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Imbalances Rabbit

Posted on:2012-01-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q MoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330371957925Subject:Literary criticism
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John Updike(1932-2009) is contemporary American literary master, he was born in Pennsylvania reading town,his father was the teacher of middle school in the town,his mother loved art, often carries on the creation. So that John Updike was affected by literary and artistic influence who began to create and to the local newspaper magazines at high school. John Updike gone into Harvard University and study in 1950, after the graduation, he worked for the New Yorker.However the city air damage his skin disease treatment adverse, two years later, he had to leave New York moved to the countryside, devoted himself to writing. Updike's published works for nearly 60 films, including novels, poems, essays, reviews, including novels have 22 department, its work twice won the Pulitzer prize and twice won national book award and o Henry's award for many awards."the rabbit quartet", including "Rabbit run!" "Rabbit Redux" "Rabbit is rich"and "Rabbit at Rest" is the most representative works of Updike, he took over three years to finished this work." the rabbit quartet "with "rabbit" harry to self and free life as the main line, with pursuing subjectivity "rabbit" pursue presented the subjectivity of the nineteenth century in the United States in the 1950s to is the social and cultural change, with "rabbit" represented show the evolution in the social values of American middle-class contradiction under lives, explore the soul of man status and redeemed way. This paper briefly introduced the introduction section first John Updike's life and Academic career, introduces the academic experience of "rabbit quartet" in China, at the end of this paper introduces the research and framework of the paper.The first chapter basically will put the subjectivity of rabbit quartet in subjectivity thought system and its subjectivity in western novel development process inspection, the introduction of subjectivity "rabbit quarter thought and theory origin of subjectivity. The first part traces the origin and clear the concept of subjectivity. The second part reviews the western novels of human subjectivity of exploration briefly; The third part aims at analyzing the subjectivity of "Rabbit quartet".This paper is focused on the second chapter and the third chapter. According to the Constitutive book features of Rabbit quartet" and Updike's writing characteristics, divided human subjectivity of generated into two stages:the first stage is the external world of people from the outside the mainland the subjectivity, the second stage is the shape of humanistic as basis points in the world of foreign to transform and exploit the quest. According the two stages of the second chapter and the third chapter to structure this paper. The second chapter mainly discusses the interaction of the external environment, social relations and the subjectivity, and this how transfor and shape subjectivity eventually. According to the important degree mainly discusses four aspects about rabbit:social discipline, family relationship, religious belief and sex. The first section explores the bondage of social rules to rabbits and shape, the rabbit is under the social discipline how constantly adjust their own behavior to pursue the subject of the subject freedom. The second section discusses the family relationships, rabbit how multiple identities from families get existence feeling, these relationships and the pursuit of rabbits have affected the subject freedom. The third part explore in religion rabbit's attitudinal shift, what are transition cause and result in? Eventually have any role in the subject of rabbits. The fourth part explore the instinctive desire to rabbits in sexual instincts and how to achieve the unification, whether can spirit of sensory stimulation and self existence move to achieve the effective combination of the freedom of the subject. In the process of the subject freedom hare in pursuit, he finished the shaping by four main factors of outside to Rabbit's subjectivity.The third chapter explores the rabbit how to play for these shape his main initiative the subjectivity of the external relations reform and development. The clues of this chapter is according to each characteristic of Rabbit quartet, from the rabbit's growth process to study the subject freedom pursuit of rabbit. The first section explores rabbit's self-awareness to pursue after the ideal and the reality of troubled perverse unceasingly in the "rabbit run!". The second section discusses why in the "return of the rabbit" rabbit ran away after adjusting teaching from the main body behavior regress family, but still can't get the subject freedom reasons. The third part analysis when rabbit still can't break the bondage of self-awareness and external subject freedom in the strongest subjective ability in "Ribbit rich", try to realize the reasons. The fourth part explore the the relationship between the death of rabbit and subjectivity body consciousness Undead in "Rabbit at rest".Epilogue part is to summary and comment the failures and the frustration in Rabbit's pursue of subject freedom in the "Rabbit quartet",mainly analysis the rabbit life pursuit of imbalances subject freedom behavior.
Keywords/Search Tags:rabbit quartet, subjectivity shaped, subjectivity pursuit, freedom
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