Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda Stories as a Female Bildungsroman

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Title:	Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda Stories as a Female Bildungsroman 凱塞琳．安．波特的米蘭達系列故事：女性成長小說
Authors:	陳智慧
Contributors:	英文系
Keywords:	女性小說 Porter, Katherine Anne
Date:	1997-03
Issue Date:	2020-04-29 13:23:54 (UTC+8)
Abstract:	如同一般的女性作家通常以自己的生活經驗當做寫作的素材，凱塞琳．安．波特的寫作亦是如此。她的短篇小說米蘭達系列故事《舊家風》、《如夢令》和《灰白馬、灰白騎者》即是取自她自己的實際經驗。故事中的女主角米蘭達有同波特相類似的生活背景，一樣是美國南方兒女、母早亡、由父親和祖母撫養長大，一樣在青春年少即結婚、爾後並逃離婚姻的桎梏，一樣心思靈敏、觀察入微、追求自我。故米蘭達的成長過程一童年的憧憬、探索，少年的困惑、叛逆，青年的追尋自我--波特寫來既細緻又深入。米蘭達是波特自己的寫照，也是現代女性的縮影。本文係以Annis Prtta的女性原型理論（Feminine Archetypal Approach）來探討米蘭達的心路成長過程。女性成長的原型模式--綠世界（The Green-World Archetype）、抽離過去（Splitting Off From The Past）和自我蛻變（Self-Transformation）--描繪出米蘭達如何從懵懵無知的小女孩進入了神秘的成人世界、如何從浪漫虛幻的過去走到真實的現在、如何從排斥、逃避的人生態度轉為正視人生的積極態度。 Katherine Anne Porter's fiction can be classified as a feminine bilungsroman. The great majority of her central characters are women. Porter writes about their positions or identities in the contemporary world. She expresses female experiences and perceptions authentically. In the Miranda stories "The Old Order," "Old Mortality," and "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," Porter creates an autobiographical protagonist, named Miranda, whose background is roughly parallel to Porter's-grown up in the South, reared by father and paternal grandmother, married in adolescence and divorced years later. It is no wonder Porter can give a subtle and profound presentation of Miranda's rite of passage-from romantic dream and exploration in childhood through puzzlement and revolt in adolescence to self-quest in youth. Both Porter and Miranda are subtle in mind, observant, and self-developing. Miranda's growing up/down is K. A. Porter's herself and also a microcosm of contemporary women in the modern world. This paper is exploring Porter's Miranda stories as a female bildungsroman by using Annis Pratt's Feminine Archetypal Approach. According to Pratt, women's cocial development can be chronologically classified into the following Periods: the initiation of self, enclosure in the patriarchy and the transformation of self. And the feminine archetypal patterns-the Green-World archetype, Splitting off from the Past, and Self-transformation pattern-parallel to Miranda's growth progress from ignorance to knowledge, from the illusory romanticism of the past to the real, solid present, from rejection to acceptance. Miranda completes the ritual initiation into the mysterious adulthood.
Relation:	華岡外語學報 4 民86.03 頁319-343
Appears in Collections:	[College of Foreign Languages and Literature] Hwa Kang Journal of TEFL

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