论品钦小说《拍卖第四十九批》中的熵、迷宫和黑色幽默.pdfVIP

Black Humor……………………………………………………..70 4.1 The Aesthetic Feature and Background of Black Humor…71 4.2 The Alienated Individuals…………………………………74 4.2.1 Trystero System—the Representative of the Alienated ………………………………………….74 4.2.2 The Social Background for Alienation………………76 4.3 The Grotesque and Lamentable Characters……………….80 4.3.1 Features of the Characters in Black Humor Novels…81 4.3.2 Lamentable Characters in This Novel……………….82 4.3.3 The Comic Names in This Novel……………………89 4.4 The Illogical Plot…………………………………………..91 4.4.1 Interweaving of Reality and Fantasy………………..91 4.4.2 Implicit Revelations in This Novel………………….94 4.4.3 Parody of Myth and History………………………...97 Chapter 5 Conclusion…………………………………………………….100 Bibliography………………………………………………………104 4 Abstract With the increasing cultural exchanges between China and other countries, the notion of postmodernism has come into our discourse paradigm. As literature is one of the most important carriers of it, a great number of postmodernist novels have been introduced to our country, which, at a certain period of time, did deeply influence the domestic ideological and literary fields. Vehement discussions and argumentations have been carried out, yet owing to the indeterminacy and ambiguity of the notion itself, a lot of related doubts and problems are still around here, such as “What on earth is postmodernism?” “Do we have postmodernism in our country?” “How can we properly deal with this postmodernism?” Some people think that postmodernism is a kind of advanced thought and we should relate every item of our cultural activity to it; while others regard it as great scourges and often classify the obscure, ominous and obscene stuffs into postmodernism. P