莎士比亚作品中的印度人与中国人形象

发布时间：2018-05-08 05:30

本文选题：莎士比亚 + 中国人　；参考：《华东理工大学学报(社会科学版)》2016年03期

【摘要】：莎士比亚的作品中多处出现过印度人和中国人。二者皆为富有的化身,同时也被赋予卑贱狡猾和欺诈性等反面色彩。英国人基于自身的利益需求,一方面想与印度拉近距离以追求财富,另一方面又惧其诱惑性与危险性,所以将其与欺诈性相联系。中国人在莎士比亚的作品中,尤其是《第十二夜》中是正面的,可是却被18世纪Steevens等学者注解为小偷和骗子之流。究其原因,一是一些词语存在多义性,如cunning,dexterous等常被用来形容中国人的词语含有多义性,容易被人片面地解读和利用;二是《温莎的风流娘儿们》中的"Cataian"本身具有模糊性;三是特殊时期一些人心存偏见乃至别有用心,从Steevens的注解可见一斑。综而观之,莎士比亚作品中的印度人和中国人形象是西方人基于自身利益对二者进行的想象和曲解。
[Abstract]:There are many places in Shakespeare's works in which Indians and Chinese appear. Both are rich avatars, but are also given to mean cunning and fraud and other negative color. Based on their own interests, the British, on the one hand, want to close up with India in pursuit of wealth, on the other hand, fear its seduction and danger, so they associate it with fraud. The Chinese were positive in Shakespeare's works, especially the Twelfth Night, but were described as thieves and liars by scholars such as Steevens in the 18th century. The reason is that some words have polysemy, such as cunningdexterous, which are often used to describe Chinese people, and are easy to be interpreted and used one-sidedly, the second is the ambiguity of "Cataian" in "Windsor's flirtatious Girls". Third, some people have prejudice and ulterior motives in the special period, which can be seen from the annotations of Steevens. On the whole, the images of Indians and Chinese in Shakespeare's works are the imagination and misinterpretation of the two by Westerners on the basis of their own interests.
【作者单位】：华东理工大学外国语学院;
【基金】：上海市哲学社会科学规划青年课题项目“1473-1700年间英语文本中的中国形象”(2014EWY004) 上海市浦江人才计划项目“早期英文图书中的中国形象”(14PJC025)的阶段性成果留学回国人员科研启动基金资助
【分类号】：I561.06

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