论卡森·麦卡勒斯小说中人的局限性.pdf

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硕士学位论文


On Man’s Limitation in Carson McCullers’ Novels
论卡森·麦卡勒斯小说中人的局限性


作者： 吕文婷

指导教师： 刘国清
一级学科：外国语言文学
二级学科：英语语言文学
研究方向：美国现当代小说
学位类别：学术硕士

东北师范大学学位评定委员会
2018 年 5 月
Abstract

Carson McCullers who is one of the most distinguished southern writers in
America of the 20th century has a far-reaching influence on the American modern
literature. Tennessee Williams praised her as a “miracle worker” and . Pritchet
described her as an “incomparable storyteller”. Most of her works had been adapted
to popular plays which won her several Donald awards and the New York Drama
Critics’ Circle Award. Characterized by the setting of the southern town and
characters with obvious physical and mental incapacity, McCullers’ works disclose
the social malady and predicaments of man’s existence under the modern civilization
of America through her circumstantial description of those characters’ daily life and
ambivalent psychological activities.
This thesis employs Heidegger’s existentialist theory, mainly based on his
magnum opus, Being and Time, to delve into McCullers’ philosophical ideas about
man’s existence and the issue of man’s limitation in her five novels, namely The
Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of Sad Café, The Member of the Wedding,
Reflections in a Golden Eye and Clock Without Hands.
The thesis is divided into three chapters