9 A Room with a View看得见风景的房间

福斯特研究文献

《看得见风景的房间》和其他基本福斯特小说的关系

It is structured throughout on intricately linked antitheses – rooms/views, inside/outside,medieval/classical, the ascetic/the fruitful, dark/light, lies/truth, earth/sky,blood/water. These, however, are not seen in simple either/or terms; ratherthey are woven into a dense narrative fabric.

The Italy of Forster s first published novel and the green and expansive English landscape of his second are its two staging grounds.

The titles contribute to the overall comic effect. They are jocular and detached as they specify scene, lay out the cast of characters, and identify thematic strands and symbolic motifs.

A Room with a View works and reworks the characters, moments, and methods of the first two novels and benefits from the lessons learned while writing them.

However, plotting was never Forster s strong suit.

Who tells the story? That is what is and where is the narrative point of view, the site of focalization? Who desires whom? That is, how do sex and gender circulate in the text? And how are the questions of desire and narration related?

This inside/outside narrative point of view organizes, reports, indeed often is the novel s action. As with much of Forster s fiction, it is the