The Revival of Fairy Tales: Defamiliarization and Plot Construction in <i>The Glass Mountain</i>

作为后现代主义作家之一，唐纳德·巴塞尔姆擅长运用独特的叙事形式和新颖的语言风格，对传统童话故事进行后现代重构。其代表作《玻璃山》，不仅颠覆了童话体裁的叙事成规，更通过彻底的文本实验，促使读者以新视角重新审视叙事艺术与现实表征之间的复杂关系。本文以陌生化理论为基础，分析《玻璃山》中的情节编构手法，探讨巴塞尔姆如何运用该手法打破自动化感知，使熟悉的童话元素焕发出新的生机。在这一重构过程中，童话也不再仅仅是儿童文学的载体，而是突破了儿童文学的固有边界，以其独特的艺术张力揭示并质询着后现代社会中的认知困境与价值危机。As one of the postmodern writers, Donald Barthelme excels in employing distinctive narrative forms and innovative linguistic styles to reconstruct traditional fairy tales in a postmodern context. His representative work, The Glass Mountain, not only subverts the narrative conventions of the fairy tale genre but also compels readers to re-examine the complex relationship between narrative art and the representation of reality through radical textual experimentation. Drawing on the theory of defamiliarization, this thesis analyzes the defamiliarized plot construction in The Glass Mountain, exploring how Barthelme utilizes it to break automatic perception and breathe new life into familiar fairy tale elements. In this reconstruction process, fairy tales are no longer merely a carrier of children’s literature but have been transformed into a space for exposing and interrogating the dilemmas inherent in postmodern society.