田纳西·威廉斯戏剧中父亲的在场与缺席

出版时间：2010-12  出版社：梁超群 三联书店上海分店 (2010-12出版)  作者：梁超群  页数：255  
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内容概要

　　《田纳西?威廉斯戏剧中父亲的在场与缺席》中作者集中研究了威廉斯的四部经典戏剧作品《玻璃动物园》、《欲望号街车》、《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》以及《蜥蜴之夜》。全书以这四部作品中父亲形象的在场或缺席为切入点，力图全面系统地探讨梳理威廉斯戏剧中的救赎理想、这种救赎理想的发展轨迹、以及这种理想变化的社会、文化和哲学背景，分别从存在主义、尼采的“酒神计划”、美国实用主义、和哈贝马斯的交往理性信念这四个不同角度，细致解读威廉斯的四大剧作，揭示这四大剧作内在的发展轨迹。《田纳西?威廉斯戏剧中父亲的在场与缺席》强调各部剧作之间的重大思想差异，并努力分析了这种变化的深层社会文化和意识形态原因。

作者简介

梁超群，1966年生，英语语言文学博士，华东师范大学英语系副教授，主攻方向为戏剧、文化与翻译研究、英语教学研究。曾兼任《上海学生英文报》执行主编，现兼任《外语教学理论与实践》编辑部主任。

书籍目录

序Acknowledgements中文题要AbstractIntroductionⅠ. Timeless Oedipal revoltsⅡ. Social Oedipal revolutions since the mid-19th centuryⅢ. Hopes of redemptionⅣ. Tennessee Williams as a modernist dramatistⅤ. Tennessee's complex relationship with his own father C. C.Ⅵ. The father in Williams' theatreChapter 1  The Glass Menagerie: The Post'Patricide Existential AnarchyⅠ. Timeless Oedipal revoltsⅡ. The disjointed world as a result of the absence of the fatherⅢ. Absence of the father as an expression of bitter disillusionmentChaoter 2  A Streetcar Named Desire: The Dead Father as a Toxic LegacyⅠ. Blanche's visitation and her tragic endingⅡ. Return of the dead father and his re-death——a metaphorical readingⅢ. Cultural significance of the father's loss: decline of the degraded Apollonian rule and the old EuropeChapter 3  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: The Glorious Comeback of the Father as a Tribute to American PragmatismⅠ. Maggie——the Cat on the hot tin roofⅡ. Brick——the melancholic princeⅢ. The father's saving grace and the "brick-wall-breaking operation"Ⅳ. A dramatized tribute to King Big Daddy and his AmericaChapter 4  The Night of the Iguana : Communication and Mutual Help Replacing the Quest for the FatherⅠ. Everyone is hell and is in hellⅡ. Everyone can be someone's angelⅢ. Williams' attempt to liquidate his old selfⅣ. Communicative rationality as the saving grace right at handⅤ. Dethroned father figure integrated into the cycle of redemptionConclusionBibliography