《荆棘鸟》中的圣经情结

如果我们翻过西方文学史就会发现,《圣经》的题材和典故在西方文学发展史上都有着巨大而持久的影响。除了其自身的文学价值以外,它为西方文学的类型、形式及叙事等方面都提供了一个重要的范式和诸多丰富的素材。文学与《圣经》的连接作为西方文学发展进程的一条主线延伸至今,并没有因宗教中的信仰危机和文学的现代化而自然中断。20世纪的西方小说继承了这一点,《圣经》情结依然是许多作家写作的渊源、是许多作品内在底蕴的基本构成,考琳·麦卡洛的《荆棘鸟》就是这样一部作品。文章将从结构象征、人物原型、爱欲禁忌三方面予以分析。

Biblical Emotion Feeling in The Thorn Birds

After reading western Literature, we will find that some literary materials and allusions which come from The Bible have great and long-term influence in the development of western literature. Except its own literature wealth, it provids important patterns and many vairous materials, for the type, form and naratation of western Literature, The line, connected literature and The Bible, which is the main line in the process of western Literature, has been streching today, and was never suspended because of religion crises or mondernization of literature. The 20th centurys western novels inherit this advantage. Biblical emotion feeling is still original materials for many writers and the basic form of connotation for many works. The Thorn Birds, Collon McCullough, is a good example. This article analyses it on structure, figure and human desire.