《依存与超越 尤金·奥尼尔隐秘世界后的广袤天空》PDF下载

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  • 作  者:郭勤著
  • 出 版 社:上海:上海译文出版社
  • 出版年份:2010
  • ISBN:9787532752072
  • 页数:295 页
图书介绍:美国剧作家尤金·奥尼尔的成功之作几乎无一例外地都是以“隐秘世界”为背景,即剧中人物或同属一个家庭,或自成同一团体,共同生活在外人不得而知的“蜗居”之中,人物寥少,情节简单,且大多与奥尼尔本人的经历有着千丝万缕的联系。因此,评论界对这种过分沉溺自传性题材的指责曾经一度甚嚣尘上。本著将从奥尼尔剧作中一个个的“隐秘世界”出发,探寻其通向“广袤天空”的路径,在精神、社会和文化三个层面上剖析奥尼尔的创作思路,说明他不仅依存,并且超越了作为其创作素材的自传性经历。

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Exclusive Demesne vs.Spiritual Homeland 1

1.Personality Distorted by Vicissitudes of Belief 3

1.1 An Incongruous Entity—Ephraim Cabot's Spirit of Puritanism and Material Desire 5

1.2 Two Ill-Proportioned Entities—Yank's Spirit of Industrialism and the Worldwide Materialism 12

1.3 Rotten-to-the-Core Entity—Marco Polo's Spirit of Materialism 16

2.Destruction Caused by Betrayal of Force Behind 21

2.1 Betrayal of Religion 22

2.2 Betrayal of Race 27

2.3 Betrayal of Nature 32

2.4 Betrayal of Consanguinity 38

2.5 Betrayal of Sea 47

2.6 Betrayal of Ideal 58

3.Pipe Dream Necessitated by Survival 64

3.1 Dream as the Intermediate Synonym of Illusion and Ideal 65

3.2 Dream for the Past—Recollection 68

3.3 Dream for the Future—Hope 78

Chapter 2 Exclusive Demesne vs.Social Panorama 90

1.Woman Images Defined by Patriarchy 91

1.1 Traditional Women 93

1.1.1 False"New Women" 93

1.1.2 Men's Accessories 99

1.1.3 Ideal Women 112

1.2 Rebellious Women 123

1.3 Destructive Women 137

2.Dehumanized Humans Created by Capitalistic Modernization 155

3.Peripheral Characters Moulded by Multi-National Fusion and Collision 168

3.1 African-Americans 170

3.1.1 Stereotyped Blacks 170

3.1.2 Blacks with Universality 174

3.2 Irish-Americans 184

3.2.1 Stereotyped Irish-Americans 185

3.2.2 Irish-Americans with Universality 189

4.Lost Men Haunted by War Shadow 204

Chapter 3 Exclusive Demesne vs.Cultural Connotation 225

1.Ancient Tragedies Restaged by Modern People 226

2.Multicultural Shock Stimulated by Different Values 247

2.1 Touch of the Poet Corrupted by Stately Mansions 248

2.2 Sensual Desire Oppressed by Life-Denying Puritanism 255

2.3 Strange Interlude Composed Between the Wars 264

Conclusion 280

Bibliography 288