从儿童视角叙事分析《芒果街上的小屋》_英语论文

An Analysis of The House on Mango Street from Children’s Narrative Perspective

摘要

儿童视角叙事作为一种独特的文学现象，呈现出独特的叙述预调和美学风格，同时蕴含着丰富的文化密码及作家个体的文化心理。同时，儿童视角的理论品质、发生机理等问题具有相当的理论魅力,也是亟待进一步探讨的理论话题。

小说《芒果街上的小屋》在儿童视角的叙事下获得了成功。本文旨在从儿童视角叙事的角度，从不同方面进一步深入分析小说《芒果街上的小屋》。

论文第一章简要介绍了作为叙事策略的儿童视角叙事，其中包括两部分：儿童叙事视角的发生机制及其显著特征。第二章详细讨论了作者在小说中采用儿童叙述视角叙事的原因：集体无意识的社会选择和作者有意识的自我选择让作者最终选择儿童视角叙事，并详细分析了作者桑德拉在《芒果街上的小屋》中采用该视角的原因。最后一章具体分析了儿童视角叙事在小说《芒果街上的小屋》中的运用，它由四部分组成：小说中使用的叙事模式，呈现的叙事特征，达到的叙事效果以及作者所采取的叙事态度。

总而言之，本文通过详细分析儿童视角叙事在小说《芒果街上的小屋》中使用，使读者加深对小说《芒果街上的小屋》及儿童叙事视角的理解。同时也希望通过本文为学者提供对该小说及该叙事策略进行更深入研究的有价值信息。

关键词： 《芒果街上的小屋》 ，儿童视角，叙事

Abstract

As a unique literary phenomenon, children's perspective presents a unique narrative pre - tune and aesthetic style, as well as cultural cipher and the cultural psychology of individual writers. At the same time, the theoretical quality of children's perspective and the occurring mechanism of it have so much considerable theoretical charm that deserves further discussion. While the novel The House on Mango Street gained great success with the application of it. This essay intends to make further and in-depth analysis from the perspective of children's narrative perspective in the novel The House on Mango Street from different aspects.

The first chapter would be a brief introduction to children’s narrative perspective as a narrative strategy, which contains two parts: the occurring mechanism of  children’s narrative perspective and its distinctive characters. Chapter two discusses in details the reasons for the application of children’s narrative perspective in the novel: the domination of the collective unconscious and the writer’s choice by her consciousness contribute the application of it with further discussion about the reasons for the applying of children’s narrative perspective by Sandra in her novel The House on Mango Street . The last chapter analyzes children’s narrative perspective as a narrative strategy in the novel The House on Mango Street, which is constituted of four parts: the narrative pattern used in the novel, the narrative features presented in the novel, the narrative effect achieved by the novel and the narrative attitude taken in the novel.

All in all, this essay gives a detailed analysis of children’s narrative perspective used in The House on Mango Street, which conduces to the comprehension of this coming-of-age novel with it’s instinctive characters. And the author hopes to offer some information of use to deeper interpretation and analysis of this novel and this narrative strategy.

Key words：The House on Mango Street; children’s perspective; narrative

Contents

Acknowledgments i

摘要 ii

Abstract iii

Introduction 5

Chapter One  Children’s Narrative Perspective as a Narrative Strategy8

1.1 The occurring mechanism of children’s narrative perspective 8

1.2 The distinctive characters of children 's narrative perspective.10

Chapter Two  The Reasons for the Application of Children’s Narrative Perspective in The House on Mango Street11

2.1 Domination of the collective unconscious  .11

2.2 The choice of consciousness by the writer 12

2.3 Inspiration from a little child.13

Chapter Three  Children’s Narrative Perspective as a Narrative Strategy in The House on Mango Street .14

3.1 Episodic and polyphonic: Narrative pattern used in the novel14

3.2 Poetic and impressionist: Narrative features presented in the novel15

3.3 Lyrical: Narrative effect achieved in the novel. 17 

3.4 Calm and objective: Narrative attitude taken in the novel.18 

Conclusion 18

Works Cited 20