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A Study of >Love Medicine< in Light of Erich Fromm's Love Theory [埃瑞克•弗洛姆爱的理论观照下的《爱药》研究], Master thesis, English Language and Literature, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China 2011 [Application of Fromm's theories to art].

  • 路易丝•厄德里克是美国当代著名作家、印第安文艺复兴运动第二次大潮的代表人物。《爱药》是她的成名作和代表作,也是第一部被译成中文的当代美国印第安长篇小说。《爱药》主要描述了居留地印第安人的家庭生活和亲人、爱人以及整个部族成员之间的关系,也深刻地反映出印第安人的历史传统与主流社会的文化冲突与融合的现状。弘扬爱是厄德里克众多作品的主题,它被人视为心灵最有效的疗药。爱家庭,每个成员都会把自己看作是整体的不可分的一部分,并且整体是高于个体的。他们有强烈的群体意识,因为群体是他们的归属,他们的需要。爱的传承,是保持传统生生不息的上上之策。爱之药能愈合人的创伤、民族的创伤和文化的创伤。《爱药》展示了爱,如何把被分裂的和疏离的个体融合成一个有机的整体。作品中那些生活在居留地上的人们,终其一生都在努力朝向爱与谅解。爱,作为一种人类心灵独特的能力,能够把人们从>受害者<的桎梏下解放出来,超越个人的局限,从而达到人道主义的最高精神境界。本论文以埃瑞克•弗洛姆的《爱的艺术》中爱的理论为指导,层层深入地分析了《爱药》中蕴含的爱的主题。前言介绍论文的文学背景和目的,介绍了理论框架即埃瑞克•弗洛姆在他的《爱的艺术》一书中提出的爱的理论。论文的第一章分析了作品中反应的三种爱,即亲情之爱,异性之爱和博爱。第二章以弗洛姆爱的理论为指导,分析爱对人类心灵的作用。通过文本细读的方法探讨和阐述爱的本质,即爱是什么。本章从爱是付出;爱是尊重和关怀;爱是理解这三个方面阐释爱的本质。第三章试图通过文本细读和特定情境及人物分析,展示了爱如何解决人类的生存问题。阐述了爱之药是如何地愈合人的创伤、民族的创伤和文化的创伤。爱之药是如何地维系着人类的生存和发展。结论得出,爱,作为人类心灵的力量,是一剂最为有效的疗药疗治人类心灵的创伤和一个日渐没落的文明。
  • Louise Erdrich is one of the most well-known and productive writers of contemporary American literature, a leading figure of the second American Indian literature wave. Her first novel and masterpiece >Love Medicine< was first published in 1984 and won a number of awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award for best work of fiction. >Love Medicine< is centered in the relationships between lovers and families. Its significance is also profound since it reflects the conflicts and synergies between Indian traditions and contemporary American society and culture. Love, being the theme of several of Erdrich’s works, is regarded as the most effective medicine of the painful soul. Love people, love your family members because only love can form them as one. Only love makes these possible – personal survival and cultural continuity. >Love Medicine< demonstrates how love integrate the separated and alienated into a coherent whole. Most of the characters living on the reservation throughout their life constitute a movement toward selfless love and forgiveness. Love, which is a intrinsic capability of human soul, enables those who are hurted to give up the notion of oneself as victim to transcend the individual limits and reach the highest spiritual realm of humanism. As its title suggests, love is the true >medicine<, bring a sense of wholeness and belongs, despite circumstances of loss or broken connection to those who reach for it. This thesis intends to make a progressing research on this theme in light of Eric Fromm’s love theory which is put forward in his the Art of loving. Introduction mainly introduces the theoretical frame of thesis, which is Eric Fromm‘s love theory.– Chapter One discusses the three types of love mainly reflected in the novel-love between family members; between male and female and among equals in the Indian world.– Chapter Two analyzes the essence of love in light of the love theory of Eric Fromm from three aspects.– Chapter Three attempts to illustrate that how love can resolve the problem of human existence by close-reading of the text and analysis of the specific scenes and characters. Through creating family ties the Indian people find a way to search for their self-identity and human survival. It tries to read and explain the complicated situation of both Indian and white culture continuity by means of love.– The thesis finally concludes that love, as a power of human heart, can be the most effective redemption to the hearted soul and at the same time, a revelation to an oblivious civilization.

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Author:Lu Yanhua
Document Type:Dissertations
Language:Chinese
Year of first Publication:2011
Release Date:2014/01/28
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IdNo:Lu_Yanhua_2011
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Dissertations / Dissertationen
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