Joan Didion is an outstanding female writer who has achieved a distinctive position in contemporary literature.Her second novel,Play It As It Lays,is nominated for a National Book Award.Set in Hollywood and Las Vegas,...Joan Didion is an outstanding female writer who has achieved a distinctive position in contemporary literature.Her second novel,Play It As It Lays,is nominated for a National Book Award.Set in Hollywood and Las Vegas,it presents the alienated world through exquisite description of its protagonist Maria.Based on Erich Fromm’s Alienation Theory,this essay attempts to analyze the alienation in the novel from two aspects:first,the novel’s materialistic environment in the 1960s;second,the alienated relationship between spouses as well as between parents and children.展开更多
基金Acknowledgement： This research is funded by the National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science of China （Reference 14CWW022）, and by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation （Reference 2014M552063）.
文摘Joan Didion is an outstanding female writer who has achieved a distinctive position in contemporary literature.Her second novel,Play It As It Lays,is nominated for a National Book Award.Set in Hollywood and Las Vegas,it presents the alienated world through exquisite description of its protagonist Maria.Based on Erich Fromm’s Alienation Theory,this essay attempts to analyze the alienation in the novel from two aspects:first,the novel’s materialistic environment in the 1960s;second,the alienated relationship between spouses as well as between parents and children.
