Intertextuality and Arthurian Women in David Lodge’s Small World (1984)

A. Ropa
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The present article analyses intertextual references in David Lodge’s Small World. An Academic Romance (1984), focusing on allusions to the corpus of medieval and twentieth-century Arthuriana in the representation of women characters. An analysis of Arthurian allusions in the portrayal of women characters shows that Lodge introduces Arthurian women to his academic ‘Camelot’ in response to medieval and post-medieval literature about King Arthur and the Grail quest. In this respect, his representation of academic women in Small World is different from the way they are described in Lodge’s other academic novels, Changing Places and Nice Work. Lodge rarely recasts Arthurian women characters as his heroines with the exception of Prof Fulvia Morgana, who is modelled on the Arthurian sorceress Morgane/Morgause. Nevertheless, in Small World, women appear in the traditional roles of being the object of a ‘knight’s’ quest, such as Persse’s beloved Angelica and Swallow’s lover Joy, and wise advisors (Miss Maiden). Alternatively, women are portrayed as antagonistic or negative characters, the so-called ‘whores’ or ‘demonic temptresses’: such are Angelica’s twin sister Lily and the lusty Fulvia Morgana.
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大卫·洛奇《小世界》中的互文性与亚瑟王女性
本文分析了大卫·洛奇的《小世界》中的互文引用。《学院派罗曼史》(1984),着重于对中世纪和二十世纪亚瑟王的语料库的典故,以表现女性角色。通过分析亚瑟王对女性角色的描写,洛奇将亚瑟王的女性引入了他的学术著作《卡米洛特》,以回应中世纪和后中世纪关于亚瑟王和圣杯探索的文学作品。在这方面,他在《小世界》中对学术女性的描绘不同于洛奇在其他学术小说《换地方》和《漂亮的工作》中对她们的描述。洛奇很少重新塑造亚瑟王时期的女性角色,除了富尔维亚·莫甘娜教授,她以亚瑟王时期的女巫莫甘娜为原型。尽管如此,在《小世界》中,女性还是以传统角色出现,成为“骑士”追求的对象,比如珀尔斯心爱的安吉莉卡和燕子的情人乔伊,以及明智的顾问(少女小姐)。另外,女性被描绘成敌对或消极的角色,即所谓的“妓女”或“恶魔诱惑者”:安吉莉卡的双胞胎妹妹莉莉和精力充沛的富尔维亚·莫甘娜就是这样。
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