都市空间与文化想象:德莱塞小说中女工形象的文化表征 内容简介

　　在德莱塞的小说中，都市女工们试图通过自身努力进行自我型塑，她们的身份建构过程反映了20世纪初各种文化力量在都市空间的交汇、融合、矛盾与冲突。《都市空间与文化想象：德莱塞小说中女工形象的文化表征》以文化再现理论为视角，采用文本细读法，结合时代背景，探讨了德莱塞对20世纪初女性走出家庭、进入劳动力市场的看法，以及他对美国社会、文化所作的批判性思考，具有较高的理论研究价值和一定的社会现实意义。

都市空间与文化想象:德莱塞小说中女工形象的文化表征 目录

Introduction
Chapter One The Space for Consumption and the Commodification of Self-Image in Sister Carrie
Chapter Two The Decline of "True Woman" and the Moral Dilemma of the City in Jennie Gerhardt
Chapter Three Conflicting Desires and the Disillusionment of the American Dream in An American Tragedy 1
Conclusion
Works Cited

都市空间与文化想象:德莱塞小说中女工形象的文化表征 节选

　　《都市空间与文化想象：德莱塞小说中女工形象的文化表征》：　　The dawning of consumer culture and its affiliated institutions,like advertising and the department store, changed American economic patterns and social mentality, two transformations that occasioned the rise of the value ofimage. As an entirely new way oflife, consumerism rested on commodity exchange and consumption. To promote selling, commercial institutions, like advertisements and department stores,assumed roles as ideological apparatus in that they co-authored a whole set of values to encourage material possession. The impact of image operates within the broad framework of consumerism and bears intrinsic relationship to two cultural-economic institutions: the advertisement and the department store.　　The last two decades of the nineteenth century were marked by the burgeoning of consumerism, a modern lifestyle coming to full strength around the middle of the twentieth century. Advertisements created and promoted exciting images of commodities to stimulate or even invent desires to buy. The skillful commodity display in various shops, especially in department stores, made every effort to present the commodities as desirable and appealing and encouraged people to "possess" them,albeit at a certain price. The visual feast that shopping centers provided placed commercial transaction under the cloak ofinnocent pleasure and manipulated people to desire the act ofpurchasing.　　……

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