暴力与消解——《嘉莉妹妹》文本内外的话语博弈

Violence and Dissolution: Discursive Gaming in and out of Sister Carrie

从新历史主义"文本是话语竞争、角力场所"理念入手,分析小说《嘉莉妹妹》文本内外话语博弈生态,即参与博弈的主要话语的内涵及其蕴含的等级关系;认为德莱塞在话语博弈过程中,出于维护自身身份利益的需要,对社会达尔文主义进行了重构,并采用暧昧的手法颠覆传统道德观,借以消解主流意识形态的话语暴力。

In thelight ofthe Neo-Historicist idea that“the text is a field where discourses compete against one another”,the essay explores the discursive ecology existing in and out of Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie by analyzing the connotations of the main discourses involved in the game and their hierarchical relationships.In hisdiscursive gaming,Dreiser safeguards his own identity interests and dissolutes the discursive violence of the main-stream ideologies,by reconstructingthe Social-Darwinist interpretation of success and using ambiguous methods to overthrow traditional moral standards.These findings will help enrich understandings of the novel and the contemporary American society and culture.