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American crime fiction and the atomic age.

机译：美国犯罪小说和原子时代。

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"American Crime Fiction and the Atomic Age" explores how America's nuclear narrative of the 1950s and 1960s shaped the decade's crime fiction. After the first explosion of the A-bombs, atomic discourse was instrumental in forming perspectives on all themes common to crime fiction: in particular, individual and collective safety, survival, guilt and morality. The A-bomb's unprecedented magnitude of apocalyptic-level violence on civilians generated an uncertainty about the moral justifications for the bomb's use and fears about individual survival. This dissertation investigates how central motifs in the era's crime fiction, the disruptive aftermath of violent actions, its sought-after containment, and psychological effects, are rich with parallels to the anxieties and fears illustrated by this atomic sensibility.;Through a critique of America's nuclear narrative, chapter one considers how the characters in Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train (1950), The Blunderer (1954), and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) all push themselves to moral extremes. I view the psychological repercussions for their violent actions as exhibiting components of America's own identity struggles after the A-bomb's detonation. My second chapter centers on atomized individuals in Richard Wright's The Outsider (1953) and Savage Holiday (1954). I explore how random, violent accidents propel the novels' protagonists to perform violent actions, to seek rationale for them, and then ultimately to suffer dismal fates. Such plot conventions are indicative of an atomic mentality, specifically the rationale for using of the A-bomb to end World War II.;Chapters three and four discuss how post-bomb crime fiction portrays the disintegration and destruction of the familial paradigm. Given how the nation's containment policy positioned domesticity as a buffer to the bomb's ever-present threat to existence, this dissertation proposes that such concerns reflect America's evolving nuclear narrative. Chapter three explores the subtle link between familial and atomic anxiety in selected novels by Ross Macdonald. My final chapter analyzes how in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, the narrative both obfuscates and explains the crime, representing the nuclear age's rampant ethos, one preoccupied with the prevention of and explanation for the constant threat to the security and future of the American way of life.
机译：“美国犯罪小说和原子时代”探讨了1950年代和1960年代美国的核叙事如何塑造了该十年的犯罪小说。在第一次原子弹爆炸之后，原子话语有助于形成犯罪小说共同主题的观点，特别是个人和集体安全，生存，内和道德。原子弹对平民的世界末日级暴力前所未有的严重性，使人们对使用炸弹的道义依据和对个人生存的担忧产生了不确定性。本论文研究了该时代犯罪小说中的核心主题，暴力行为的破坏性后果，受追捧的遏制以及心理影响如何与这种原子敏感性所表现出的焦虑和恐惧相提并论。核叙事，第一章考虑了帕特里夏·海史密斯（Patricia Highsmith）的《火车上的陌生人》（1950），《大骗子》（1954）和《才华横溢的里普利先生》（1955）中的角色如何将自己推向道德极端。我认为，针对他们的暴力行为的心理影响是原子弹爆炸后美国自身身份斗争的一部分。我的第二章关注理查德·赖特（Richard Wright）的《局外人（The Outsider）（1953）和野人假期（Savage Holiday）（1954）》中的原子个体。我探讨了随机的暴力事故如何促使小说的主人公采取暴力行动，为他们寻求理智，然后最终遭受惨痛的命运。这样的情节惯例表明了一种原子心态，特别是使用原子弹结束第二次世界大战的基本原理。第三章和第四章讨论了炸弹后的犯罪小说如何描绘家庭范式的瓦解和破坏。考虑到国家的遏制政策如何将国内性作为炸弹不断威胁生存的缓冲，本论文建议这种担忧反映了美国不断发展的核叙事。第三章探讨罗斯·麦克唐纳（Ross Macdonald）精选小说中家庭焦虑与原子焦虑之间的微妙联系。我的最后一章分析了杜鲁门·卡波特（Truman Capote）的《冷血》（In Cold Blood）中的叙述如何混淆并解释了犯罪，代表了核时代的猖风气，一个人专注于预防和解释对美国安全和未来方式的持续威胁。生活。

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    Schrynemakers, Ilse M.;

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    Fordham University.;

  • 授予单位 Fordham University.;
  • 学科 Literature Modern.;Literature American.;American Studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2009
  • 页码 193 p.
  • 总页数 193
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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