美国南方文学语境中的韦尔蒂《金苹果》研究

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本文关键词：美国南方文学语境中的韦尔蒂《金苹果》研究　出处：《南京师范大学》2014年硕士论文　论文类型：学位论文

【摘要】：尤多拉·韦尔蒂(1909-2001)是20世纪美国最优秀的南方女作家之一。因其在短篇小说创作上的杰出成就,她被公认为美国短篇小说大师。1949年出版的短篇小说集《金苹果》是韦尔蒂本人最为钟爱的作品,也是表现其成熟创作技巧和高超艺术手法的代表作。《金苹果》通过讲述密西西比一个虚构小镇摩根那在近40年里的岁月变迁,刻画了小镇两代人的追求和幻灭,生动地描写了处在分崩离析状态下的美国南方生活,揭示了美国南方神话在城市化、现代化的冲击下的解体,也表现出了作家对20世纪上半期南方社会和南方生活的细致观察和独特理解。鉴于韦尔蒂南方女作家的身份,本文将其短篇小说集《金苹果》置于美国南方文学的语境中,考察其对美国南方文学传统的继承和创新。美国南方文学是美国文学不可或缺的重要组成部分,而南方作家作品的鲜明特色构成了南方文学传统。这些传统包括沉重的历史感、对地域的重视、对种族问题的复杂态度、怀旧情结、哥特和怪诞特色,以及对神话故事和民间传说的使用等等。本文将从女性、家庭、神话这些南方文学最常见的主题和手法方面来解读《金苹果》中体现的南方的变迁,发掘文本中隐含的深层含义。通过文本细读,可以发现《金苹果》中的南方小镇是20世纪上半期整个南方社会的缩影,南方女性神话和家庭神话已成为过去,旧南方已经解体,现代化和城市化在无情地冲击着旧南方的传统和价值观。然而,韦尔蒂并没有沉醉于对南方神话的怀念中,相反,通过小说人物对于自由、独立、爱和自我价值的不懈追求,韦尔蒂相信当代南方人终会找到属于自己的金苹果。
[Abstract]:In 20th century, Yudora Weltig was one of the best southern women writers in the United States for his outstanding work in short stories. She is recognized as the master of American short stories. In 1949, she published a collection of short stories, the Golden Apple, which is Welty's favorite work. It is also a masterpiece of his mature creative skills and superb artistic skills. "the Golden Apple" tells the story of a fictional town in Mississippi, Morgan, that has changed over the last 40 years. It depicts the pursuit and disillusionment of two generations of people in small towns, vividly describes the American Southern life in the state of disintegration, and reveals the disintegration of American Southern mythology under the impact of urbanization and modernization. It also shows the writer's careful observation and unique understanding of the Southern Society and Southern Life in the first half of 20th century. In view of the identity of Welty's southern female writer, this paper puts his short story collection "Golden Apple" in the context of American Southern literature. To investigate its inheritance and innovation to the tradition of American Southern literature, American Southern Literature is an indispensable part of American literature. These traditions include a heavy sense of history, a focus on the region, a complex attitude to racial issues, nostalgia, gothic and grotesque characteristics. And the use of myths and folklore and so on. This paper will interpret the changes of the South embodied in Golden Apple from the aspects of women, family and mythology, which are the most common themes and techniques in Southern literature. It can be found that the southern town in "Golden Apple" is the epitome of the whole southern society in the first half of 20th century. The female myth and family myth of the South have become a thing of the past, and the old South has disintegrated. Modernization and urbanization impinged mercilessly on the traditions and values of the old South. However, Welty did not indulge in nostalgia for Southern mythology, on the contrary, through the novel characters for freedom, independence. In pursuit of love and self-worth, Welty believes that southerners will eventually find their own golden apples.
【学位授予单位】：南京师范大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2014
【分类号】：I712.074

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