目（英文）A Study of Sense and Sensibility from the Perspective of Feminist Narratology
Abstract
Jane Austen is an outstanding female writer. She is famous for her tradition and rebellion in the literary history, and more importantly, she has developed the feminine literature. The thinking of the value of women can be found in her works. Since 1980s, with the development of several new theories, especially feminist narratology, which combines traditional narratology and feminism, it provides a new view for the analysis of Austen’s work. Feminist narratology is a new approach of combining narrative form and gender politics, which uses narrative theory to explain the structure, narrative strategies and sexual politics of the text. This thesis tries to apply this new theory- feminist narratology, to examine the narrative characteristics and women’s independent consciousness in Sense and Sensibility.
There are three chapters in this thesis excepting the introduction. Narrative structure in Sense and Sensibility istalkedin Chapterone. Chapter two examines the feminist point of view in Sense and Sensibility. By analyzing the point of view, readers could easily find the female’s subjective consciousness is guaranteed. The last chapter is the conclusion.
In this thesis, through examining Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, the purpose is to reveal the feminist consciousness in the book. Apparently, she uses the unique narrative techniques to challenge the male dominated narrative mode and modifies the distorted female image. And finally, Austen successfully establishes her female narrative authority.
Keywords feminism; narratology; feminine narration; gender; right of discourse
Contents
Abstract I
Contents II
Introduction 1
1.Narrative Structure in Sense and Sensibility 2
1.1 Narrative Content 2
1.2 Characterization 2
2.Feminist Point of View in Sense and Sensibility 4
2.1 Third-person Point of View in Sense and Sensibility 4
2.1.1 Omniscient Point of View 4
2.1.2 Limited Point of View 4
2.2 Shift of Point of View 5
3.Conclusion 7
3.1 Summary and Conclusion 7
Bibliography 8
