【作者】 徐燕；

【导师】 刘天伦；

【作者基本信息】 南昌大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2007， 硕士

【副题名】透视杰西·科辛斯基的作品阐释后现代语境中存在的确定性与不确定性

【摘要】 主题及论题陈述：杰西·科辛斯基(1933-1991)是波兰裔美国当代著名的后现代主义作家之一。他的人生和作品都充满传奇色彩，由此引起对他作品研究的重要性。本文旨在分析他的成名作《走到那里》中所体现的后现代语境下存在的不确定性问题。当今，我们生活在充满“后”主义的时代中，例如后工业时代，后核能时代和后女性主义时代，后分析哲学时代，但首先是置于后现代主义当中。在后现代语境下，存在是具体的，是反本质主义的表现。后现代主义的影响之一就是事物的不确定性，包括了人类存在的不确定性，而存在的不确定性在文学领域中的表现和响应以多种形式出现并成为必要的研究对象。因为在后现代社会中，一切事物都被隐喻化、标签化和象征化了。这部高水准的政治讽刺中篇小说《走到那里》于1979年被改编成剧本搬上银幕，荣获多项电影界奖项，将后现代语境下难以捉摸的存在性生动地呈现在观众面前。科辛斯基坚信被后现代所标签化的事物对作品创造和知识文化界的影响越来越深远。而科辛斯基的一生和作品都充满着不确定性，对杰西·科辛斯基的代表作品《走到那里》的探究不仅有助于我们理解小说的价值，而且也有利于我们对后现代所标签化社会中不断改变的存在境遇有着深入的理解。选题依据及研究方法：杰西·科辛斯基的代表作品《走到那里》享誉重要的国际地位。《走到那里》对美国大众传媒文化的不现实性和政治进行了比任何时期都强烈的讽刺。现代社会中存在的问题是人类思想和行动中较为广泛和复杂的问题之一。该主题也正是大量现代文学作品所强调的重点。存在问题微妙地与其他方面的人文性相交织，如自我和社会，伦理和宗教以及人生主张等。由于该问题和人文学科、文学以及文学理论密切相连，所以将存在的不确定性定为硕士论文的主题有重大的研究意义。步骤及主要内容：第一章为引言部分，主要介绍本研究的主题、意义、选题依据和研究方法，综述了国外对杰西·科辛斯基的研究现状、主要确立研究的主题，指明选题依据以及研究方法和途径。第二章主要介绍杰西·科辛斯基的传奇多彩人生经历和所经受的二战时期的劫难，并重点讲述了科辛斯基以波兰犹太裔身份移民至美国，最终成功地融入美国主流社会，成为著名作家的特殊文人背景。第三章从圣经原型文学和经典文学角度解析文本，阐述了大众传媒理论和政治及社会学对作品的影响。第四章主要从萨特和海德格尔存在主义哲学角度解析小说文本的颠覆性以及开放性。第五章分别从七个次主题探究该小说中表现的存在的确定性与不确定性问题。第六章是结论和展望部分，简要总结本文的观点以及本研究的局限性和进一步研究的方向。更多还原

【Abstract】 Issue and thesis statement: Jerzy Kosinski (1933-91) is one of the most famous Polish-American writers in postmodern literary field. His life and works are full of legendary appeal and invite serious research. This dissertation committed to interpret the indeterminacy of existence in postmodern context through Jerzy Kosinski’s notable novella Being There. Nowadays, we are living amidst the "Posts". It is a postindustrial era, a post-nuclear period, post-feminism, post analytical philosophy, and above all postmodernism. In postmodern context, existence is idiographic and becomes the representation of anti-essentialism. One effect of such movements is the uncertainty of things, including the uncertainty of human existence, which is manifested and responded in many forms and necessitates investigations in literary sphere, since all things have been metaphorized, labeled and symbolized in postmodern society. Being There as a superior political satiric fiction transferred by its author into a popular movie with honored movie awards both home and abroad, presents a vivid example for the elusive existence in postmodern context. It is believed by the author that since the concepts labeled with post become increasingly influential both in creative works and intellectual community, and since both Kosinski’ life and works are full of indeterminacies, a research into Kosinski’s representative work, Being There, will contribute remarkably not only to our understanding of the literary value of the work in question, but also our understanding of and effective response to the changing situation of our existence affected by movements labeled with post.Rationale and methodology: Jerzy Kosinski’s most distinguished work—Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. Being There is a brilliantly satiric look at the unreality of American media culture and politics that is, if anything, more trenchant now than ever. The theme of existence in the modern world is a vast and complex area of human thought and behavior. It has been one of the essential focuses, or to say underlying forces of quite amount of modern literary works. It has also been intricately involved with other aspects of humanity: self and society, morality and religion, life affirmation. In consideration of its relevance to humanity, literature as well as literary criticism, it will be fruitful and helpful to set it as the theme of my planned dissertation.Organization and major contents:Chapter 1: Introducing the issue, significance, rationale and methodological consideration of this research.Chapter 2: Discussing the legendary colorful experience of Kosinski and his success as a novelist in American mainstream society under the particular literary background of Polish and Jewish identity.Chapter 3: Decoding the biblical and classical implication of the title and text, with more detail analysis from the perspectives of mass media theory and politics and sociology.Chapter 4: Interpreting the subversiveness and openness of the text from the philosophical existentialism of Sartre and Heidegger.Chapter 5: Concentrating on the exploration of the determinacy and indeterminacy of the text from seven subsections.Chapter 6: The last part is conclusion and prospect, which summarizes the most important points the preceding sections of the thesis have made and stresses the implication of the study itself.更多还原