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Alienation in >Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant< 《思家饭店的晚餐》中的异化现象, Master thesis, English Language and Literature, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China 2016 [application of Fromm's theories to art].

  • 安妮•泰勒是美国当代文坛最负名望的作家之一,她的家庭小说以生动刻画美国当代家庭的紧张关系而闻名。《思家饭店的晚餐》是泰勒的第九部小说,该小说被看作她文学生涯的转折点,包括约翰•厄普代克在内的很多评论家都对它给予了高度评价。在这部小说中,泰勒运用了一系列艺术手法巧妙地表现了塔尔家庭成员之间爱恨交织的关系。不少学者注意到了小说中家庭成员之间疏远和不和谐的关系,但没有从异化的角度来解读这些紧张关系。本文作者认为,《思家饭店的晚餐》中紧张的家庭关系正是人际关系异化的表现;除此之外,各个人物自身也存在异化的问题。因此,本论文将着重探讨该小说的异化主题。异化一词源于拉丁语,其含义随着时间的变化而不断发展,很多学者从经济、政治、哲学以及心理学等角度给与了它新的内涵。埃里希•弗洛姆创造性地结合了弗洛伊德的心理分析理论和马克思关于劳动异化的理论,重新定义了>异化<这个词。他认为异化是一种无力和疏远的主观感受,并且指出异化遍及了当代资本主义社会的每一个角落。本论文对异化主题的探讨主要基于弗洛姆的异化理论。本论文共五章。第一章简要介绍安妮•泰勒及其文学创作,综述前人对《思家饭店的晚餐》的研究,说明了异化这个概念,特别是弗洛姆的异化理论,概述了本论文的主题和思路。第二章分析了该小说中人物经受的人际关系异化和自我异化,第三章则从家庭、社会和个人三个层次讨论导致文中异化现象的原因。第四章从艺术创作的角度探讨了异化主题的表现方法,这些方法包括重复叙述、多重内聚焦的运用,以及频繁提及日记和照片等。最后一章对前文的论述进行了总结,并重申了论文的主要观点。本文作者希望通过挖掘《思家饭店的晚餐》的异化主题,为解读泰勒的家庭小说提供一个新视角,证明泰勒家庭小说关于家庭内部的琐碎描写揭示了当代美国中产阶级的生存状况,以此凸显其家庭小说的现实意义。
  • Anne Tyler is canonized as one of the most celebrated writers in contemporary American literary circle. She is famous for her domestic novels which vividly present the tensions in modern American family. >Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant< is her ninth novel, and is regarded as the turning point of her literary career. Many critics including John Updike have given acclaim towards the novel in which the love and hate relationships between Tull family members are skillfully delineated through a series of artistic techniques. Some scholars have noticed the estranged and inharmonious relationships among the family members, but few of them have linked the tension in family relationships to alienation. The present author, however, asserts that the tension is actually manifestation of alienation in interpersonal relationship, apart from which the characters also experience alienation within. Therefore, this thesis is to be devoted to the exploration into the theme of alienation in the novel. Alienation is a term of Latin origin and its meaning has developed with the times. Many scholars have defined this word from economic, political, philosophical and psychological perspectives. Erich Fromm creatively combines the quintessence of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and Marx’s theory of alienated labor to redefine >alienation<. He regards it as a subjective feeling of powerlessness and estrangement, and points out that alienation pervades in every aspect of modern capitalist society. The thesis is to base its analysis on Fromm’s theory of alienation. The thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter One gives a brief introduction to Anne Tyler and her literary creation, and a general survey of previous studies of the novel. Then it explains the concept of alienation, particularly Fromm’s theory of alienation, and the focus and structure of the thesis. Chapter Two analyzes the two kinds of alienation experienced by the characters in the novel: alienation in interpersonal relationships and self-alienation. Chapter Three discusses the factors leading to the alienation in the novel in the aspects which involve family, society and individuals. Chapter Four is devoted to the analysis of the ways alienation is artistically represented in the novel: repetitive narration, multiple internal focalization and frequent references to diaries and photos. The last chapter is Conclusion which summarizes previous discussions and restates the arguments of the thesis. The present author hopes to render a new perspective to Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant through the exploration into its theme of alienation, and highlight the social significance of Tyler’s family novels by proving that the novels truthfully represent the situation of contemporary American middle class through the apparently insignificant trifles taking place in their households. [Author’s translation]

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Author:Shuo Pan
Document Type:Dissertations
Language:Chinese
Year of first Publication:2016
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:no download and copy possible
IdNo:Pan_Shuo_2016
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Dissertations / Dissertationen
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