自我奋斗者的话语——《了不起的盖茨比》的新历史主义解读

The Discourse of the Self-Made Man——A New Historical Reading of The Great Gatsby

本文对菲茨杰拉德的小说《了不起的盖茨比》进行了新历史主义解读。作者认为这篇小说传播了它被创作的那个时代占主导地位的自我奋斗者的话语:美国任何贫穷的男孩,只要他有良好的个人品质,都能够到达经济世界的顶峰。同时,《了不起的盖茨比》包含自我奋斗者话语中的一个核心矛盾:自我奋斗者的话语声称向所有有抱负和有毅力的人打开美国的史册,使其"榜上有名",然而同时却弥漫着"逃逸"历史,超越时间、地点和人类局限等历史现实的欲望。

The New Historical Reading of Fitzgerald＇s novel The Great Gatsby has been talked about in the essay. The author argues that the novel circulates one of the dominant discourses of the period in which it was written： the discourse of the self-made man, which held that any poor boy in America, if he had the right personal qualities, could rise to the top of the financial world. At the same time, The Great Gatsby embodies one of the central contradictions of the discourse of the self-made man： although this discourse claims to open the annals of American history to all those who have the ambition and perseverance required to make their mark, the discourse is permeated by the desire to escape history, to transcend the historical realities of time, place, and human Limitation.