《欢乐之家》中丽莉对家园追寻

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1、AThesisSubmittedfor2013Master’SDegreeatShanxiUniversityLILY，SPURSUITOFHOME烈THEHoUSEoFMIRIHNameSupervisorMajorHuXiaomeiHaoLinEnglishLanguageandLiteratureFieldofResearchWesternLiteraryTheoryDepartmentSchoolofForeignLanguagesResearchDurationSeptember,201O—June，2013June2013AB

2、STRACTEdithWhartonisaleadingAmericanfemalenovelistattheturnofmetwentiethcentury,whoproducesalargeamountofworks．TheHouseofMirth，asoneofhermostpopularnovels，hasreceivedmuchattentionfrommanycriticswhoexploreLilyBart’Stragedyfromvariousperspectivessuchasfeminismandnaturalism．

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4、useofMirth．Italsoincludesasurveyofpreviouscriticismofthenovel．Thesecondpartdiscussesthetheoreticalbasis·--·—·FamilySystemsTheory,andprovidesanotherkeynarrativedeviceofnostalgiaasapproachestoFamilySystems．FamilySystemsTheoryprovidesausefultheoreticalbasistoanalyzethedisrup

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6、saccordingtothespacedisplacementandtransitionwhichisconsideredasanewframebystudyingLily’Schangingshapeofdesireforhomeandidentity．LawrenceSelden’Sbachelor’flatarousesherdesireforanidealhome．Lily’Spseudo-selfandsuperficialnostalgiamakeherbelievethattheonlywaytorealizeherdre

7、amistomaltyawealthymall．However,inBellomontherdreambreakswhensherealizessheismerelyaparasiteinthisgiltcage．ShereturnstoSelden’Sflatwhen摘要伊迪丝·华顿是十九世纪末二十世纪初美国一位重要的多产女作家。《欢乐之家》作为她最受欢迎的小说之一，受到了批评家们的极大关注。他们大多从女J{生主义视角、自然主义倾向等角度分析了女主人公丽莉·巴特的悲剧命运。本文将运用家庭系统理论，并结合华顿的怀旧叙事手法来论述丽莉漂泊的

8、现状及她对理想家园的不懈追求。本文共分四部分。第一部分为绪论，简要介绍了伊迪丝·华顿及其作品《欢乐之家》，以及国内外学者对其的研究现状。第二部分为本文的理论依据，家庭系统理论及华顿的怀旧手法。