【正文】 明妮般的女性賢妻良母的傳統(tǒng)身份定 位，她們渴望用自己的方式成為消費者。 論文主體共兩章，第一章介紹消費文化的概念、美國現(xiàn)代消費文化的產(chǎn)生及其在《嘉莉妹妹》中的體現(xiàn)，另外還介紹了《嘉莉妹妹》中的社會需要如何激發(fā)消費欲望膨脹及消費帶來的悲劇的幻滅感。論文引言部分介紹了作者西奧多德萊塞的處女作《嘉莉妹妹》真實地反映了這一時期美國興起的消費熱及由此帶來的人們意識形態(tài)的轉(zhuǎn)變。 i 本科畢業(yè)論文 中文題目： 淺析《嘉莉妹妹》中的消費文化 外文題目： A Study of the Consumer Culture in Sister Carrie ii 淺析《嘉莉妹妹》中的消費文化 摘要： 十九世紀末二十世紀初，美國社會經(jīng)歷著一場急劇變革，正在從以生產(chǎn)型為主的社會轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)橐粋€以消費型為主的社會。西奧多本文嘗試研究消費文化在《嘉莉妹妹》中的體現(xiàn)以及它對個人 與對美國社會的影響。德萊塞的生活背景，回顧了國內(nèi)外對《嘉莉妹妹》的研究成果，同時介紹了國內(nèi)外學(xué)者對消費文化的研究并在此基礎(chǔ)上提出論文選題理由和意義。第二章論述《嘉莉妹妹》中消費文化在物質(zhì)消費、情感消費、身體消費三個方面的特征。同時作者也在消費文化的背景下關(guān)注嘉莉與德魯埃的關(guān)系，嘉莉與赫斯特伍德的關(guān)系，赫斯特伍德的家庭關(guān)系以及嘉莉與姐姐姐夫的關(guān)系。同時還闡述了在男性掌控的消費社會中女性尋求自我發(fā)展所面臨的困境，即她們想成為擁有較高社會地位的消費者，但同時又被男人消費著。嘉莉最終淪為消費的犧牲品，強烈的消費欲望指引著她的人生方向，并且在某種程度上決定了其最終命運 . 關(guān)鍵詞 ：消費文化；物質(zhì)消費；情感消費；身體消費；意識形態(tài)； iii A Study of the Consumer Culture in Sister Carrie Abstract At the turn from the l9th century to the 20th century, American society was undergoing a radical social change, turning into a spendthrift and consumptive mercial society. Theodore Dreiser?s first novel, Sister Carrie, actually reflects the consumption craze prevalent in America during this era as well as the resultant change of people?s ideology. This thesis tries to make a research of the reflection of consumer culture in Sister Carrie and its influence for individual as well as the whole American society. The introductory part introduces the background of the author, Theodore Dreiser。 and to some extent, this desire decides her ultimate fate. Key words:consumer culture。 emotional consumption。 ideology v Acknowledgments My heartfelt gratitude is, first of all, delivered to my supervisor Professor Xu Tingting, for her unselfish and incisive guidance and professional advice in my study for Bachelor Degree, and for her elaborate reading and correcting of my earlier manuscript as well as her constant encouragement and guidance during the process of writing this thesis. I am also greatly indebted to all my teachers for their valuable teaching and guidance during the four years. Lastly, I would like to thank all my relatives and dear friends for their support and encouragement. To all those mentioned above and to any others who I may have failed to mention, I extend my sincere thanks. 1 Contents 中文摘要 …………………………………………………………………………… ..i Abstract……………………………………………………………………………… .ii Acknowledgments………………………………………………………………… .....iv Introduction………………………………………………………………………… ...1 Brief Review of Consumer Culture in Sister Carrie………………… ...… .............3 A. Introduction to Consumer Culture ………………………………………… ...3 B. General Reflection of Consumer Culture in Sister Carrie ……………… .4 1. General review of Consumer Culture in Sister Carrie…………………… ...4 2. Consumption Desire Stimulated by the Needs of Society in Sister Carrie...5 3. Disillusionment Brought by Consumption……………………… .……… ...6 Features of Material Consumption, Emotion Consumption and Body Consumption in Sister Carrie…… ..… .…… .… .……… .....… .…………… ....8 Feature of Material Consumption………………… ..………………… .....9 B. The Feature of Emotion Consumption……………………………… ..…… ..10 Feature of Body Consumption………………………… ..…… ...……… .12 Conclusion……………………………………………………… .……… ..……… .....14 Notes……………………………………………………………………………… .....15 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………… .....16第一級編號 標題內(nèi)容不能超出頁碼長度 第二級編號 頁碼對齊 1 A Study of the Consumer Culture in Sister Carrie Introduction Regarded as the pioneer of American modern novels as well as the first great writer in the twentieth century American literary history, Theodore Dreiser(18711945)broke through the afterwards dominant “genteel tradition” and took the initiative to describe the authentic urban life in America. Many of his contemporary writers as well as his followers in American literary history were greatly influenced by this theme. Dreiser?s first novel， Sister Carrie， the story of a country girl?s rise to material success first as the mistress of two wealthy men and then as a celebrated Broadway actress, was published on November 8,1900 by Doubleday,Pageamp。?by many reviewers . In 1981, another edition of Sister Carrie was issued by Pennsylvania University Press. It ended with Mr. Hurstwood?s suicide instead of Carrie?s??rocking and thinking39。?in The Theory of the Leisure Class(1902). But as sociologists, they mainly studied consumer society from the perspective of sociology, etc. Since the 1980s, researchers from various fields, such as ethics, history, anthropology, feminism have begun to study every aspect of modem consumption. In a particular period, that is, at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, women have played an important role in the development of modem consumer culture acpanied by the improved social status of them. Due to the fact that people from the lower class in America were not rich enough to participate in consumption, the female consumers mentioned in this thesis at the turn of the 20th century are mainly women from the middle or upper class. 4 B. General Reflection of Consumer Culture in Sister Carrie 1. General review of Consumer Culture in Sister Carrie This novel gives a description of a girl called Caroline Meeber(Sister Carrie) from the countryside of the Columbia city in Wisconsin,who takes a train to Chicago without hesitance when she is eighteen because of her dream about the prosperous life in thriving metropolis. On the train, Carrie meets Charles Drouet, a traveling salesman, who is attracted to her because of her simple beauty and unspoiled manner. He describes a prosperous Chicago, an affluent metropolis, a big shopping mall to naive Carrie, which galvanized her. But upon discovering the steady round of toil and