美国后现代主义小说详解

章节摘录

　　"The Absurd Social Reality," the first part of this chapter, discussesthe theme of Hellers novels: the absurdity and corruption of Americanruling bloc, the confusion and madness in American society. Through thedescription of the war, Catch-22 as the epic of the 1960s indirectlyrepresents a mad world and exposes the corrupt nature of the collusion ofbureaucrats with capitalists and their crimes of bringing endless sufferingand death to ordinary people in American society while Closing Time asthe sequel of Catch-22 directly represents the indulgence of Catch-22 inwanton massacre or persecution in the 1990s, in which it has causedhuman beings and itself to go towards the closing time——-death.　　"The Grotesque Fictional World," the second part, dissertates on theimportant role played by postmodernist techniques such as black humor,language games （including the ambiguity of words, the contradiction ofthe paradox type, and discontinuity）, and the tendency of popularization indeepening the themes of novels. Black humor prominently represents theabsurdity of the world around the characters and the social oppressionupon individuals, manifests　the mutual inconsistcntness　betweenenvironment and individual （namely, the self） with a sneering attitude,magnifies,　distorts　and deforms　the phenomena of the mutualinconsistentness so as to make them absurd and ridiculous, and therebyhelps man acquire a kind of spiritual extrication. Postmodemism considersthat everything is uncertain and that there is not any transcendental orobjective meaning in the world. Writing is only the writers introspectiveprocess of symbolization, that is, a kind of information that indicates itself,expecting to gradually establish its own meaning in the process ofexploring the writing itself. Value roots in invention and meaning isproduced in the differences of the language signs, that is, it is the effect ofthe permutation and combination of language signs.

前言

　　A StudyofAmerican Postmodernist Fiction by Professor Chen Shidanhas eventually met the readers. This is a monograph in English which canbe used as a textbook of American Postmodernist Fiction， a course ofundergraduates and postgraduates of English major in our colleges anduniversities. Because it is the first English textbook of this course， itspublication has an unusual meaning.　　Since the publication of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller in 1961， theAmerican postmodernist fiction has been continually developing for morethan 40 years up to the present. Many famous postmodernist works offiction have already entered the classrooms of American colleges anduniversities and have become the books that graduate students must read.Since 1996， the Translations Press in Nanjing has published "A Series ofAmerican Postmodernist Novels，" translated and introduced more than 10masterpieces. But the textbooks of intensive reading and extensive readingfor the college students of English major in our country have not yetincluded the original texts of American postmodemist fiction. Though afew English departments of colleges and universities have set up thecourse American Postmodernist Fiction， the teachers and students arepuzzled for having no appropriate textbooks. A Study of AmericanPostmodernist Fiction by Professor Chen Shidan has duly met the need ofteaching for English graduate students.

内容概要

　　陈世丹，文学博士，中国人民大学外国语学院和文学院教授，英美文学、西方文论和西方文化方向博士生和硕士生导师。全国英国文学学会常务理事。厦门大学博士研究生毕业，获博士学位；美国哈佛大学访问学者；美国耶鲁大学美国学方向东亚学者研究班毕业。1995年以来主持完成省、部级科研项目5项、国家社会科学基金项目1项“美国后现代主义小说主题与艺术手法论”（97CWW004），目前正在主持进行国家社会科学基金项目“美国作家库尔特·冯内古特研究”（06BWW017）。已出版各类著作《冯内古特的后现代主义小说艺术》（英文版，2009）、《美国后现代主义小说精读》（英文版，2009）、《虚构亦真实》（2005）、《美国后现代主义小说艺术论》（2002）等15部；发表国家核心期刊学术论文《：一种诗性的语言结构》、《论中熵、多义性和不确定性的迷宫》（2007）、《论后现代主义小说之存在》（2005）等50多篇。

书籍目录

Preface　　/ 1Directions for Teaching　　/ 1The Abbreviations of the Works Titles　　/ 1Chapter I　The Aesthetic Dimensions of Postmodernist Fiction　　/ 1A. The Core Concepts of Postmodernist Thought　　/ 1B. The Evolvement of Fiction： Realism-Modernism-Postmodernism　　/ 4C. The Aesthetic Dimensions of Postmodemist Fiction　　/ 81. Metafiction　　/ 82. Anti-genre　　/ 183. Language Games and the Readers Interpretation　　/ 214. Tendency towards Popularization　　/ 255. Parody， Collage， Montage， Black Humor， and Labyrinth　　/ 276. Language Subject， Fragmented Narrative， Shifting Signifiers， and Writing Zero　　/ 38Chapter 2　The Deconstructive and Reconstructive Tendencies ofPostmodernism in Snow White　　/ 53A. The Deconstructive Tendency of Postmodernism　　/ 551. Indeterminacy　　/ 552. Fragmentation　　/ 573. Decanonization　　/ 604. Selflessness and Depthlessness　　/ 645. The Unpresentable and the Unrepresentable　　/ 70B. The Reconstructive Tendency of Postmodernism　　/ 721. Irony　　/ 722. Hybridization　　/ 753. Carnivalization　　/ 774. Performance and Participation　　/ 795. Constructionism　　/ 816. Immanence　　/ 82Chapter 3　The Absurd Social Reality and the Grotesque Fictional World in Cateh-22 and Closing Time　　/ 90A. The Absurd Social Reality　　/ 901. The Catch-22 in the 1960s　　/ 902. The Catch-22 in the 1990s　　/ 95B. The Grotesque Fictional World　　/ 991. Black Humor　　/ 1002. Language Games　　/ 1063. The Tendency towards Popularization　　/ 112Chapter 4　The Nonlinear Narrative， the Death of the Author， and Black Humor in Slaughterhouse.Five　　/ 117A. The Combination of the Significant Theme and the Innovative Form　　/ 119B. The Nonlinear Narrative　　/ 1241. Combining History with Imagination　　/ 1242. Combining Reality with Fantasy　　/ 1293. Combining the Diachronic with the Simultaneous　　/ 133C. The Death of the Author　　/ 138D. Black Humor　　/ 146Chapter 5　The Labyrinth Composed of Entropy， Polysemy and Indeterminacy in The Crying of Lot 49　 / 152A. Entropy　　/ 1551. Demon and Oedipa　　/ 1562. Entropy and the Society　　/ 1603. Entropy and Information　　/ 164B. Polysemy　　/ 170C. Indeterminacy　　/ 174Chapter 6　The Comic Nightmare and the Dishevelled Structure in Second Skin　　/ 182A. The Comic Nightmare　　/ 1841. The Comic Elements　　/ 1852. The Nightmarish Elements　　/ 205B. The Dishevelled Structure　　/ 2111. The Unsymmetrical Space　　/ 2122. The Discontinuous Time　　/ 2143. The Blanks　　/ 218C. Metafiction　　/ 220Chapter 7　The Transcendental Realities and the Unusual Techniques in Pale Fire　　/ 227A. The Transcendental Realities　　/ 2291. The Subjective Reality　　/ 2302. The Imaginative Reality　　/ 2313. The Consciousness of Death　　/ 2324. Solitude　　/ 2345. Alienation　　/ 236B. The Unusual Techniques　　/ 2401. Intertextuality　　/ 2422. Parody　/ 2513. A Game of Worlds　　/ 254Chapter 8　The Parody of Philosophical Texts and Metafiction in The End of the Road　　/ 268A. The Parody of Philosophical Texts　　/ 2691. The Parody of Existentialism　　/ 2702. The Parody of Freudianism　　/ 281B. Metafiction　　/ 292Chapter 9　The Literary Code of Postmodernism in The Public Burning　　/ 301A. What Is a Literary Code?　　/ 302B. The Semantic Characteristics of the Literary Code of Postmodernism　　/ 3051. The Prominent and Very Frequently Used Lexemes　　/ 3052. The Prominent Semantic Fields　　/ 306C. The Syntactic Characteristics of the Literary Code of Postmodernism　　/ 3111. The Characteristics of the Sentence Structures　　/ 3122. The Characteristics of the Text Structures　　/ 317Glossary　　/ 336Bibliography　　/ 342The Readings for the Study of American Poslanodernist Fiction　　/ 357Postscript　 / 361

作者简介

《美国后现代主义小说详解(英文版)》以一篇篇经典的代表性作品为具体例证，系统阐述了后现代主义在小说解构、重构、元小说、反体栽、语言游戏、戏仿、拼贴、蒙太奇、迷宫、黑色幽默、零散叙事、滑动能指、零度写作、通俗化倾向、后现代主义文学代码的语义学和句法学特点等方面的艺术特征。它将后现代主义理论探讨与小说文本分析相结合，将小说主题思想讨论和艺术风格分析相结合，全方位地把握其发展脉络和社会影响，使读者能对美国后现代主义小说有一个深刻而全面的认识。

该书可用作我国高等院校英语语言文学专业本科生和研究生“美国后现代主义小说研究”课程教材，同时亦面向高校文学院外国文学专业本科生和研究生、从事文学批评和文艺理论研究的学者，以及广大外国文学爱好者等。

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