媒介符号与身体隐喻——村上春树短篇小说《电视人》论

The Codes of Media and the Metaphors of the Body in TV People

《电视人》是村上春树的短篇代表作之一。作品描绘了电子媒介的入侵,以及现代都市人的存在困境。作品中出现书籍、杂志等传统纸质媒介与电视、电话等电子媒介。主人公身处媒体社会,听觉、视觉以及内心感受产生了种种变化。本论文着眼于媒介符号与身体感知的隐喻,分析个人面临电子媒介的入侵时,对外部世界信息产生的焦虑与疏离感,以及逐渐被电子媒介所控制的身体感知。通过文本分析阐明村上春树在电子媒介时代发现新的文学"风景"的创作意图。

TV People, a short novel by Murakami Haruki reveals the existential predicaments of modem urbanites in an elec- tronic-media-dominated era. The author portrays two worlds, a traditional paper world featuring books and magazines, and an electronic world typified by TV, telephone, etc. Immersed in such worlds, the protagonist is transformed in an all-round man- ner, audio-visually and viscerally. The paper presents the sense of alienation and anxiety of individuals evoked by the intrusive information and their gradual perceptual subjugation to such an electronic age through an analysis of metaphors of medium symbols and bodily perception and expounds the author＇s discovery of new vistas for literary creation in a new age.