《世外桃源》中的“仿真”世界

A Study of the “Simulated” World in Out of This World

利用新媒体理论探讨英国当代著名作家格雷厄姆·斯威夫特的小说《世外桃源》中的"仿真"世界。在这个世界中,自然与人为、独创与复制、真实与虚假的界限被完全抹掉了,指涉符号与它所有指涉的事物完全失去了联系,影像、符号和符码成了纯粹的"超真实",即没有原本的摹本。从照片与"仿真"、电视与"仿真"、现实世界中的"仿真"这三个角度来分析作者是如何反映传媒文化泛滥下的当代英国人的价值虚无感。对"仿真"世界的描写表现了作者对当代英国社会文化的忧患意识和批判精神。

Based on the new media theory, this paper explores the a simulated5,world in the novel O u t o f This W o r ld by Graham Swift, a famous contemporary British writer. In the novel, the boundary between natural and artificial, original and reproductive, true and unreal has totally exploded. There is no connection between signifier and signified. Images, symbols and codes work to-gether to compose a a hyper real^ , a real without origin or reality. This paper discusses the “ simulated” world mainly from the aspects of photograph, television and the real world. Swift suggests that living in such a world overwhelmed by media culture, people in modern Britain suffer from a feeling of being at loss and a sense of life nihility. Through this novel, we can see the author’s critical spirit and his crisis awareness towards contemporary society and its culture.