现代西方人的精神荒原-后现代主义视角下的《更多的人死于心碎》_英语论文

On the Spiritual Wasteland of the Westerners in More Die of Heartbreak from the Perspective of Post-modernism 

摘要

《更多人死于心碎》是美国作家索尔贝娄的作品，它并不为人们所熟知。迄今为止, 国内外有关贝娄及其作品的各种评论层出不穷, 但研究重点主要集中在对《赫索格》及《勿失良辰》等最主要的代表作品的主题、技巧及人物分析上, 而对充分展示了其后现代主义特色的优秀作品《更多的人死于心碎》的研究则相对较少。

本文将采用文献研究的方法，从黑色幽默、讽刺以及文学典故的使用等三个方面来解读小说《更多的人死于心碎》中的后现代主义因素, 旨在反映现代西方人生存的精神荒原。本文着重分析《更多的人死于心碎》这部小说中黑色幽默的使用、讽刺以及文学典故的使用, 进而论述作品的后现代主义因素，以及他们是如何表达后现代主义思想的。

通过对后现代小说的分析可以帮助读者更好的阅读后现代主义作品，加深对其的认识，促进后现代文学在社会中的普及与应用。而且，后现代的研究可以帮助作家更好的把握后现代的写作手法，在写作时能灵活的运用这些手法从而推动后现代主义文学的发展。最后，本文有助于加深读者对当前社会的理解，由于现今大多数后现代主义作品都表现出批判社会的态度，并且后现代主义将我们所处的客观社会看为一个无理性的混乱的充满愤世嫉俗与怀疑的社会，这将在一定程度上起到催人梦醒的作用。

关键词：更多人死于心碎；后现代主义视角；精神荒原

Abstract

More Die of Heartbreak is an unfamous work written by the American writer Saul Bellow. Many papers in and out of china have studied the works of Bellow, but most of them mainly focus on the analysis of the themes, writing skills and the novel characters in his representative and most famous works such as the Herzog and Seize The Day, very few papers have touched the work More Die of Heartbreak which has fully displayed the features of the postmodernism works. 

This paper mainly adopts the literature analysis method to analyze the postmodernism factors of this work through three aspects, namely the usage of black humor, sarcasms, and the literary allusions and the theme of this paper is to reflect the spiritual wasteland of the modern westerners. This paper focuses on the analysis of the usage of black humor, sarcasms, as well as the literary allusions to further analyze the postmodernism factors reflected by this work， and how they reflect the post-modernism ideas. 

This research can help the readers to better appreciate about the postmodernism novels and deepen their understanding about the work and promote the popularity and application of the postmodernism in literature. Besides, the research on postmodernism can help the writers to better master the postmodernism writing techniques through analyzing the writing skills and understanding the writing theory. As a result, the writers can apply these writing skills more flexibly in writing, and in this way, the postmodernism literatures can be pushed forward. At last, the research of postmodernism novels can deepen our understanding about the current society. Since nearly all the current postmodernism works show the critical attitude towards the society. Thus, the postmodernism works which regard our objective world as an unreasonable and chaotic world that is full of cynicism and doubts can wake people up to some extent. 

Keywords: More Die of Heartbreak, postmodernism, spiritual wasteland

Contents

1. Introduction １

2. Literature Review ２

2.1 Related studies abroad ２

2.2 Related studies in china ３

3. The analysis of More Die of Heartbreak from the perspective of post-modernism ３

3.1 The usage of black humor ３

3.2 The sarcasms ５

3.3 The usage of literary allusions ７

3.4 The spiritual wasteland reflected by the post-modernism factors ８

4. Conclusion １０

Works Cited １１