摘 要
本文通过重点解读文本中体现新兴消费意识形态的细节，从消费语境下分析《嘉莉妹妹》揭示出德莱塞对新兴消费意识形态的复杂态度——对其的赞同和宣传以及抑制和批判，最终使读者更好地体味和理解《嘉莉妹妹》中的新兴消费意识形态，从一个新的视角挖掘出新的意义，并对作者德莱塞有更深入的了解。
关键词：消费文化；消费意识形态；嘉莉妹妹；德莱塞的复杂态度
ABSTRACT
The writer emphasizes on the details which embodies new consumption ideology. Then studies up predecessors’ analysis, working over Sister Carrie in the context of consumer society to reveal Theodore Dreiser’s complex attitude towards consumption ideology indicated in the novel—approve, propaganda as well as restraint, criticism. Readers can understand Sister Carrie and Dreiser better from a new perspective.
Keywords：consumer culture; consumption ideology; Sister Carrie; Dreiser’s complex attitude
Contents
1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………..1
1.1 Outline of Sister Carrie……………………………………………………………...1
2.Consumption ideology in Sister Carrie…………………..……………………….3
2.1 Consumer culture ……………………………………………………………….…3
2.2 Background of the rising of the consumer culture………………………………...3
2.3 The rising of consumer culture………………………………………………….....3
3. Embodies and effects of consumer culture in Sister Carrie……………………....5
3.1 Embodies of new consumption ideology…………………………………………...5
3.1.1 Consumption of things …………………………………………………………….5
3.1.2 Consumption of signs……………………………………………………………...8
3.2 Influences of new consumption ideology…………………………………………11
3.2.1 The change of ideas…………………………………………………………….11
3.2.2 Compensation of powerlessness and non-right………………………………...11
3.2.3 Vacuity of spiritual adventure and inner world………………………………12
4. The writer’s complex attitude……………………………………………………13
4.1 Ending of the heroines…………………………………………………………….13
4.2 Disillusion brought by consumption………………………………………………..14
5. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………16
Acknowledgements…………………………………………………………………..17
References…………………………………………………………………………….18
