貴婦人畫像中的戲劇化手法

1、河北師范大學碩士學位論文《貴婦人畫像》中的戲劇化手法姓名：周淑娟申請學位級別：碩士專業(yè)：英語語言文學指導教師：姬生雷20100401IVAbstract Henry James is a prominent American novelist and literary critic. He is remarkable in literature for his international theme which reflects the

2、 cultural conflict between America and Europe. He also has great influence on novel writing of the later writers. The Portrait of a Lady, which is written at the early stage of his career, is one of his masterpieces on t

3、he international theme. Henry James attaches great importance to the art of fiction and stresses that the sense of reality plays an important role in novel. He chooses the scenic methods in order for the achievement of t

4、he intense air of reality in his novels. This thesis attempts to employ Genette’s narrative theory to explore James’ dramatic techniques in The Portrait of a Lady. The Introduction reviews James’s theories about the art

5、of fiction, discusses the foreign critics’ interpretation of James’s works from the narrative perspective, and accounts the current research of James study in China. The First Chapter explores the dramatic techniques in

6、 The Portrait of a Lady from the angle of narrative situation. According to Gentte, narrative situation consists of focalization and voice. In The Portrait of a Lady, James mainly uses internal focalization to filtrate t

7、he story, and external focalization to record the other characters’ conduct. The variation of internal and external focalizations makes the novel dramatic and enhances the air of reality. Third-person narrative avoids th

8、e difference between narrator I and experiencing I which affects the authenticity of the narration. The impersonal heterodiegetic narrator presents the story to the reader objectively, achieving dramatization of the nove

9、l and the air or reality. The Second Chapter analyzes the scenes in The Portrait of a Lady. Dialogue is a main element in drama, and it is also a principal one in dramatic scenes. In The Portrait of a Lady, James uses a

10、 lot of dialogues to present the dramatic scenes and express his international theme. The images the characters use in their dialogues not only concrete the extensive international theme and the concept of life, but also