优雅的氐惆—古希腊悲剧色彩下《冷血》与《白城恶魔》中善恶的解构

发布时间：2018-06-20 11:21

本文选题：非虚构小说 + 古希腊悲剧　；参考：《西安外国语大学》2017年硕士论文

【摘要】：杜鲁门·卡波特的《冷血》和埃里克·拉森的《白城恶魔》均讲诉了发生在美国的凶杀案,凶案嫌犯都是传统意义上的邪恶人物。他们游离于主流社会之外,象征着美国社会阴暗面。许多学者研究过卡波特和拉森的作品,但是目前未有人将这两人作品与古希腊悲剧思想结合起来探讨。本论文主要通过分析杜鲁门·卡波特《冷血》和埃里克·拉森《白城恶魔》来探讨小说中善恶二元对立的问题。同时本论文也将详细解读卡波特和拉森是如何利用古希腊悲剧传统因素,诸如过失,发现,疏泄以及合唱来构建文本,使小说具有古希腊传统悲剧特色的。立足于这两部非虚构小说的悲剧特点,论文将揭露出两位作者对几位凶犯不同性质“恶”的伦理态度,尤其是作者对待因遭受童年早期悲剧而犯罪的嫌犯的道德情感变化。从两部作品中可以看出,两位作者流露出了如果我们社会机械化地去判断善恶,不去真正了解善恶本质,那么我们人类会丧失共情思想。作为一名著名作家,卡波特对拉森有着巨大影响,拉森也期望创造一部可以与《冷血》相提并论的非虚构性作品。本论文旨在论证出两位作者是如何在古希腊悲剧结构下产生相似性的善恶道德观念。从两位作者的思想观念里,我们可以看出传统的善恶观有些过于绝对。本论文集中于讨论卡波特和拉森是怎样利用古希腊悲剧结构来创作小说,以及他们是如何层层递进解构善恶的二元对立。本论文在前三部分主要介绍这两部小说的普遍性文学评论及文中重要的文学理论框架,借用亚里士多德的悲剧理论有助于揭示两部小说中由作者人为设定出的二元对立,再进一步通过小说精妙的情节与描述去解构这种对立性哲学。杜鲁门·卡波特和埃里克·拉森倾向于在他们作品中建立一种传统观念并擅于找出其中的漏洞和缺陷,这正是批评精神的表现。本论文注重两位作者对善恶二元对立结构消解的文学性过程。
[Abstract]:Truman Capote's Cold Blood and Erik Larson's White City Demons both speak of homicides in the United States, where suspects are traditionally evil. They drifted away from mainstream society and symbolized the dark side of American society. Many scholars have studied the works of Capote and Larsen, but no one has combined them with the tragic thoughts of ancient Greece. By analyzing Truman Capote in Cold Blood and Erik Larson in White City Demon, this thesis explores the duality of good and evil in the novel. At the same time, this thesis will explain in detail how Capote and Larsen make use of the traditional factors of ancient Greek tragedy, such as fault, discovery, catharsis and chorus to construct the text, so that the novel has the traditional tragic characteristics of ancient Greece. Based on the tragic characteristics of these two nonfiction novels, this paper will reveal the ethical attitudes of the two authors towards several murderers with different nature of "evil", especially the moral and emotional changes in the author's treatment of suspects who have committed crimes due to early childhood tragedies. It can be seen from the two works that if our society mechanically judges good and evil and does not really understand the essence of good and evil, then we humans will lose empathy. As a famous writer, Capote has a great influence on Larson, and Larson hopes to create a nonfictitious work which can be compared with Cold Blood. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the two authors produced similar moral concepts of good and evil under the tragic structure of ancient Greece. From the two authors' ideas, we can see that the traditional view of good and evil is too absolute. This thesis discusses how Capote and Larsen used the tragic structure of ancient Greece to create novels and how they gradually deconstructed the binary opposition of good and evil. In the first three parts, this thesis mainly introduces the universal literary criticism and the important literary theoretical framework of the two novels, and draws on Aristotle's tragedy theory to help reveal the binary opposites created by the author in the two novels. Further, deconstruct this kind of antagonistic philosophy through the exquisite plot and description of the novel. Truman Capote and Eric Larson tend to build a traditional idea in their works and be good at finding the loopholes and defects, which is the manifestation of critical spirit. This thesis focuses on the literary process of the two authors' deconstruction of the binary structure of good and evil.
【学位授予单位】：西安外国语大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2017
【分类号】：I712.074

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