MargaretDrabbleWorks解析.ppt

Margaret Drabble Works -----A women’s novelist Her all novels A Summer Bird-Cage(1963)夏日鸟笼 The Garrick Year?(1964)加里克年 The Millstone(1965)磨砺 Jerusalem the Golden(1967)金色的耶路撒冷布莱克纪念奖 The Waterfall(1969)瀑布实验性小说女性意识巅峰 互文技巧 主人公与英国王室名人相同 对新时代女性期待 The Needles Eye?(1972) The Realms of Gold(1975)黄金国度 The Ice Age(1977) The Middle Ground(1980) The Radiant Way(1987) A Natural Curiosity(1989) The Gates of Ivory(1991) Her all novels The Witch of Exmoor?(1996) The Peppered Moth(2001)白桦尺蛾 The Seven Sisters(2002) The Red Queen(2004) The Sea Lady?(2006) The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws(2009) A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman(2011) The pure gold baby(2013) Realistic writing Influenced by traditional realistic writers:Jane Austen ,George Eliot,Arnold Bennett Drabble?once?said:?“I’d?rather?be?at?the?end?of?a?dying?tradition?which?I?admire?than?at?the?beginning?of?a?tradition?which?I?deplore.” It announced?her?realistic?writing?style.?Her?teacher?F.R.?Levis?also?had?a?great?influence?on?her.?At?that?time?the?dominating?theory?in?literature?was?Levis’s?“The Great?Tradition” Characteristics of her works chronicled women’s lives realistic descriptions of her figures often owes something to Drabble‘s personal experience自我指涉现象 夏日 磨砺 白桦尺蛾 portray different characters at different ages in her novels to reflect the situation in different period of contemporary Britain through the women’s perspective Drabble’s women writing Characters in Drabble novels ; the college –educated women who confronted with the conflicts between career and responsibilities as wife and mother Female role as wife,mother,mistress,or career woman –within the context of postmodern culture. Drabble expresses her sincere compliments on and great sympathy with them in her writing . novels?of?the?1960s A Summer Bird-Cage (1963), The Garrick Year (1964), The Millstone (1965) Theme:struggle for self-realization by clever young women in a society that seems to offer only marriage and moth