从新历史主义视角解读《觉醒》的历史必然性.pdf

河北大学
硕士学位论文
从新历史主义视角解读《觉醒》的历史必然性
姓名:闵洁
申请学位级别:硕士
专业:英语语言文学
指导教师:秦明霞
2010-11
摘要
摘要
美国女性主义文学创作先驱凯特·肖邦于 1899 年出版了她的传世之作也是最后一
部长篇小说《觉醒》。小说自诞生之日起便引起了新闻界和文学评论界的广泛争论,分
歧不断。由于这部小说的主题触及到了当时最为敏感的问题,并且其所表达的观点远远
超越了当时的社会价值观,致使这部力作在面世之初便遭到众多非议。
论文除了引言和结论之外分为三个章节,引言介绍了国内外关于小说《觉醒》的评
论以及论文的基本框架。第一章在一开始详细阐述了新历史主义理论,又从政治、经济、
社会意识等方面分析了小说产生的原因。第二章从分析肖邦和艾德娜的生活环境着手,
试图找到两个人生活经历的相似性,进而对《觉醒》由肖邦创作是历史必然的原因进行
解释说明。第三章主要分析了小说《觉醒》的影响,并对于其在美国社会和家庭中所产
生的影响进行了详细的阐述说明。
对这部小说的研究更深层次的意义在于它是对人性在人类社会发展过程中演化的
一种反思,同时亦可以引导大家回到作者身处的那个时代去重新体味她所经历的那种为
现代女性难以想象和承受的心灵苦难。事实上作者的思想就如那坚冰之下的烈火,一旦
烈火融化掉周围的坚冰,它必将旧有的社会制度化为灰烬。通过对小说的历史背景以及
小说所产生的社会效应的研究,本文将帮助大家再一次步入肖邦的世界,再一次去感受
存在于那个时代的所有痛苦。

关键词新历史主义觉醒必然性新女性
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Abstract
Abstract
Kate Chopin, a pioneer of feminist writers in America, finished her masterpiece and last
novel The Awakening in 1899. The novel attracted the whole nation‟s attention over one night
and generated great controversy as soon as it was published. The theme of the novel touched
upon the most sensitive problems and went far beyond people‟s concept of value at that time,
therefore, the immediate response to this great novel was overwhelmingly negative.
This thesis posed of three chapters besides introduction and conclusion. Some
criticisms about the novel and the frame of this thesis are introduced in the introduction. In
Chapter One, the New Historicism theory will be introduced in detail in the first place. In the
following, the thesis will concentrate on the problems of political condition, social economy
and social consciousness to analyze the reasons of the novel‟s creation. In Chapter Two, by
analyzing the living conditions of Chopin and Edna, the thesis tries to find out some
similarities between them, and then the paper will explain why The Awakening created by
Chopin is a historical necessity. Chapter Three concentrates on analyzing the influence of this
novel, and explains its impacts on the American society and Amer