphorswithin myth and archetype in the specific context is one of the important ways tograsp the themes of literary works.This thesis makes a study on the archetypal elements in The Age of Innocencefrom three aspects: archetypal characters, archetypal images and archetypal motifs.The displacements of archetypal motifs, such as the quest, initiation and the sacrificialscapegoat, enrich the cultural implications of the novel. In terms of archetypalcharacters, May and Ellen correspond with Diana and Aphrodite in mythologyrespectively. Moreover, the novel is rich in archetypal images.By analyzing different types of archetypes in the novel, the author of the thesisconcludes that the reason why these characters are endowed with divinity is thatWharton pays great attention to women and their living conditions and has reposedher ideal in pursuit of the perfect social order and new type of woman.更多还原