后现代主义视角下《白噪音》中的精神危机分析工商管理专业.docx

后现代主义视角下《白噪音》中的精神危机分析 Abstract This paper aims to analyze people’s spiritual crisis by using postmodern narrative theory. White Noise is the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, and it is also an excellent example of postmodern literature. In this book, spiritual crisis is an important theme. This paper will help readers to understand characters deeply, and it can also make further efforts to reflect the contemporary social situation through researching on the spiritual crisis. At the same time, by researching on human’s obsessions with material life, selfishness or indifferent between people and people and even people’s wondering attitude to modern lifestyle to explain the following three questions: from the perspective of postmodern narrative, which parts can show the spiritual crisis and how? Why the spiritual crisis continues to exist in the modern life and how to face the crisis? The fragmentation writing style of postmodern is can also help people to understand Don DeLillo’s attitude to real society and spiritual crisis. This study has a significance on reflecting people’s spiritual state, and exposing the causes of the crisis. It is benefit to learn a series of modern society problems, especially in spiritual crisis, and to provide ideas and solutions for information. 摘要 本文旨在用后现代主义叙述理论，研究《白噪音》中人类所面临的精神危机问题。《白噪音》是美国作家唐·德里罗的第八部小说，它也是后现代文学的优秀代表作品之一。在这本书中，精神危机这一主题贯穿始终。通过对这一主题进行分析，不仅能够更加深入的理解小说中人物的性格，也能够进一步反映当今社会现状。同时，本文通过研究书中人物对物质生活的偏执，人与人之间的冷漠和自私以及人物对现代生活方式的迷茫来回答以下三个问题，即在后现代主义视角下，文中的哪些地方体现了精神危机这一主题以及如何体现的？它之所以会持续存在于现代生活中的根源是什么，以及人们应该如何妥善面对这种危机？后现代主义固有的碎片化的写作风格，也能帮助人们了解唐·德里罗对现实社会和精神危机的态度。这项研究对于反应当代社会人类的精神现状，深刻揭露造成精神危机的根源具有重要意义，并且也有助于人们更深入地了解当今社会存在的诸多问题，尤其是精神危机问题，为妥善解决当前的社会问题提供思路。 关键词：《白噪音》，唐·德里罗，精神危机，后现代叙事 Key words: White Noise, Don DeLillo, spiritual crisis, postmodern narrative Contents Abstract 1 摘要 2 Contents 3 Chapter 1 Introduction 4 Chapter 2 Literature Review 8 2.1 Previous studies on White Noise abroad 8 2.1.1Studies on the consumption theme 8 2.1.2 Studies on postmodern narrative 9 2.1.3 Studies on environmental ecology 10 2.2 Previous studies on White Noise at home 11 2.2.1 Studies on the postmodern narrative 12 2.2.2 Studies on the ecological awareness 14 2.3 For the further studying 15 Chapter 3 Theoretic Foundation 16 Chapter 4 Analysis of the symptom of spiritual crisis in White Noise from the postmodern narrative 19 4.1 Symptom of spiritual crisis in White Noise 19 4.1.1 Panic in the symbol of white color 19 4.1.2 Absurdity in absurd plots 21 4.1.3 Super reality in postmodern parody 22 4.2 Causes of spiritual crisis 23 4.2.1 Consciousness of Death in White Noise 23 4.2.2 Selfishness and Indifference in White Noise 25 Chapter 5 Conclusion 27 5.1 Major Findings 27 5.2 Limitations and Prospects 27 References: 29 Chapter 1 Introduction This paper focuses on the postmodern idea from the perspective of postmodern narrative, and firstly this paper based on the text to research how the author described modern society and what the author described, and then through closing-reading to research the reason. Previous studies also analyzed White Noise from the postmodern narrative theory, but among of them just research the postmodern narrative skills of Don DeLillo and they ended their paper with some social phenomenon, but seldom mentioned the reason that causes the social problems. They put a lot focus on how the author writes the book by using postmodern narrative skills, but not why the author use postmodern narrative skills. This paper stressed that Don DeLillo aims to express spiritual crisis by using some special postmodern narrative skills. At the same time, the postmodern narrative skills, such as absurd narrative, fragmentation writing form can also express people’s confusion and other spiritual conditions intuitively. In this paper, this paper will study on the spiritual crisis of White Noise from the perspective of postmodern narrative. During the process, this paper will collect data and use close-reading method to analyze. Don DeLillo is another famous postmodernist after Thomas Pynchon and William Gaddis (Yang, 2003). White Noise is an understanding book written by him. Don DeLillo won the National Book Award in America by this book, which has been honored as literary canon since it is published. White Noise tells a story about a university professor Gladney’s family, this book is divided into three parts: Waves and Radiation, The Airborne Toxic Event, Dylarama. It refers to all kinds of problems that existed in the modern society, such as crimes, religious problems, ecological problems. These problems are influencing modern society and people’s daily life. Also in modern times, material life becomes more and more important for people, while the human’s ideology is changing. The ideology is usually overlooked by people, the relationships between persons become more and more indifferent. So I want to research the theme of spiritual crisis in this paper.