英语专业课程论文-父权社会中的新女性——《夏日鸟笼》的女性主义解读.doc
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1、唐 山 学 院 课 程 论 文论文题目:父权社会中的新女性夏日鸟笼的女性主义解读 系 别: 外语系 班 级: 08英本(2)班 姓 名: 指 导 教 师: 2011年12月The New Women in Patriarchal Society A Female Interpretation of A Summer Bird-cage Student: Wang YanpingSupervisor: Lu XianweiDepartment of Foreign LanguagesTangshan CollegeDecember, 2011父权社会中的新女性夏日鸟笼的女性主义解读摘要玛格丽特德
2、莱布尔生于1939年,是当今英国文坛一颗耀眼的明珠。1963年她发表其处女作夏日鸟笼而一举成名。多年来她笔耕不辍,硕果累累,迄今已有多部长篇及短篇小说问世,她的声誉与日俱增,在学术界享有相当的声望。作为一名女性作家,她深刻同情那些在父权社会中深受压迫和不平等待遇的女性,尤其关注知识女性(新女性)的命运和生活处境,因此,她的作品深受女性主义思想的影响。正是由于她对这些女性问题的关注,而被称为“妇女小说家”。她的作品早已饮誉文坛,西方文学评论家从各个不同角度对其作品有大量研究、评论,但目前国内对她的介绍和研究却只是刚刚起步。本文选择了玛格丽特德莱布尔的处女作夏日鸟笼来进行分析。毫无疑问,女权主义思
3、想在玛格丽特德莱布尔地小说创作生涯中起了不可或缺的作用。因此本文主要借这篇作品来探讨玛格丽特德莱布尔的女权主义思想,以及在当时社会下知识女性如何应对这些压迫和束缚,其结果又是如何。本文主要分为三部分,第一部分对玛格丽特德莱布尔和她的处女作夏日鸟笼做了简单的介绍,第二部分主要描述了本文的理论基础,西蒙娜德波伏娃的女权主义思想和文学评论家及社会学家给“新女性”的定义,第三部分也就是最后一部分,对这篇作品中的“新女性”以及写作手法进行了分析。通过分析这篇作品,可以给当代女性以警示,切勿重蹈覆辙,她们虽然敢于反抗,追求自我,却最终没有成功。 关键词:玛格丽特德莱布尔 夏日鸟笼 西蒙娜德波伏娃 新女性T
4、he New Women in Patriarchal Society- A Female Interpretation of A Summer Bird-cageAbstractMargaret Drabble, born in 1939, is one of the brightest stars in the present British literary world. In the year 1963, when she was 23, she published her first novel The Summer Bird-cage, which won her overnigh
5、t fame. For these years, she has never stopped her literary career and made a great many achievements. And for now, having published a variety of novels, she enjoys increasing fame in the contemporary literary world. As a woman novelist, she shows her deep sympathy for the women who were oppressed a
6、nd treated unequally in the male-dominated society, especially for the fate and life situation of the intellectual women or new women. So her works are influenced by the feminism and she is called “womens novelist” for her concern on women. As well-known to the world, her works have been appreciated
7、 by the western critics from various perspectives, but little has been carried on in China, which is only started.This paper chooses the very novel The Summer Bird-cage, her first novel. There is no doubt that feminist plays an essential role in Margaret Drabbles works. This paper mainly deal with h
8、er feminism and how these new women fight against the oppression and bound as well as their result. Three parts are contained in this paper. Part One gives a brief introduction to the author Margaret Drabble and The Summer Bird-cage. Then Part Two will attach the attention onto Simone de Beauvoirs f
9、eminist literary theories and the definition of new women. Part Three shifts the focus on the new women in The Summer Bird-cage and the depicting devices used in the work. This paper will provide the women today with the experience, warn them not to go in the same way, which is an dead-end way, wher
10、e these intellectual women dared to fight and pursue their own freedom and happiness but failed in the end.Key words: Margaret Drabble; The Summer Bird-cage; Simone de Beauvoir; new womenContentsIntroduction1Part I Margaret Drabble and Her A Summer Bird-cage21.1 Margaret Drabbles life and literary c
11、areer21.2 A brief introduction to A Summer Bird-cage3Part A Brief Introduction to Simone de Beauvoirs Feminist Literary Theories and the Definition of New Women52.1 A brief introduction to Simone de Beauvoirs feminist literary theories52.2 The definition of new woman6Part The New Women in A Summer B
12、ird-cage83.1 Sarah, a sober observer83.2 Louise, a predatory eagle10Conclusion12Acknowledgments13Notes14Bibliography15唐 山 学 院 课 程 论 文Introduction Margaret Drabble is a famous women writer at home and abroad since she published her first novel The Summer Bird-cage in 1963. Most of her works give much
13、 attention to the women who are treated unequally and oppressed in the male-dominated society, especially the new women, who are the intellectual women that accepted higher education and fight for their own freedom and happiness with full courage. But how do they strive for their dream? And what is
14、the result? And why do they come into this kind of result? There are so many questions about her and her novel that some of them will be discussed in this paper.This paper attempts to analyze her first novel A Summer Bird-cage from feminism. In this novel, Margaret Drabble describes some women tryin
15、g to find a way out without exception. But they failed in the end.There are totally three parts in this paper. Part One will make a brief introduction to Margaret Drabble and her The Summer Bird-cage. In Part Two, attention is paid on Simone de Beauvoirs feminist literary theories and the definition
16、 of new women. And in the third Part, focus will be shifted onto the novel again to analyze the new women and the depicting devices of the novel.Part I Margaret Drabble and Her A Summer Bird-cage Margaret Drabble is a famous woman writer in British literary world. She has published seventeen novels
17、to date. And most of her novels give much attention onto the womens life and their fate. 1.1 Margaret Drabbles life and literary careerMargaret Drabble was born on June 5th, 1939 in Sheffield, Yorkshire. She grew up in a well-to-do family for her father was a lawyer before retirement and her mother
18、was a teacher once. It is one of the reasons that she received fairly good education. As a child, Margaret Drabble was sent to a Quaker boarding school, the Mountain school in York. After attending the Quaker boarding-school Mount School at York, where her mother was employed, Drabble received a maj
19、or scholarship for Newnham College, Cambridge. She studied English and was awarded a starred double first. And in 1960, she graduated from Cambridge University as a top student. Then she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon, at one point serving as an understudy for Vanessa Re
20、dgrave, before leaving to pursue a literary career. Drabble was married to actor Clive Swift between 1960 and 1975; they have three children, one of whom is gardener and TV personality Joe Swift. In 1982, she married the writer and biographer Michael Holroyd (now Sir Michael); they live in London an
21、d Somerset. Maybe most of the Chinese readers are not so familiar with her, but in the present British literary world, she is a prestigious novelist. Her first novel, A Summer Bird Cage, was published in 1963. Since then, she has become a bright star in the world literature. When she come into the l
22、iterary world in 1960s, it was the very time when feminist movement was blooming and the women novels were thriving. The young Drabble was deeply influenced by Simone de Beauvoirs The Second Sex and the feminist movement, so her works mostly reflects womens life environment and their real inner thou
23、ght. This seemed to me to be wonderful material and so important to me as a person. It was material that nobody had used and I could use and nobody had used as far as I would use.1 Since she published her first novel A Summer Bird-cage, she never stops writing, and 17 novels has been published until
24、 now. There are some of her works, The Garick Year (1964), The Mill-stone (1965), which was given the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Award, Jerusalem the Golden (1967), which was rewarded the Jams Tait Black Memorial Book Prize, The Waterfall (1969), The Needles Eye (1972), which was presented the Book
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