詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《阿拉比》是一篇现代主义短篇小说,背景设定在都柏林,讲述了一个小男孩在成长过程中经历的多种情感与体验,涵盖了爱情、孤独以及顿悟等多个主题。文章采用定性方法,从解构主义视角分析《阿拉比》中的语言和符号,通过整体文章结构、叙述视角、人物形象、语言风格等角度分析,揭示了作品中表现出的“幼稚冲动”与“理性成长”、“纯真”与“庸俗”、“落差”与“希望”三组看似对立但实际上动态转换的现象,验证了雅克·德里达的观点,即意义是通过差异和不稳定性构建的。研究旨在从全新视角对西方现代主义作品进行文本分析,超越了结构主义的限制,为类似作品的文学批评与评论提供新的启示和思考。James Joyce’s Araby is a modernist short story set in Dublin, depicting various emotions and experiences of a young boy during his growth, covering themes such as love, loneliness, and epiphany. This paper adopts a qualitative approach to analyze the language and symbols in Araby from a deconstructionist viewpoint. It reveals the dynamic interplay and transformation of apparent opposites such as “childish impulse” and “rational growth”, “innocence” and “vulgarity”, “gap” and “hope”, validating Jacques Derrida’s assertion that meaning is constructed through difference and instability. This study aims to provide a new perspective on Western modernist literature, transcending structuralist constraints and offering fresh insights and reflections for literary criticism and analysis of similar works.
