伍尔夫《到灯塔去》以"灯塔"取代传统小说的情节,让人物围绕这一道具展开感知、流动意识,不同人物的感知相互错位、对比,从而刻画出不同心理逻辑、塑造出不同人物形象。这些相互差异的心理逻辑,又因道具的统一,而在小说主题上实现深化统一。这部小说围绕灯塔还派生出窗口等众多次要道具,使人物心理错位进一步细腻、人物情感逻辑更加饱满充分,小说主题得到深化。小说中道具同时参与表层及深层文本的建构,这种道具手法近乎完美的运用,开辟了小说形式新的可能性,极大地拓宽了现代小说的审美域度。但这种意识流文本的优势对普通读者来说,却是一种阅读挑战。普通读者难以解读出人物意识逻辑的自洽性。伍尔夫的后期创作,在传统小说手法与道具手法间摇摆,也表明了意识流文本结构的困境。
This thesis intends to carry out a detailed analysis of the structure of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. In this novel the traditional method of organizing a plot to push forward the progress of a novel is abandoned. Instead,the lighthouse plays a vital role in the structuring of the novel. Woolf depicts every character’s stream of consciousness around the lighthouse and thus compares and reveals the characters’ different inner worlds and personalities. Moreover,the various flowing consciousness is unified into a whole through the lighthouse on a deeper level. Woolf is experimenting with a new form of writing and has greatly expanded the aesthetic area of modern fiction. However,with its emphasis on psychology and on the human consciousness,reading such novels requires hard brain work. In her later novels,Woolf seems to have returned to the traditional methods of novel writing,which shows stream-of-consciousness technique’s limitations.