用文化产业理论解读《愤怒的葡萄》(英文)

Study on The Grapes of Wrath from Culture Industry Aspect

一直以来,约翰.斯坦贝克的经典小说《愤怒的葡萄》广受关注,众多学者从各个角度对其进行了赏析。本文作者采用西奥多.阿多诺的文化产业理论对作品中"实现美国梦"这一主题进行剖析,从而指出美国梦,文化产业的一种,具有欺骗和独裁的性质。

The Grapes of Wrath,one of John Steinbeck's masterpieces has attracted thousands of critics' attention as time goes by. Different theories have been employed while making comments upon this work. This thesis applies Theodor Adorno's Culture industry criticism to analyze The Grapes of Wrath,through which the author wants to show that American dream,a kind of culture industry,has the characteristics of deceitfulness and manipulation.