《兔子歇了》中的生存困境与消费文化

发布时间：2018-05-24 20:42

本文选题：约翰·厄普代克 + 《兔子歇了》　；参考：《大连理工大学》2015年硕士论文

【摘要】：约翰·厄普代克发表的“兔子系列”小说,一直是厄普代克研究界所关注的焦点。作品通过对美国中产阶级日常生活的描写来反映当代美国人的生存状态,被人们形象的称为“美国断代史”。国内外学者普遍将这一系列作品作为一个整体进行研究,对其中每部小说的研究和关注相对较少。本论文以“兔子四部曲”中极具代表性的最后一部作品《兔子歇了》为研究对象,通过对小说中人物的日常生活和精神状态的分析,展示二十世纪八十年代在消费文化盛行的美国社会中人们所经历的对死亡的恐惧,对垃圾食品和毒品的上瘾和对自身身份的困惑,从而进一步揭示出他们的生存状态。本论文主体分为三章,分别从三个不同的角度揭示了消费文化对人们日常生活和生存状态的影响。第一章主要探讨了《兔子歇了》中主人公的死亡意识及其产生与消费文化的紧密联系,从而揭示消费文化对美国人对死亡的态度的重要影响。第二章则以《兔子歇了》中人物对食物和毒品的上瘾的描述为切入点,揭示出这种现象背后的文化内涵,即消费文化对个人生活的重要影响及其所反映出来的当代美国人的生存状态。第三章主要探讨了《兔子歇了》中人物的身份困惑并进一步分析了这种身份困惑形成的主要原因：以消费文化为主导的当代美国社会中的文化矛盾。论文在三章分析的基础上得出结论,厄普代克的《兔子歇了》揭示出二十世纪八十年代美国社会在物质极大丰富和经济一派繁荣的表象下,人们所遭受的由于传统价值观缺失所造成的生存困境,.信仰危机,身份认同危机和由此带来的内心空虚,精神孤独和异化感。面临着这样的生存困境,人们通过对食物、毒品等物品的过度消费来麻痹自己,缓解内心的恐惧,填补内在的空虚。概括来说,本论文通过对约翰·厄普代克的《兔子歇了》中人物的生存状态的分析,从而揭示出二十世纪八十年代美国人在以消费文化为主导的社会中的精神生活和由此引发的生存困境。
[Abstract]:The rabbit series published by John Updike has always been the focus of attention in the field of Updike research. By describing the daily life of the American middle class, his works reflect the living conditions of contemporary Americans. Scholars at home and abroad generally study this series of works as a whole, and pay less attention to each novel. In this paper, the author takes the rabbit's rest as the research object, through the analysis of the daily life and mental state of the characters in the novel. It shows the fear of death, addiction to junk food and drugs, and confusion about their identity in the American society where consumer culture prevailed in the 1980s, thus further revealing their state of existence. The main body of this paper is divided into three chapters, respectively, from three different angles to reveal the impact of consumer culture on people's daily life and living state. The first chapter mainly discusses the death consciousness of the protagonist and its close relationship with consumer culture in Rabbit's rest, thus revealing the important influence of consumer culture on American attitude to death. The second chapter, based on the characters' addiction to food and drugs in Rabbit, reveals the cultural connotations behind this phenomenon. That is, consumer culture has an important impact on personal life and reflects the living conditions of contemporary Americans. The third chapter mainly discusses the identity confusion of the characters in Rabbit's rest and further analyzes the main causes of the identity confusion: the cultural contradiction in contemporary American society dominated by consumer culture. On the basis of three chapters' analysis, the paper concludes that Updike's "Rabbit's rest" reveals that the American society in the 1980s appeared to be rich in material resources and prosperous in an economic school. People suffer from the lack of traditional values caused by the plight of survival. Belief crisis, identity crisis and inner emptiness, spiritual loneliness and alienation. In the face of this dilemma, people paralyze themselves through excessive consumption of food, drugs and other items, ease their inner fear and fill the inner emptiness. To sum up, this paper analyzes the living conditions of the characters in John Updike's Rabbit. It reveals the spiritual life of American in the society dominated by consumer culture in the 1980's and the living predicament caused by it.
【学位授予单位】：大连理工大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2015
【分类号】：I712.074

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