《蓝胡子》的后现代改写及其意义
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摘要
《蓝胡子》在西方是一则家喻户晓的童话故事。本文聚焦于后现代作家卡特、阿特伍德和库弗改写的三个短篇,探讨它们与源文本以及相互间的异同,论述所涉文本生成与其历史文化语境的互动关系,进而阐明,对《蓝胡子》的改写,通过旧框架之下的新情节和新线索不断为之赋予新的视角和内涵,从不同侧面和层次反映和揭示了20世纪后期和21世纪早期西方的社会、政治以及文化关注。
Bluebeard is a household fairy tale in the West. This article focuses on three Bluebeard stories by Carter, Atwood and Coover, exploring their differences from the original Bluebeard tale by Charles Perrault and the interaction between the said texts and the historical and cultural contexts in which they are produced. It thus discusses the rewriting of Bluebeard, with new plot and new clues within its old framework, has constantly enriched its meanings and provided it with new perspectives, reflecting and revealing social, political and cultural concerns in various aspects and levels in the west in the late 20~(th) and early 21~(st) centuries.
Bluebeard is a household fairy tale in the West. This article focuses on three Bluebeard stories by Carter, Atwood and Coover, exploring their differences from the original Bluebeard tale by Charles Perrault and the interaction between the said texts and the historical and cultural contexts in which they are produced. It thus discusses the rewriting of Bluebeard, with new plot and new clues within its old framework, has constantly enriched its meanings and provided it with new perspectives, reflecting and revealing social, political and cultural concerns in various aspects and levels in the west in the late 20~(th) and early 21~(st) centuries.
引文
Atwood, Margaret.1998.Bluebeard’s Egg [M]. New York: Anchor Books.
Barzilai, Shuli.2009.Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times [M]. New York & London: Routledge.
Calvin,David.2011.Anti-Fairy Tale and the Demythologising Business in Jane Campion’s The Piano and Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”[G]// Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods, Generate New Meanings. Anna Kerchy, Foreword by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochere. Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press.
Carter, Angela. 1991.The Virago Book of Fairy Tales [M]. London: Virago Press.
Clare, Anthony.2001.On Men: Masculinity in Crisis [M]. London: Arrow Books.
Coates, Jennifer.2003.Men Talk: Stories in the Making of Masculinities [M]. Oxford: Blackwell.
Coover, Robert.2012. The Last One[G]//Perspectives on the Short Story. Scott Ortolano & Caitlin Newcomer. Boston: Pearson, 827-834.
De Klerk, Vivian.1997. The Role of Expletives in the Construction of Masculinity[G]// Sally Johnson and Ulrike Hanna Meinhof. Language and Masculinity. Oxford: Blackwell.
Gibson, Wendy.1989. Women in Seventeenth-Century France [M]. London: Palgrave MacMillan UK.
Grice, Paul.1989.Studies in the Way of Words [M]. Massachusetts & London: Harvard University Press.
Hermansson, Casie E.2009.Bluebeard: A Reader’s Guide to the English Tradition [M]. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Kovacs, Edit. 2013. Gendered Agency in Margaret Atwood’s Reading of the “Bluebeard” Tale: A Butlerian Analysis of Bluebeard’s Egg [D]. MA thesis. Budapest: Central European University.
Lovell-Smith, Rose.1999. Feminism And Bluebeard[J].ELO (5):43-55.
MacInnes, John.1998. The End of Masculinity [M]. Buckingham & Philadelphia: Open University Press.
Perrault, Charles.1977. The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault [M]. trans. [from French] and with a foreword by Angela Carter. London: Gollancz.
Pollock, Griselda and Victoria Anderson.2009. Bluebeard’s Legacy: Death and Secrets from Bartók to Hitchcock [M]. London & New York: I.B-Taun’s & Co Ltd.
Sheets, Robin Ann. 1998. Pornography, Fairy Tales, and Feminism: Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”[G]// Critical Essays on Angela Carter. Lindsey Tucker. New York: G.K. Hall & Co.: 96-118.
Smith, Kevin Paul.2007. The Postmodern Fairytale: Folkloric Intertexts in Contemporary Fiction[M]. New York: Palgrave.
Tatar, Maria. 2004.Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives [M]. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press.
Zipes, Jack.2012. The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre [M]. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press.
克罗齐.1982.历史学的理论和实际[M].道格拉斯·安斯利,英译;傅任敢,译.北京:商务印书馆.
① Charles Perrault. The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. trans. [from French] and with a foreword by Angela Carter. London: Gollancz, 1977.
(1)参见Rose Lovell-Smith. “Feminism And Bluebeard”. ELO,1999(5):43-55; Robin Ann Sheets. “Pornography, Fairy Tales, and Feminism: Angela Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber’”, Critical Essays on Angela Carter. ed. by Lindsey Tucker. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1998:96-118.
(2)参见Maria Tatar. Secrets beyond the Door[M]. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004:114; Casie E. Hermansson. Bluebeard: A Reader’s Guide to the English Tradition[M]. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009:173-175; Edit Kovacs. Gendered Agency in Margaret Atwood’s Reading of the “Bluebeard” Tale: A Butlerian Analysis of Bluebeard’s Egg[D]. Budapest: Central European University, 2013.
(3)参见Shuli Barzilai. Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times[M]. New York & London: Routledge, 2009:129-154; Kevin Paul Smith. The Postmodern Fairytale: Folkloric Intertexts in Contemporary Fiction[M]. New York: Palgrave, 2007:47.
(4)克罗齐所说的真历史,是指那种可以通过令人信服的史料证据及其分析而能为我们理解和确认的历史叙述。克罗齐用“真历史”这个概念以区别于那些仅有对过去事件的陈述而缺乏史料支持也难以确切理解其含义的历史叙述。
Barzilai, Shuli.2009.Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times [M]. New York & London: Routledge.
Calvin,David.2011.Anti-Fairy Tale and the Demythologising Business in Jane Campion’s The Piano and Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”[G]// Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods, Generate New Meanings. Anna Kerchy, Foreword by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochere. Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press.
Carter, Angela. 1991.The Virago Book of Fairy Tales [M]. London: Virago Press.
Clare, Anthony.2001.On Men: Masculinity in Crisis [M]. London: Arrow Books.
Coates, Jennifer.2003.Men Talk: Stories in the Making of Masculinities [M]. Oxford: Blackwell.
Coover, Robert.2012. The Last One[G]//Perspectives on the Short Story. Scott Ortolano & Caitlin Newcomer. Boston: Pearson, 827-834.
De Klerk, Vivian.1997. The Role of Expletives in the Construction of Masculinity[G]// Sally Johnson and Ulrike Hanna Meinhof. Language and Masculinity. Oxford: Blackwell.
Gibson, Wendy.1989. Women in Seventeenth-Century France [M]. London: Palgrave MacMillan UK.
Grice, Paul.1989.Studies in the Way of Words [M]. Massachusetts & London: Harvard University Press.
Hermansson, Casie E.2009.Bluebeard: A Reader’s Guide to the English Tradition [M]. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Kovacs, Edit. 2013. Gendered Agency in Margaret Atwood’s Reading of the “Bluebeard” Tale: A Butlerian Analysis of Bluebeard’s Egg [D]. MA thesis. Budapest: Central European University.
Lovell-Smith, Rose.1999. Feminism And Bluebeard[J].ELO (5):43-55.
MacInnes, John.1998. The End of Masculinity [M]. Buckingham & Philadelphia: Open University Press.
Perrault, Charles.1977. The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault [M]. trans. [from French] and with a foreword by Angela Carter. London: Gollancz.
Pollock, Griselda and Victoria Anderson.2009. Bluebeard’s Legacy: Death and Secrets from Bartók to Hitchcock [M]. London & New York: I.B-Taun’s & Co Ltd.
Sheets, Robin Ann. 1998. Pornography, Fairy Tales, and Feminism: Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”[G]// Critical Essays on Angela Carter. Lindsey Tucker. New York: G.K. Hall & Co.: 96-118.
Smith, Kevin Paul.2007. The Postmodern Fairytale: Folkloric Intertexts in Contemporary Fiction[M]. New York: Palgrave.
Tatar, Maria. 2004.Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives [M]. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press.
Zipes, Jack.2012. The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre [M]. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press.
克罗齐.1982.历史学的理论和实际[M].道格拉斯·安斯利,英译;傅任敢,译.北京:商务印书馆.
① Charles Perrault. The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. trans. [from French] and with a foreword by Angela Carter. London: Gollancz, 1977.
(1)参见Rose Lovell-Smith. “Feminism And Bluebeard”. ELO,1999(5):43-55; Robin Ann Sheets. “Pornography, Fairy Tales, and Feminism: Angela Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber’”, Critical Essays on Angela Carter. ed. by Lindsey Tucker. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1998:96-118.
(2)参见Maria Tatar. Secrets beyond the Door[M]. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004:114; Casie E. Hermansson. Bluebeard: A Reader’s Guide to the English Tradition[M]. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009:173-175; Edit Kovacs. Gendered Agency in Margaret Atwood’s Reading of the “Bluebeard” Tale: A Butlerian Analysis of Bluebeard’s Egg[D]. Budapest: Central European University, 2013.
(3)参见Shuli Barzilai. Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times[M]. New York & London: Routledge, 2009:129-154; Kevin Paul Smith. The Postmodern Fairytale: Folkloric Intertexts in Contemporary Fiction[M]. New York: Palgrave, 2007:47.
(4)克罗齐所说的真历史,是指那种可以通过令人信服的史料证据及其分析而能为我们理解和确认的历史叙述。克罗齐用“真历史”这个概念以区别于那些仅有对过去事件的陈述而缺乏史料支持也难以确切理解其含义的历史叙述。