Journal of Literary Writing and Evaluation

JLWE, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2025, pp.74-82.

Print ISSN: 3078-8129; Online ISSN: 3104-5073

Journal homepage: https://www.lwejournal.com

DOI: Https://doi.org/10.64058/JLWE.25.1.09

阁楼中的异托邦：
论《道林·格雷的画像》中的空间僭越与身份坍缩

周炜（Zhou Weiwei

摘要：作为王尔德最具颠覆性的美学宣言，在福柯异托邦理论视域下《道林·格雷的画像》中的阁楼重构为兼具封闭性、矛盾并置与暴力性的坍缩场域。通过研究，阁楼不仅是对沙龙虚伪表象的补偿性空间，也是道德僭越、阶级符号消解与身份压抑的“暗柜”。其通过割裂公共与私密领域的空间实践，将社会规训内化为自我监视机制，最终导致主体性的异化与崩解。该空间政治阐释揭示了阁楼的双重暴力本质：既庇护道德僭越，又协同权力规训，深化了王尔德对维多利亚伪善的批判。

关键词：异托邦；《道林·格雷的画像》；空间；身份

作者简介：周维炜，广州华立学院外国语学院教师，研究方向：英语文学与翻译。电邮：13242347428@163.com。

Title: The Heterotopia in the Attic: On The Picture of Dorian Gray’s Spatial Transgression and Identity Collapse

Abstract: As the most subversive aesthetic manifesto in Wilde’s oeuvre, the attic in The Picture of Dorian Gray is reconstructed as a collapsed spatial field characterized by enclosure, contradictory juxtaposition, and violence through Foucault’s heterotopia theory. Through analysis, the attic emerges not only as a compensatory space offsetting the hypocritical facade of the salon but also as a “dark closet” that conceals moral transgressions, dissolves class symbols, and represses identity. By severing the connection between public and private spheres through spatial practices, it internalizes social discipline into a self-surveillance mechanism, ultimately leading to the alienation and disintegration of subjectivity. This spatial-political interpretation reveals the attic’s dual violent nature: while sheltering moral transgressions, it simultaneously collaborates with power discipline, thereby deepening Wilde’s critique of Victorian hypocrisy.

Keywords: Heterotopia; The Picture of Dorian Gray; spatial; identity

Author Biography: Zhou Weiwei, Teacher at the School of Foreign Languages, Guangzhou Huali College. Research Areas: English Literature and Translation. E-mail: 13242347428@163.com.

Received: 24 Feb 2025 / Revised: 25 Mar 2025 / Accepted: 27 Mar 2025 / Published online: 30 Apr 2025 / Print published: 30 May 2025; Print ISSN: 3078-8129 · Online ISSN: 3104-5073 / by JLWE, Vol.1, No.1,2025, pp.74-82.