论《湖滨饭店》的现代性与后现代性

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The modernity of Hotel du Lac is very distinct: not only does the novel make a deep approach to the loneliness of modern consciousness, showing the protagonist' s confusion of personal identity and existential meaning as well as the persistent pursue of them although being in vain, but also the novel, when describing the protagonist' s development of character and psychology, is so influenced by Freud' s psychoanalysis as to make a good use of stream consciousness, disclosing the protagonist' s "psychological reality", in addition to the traditional description of purely objective way. At the same time, the novel also comprises the elements of postmodernity, which is not able to be ignored. As far as the postmodern meaning is concerned, the novel implies, not more than once, Lacan' s imaginary order and symbolic order, and, by using a lot of male discourse, depicts the female in the novel, showing a deep concern for the singular intellectual female' s anxiety in the present British society. Moreover, it adopts such techniques of postmodernism as intertextuality, metafiction and impression pictures. Therefore, instead of just a novel characteristic of classic, traditional realism, it should be considered as a new realistic novel, which is on the rise both in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

Key words: ]Hotel du Lac; modernity; postmodernity; male discourse; post modern picture

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I106.4

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