德莱塞作品中的婚外恋情结探析

The Complex about Extramarital Love in Dreiser's Works

德莱塞的作品中体现出的深深的婚外恋情结,一方面是其个人生活的反映,另一方面也折射出美国社会较为流行的实用主义和精英主义两种价值观的冲撞。作为感受自我价值的一个重要途径,他早期的作品对婚外恋的阐释基本处于一种本能无意识阶段;而个人生活经历和早期作品的社会反馈使其开始对婚外恋阐释进入到防御辩护阶段;最终随着文学事业上的成功和社会地位的改变,德莱塞对婚外恋的态度趋于理性和克制,开始回归传统的道德理念步入反思与超越阶段。这些发现有助于深入理解德莱塞作品中婚外恋主题细微的演化路径,也有助于解释作品背后潜藏的社会意识形态斗争和话语关系。

The complex about extramarital love in Dreiser＇s works is the reflection of both his own life experience and the value conflict between pragmatism and elitism. As an important way of feeling his self-value,his interpretation of extramarital love came from a kind of unconscious instinct in his early works,but his personal life experience and the social feedback that his early works received made him defend the complex. Finally,with the success of his literary career and the promotion of his social status,his attitude towards the complex became more rational and restrained. He returned to traditional morals,entering the stage of selfexamination and transcendence. The findings help us understand the evolution of Dreiser＇s complex about extramarital love and interpret the conflict of social ideology and discourse relations behind the literary work.