成长小说的先驱--斯宾塞《仙后》中红十字骑士的成长历程

摘要

The theme of initiation has always been one of focuses of the western literature. The first novel of The Faerie Queene mainly talks about a series of adventures experienced by Redcrosse Knight. Through these adventures, we can see the growth of Redcrosse Knight in the aspects of spirit and soul,and this process also appears as a “fall-and-rise” pattern. Based on the topic of the initiation novel, the present paper ventures to prove that Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene could be regarded as a pioneer of the English initiation novels through the analysis of Redcrosse Knight’s adventures.%　　成长主题一直是西方文学所关注的焦点之一。斯宾塞的《仙后》第一卷描写了红十字骑士所经历的一系列冒险活动，透过这些冒险活动，我们可以看到红十字骑士的心智成长历程，这是一个“堕落—再生”的过程。文章以成长小说作为议题，通过分析红十字骑士的成长历程，认为斯宾塞的《仙后》可以被视为英国成长小说的先驱