后现代语境下麦卡锡《血色子午线》中“去中心化”的人类主体
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科马克·麦卡锡的长篇小说《血色子午线》以其对人性道德残酷的冷漠态度,成为美国20世纪反人类中心主义文学的领衔之作。叙述者用怪异可怖的冷静口吻讲述一个血腥弥漫的故事,并以镇定自如的讽刺加持,直接与人的死亡进行对峙,拒绝给故事本身和读者留下任何希冀。小说将人类主体的形象急剧矮化,使其沦为一种短暂的,偶然的,临时的,无效的和荒唐的现象,该手法与自启蒙运动以来对人类主体这一构建性概念发起最猛烈攻击的后现代主义思潮产生激情共鸣。本文探究了小说对人类中心性这一伪概念的残酷鞭挞,力图构建使小说人物深受其害的自我主义与当代美国种族分裂痼疾和持续的海外干预行为之间的联系。同时,本文也在更广泛的层面试图破译小说对整个自我膨胀的人类主体用科技武装役使自然的企图发出的警示信号。本文揭示了麦卡锡用以拆解围绕着人类主体影响力和持续性的种种虚构话语的多样化创作手段。习惯了拥有控制力,敏感性和主动权的传统全知叙述主体的读者,不得不和小说中对叙述任务毫无兴趣的叙述者妥协,接受缺乏信息性,组织性和深刻性的叙述。同时,渴望文本知情权和把控力的读者主体也因其将文本主题化的无效尝试而受到不事交流的叙述者的持续嘲讽。小说人物的身...
【文章页数】：88 页
【学位级别】：硕士
【文章目录】：
Acknowledgements
Abstract
摘要
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Significance of the Study
1.3 Research Objectives
1.4 Thesis Structure
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 An Overview
2.2 Historical Perspectives
2.3 Language-centered Discussions
2.4 Thematization Efforts
2.5 Narratological Inquiries
2.6 Agreement over De-subjectified Human Agency
Chapter 3 Postmodern Context of the Novel
3.1 From Modernism to Postmodernism
3.2 Postmodern Discourses on the Cult of Human Subjectivity
3.2.1 Lyotard’s Metanarrative Theory
3.2.2 Manifest Destiny as a Metanarrative
Chapter 4 Analysis of Dethroned Human Subjects in Blood Meridian
4.1 An Omniscient Narrator Enfeebled
4.1.1 Cession of Observational Dominance
4.1.2 Lackadaisical Interest in Demystifying Characters
4.1.3 Uncontrolled and Uncontrollable Syntactic Constitution
4.2 Human Distinction Compromised
4.2.1 Apparitional Images
4.2.2 A Heroic Pattern Botched
4.2.3 Death of Man: Normalized, Unlamented and Aestheticized
4.3 Man Stripped Down towards Animality
4.3.1 Resemblance to Animals
4.3.2 Deformity and Abnormality
4.3.3 Juxtaposition and Conflation
4.3.4 Impaired Language Ability
4.3.5 Prey to Animals
4.4 Crushed Ambition to Lord It Over
4.4.1 Insurmountable Nature
4.4.2 The Indomitable Other
4.4.3 Evil Man
4.5 Man Denied Freedom of Choice
Chapter 5 Conclusion
Bibliography
本文编号：3867440
【文章页数】：88 页
【学位级别】：硕士
【文章目录】：
Acknowledgements
Abstract
摘要
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Significance of the Study
1.3 Research Objectives
1.4 Thesis Structure
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 An Overview
2.2 Historical Perspectives
2.3 Language-centered Discussions
2.4 Thematization Efforts
2.5 Narratological Inquiries
2.6 Agreement over De-subjectified Human Agency
Chapter 3 Postmodern Context of the Novel
3.1 From Modernism to Postmodernism
3.2 Postmodern Discourses on the Cult of Human Subjectivity
3.2.1 Lyotard’s Metanarrative Theory
3.2.2 Manifest Destiny as a Metanarrative
Chapter 4 Analysis of Dethroned Human Subjects in Blood Meridian
4.1 An Omniscient Narrator Enfeebled
4.1.1 Cession of Observational Dominance
4.1.2 Lackadaisical Interest in Demystifying Characters
4.1.3 Uncontrolled and Uncontrollable Syntactic Constitution
4.2 Human Distinction Compromised
4.2.1 Apparitional Images
4.2.2 A Heroic Pattern Botched
4.2.3 Death of Man: Normalized, Unlamented and Aestheticized
4.3 Man Stripped Down towards Animality
4.3.1 Resemblance to Animals
4.3.2 Deformity and Abnormality
4.3.3 Juxtaposition and Conflation
4.3.4 Impaired Language Ability
4.3.5 Prey to Animals
4.4 Crushed Ambition to Lord It Over
4.4.1 Insurmountable Nature
4.4.2 The Indomitable Other
4.4.3 Evil Man
4.5 Man Denied Freedom of Choice
Chapter 5 Conclusion
Bibliography
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