從空間敘事角度分析歡樂之家中麗莉巴特悲劇的必然性

1、南京財經(jīng)大學碩士學位論文從空間敘事角度分析《歡樂之家》中麗莉·巴特悲劇的必然性姓名：呂曉鶴申請學位級別：碩士專業(yè)：英語語言文學_指導教師：趙慧珍2011-01-07I Abstract Edith Wharton is a famous American woman writer around the turn of the 20th century. Most of her works are set in Old New

2、York, where she was born and brought up, and depict the real situation of women in upper-class society at that time. In 1905, the publication of The House of Mirth brings Edith Wharton considerable fame and establishes h

3、er position in American literary circles. Lily Bart, the heroine, lives in upper-class society of Old New York with a goal of pursuing a rich husband. However, because of the scandals of “accepting money from a man” and

4、“having affairs with a married man”, Lily Bart is utterly discredited and abandoned by upper-class society and dies pathetically in the end. Thus “Lily Bart’s tragic fate” is an important theme of the novel. This thesis

5、attempts to make a study of that theme from the perspective of space narration and how space participates in the narration of Lily Bart’s tragic fate. The thesis is divided into five parts. The introduction is mainly a

6、survey of Edith Wharton’s prestigious standing in American literary circles, her significant writings and the theory of space narration. Chapter One discusses the relationship between physical space and Lily Bart’s trag

7、ic fate. Physical space, made up of geographical space — Old New York — and scenic space, belongs to objective space. Lily Bart has lived in Old New York and is restricted in territorial scope. In addition, Old New York

8、also imposes impacts on Lily Bart by the unique political and economic characteristics. Through analysis of the promotion and interaction of the concrete scenic space, such as means of transportation, the garden and the

9、salon space, this thesis reveals Lily Bart’s inevitable tragic fate step by step. Chapter Two expounds the relationship between social space and Lily Bart’s tragic fate. The houses in which Lily Bart has lived are class