1. 研究目的与意义
don delillo’s white noise, as a postmodernist work, has been hotly discussed since published in 1985 and honoured the america national book award. the novel is considered as the book of the dead for it is based on the author’s thinking of death. it reflects the awareness of death and the efforts of american to refuse to die in the industrial society. in the book, there are lots of common details of daily life which represent different kinds of white noise. it witnesses the changes of life of jack and his families and their mental wounds after catastrophes resulting from industry and technology, which can enlighten us the thinking of death and society. in the book, people are suffering from the illness of mental disorders, thus the attention to emotions will be more worthy. studies on the emotional alienation could help to identify the phenomena and causes of mental disorder, which alerts us not to neglect the mental health of humans, especially when the country and the society are developing and experiencing transformation and upgrading.
according to marxist, the meaning of alienation varies in different fields, but basically, it refers to a situation that subject (usually refers to human) creates object in subject''s development process, while in turn the subject is enslaved and dominated by the object which is an alien force against the subject. to emotional field, emotional alienation is the alienation of relationships and emotional judgment. man does not exist in isolation, but the sum of all social relations. with the rapid development of the industrial civilisation, humans’ psychological needs become unsatisfied, which gives birth to more and more mental confusion, disorder and insanity. study on emotional alienation in white noise will reflect the mental condition in the novel and enlighten us.
2. 研究内容和预期目标
the novel focuses on the life of jack’s, their living condition and reactions to the catastrophes. to analyse the emotional alienation in the novel, the paper classifies the kinds, phenomena and causes of emotional alienation of people. what’s more, the reflections on contemporary society will be proposed to alert us.
this thesis will be divided into four parts, the first chapter is the literature review of the novel, the research purpose of this paper and the introduction to the theory of emotional alienation.
3. 国内外研究现状
studies on white noise change over times home and abroad. at abroad, the theme of death, consumption and information technology are the focuses of scholars. death is the most popular theme, as the novel is “the american book of the dead”(osteen,1998). white noise exposes a world where ways to die are growing insidiously, while structures to accept death are decreasing. however, the death in the book not only means that people and the society are facing the dread of death, but also shows that humans are trying to exorcise the dread to death, thus white noise is “the natural language of the species” (bonca,1996). information technology is another hot topic. technology has threatened america pervasively and mortally, and it has become a daily mode as people couldn’t live without it. it makes citizens discomfort and people are sufferingfromthe“symptomsofinformationillness” (conte, 2002). consumption is also an important theme of the novel. in white noise, delillo considered supermarketaspostmodern american’s emporiumof information and sign. consumption is controlling individual mode from the aspects of commodity, culture and rubbish. further more, consumption is believed that it has its own mode of thinking.
studies at home are much less than abroad. white noise is considered as the language to refuse death by humans and the novel discovers the radiance in dailiness. mental ecology is a new view to this novel, and it concludes that human civilisation contrasts natural ecology, the former of which pollutes the natural and social environment and the consumption-oriented postmodern society also changes human’s natural aesthetics. like foreign scholars, chinese scholars also study the novel in view of consumption by showing that the novel has constructed a consumerist society where alienation is faced in family, workplace and society. besides thetheme of death, mental ecology and consumption, recently, alienation is another hot theme. alienation arouses the crisis of trust and identity, the dread of death, the spread of mass media and the pollution of environment, from individuals to the society.
4. 计划与进度安排
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5. 参考文献
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