论唯美中的消费——《道连·格雷的画像》浅析

Consumerism in Aestheticism——On The Picture of Dorian Gray

20世纪末,人们开始越来越多地试图从消费和时尚文化的角度去考察王尔德及其唯美主义思想。受此影响,本文分析了19世纪末维多利亚时代崛起的商品消费文化,并且以王尔德的长篇小说《道连.格雷的画像》作为研究对象,着重分析了小说中的商品消费、享乐观以及时间体验,力图从文本和历史之间横亘的属于无意识层面的文化权力来证明文化作为一个意义系统是如何影响着王尔德的主要作品的。

In the late 20th century,more attention was paid to the study of consumerism hidden in Oscar Wilde＇s works and his aestheticism. Influenced by these thoughts, this article focuses on the appearance of the consumer culture in the late 19th century,and by analyzing the commodity consuming,hedonism and notion of time in Wilde＇s long novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, to tell readers the unconscious penetration of consumer culture in Oscar Wilde＇s main works.