乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨的哥特现实主义小说研究

出版时间：2011-10  出版社：苏州大学出版社  作者：刘玉红  页数：213  字数：250000  
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内容概要

　　乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨(JoyceCarol
Oates)是当代美国多产而多才的作家。她的作品中充满了暴力，因而常常被认为是一位哥特小说家。欧茨在小说创作中大量运用各种哥特的技巧，但是，她借鉴哥特传统是服务于其现实主义的创作目的，因此，她的当代哥特小说可界定为“哥特现实主义”。具体而言，这一哥特现实主义关注生活中暴力的一面，它借用传统哥特小说的技巧，赋予其现实的风格与内涵，以此揭露和批评美国社会与文化的种种弊病。它既体现了哥特小说对人性黑暗的关注，又忠于现实主义客观表现生活的创作原则。

作者简介

　　刘玉红，广西师范大学外国语学院院长、博士、教授、硕士研究生导师，中国高等教育学会外国文学专业委员会理事，广西翻译协会常务理事。在《国外文学》《当代外国文学》等刊物上发表论文多篇，出版译著16部，主持国家级和省级课题2项。

书籍目录

Introduction
Chapter 1 Male Killer as the Modern Gothic Hero
 1.1 Society as the Persecutor: The Triumph
of theSpider Monkey
 1.2 Society as the Accomplice:Zombie
Chapter 2 Female Killer as the Modern Gothic Heroine
 2.1 Family Violence and the Female's Split
Personality: The Rise of Life on Earth 80
 2.2 Sexual Violence and the Female's
Mental　Disintegration: Start Bright Will Be with
YouSoon
Chapter 3 Destruction of the American
Family
 3.1 Wealth Craze and Destruction from
Inside: Bellefleur
 3.2 Public Voyeurism and Destruction from
Inside and Outside:American Appetite
Chapter 4　Violence in Social Relations
Conclusion
Works Cited

章节摘录

　　Oates makes it clear that the sexual violence against Sharon happens in ordinary and familiar places， and committed by different men.　The suggestion is obvious:　the crime is not a personal act; it is a "social experience". What is reiterated in Sharon's violent life， as in the traumatized Gotteson and Kathleen， is that society partakes in the vice it is supposed to exterminate.　　As a female serial killer who symbolically “ sucks the blood of other people" ， Sharon might stand as a modern version of the female vampire， one of the most recurrent images in the 19th-century formulaic fiction of the Gothic in which the female rarely becomes a serial killer until she is transformed into a vampire by a male vampire， like Lucy in Dracula （1897） and Camilla in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's namesake novella. Owing to the subtle cultural equation of blood and semen （Hughes 241） ，　the vampire denotes seduction and eroticism.　　Yet for the female vampire， the gender connotation is reversed.　She is inhuman because she is aggressive in sex hinted by her drawing blood from her victims. She is thus a monster and has to be eliminated. For the vampire， however， killing is the only way for her to survive. To solve this deadly dilemma， and to disperse the （male） writer's anxiety about the female's aggressive sexuality， she must die. It is not surprising that female vampires like Lucy and Camilla are destroyed while Dracula， the most famous male vampire in Western literature， lives forever.　　……

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