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Childish figuring: The child as symbol and actor in Lillian Smith's 'Killers of the Dream' and James Agee's 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'.

机译：幼稚的形象：在莉莲·史密斯（Lillian Smith）的“梦想的杀手”和詹姆斯·杰伊（James Agee）的“让我们现在赞美名人”中，这个孩子是象征和演员。

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In this thesis, I examine the presentation of the child in James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Lillian Smith's Killers of the Dream as part of a rhetoric of growth. Both Agee and Smith present southerners as psychologically immature due to their traumatic childhood experiences of sexism, racism and poverty. Childhood is a recurring theme in both texts. Agee and Smith present childhood as a biological, developmental stage and a metaphor for growth in their texts. The child is a real, contextually-specific figure, drawn from Agee's and Smith's observations of children in Depression-era society. Images of children's bodies document the physical and psychological effects of social problems. Smith and Agee present these images as documentary material but the bodies are also symbolic, representing the children's trauma as well as signifying essentialised characteristics of childhood. The image of the child becomes a documentary icon, combining empirical, contextual details with symbolic qualities. In Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, images of children are part of complex metaphors, illustrating how children's growth is circumscribed. In Smith's Killers of the Dream, the child is a symbolic actor who models alternative social behaviors and suggests social change.
机译：在这篇论文中，我研究了詹姆斯·艾吉（James Agee）的《让我们现在赞美名人》和莉莲·史密斯（Lillian Smith）的《梦中的杀手》中有关孩子成长的陈述。埃杰和史密斯都认为南方人由于童年时期遭受性别歧视，种族主义和贫穷的痛苦而在心理上不成熟。在这两个文本中，童年都是一个反复出现的主题。杰尔和史密斯把童年看作是生物学，发育阶段和文本成长的隐喻。这个孩子是一个真实的，因地制宜的人物，取材于Agee和Smith的对大萧条时期社会中孩子的观察。儿童身体图像记录了社会问题的生理和心理影响。史密斯（Smith）和艾吉（Agee）将这些图像作为记录材料展示，但它们的身体也具有象征意义，既代表了儿童的创伤，又象征着童年的本质特征。儿童的图像成为记录性的图标，结合了经验性的上下文细节和象征性的特质。在杰伊的《让我们现在赞美名人》中，儿童的图像是复杂隐喻的一部分，说明了儿童成长的界限。在史密斯的《梦中的杀手》中，孩子是一个象征性的演员，他模仿了另类的社交行为，并建议了社交变革。

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    Upton, Katherine.;

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    University of South Carolina.;

  • 授予单位 University of South Carolina.;
  • 学科 Literature American.
  • 学位 M.A.
  • 年度 2013
  • 页码 95 p.
  • 总页数 95
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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