An Analysis of All the light We Cannot See from the Perspective of Econarratology_英语论文

摘要

《所有我们看不见的光》是美国作家安东尼·多尔的第五部作品，耗时十年完成，一出版即占据纽约时报和美国亚马逊畅销榜，并于2015年获得普利策奖（虚构类）。小说主要讲述了二战时期法国盲女玛丽洛尔勇敢地和法西斯作斗争，德国孤儿维尔纳因无线电天赋被送去而为法西斯效力，最后在关键时刻维尔纳选择了杀死德国士兵解救玛丽洛尔。本文将以生态叙事学为视角，叙事学的理论支撑，探讨《所有我们看不见的光》的文本世界和生态的关联。本来将从叙事空间、叙事视角以及生态隐喻和象征这三个方面分析《所有我们看不见的光》：多重叙事空间反映了不同环境与人之间的相互影响；不同的叙事视角表达了不同的角色的生态思想，小说中贯穿始终的钻石和无线电也有深刻的寓意。通过对小说的分析，让读者更深刻地理解小说的内涵，学习小说蕴含的生态理念，并且为今后其它战争题材的小说提供了文学叙事新的经验和范式。

关键词：安东尼·多尔  《所有我们看不见的光》  生态叙事学

Abstract

All the Light We Cannot See is the fifth works of Anthony Doerr, an American writer, and it took him ten years to finish it. All the Light We Cannot See has been on the bestseller lists of New York Times and Amazon since its publication and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015. All the Light We Cannot See mainly tells that during the Second World War Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, bravely battled with fascist, and that a German orphan named Pfennig worked for fascist with his talent of radio technology. When it came to the crunch, Pfennig chose to kill a German soldier and saved Marie-Laure. Based on the theory of econarratology, this thesis will investigate the correlations between the storyworld of All the Light We Cannot See and ecology from the perspective of econarratology. The thesis will analyze All the Light We Cannot See from three aspects: multiple narrative spaces reflect interactions between men and environment; different narrative points of views illustrate different characters’ attitudes towards ecology; the stone and the radio in the novel also have deeper meanings. Through the analysis of the novel, the thesis helps readers better understand the novel and learn its ecological views and in addition provides new narrative experience and models for war novels.

Key words: All the Light We Cannot See  Anuthony Doerr  econarratology

Contents

Chapter One  Introduction 1

1.1  Introduction to Anthony Doerr 1

1.2  Introduction to All the Light We Cannot See 1

1.3  Purpose of the Thesis 3

1.4  Structure of the Thesis 4

Chapter Two  Literature Review 5

2.1  Previous Studies on All the Light We Cannot See 5

2.2  Previous Studies on Econarratology 6

2.3  Summary 7

Chapter Three  Theoretical Framework 8

3.1  Narrative Space 8

3.2  Narrative Point of View/Focalization 8

3.3  Metaphors 9

3.4  Summary 9

Chapter Four  An Analysis of All the Light We Cannot See 11

4.1  The Interactions Between Characters and Environment 11

4.2  Narrative Points of Views of Different Characters 13

4.3  The Deeper Meanings of the Stone and the Radio 15

4.4  Summary 18

Chapter Five  Conclusion 20

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Acknowledgement