‘There are all sorts of lives’: Internal dialogicity within first-person narration in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark

IF 0.6 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Marianne Fish
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Studies examining the dialogicity of fictional consciousness within novels have tended to predominantly focus on third-person narratives or free indirect style. Fewer studies have engaged with the first-person mode, for such narratives are often considered to be confined to one viewpoint. Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark is predominantly related through the protagonist’s, Anna Morgan’s, first-person narration; however, Rhys interweaves a multitude of other voices within this mode, creating a dialogic tension with the external viewpoints expressed. Through the representation of differing perspectives in conversation with one another, Rhys demonstrates how individual consciousness is not isolated but shaped and constructed through interaction with the ideological viewpoints of others. The cacophony of voices engaging in dialogic discourse within the protagonist’s consciousness destabilises the boundaries between self and other, between public and private discourses. While Voyage in the Dark is a first-person autodiegetic narrative, through a detailed analysis of linguistic mechanisms, this study highlights the strategies of dialogisation (repetition and echoes, the blurring between private and public discourse, double-voicing, and enacting external viewpoints) employed within Anna’s first-person narration to create a sense of divided consciousness. By investigating how Rhys has employed linguistic devices and effectively utilised modes of consciousness (particularly the interior monologue) to present differing worldviews through one consciousness, this study also exemplifies the relevance of Bakhtin’s concept of dialogicity to first-person narratives.
“有各种各样的生命”:吉恩·里斯的《黑暗航行》第一人称叙事中的内在对话
研究小说中虚构意识的对话性往往主要集中在第三人称叙事或自由间接风格上。很少有研究涉及第一人称模式,因为这种叙述通常被认为局限于一个观点。简·里斯的《黑暗之旅》主要是通过主人公安娜·摩根的第一人称叙述来讲述的;然而,Rhys在这种模式中交织了许多其他的声音,创造了一种与外部观点表达的对话张力。通过对彼此对话中不同观点的表现,里斯展示了个体意识不是孤立的,而是通过与他人的意识形态观点的互动而形成和构建的。主人公意识中对话话语的不和谐声音打破了自我与他人、公共话语与私人话语之间的界限。虽然《黑暗之旅》是第一人称自述叙事,但通过对语言机制的详细分析,本研究强调了安娜在第一人称叙事中使用的对话策略(重复和呼应、私人和公共话语之间的模糊、双重声音和制定外部观点)来创造一种分裂的意识感。通过调查里斯如何运用语言手段和有效地利用意识模式(尤其是内心独白),通过一种意识来呈现不同的世界观,本研究还举例说明了巴赫金的对话概念与第一人称叙事的相关性。
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期刊介绍: Language and Literature is an invaluable international peer-reviewed journal that covers the latest research in stylistics, defined as the study of style in literary and non-literary language. We publish theoretical, empirical and experimental research that aims to make a contribution to our understanding of style and its effects on readers. Topics covered by the journal include (but are not limited to) the following: the stylistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, cognitive approaches to text comprehension, corpus and computational stylistics, the stylistic investigation of multimodal texts, pedagogical stylistics, the reading process, software development for stylistics, and real-world applications for stylistic analysis. We welcome articles that investigate the relationship between stylistics and other areas of linguistics, such as text linguistics, sociolinguistics and translation studies. We also encourage interdisciplinary submissions that explore the connections between stylistics and such cognate subjects and disciplines as psychology, literary studies, narratology, computer science and neuroscience. Language and Literature is essential reading for academics, teachers and students working in stylistics and related areas of language and literary studies.
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