Being based on Thomas Carlyle's division of "the dandy" and "the drudge" in Sartor Resartus, this article discusses Mr.Bennet and Mr. Gardiner, representatives of the two categories. The dandie...Being based on Thomas Carlyle's division of "the dandy" and "the drudge" in Sartor Resartus, this article discusses Mr.Bennet and Mr. Gardiner, representatives of the two categories. The dandies from the gentry, represented by Mr. Bennet, shatter the aristocratic civilization through their inaction; while the drudges from the rising bourgeoisie, represented by Mr. Gardiner, destroy the aristocratic civilization through their capital and commercial expansion. Their influence, combining with other factors, contributes to the final disintegration of the aristocratic system.展开更多
In The Importance of Being Earnest,Oscar Wilde constructs a dandies’world,in which the persons mock at everything and subvert everything.This research analyzes the dandyish features of the character with the aid of C...In The Importance of Being Earnest,Oscar Wilde constructs a dandies’world,in which the persons mock at everything and subvert everything.This research analyzes the dandyish features of the character with the aid of Charles Baudelaire’s definition of dandy and dandyism,and studies Wilde’s subversion of the preexistent binary oppositions by referring to Jonathan Culler’s interpretation of Jacque Derrida’s deconstruction,and points out that Wilde’s writing in Earnest is a deconstructionist writing.He abandons all the so-called essential matters and only focuses on linguistic surface and comic effect.His stance of dandyism challenges the main-stream social norms at his time and foresees the coming artistic trend.展开更多
Joe Orton’s play What the Butler Saw is featured with a strong sense of carnival.Comparison can be made between the carnivalesque in this play and Rabelaisian carnivalesque life which Bakhtin delineates in Rabelais a...Joe Orton’s play What the Butler Saw is featured with a strong sense of carnival.Comparison can be made between the carnivalesque in this play and Rabelaisian carnivalesque life which Bakhtin delineates in Rabelais and His World.Characters in Orton’s play have ambiguous sexual identities and dubious psychological states,and are unconscious of the desperate life they live.Their pseudo carnivalesque life,in a state of anarchic insanity,suggests Orton’s revolt against the rigid social institutions and his call for genuine mass democracy in the welfare society,nevertheless he is not optimistic about that if considering the religious path he indicates at the end of the play.展开更多
文摘Being based on Thomas Carlyle's division of "the dandy" and "the drudge" in Sartor Resartus, this article discusses Mr.Bennet and Mr. Gardiner, representatives of the two categories. The dandies from the gentry, represented by Mr. Bennet, shatter the aristocratic civilization through their inaction; while the drudges from the rising bourgeoisie, represented by Mr. Gardiner, destroy the aristocratic civilization through their capital and commercial expansion. Their influence, combining with other factors, contributes to the final disintegration of the aristocratic system.
文摘In The Importance of Being Earnest,Oscar Wilde constructs a dandies’world,in which the persons mock at everything and subvert everything.This research analyzes the dandyish features of the character with the aid of Charles Baudelaire’s definition of dandy and dandyism,and studies Wilde’s subversion of the preexistent binary oppositions by referring to Jonathan Culler’s interpretation of Jacque Derrida’s deconstruction,and points out that Wilde’s writing in Earnest is a deconstructionist writing.He abandons all the so-called essential matters and only focuses on linguistic surface and comic effect.His stance of dandyism challenges the main-stream social norms at his time and foresees the coming artistic trend.
文摘Joe Orton’s play What the Butler Saw is featured with a strong sense of carnival.Comparison can be made between the carnivalesque in this play and Rabelaisian carnivalesque life which Bakhtin delineates in Rabelais and His World.Characters in Orton’s play have ambiguous sexual identities and dubious psychological states,and are unconscious of the desperate life they live.Their pseudo carnivalesque life,in a state of anarchic insanity,suggests Orton’s revolt against the rigid social institutions and his call for genuine mass democracy in the welfare society,nevertheless he is not optimistic about that if considering the religious path he indicates at the end of the play.
