【作者】 李丽；

【导师】 李杨；

【作者基本信息】 山东大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2006， 硕士

【摘要】 作为“南方文艺复兴”时期的后起之秀，尤多拉·韦尔蒂终其一生都生活在美国南方。她目睹了美国南方20世纪以来巨大的社会变革，并从中汲取了她作品的全部素材。她的作品，尤其是短篇小说，是南方文学中的精品。通过对南方家族浮沉及日常琐事的描写，韦尔蒂的作品主要反映了南方传统文化对现代人的消极影响，这使她对南方文化的批判更具现实意义。她没有像有些同期的文人那样对旧南方的已消逝的辉煌进行盲目歌颂或怀旧追思，而是给予冷静自觉的审视，她更关注现代人如何摆脱过去的历史阴影重新面对正在改变的新南方。 本文旨在从南方淑女形象在新南方的瓦解来重新审视旧南方的文化传统。作为南方人心目中整个南方的代表，南方淑女的形象与内战以前的“种植园神话”紧密相连，被定型为家庭中的天使，是所有女性特质的完美化身，其行为严格依照传统的性别道德，被称为男性艺术的最完美的作品。泰特曾断言“与理论和抽象相比，南方社会更倾向于依靠形象理解生活”，而南方的历史是最典型的“男人的故事”。由种植园主精英领导的南方一直维持着联系紧密的社区，所有人都对自身的定位一清二楚。作为南方集体幻想中的重要人物，南方淑女被塑造成毫无现世欲望和个人追求的石像。 对于二十世纪三十年代的南方作家来说，现代思想的出现和传统价值观念的衰退令他们对自己深爱的故土产生了爱恨交错的矛盾心理，并开始进行深刻的反思。作为南方文艺复兴的第二代作家，韦尔蒂广泛接触了现代思想，并开始用批判的眼光审视自己的故乡。她深刻意识到旧世界必须让位于新事物，现代工业及文明不可避免地要带来南方传统社会的分崩离析。此外，出于对南方淑女的同情及其得天独厚的观察视角，韦尔蒂通过对其潜在悲哀性的揭示成功完成了对这个人物形象全面而深刻的解构；基于此，她又进一步建构出了一个社会转型期的南方新女性的形象。通过一组女性人物，韦尔蒂剖析了美国南方自身的缺陷，并完更多还原

【Abstract】 As a promising young writer of Southern Renaissance who anchors herself in the South, Eudora Welty witnesses the tremendous social transformations of the South throughout the 20th century, from which she sucks all the fodder for her fiction. Her works, especially the short stories, are considered as the treasure of Southern literature. Welty’s works mainly concentrate on the ups and downs of the Southern families and the daily triviality, and she intends to expose the great negative influence the Southern culture deals modern Southerners, which enables her critique of Southern culture to have more realistic significance. Being apart from the blindly praise and nostalgic retrospect on the lost cause of some of her contemporaries, Welty turns a sober and self-conscious insight into the South, and further concentrate on how modern Southerners try to break away from the past historical shadow, and face up to the changing New South.This thesis intends to reexamine Southern cultural tradition through tracing back the disintegration of Southern Lady, the representative image identified in the Southern mind with the closed region as a whole. Closely related to the "plantation legend" of ante-bellum South, the Southern Lady has been stereotyped as the angel of family, the complete embodiment of femininity who is supposed to behave in rigid accordance with the conventional sexual morality, the finest productions of masculine art. Tate ascertains that "Southern society ... was ... inclined to see life and history in terms of images rather than according to theory and abstraction." As the most distinguished region whose history is "his story", the South dominated by conservative Planter elites remains the closely-knitted community in which all know their places. Thus the Southern Lady, one important figure in the Southern collective fantasy, is constructed into a revered marble statue without earthly desires and personal pursuit.As for the Southern writers in the 1930s, the emergence of modernism and the decline of traditional values arouse their meditation in the ambivalent emotions toward their beloved homeland. Welty, as the second generation of Southern更多还原