解析《美国悲剧》中的炫耀式消费

发布时间：2019-06-21 18:01

【摘要】：西奥多·德莱塞无疑是美国文学史上最具影响力的作家之一。他生活在19世纪末20世纪初由生产型社会向消费型社会转型的美国，因其直白地描述美国人民的真实生活和大胆地揭露美国社会隐藏的问题而享有盛名。作为德莱塞最杰出的作品，《美国悲剧》以一个发生在1906年的真实谋杀案为原型，讲述了在当时的美国社会很普遍的一种罪行：一个满怀抱负的男青年为追求到另一个拥有金钱和地位的漂亮女孩而杀害了自己可怜的女朋友。评论家从很多角度解析了这部作品，比如自然主义，资本主义等。但是结合当时特殊的时代背景，细读文本，我们不难发现整部作品至始至终都弥漫着消费的气息。本文试图运用凡勃伦和鲍德里亚关于经济与社会的理论，从消费文化的角度解读《美国悲剧》，并把重点放在对炫耀式消费的分析上。通过对商品的符号价值，炫耀式消费的心理机制以及消费文化的影响的一一阐释，探究美国人民的生活和思想在消费文化兴起和社会商品化的进程中受到怎样的冲击与改变。现在中国也进入了消费社会，，对《美国悲剧》的研读也为我们思考自己在城市化和商品化道路上的诸多问题提供了一个可借鉴的平台。
[Abstract]:Theodore Dreiser is undoubtedly one of the most influential writers in the history of American literature. He lived in the United States, which was transformed from a productive society to a consumer society at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. He was famous for his bluntly describing the real life of the American people and boldly revealing the hidden problems of American society. As Dreiser's most outstanding work, American tragedy, based on a real murder in 1906, tells of a crime that was common in American society at that time: an aspiring young man killed his poor girlfriend in pursuit of another beautiful girl with money and status. Critics have analyzed the work from many angles, such as naturalism, capitalism and so on. However, combined with the special background of the times and reading the text carefully, it is not difficult to find that the whole work is permeated with the smell of consumption from beginning to end. This paper attempts to interpret American tragedy from the perspective of consumer culture by using Veblen and Baudrillard's theories on economy and society, and focuses on the analysis of conspicuous consumption. Through the explanation of the symbolic value of commodities, the psychological mechanism of conspicuous consumption and the influence of consumer culture, this paper probes into how the life and thought of the American people are impacted and changed in the process of the rise of consumer culture and the commercialization of society. Now China has also entered the consumer society, and the study of American tragedy also provides us with a reference platform for us to think about many problems on the road of urbanization and commercialization.
【学位授予单位】：四川外国语大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2013
【分类号】：I712.06

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