约翰·考伯·波伊斯《波瑞斯》中对“女性意识”的探索

Robin Wood
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约翰·考伯·波伊斯的最后一部重要小说《波瑞斯》(1951)是一部复杂的复调叙事。然而,它主要关注的是同名主人公的精神成长。波伊斯认为,波里斯对“女性意识”的理解比男性“更深”,“包含了对现实最基本理解的线索”。小说的背景设定在公元499年的威尔士,就在罗马人占领结束之前,撒克逊人的入侵迫在眉睫。波伊斯在1942年开始写《波利乌斯》,当时英国再次面临入侵,他认为20世纪是第二个黑暗时代,基督教被对科学和唯物主义的崇拜所取代,希特勒统治下的德国极端地反映了这一趋势。波利乌斯探讨了邪恶起源于“男女之间一些模糊的斗争”的观点,波伊斯认为,对“男性意识”的偏见导致了战争、虐待狂和暴力。波伊斯谴责基督教的父权主义,他预言对母亲女神的崇拜将取代父权主义。神话是一个主要元素,人物包括亚瑟王的魔术师默丁(梅林),他的情人尼努,丁尼生的维维安,以及一个巨人种族的幸存者。波伊斯关于“女性意识”的观点,特别受到了荣格的影响,他生活中的各种女性,以及小说家多萝西·理查森,他代表了这种意识的理想。1
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A Quest for ‘Feminine consciousness’ in John Cowper Powys’s 'Porius'
John Cowper Powys’s last major novel Porius (1951) is a complex polyphonic narrative. However, its main concern is the spiritual growth of the eponymous protagonist. Porius matures through an increasing understanding of ‘feminine consciousness’, which Powys suggests is ‘deeper’than that of men and ‘contains a clue to the most basic understanding of reality’.  The novel is set in Wales in AD 499, just prior to the end of the Roman occupation, with a Saxon invasion impending. Powys began writing Porius in 1942, when Britain again faced an invasion,and he sees the twentieth century as a second Dark Age with Christianity being replaced by the worship of science and materialism, and Hitler’s Germany reflecting this trend in the extreme. Porius explores the idea that idea that evil originates from ‘some obscure struggle between men and women’ and Powys suggests that a bias toward ‘masculine consciousness’ leads to war, sadism, and violence.  The patriarchal aspects of Christianity are condemned by Powys, and he prophesises its replacement with the worship of the Mother Goddess. Mythology is a major element and the characters include King Arthur’s magician Myrddin (Merlin), his lover Nineue, Tennyson’s Vivien, and survivors of a race of giants. Powys’s ideas about ‘feminine consciousness’,were particularly influenced by C. G. Jung, various women in his life, and the novelist Dorothy Richardson, who represents for him an ideal of this consciousness. 1
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