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1、PlayItAsItLays----JoanDidionAuthorCharacters&PlotsLiteraryBackgroundTheme&StyleResourcesJoanDidionJoanDidion(bornDecember5,1934)SheisanAmericanauthorbestknownasapostmodernistwriterbothforherfictionandnonfictionworks.Asajournalist,shewrotealotofjournalisticessaysandwell-knownforherNewJournalism.A
2、ndtheseessaysusuallyfocusonthedisintegrationofAmericanmoralsandculturalchaos.Butitisconsideredthatthetopicaboveisexploredmorefullyinhernovels,wheretheoverridingthemeisindividualandsocialfragmentation.Asenseofanxietyordreadpermeatesmuchofherwork,andhernovelshaveareputationforbeingdepressingandeve
3、nmorbid.PlotSummaryPlayItAsItLaysissetinHollywood.ItpresentsaharrowingpictureofMariaWyeth,a31-year-oldactressandformermodel,andherencounterwithexistentialnothingnesswhichenvelopsherlikeacoastalfog.HermarriagetoCarterLang,anegocentric,ambitiousyoungfilmdirector,isbreakingup;her4-year-olddaughter,
4、Kate,isinstitutionalizedwithsomesortofbraindamage;hercasualaffairsaremanybutmechanicalandlifeless.WhenMariadiscoverssheispregnant,probablynotbyherhusband,shehasanabortion.HerclosestfriendBZ,ahomosexualwhoproducesherhusband’smovies,commitssuicidebytakinganoverdoseofpillswhilecradledinherarms.Fina
5、lly,Mariaherselfishospitalizedforwhatisusuallylooselydescribedasa“nervousbreakdown.”LiteraryBackgroundPlayItAsItLaysiswrittenin1970ofAmerica.The1960s,beinganexperimentaldecade,yieldswhathascometobecalledPostmodernism.PostmodernismV.SModernism:response&reject;reactionCharacteristics:※experimentwi
6、thform※anembraceof“low”andpopculture※atendencytodealwithutterlycontemporarysubjects:(environmentalhavoc,consumerism,nuclearfears,thelanguageandphenomenaofcontemporarylife)※letgoofall“core”valuesandbeliefsystemssuchas“theself”,“truth","representation”Wecanalmostfindallthesefeaturesinthisnovel!The
7、me“TheWasteLand"outlookTheHollywoodNovelDidion’sWomen“TheWasteLand"outlookItisaviewoflifethattakesitsnamefromT.S.Eliot’spoem.Itischaracterizedbyasenseofthefutilityofmodernlifeandofnecessitytofullyengagedespairinordertocometo
