体验戏剧：山姆·谢泼德家庭三部曲中的进程、判断及人物塑造

摘要

山姆·谢泼德勇于在戏剧形式、戏剧结构上进行试验,擅长运用行为、意象、音乐、诗歌的语言,使得不可见之物跃然纸上。国内外学者主要探究他的艺术贡献、创作技巧及其作品所表现的主题,而笔者则从后经典叙事学视角欣赏该剧作家的家庭三部曲。
　　运用詹姆斯·费伦的修辞性叙事理论,尤其是他对叙事进程的见解,笔者首先一一细析了家庭三部曲中的叙事进程,试图把握剧作家是如何引导读者阅读,进而又击碎他们在阅读过程中的先在期望的。接着,本文就这三部戏剧的叙事进程、人物塑造进行对比,发现它们均使用不完整的叙事进程模式,而且还将人物的虚构性前景化。通过并置叙事进程以及比较叙事进程、人物塑造,笔者旨在挖掘谢泼德的审美倾向及其在家庭三部曲中突出强调的不确定性、非理性、遗传性等潜文本,并重新诠释该剧作家的“现实主义”。另外,可以窥见,谢泼德对叙事进程、人物塑造的独特设计使其读者意识到他们阅读习惯的局限性。

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声明

Acknowledgements

Abstract

摘要

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One Sam Shepard，His Family Trilogy and James Phelan’s Theory of Narrative as Rhetoric

1．1 Sam Shepard and His Family Trilogy

1．2 Literature Review on Sam Shepard

1．3 Drama’s Narrativity and James Phelan’s Theory of Narrative as Rhetoric

Chapter Two Progression and Judgments in Shepard’s Family Trilogy

2．1 Curse of the Starving Class：Predicaments and Frustration

2．1．1 Emotional Predicament

2．1．2 Financial Predicament

2．1．3 Crushing Audience’s Expectation

2．2 Buried Child：Secret and Unreliable Narration

2．2．1 Seeking the Secret

2．2．2 “Unearthing” the Secret

2．2．3 Generation of Unreliable Narration

2．3 True West：Toward a Peripeteia

2．3．1 Differences and Tendency to Compete

2．3．2 Reversal of Situation

2．3．3 Deceptive Completeness

Chapter Three Toward Shepard’s “Realism”：Incomplete Progression and Foregrounded Synthesis of Characters

3．1 Incomplete Narrative Progression

3．2 Foregrounded Synthetic Dimension of Characters

3．3 Reinterpretation of Shepard’s “Realism”

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Appendix Publications during Graduate Studies