NarrativeStrategiesinAraby专业：英语语言文学姓名：刘云学号：20050491Abstract:GerardGenette’sNarrariveDiscourseisaninvaluablesystematictheoryofnarrative.ThispaperwillanalysizeJamesJoyce’sfamousshortstoryArabyaccordingtoGenette’snarrativethoery,thusrevealingtheperfectcombinationofnarrativestrategiesandparalysisthemeinthisstory.KeyWords:GenetteArabynarrativestrategiesparalysisthemeGerardGenette’snarrativeDiscourseisamajorworkofnaratology.ByanalyzingMarcelProust’snovelAlarecherchedutempsperdu,Genetteformsasystematictheoryofnarrativeprocess,includingpointofview,focalization,iterative,normandanomaly.Healsodefinessomenewtermslikemood,voice,order,durationandfrequency.Thepublishingofthisbookexertanimpacttothewesternnarrativetheory,andeveryreaderofGenettefindthathebecomesamoreacuteandperceptiveanalystoffictionthanbefore.TheshortstoryArabyisoneoffifteenstorieswrittenbyJamesJoyceinacollectioncalled"Dubliners".Joyce'searlylife,familybackground,andhiscatholicbackgroundappearinthewayhewritesthesestories.JamesJoyceinhislettertoGrantRichardwrites:“MyintentionwastowriteachapterofthemoralhistoryofmycountryandIchoseDublinforthescenebecausethatcityseemedtomethecenterofparalysis.Itriedtopresentittotheindifferentpublicunderfouroftheseaspects:childhood,adolescence,maturityandpubliclife.Thestoriesarearrangedinthisorder.”(Ingersoll)ThemainthemeofArabyisparalysis.JamesJoycebelievesthattheIrishsocietyandculture,aswellasthecountry’seconomy,hasbeenparalyzedforcenturies.Thestoryisaboutthefeelingsayoungboyhasforaneighborhoodgirl,andhisdespairwhenhegoestoafairwiththeintentionofbuyingthegirlapresentandfindsheistoolate.Thedisappointmentdirectlyleadstohisepiphanythatheseeshimself“asacreaturedrivenandderidedbyvanity.”InthisstoryAraby,JamesJoyceadoptssomedevicesandtechniquesofnarrativetocreatetheeffectofrhythmandtorevealthethemeofparalysis.Thisthesiswillanalsizetheshortstoryfromthefollowingaspects:shiftsofpointofview,threemoodsof“I”andtimeanalysis.1.ShiftsofPointofViewInthefirstparagraphofAraby,thethirdpersonnar