福克纳小说《圣殿》中的消费文化研究

发布时间：2018-05-05 09:54

本文选题：消费文化 + 威廉·福克纳　；参考：《南京师范大学》2015年硕士论文

【摘要】：十九世纪末二十世纪初的美国经历了从生产型社会向消费型社会的转变,消费文化开始兴盛并逐步主导了美国社会。身处消费文化语境中的福克纳敏锐地感受到了时代风尚的变化,在其文学作品中再现了世纪之交的美国南方社会的消费特征,并对消费文化对南方传统的价值体系和生活方式的冲击进行了深入的思考。出版于1931年的《圣殿》带有消费时代的印记,反映了美国消费文化的特征。消费文化是小说的创作语境,也是情节发展的有力推动者。从消费文化的研究视角来解读《圣殿》,不难发现小说中的各阶层都卷入了形形色色的消费活动中,相对于商品本身的使用价值,人们更看重商品的符号价值,商品的数量和质量能直接说明一个人所占据的财富和社会地位。因此,人们往往通过积累财富,以及购买服装、住宅和汽车等消费行为来确立身份和地位。除消费各种有形商品外,人们也对各种娱乐消遣消费乐此不疲,像舞会、妓院这类的娱乐消费可以表明一个人具备可观的经济实力,可自由支配的闲暇时间也比较多,这些都是社会等级的间接证明。消费文化的兴盛对美国南方传统的价值体系带来了巨大的冲击,清教伦理所推崇的克制、节俭等美德遭到颠覆性的破坏,取而代之的是欲望崇拜和享乐至上的人生观。在这种扭曲和病态消费观念的引导下,人性逐渐走向异化。福克纳对消费文化的描绘体现出他对社会转型时期美国南方人精神世界的关注,他通过文学创作,旨在提醒人们不应抛弃传统道德观念,而应对消费形成正确的认识,以更加合理科学的理念规范引导南方人的消费行为。
[Abstract]:At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the United States experienced a transition from a productive society to a consumption-oriented society, and the consumption culture began to flourish and gradually dominated the American society. Faulkner, who is in the context of consumer culture, is acutely aware of the changes in the fashion of the times, and reappears in his literary works the consumption characteristics of the American Southern society at the turn of the century. And the impact of consumption culture on the traditional value system and lifestyle of the South was deeply considered. The Temple, published in 1931, bears the stamp of the consumer era and reflects the characteristics of American consumer culture. Consumer culture is the creation context of the novel and the powerful promoter of plot development. Interpreting Temple from the perspective of consumer culture, it is not difficult to find that all strata in the novel are involved in various consumption activities, people value the symbolic value of the commodity more than the use value of the commodity itself. The quantity and quality of goods can directly describe a person's wealth and social status. As a result, people tend to establish identity and status by accumulating wealth and buying clothing, homes and cars. In addition to consuming all kinds of tangible goods, people also enjoy all kinds of entertainment and entertainment, such as balls, brothels, can show that a person has considerable economic strength, free to spend more leisure time, These are indirect proofs of social hierarchy. The prosperity of consumer culture had a great impact on the traditional value system of American South. The virtues such as restraint and frugality, which were respected by Puritan ethics, were destroyed by subversion, and replaced by desire worship and hedonistic outlook on life. Under the guidance of this kind of distorted and morbid consumption concept, human nature gradually goes to alienation. Faulkner's depiction of consumer culture reflects his concern for the spiritual world of southerners in the period of social transformation. Through his literary creation, he aims to remind people not to abandon traditional moral concepts but to form a correct understanding of consumption. Guide the consumption behavior of southerners with more reasonable and scientific ideas.
【学位授予单位】：南京师范大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2015
【分类号】：I712.074

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