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A Study on the Theme of the Loneliness in Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories [论凯瑟琳•曼斯菲尔德短篇小说的孤独主题], Master thesis, English Language and Literature, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China 2009 [Application of Fromm's theories to art].

  • 凯瑟琳•曼斯菲尔德(Katherine Mansfield,1888-1923)是以创作短篇小说闻名的作家,D.H.劳伦斯、弗吉尼亚•伍尔芙、T.S.艾略特、詹姆斯•乔伊斯等现代主义作家都曾对其独特的艺术感受力以及作品表示了钦佩之情,很多评论者都认同>就所起的指导性影响而言,凯瑟琳•曼斯菲尔德之于短篇小说艺术,犹如乔伊斯之于长篇小说。在乔伊斯和曼斯菲尔德之后,长篇小说和短篇小说与以前就迥然不同了。<她在作品中不断实现和运用的技巧创作与革新,有力地推动了英国现代短篇小说的发展,其作品的魅力始终吸引着文学评论者们执著地探索。在曼斯菲尔德的小说中,几乎所有人物身上都带着醒目的孤独感,类似一种精神上的标签。其作品的孤独主题,实际上是身处20世纪初,在社会现实和人类心理现实急剧变化以及个人一生动荡的生活经历与不安定的生活方式影响下,作者生命情绪的主观投射。曼斯菲尔德将她的孤独感渗透进小说人物的灵魂,通过对各种主人公处境的审视与反思,传递出强烈的孤独意识,孤独是她真实的情感体验,也是她探索人类生存困境和精神家园的特殊的艺术视角。论文除了在局部采用社会历史批评和美国心理学家弗洛姆关于人类>孤独<研究的新精神分析理论,主要采用的是折中的研究方法,即从曼斯菲尔德短篇小说人物的孤独感分析入手,将研究置于社会文化的大语境中,在文本诠读的基础上,结合作者的日记、书信和生平,剖析曼斯菲尔德短篇小说的孤独主题实际上是作家整个生命内外状态的主观投射这一命题。论文主体分为四章。第一章介绍曼斯菲尔德的生平、作品、文学成就和国内外的研究情况,尤其谈到对其作品中孤独主题的研究现状及问题,指出目前的孤独主题研究尚缺乏系统性,且结合社会文化大语境和作者内外生命状态的分析较少,因此值得进一步探索。第二章以曼斯菲尔德的46个短篇为论据,从人与人、人与社会、人与自然、人与自我四方面的关系分析小说人物的孤独感。第三章承接上一章的讨论,从这四个方面研究曼斯菲尔德本人的孤独感,并由此指出其小说的孤独主题实际上是作家整个生命内外状态的主观投射。第四章作为余韵,讨论曼斯菲尔德作品如何运用意识流、内心独白和象征主义等现代主义手法展现孤独主题。
  • Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is an important figure in modern in British literature. For her great contribution to the short story genre in her works, she developed the new >plotless< story, and employed modernist techniques to present seemingly trivial is incidents from ordinary life, and to concentrate on inner moods and impressions rather than on external events. Through Mansfield's innovations, the short story began to gain popularity and finally became an important and independent genre of the 20th century literature. In Mansfield's short stories, almost all the characters have sonorous loneliness feeling, which likes a mental label. In fact, the loneliness theme in her stories is actually subjective projection from her whole life situation both inside and outside. This thesis is an exploration of the theme of loneliness in Mansfield's short stories from the relationship between man and man, man and society, man and nature, man and self. By focusing on 46 short stories from Mansfield's early, middle and late periods and analyzing the thematic concerns in the four respective aspects, in relation to Mansfield's letters and journals as well as her life and the ear background, the present study attempts to examine the relationship between her whole life and the loneliness theme in her writings, thus to indicates that the loneliness theme is actually subjective projection from her whole life situation both inside and outside. By locating the present study in the socio-cultural context, the thesis mainly adopts an eclectic approach to Katherine Mansfield on the basis of a close reading of her stories in combination with her journals and letters as well as her biography. In some part of the thesis, the social historical criticism and psychological criticism Neo-Psychoanalytic theory on >solitude< by American psychologist Erich Fromm are adopted as research methods. This thesis falls into four chapters.– Chapter One begins with a brief review of the life, works and literary achievement of Mansfield, the themes of her short stories and a survey of Mansfield studies. It then moves to what problems remain in the study of the loneliness theme in Mansfield's stories and concludes that there are some good reasons for investing in further research on the loneliness theme.– Chapter Two, on the basis of analysis of 46 short stories, discusses four different types of loneliness of characters in her stories from the relationship of man and man, man and society, man and nature, man and self.– Chapter Three studies Mansfield's loneliness from the four aspects above, and by which indicates that the loneliness theme is actually subjective projection from her whole life situation both inside and outside.– In Chapter Four attention is given to the issue how the modernistic features are used to present the old literary theme – the characters' loneliness in Mansfield's stories.

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Author:Yao Luo
Document Type:Dissertations
Language:Chinese
Year of first Publication:2009
Release Date:2014/01/28
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Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Dissertations / Dissertationen
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