摘 要

老舍是中国20世纪杰出的长篇小说大师之一，狄更斯是英国19世纪伟大的批判现实主义作家。在英国期间阅读的大量的英文小说，使老舍在创作手法上受到狄更斯的直接影响。

本文从文学接受和文化过滤的角度分析狄更斯对老舍文学创作的影响。文学接受是整个文学活动系统中的一个必不可少的环节，对于激励作家的创作，对于推动文学事业的进一步发展具有重要的意义。狄更斯作品中的幽默文风、对故乡伦敦的描写以及小人物的描写都契合了老舍的创作倾向。文化过滤指文学交流中接受者的不同的文化背景和文化传统对接受信息的选择、改造、移植、渗透的作用。随着老舍创作的不断成熟，他的作品更多地立足于中国社会的现实，体现着浓郁的“北京市民文化”特色。将狄更斯的风格进行变异，创作出别具特色的幽默风格以及小人物形象。

论文分为五个章节。第一章介绍老舍的生活经历以及狄更斯作品对老舍的影响，分析对狄更斯和老舍关系的研究现状，最后阐明论文的研究框架和意义。第二章解释文学接受和文化过滤两个理论的概念。第三章立足于文化接受的基础上，从幽默风格、城市题材、小人物形象三个角度论述狄更斯对老舍文学创作的影响。第四章立足于文化过滤的基础上，分析了老舍在借鉴的同时，选择以中化民族的特色为创作根基。打造出独具特色的京味幽默和北京市井小人物。最后一章总结全文。

关键词：老舍；狄更斯；文学接受；文化变异

Abstract

Lao She is one of the most outstanding novel masters of the 20th century in China, while as Dickens is the great realist writer in the 19th century in the world. In the course of lecturing in British, Lao She read a large number of English novels and was directly influenced by Dickens on the creative approach.

The paper, from the angle of literary reception and cultural filtering, makes a detailed analysis of Dickens’ influence on Lao She’s literary creation. Literary reception, an indispensable part of the whole literary movement system, which is of great significance to stimulating the writer’s creation and promoting the further development of the literary career. The usage of humorous style, the description of the hometown of London and the nobody in Dickens’ works were both appealed to Lao She’s creative tendency. Cultural filtering refers to the role of selecting, changing, transplanting and infiltrating the reception during the literature communication with the recipients in different cultural backgrounds and cultural traditions. As Lao She’s creation matures, his works are mainly based on the reality of Chinese society, with strong Beijing civic culture characteristics. He was altered Dickens’ writing style and integrating into his own creative practice to produce an unique humorous style and the nobody characters.

The paper is divided into five chapters. Chapter one introduces the life experiences of Lao She and Dickens’ influence on Lao She after he went to British, analyzes the existing studies on Lao She and Dickens. Then it expounds the structure and significance of the paper. Chapter two mainly explains the concepts of literary reception and cultural filtering. Chapter three is based on literary reception to discuss Dickens’ influence on Lao She’s literary creation from the angle of humorous style, urban subject and the nobody theme. Chapter four is based on cultural filtering to analyze that Lao She choices the Chinese cultural characteristics as the basis for his creation. He created the Beijing-flavor humor and Beijing’s nobody images. Chapter five sums up the whole paper.

Key Words: Lao She; Dickens; literary reception; cultural filtering

Contents

1 Introduction 1

1.1 The background of Lao She 1

1.2 Lao She’s trip to England 2

1.3 Literature review 2

2 Literary Reception and Cultural Filtering 4