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保罗·奥斯特的追寻:在黑暗中寻找自己的位置

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  美国当代作家保罗·奥斯特(1947-)现著有十八部小说,三部回忆录,一部诗选,一部评论集和四部电影剧本。在《纽约三部曲》发表以前,奥斯特因翻译并主编《兰顿二十世纪法国诗歌选集》和撰写过若干颇富洞见的评论文章而小有名气。三部曲发表以后,他名声大振,在很短的时间内即被捧为名流,引起各国文学界的瞩目。1995年后,与他有关的评论文著激增。他被誉为美国当代最杰出的作家之一,并常常与纳散尼尔·霍桑、塞缪尔·贝克特、罗布—格里耶等文学大师相提并论。美国评论家斯文·博克特斯曾将奥斯特喻为“当代美国文人盛宴中的一个幽灵”(Birkerts,1992:338)。奥斯特在他的作品中揉和了后现代主义文学理论和技巧、存在主义思想以及清新流畅的散文风格。他作品中所蕴涵的思想深意,以及他长期以来对个体存在意义的孜孜以求,都赋予了他的小说以当代美国小说所罕有的哲学深度。奥斯特致力展现充满偶然和荒谬的现代生活。偶然因素是他定义现实主义的一个关键内容。他认为生活本无意义,但个体只要存在就必然追求真理和意义。这种对虚无的接受和对意义的追寻,成为奥斯特小说不断探索的主题。他的主人公多为骚动不安的追寻者,或者在广袤无垠的美国... 

【文章来源】:厦门大学福建省 211工程院校 985工程院校 教育部直属院校

【文章页数】:208 页

【学位级别】:博士

【文章目录】:
Abstract
摘要
A Note on Abbreviations
Introduction
    1.Paul Auster's Life and Career
    2.Paul Auster in France and the United states
    3.Paul Auster in China
    4.The Theoretical Framework,Structure,and Main Contents of the Dissertation
Chapter 1 Major Quests in Paul Auster's Poetic World
    1.1 The Quest for Father
        1.1.1 The Theme of Father and Son in Jewish Culture
        1.1.2 The Quest for Father in The Invention of Solitude
        1.1.3 The Extension of Father Quest in Auster's Later Fiction
    1.2 The Quest for Redemption and Rebirth
        1.2.1 Suffering and Redemption in Jewish Culture
        1.2.2 The Quest for Redemption in The Book of Memory
        1.2.3 Symbolic Death and Rebirth from the Existentialist Perspective
    1.3 The Image of Room:Duality of Solitude
        1.3.1 Negative Connotation of Solitude and Death
        1.3.2 Positive Connotation of Creativeness and Rebirth
Chapter 2 The Quest for Freedom in The Music of Chance
    2.1 Freedom and Power of Subjection
        2.1.1 Freedom as a Philosophical Problem
        2.1.2 Foucault's Notion of Normalization and Surveillance
    2.2 The Quest for Freedom on the Road
        2.2.1 Absolute Freedom and a Slave Pursuer
        2.2.2 The Duality of Chance
        2.2.3.From Freedom to Containment
    2.3 FFeedom under Power Control
        2.3.1 External Surveillante and Normalization
        2.3.2 Nashe's Self-Surveillance and Self-Normalization
        2.3.3 The Acquirement of Self-Awareness and a Limit Without Escape
        2.3.4 The Disillusionment of the American Dream in and Beyond The Music of Chance
Chapter 3 The Quests for Knowledge and Identity
    3.1 The Quest for Knowledge iII The New York Trilogy
        3.1.1 Rationalistic Assumptions of Detective Fiction
        3.1.2 The Fall of Language
        3.1.3 The Failed Quest:A Case Without Closure
    3.2 The Quest for Self and Identity
        3.2.1 The Missing Person
        3.2.2 The Double Self and Exchanged Identity
        3.2.3 Historical Identity and Identity Constructed in Relationships
Chapter 4 The Anti-Genre Narrative Mode of Paul Auster's Quests
    4.1 Postmodernist Mixture of Biogruphy and Autobiography in The Invention of Solitude
        4.1.1 The Genre of Biography and Autobiography
        4.1.2 Anti-Biography and Anti-Autobiography in The Invention of Solitude
            4.1.2.1 Self-Multiplication in Characterization
            4.1.2.2 Blurring the Border Between Fact and Fiction
    4.2 A Metaphysical Detective Fiction:The New York Trilogy
        4.2.1 Traditional Detective Fiction:Origin and Development
        4.2.2 Metaphysical Detective Fiction:Definition and Themes
        4.2.3 MetaphySical Detective Conventions in The New York Trilogy
            4.2.3.1 Labyrinthine World of Text
            4.2.3.2 Dubious Authorship
    4.3 The Anti-Genre Narrative in The Music of Chance and In the Country of Last Things
    4.4 Reflections on Auster's Writing:The Quest for Meaning
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index
Acknowledgments



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