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北京第二外国语学院学报

北京第二外国语学院学报 ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (6): 54-.

• 外国文学研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

标识、情欲、鼠踏器：《智血》中的汽车隐喻

肖明文   

  1. 南昌大学外国语学院　江西南昌　330031；清华大学外文系　北京　100084
  • 收稿日期:2014-09-17 出版日期:2015-06-30 发布日期:2018-03-20
  • 作者简介:肖明文（1981—　），男，南昌大学外国语学院讲师，清华大学外文系博士生，研究方向：英美文学。
  • 基金资助:
    本文系笔者主持的国家社科基金项目“美国南方女性小说解读研究”（14CWW023）；教育部人文社科项目“弗兰纳里·奥康纳小说研究”（11YJC752032）的阶段性成果。

Self-recognition, Sexuality and Rat Treadmill: The Automobile Metaphor in Wise Blood

Xiao Mingwen   

  1. Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China; Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • Received:2014-09-17 Online:2015-06-30 Published:2018-03-20

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摘要： 本文从身份表征、情爱对象和精神载体3个层面对弗兰纳里·奥康纳的长篇小说《智血》中的汽车隐喻加以阐释，并结合奥康纳自己与汽车相关的生活经历以及对汽车的评论来辨析她对汽车消费的态度和立场。笔者认为，主人公黑兹尔•莫茨错误地把破旧的埃塞克斯汽车视作自己的标识，将情欲投射于其中，活像在鼠踏器中挣扎的大鼠。虽然作为一个汽车使用者，奥康纳难以抗拒汽车消费带来的虚荣感，身体残疾的她也受益于这种能给她生活带来便利的科技消费品，但作为一名天主教徒，思想保守的她吁请读者警惕这种会侵蚀传统价值和操控个体思维的现代化机器。

关键词: 弗兰纳里•奥康纳; 汽车隐喻; 身份表征; 情爱对象; 精神载体

Abstract: This article is an attempt to analyze the automobile metaphor in Flannery O’Connor’s novel Wise Blood from three aspects, namely, the car as the protagonist’s status symbol, sexual object, and spiritual emblem; it also tries to identify O’Connor’s standpoint on automobile consumption by investigating her life experiences and comments in relation to vehicles. Xiao argues that the protagonist Hazel Motes, like a rat on the treadmill, places wrongly his self-recognition and sexuality on the dilapidated Essex. As a car user, O’Connor could not resist the vanity of being a car owner and benefited from this technological commodity for the convenience it brought to her life when she was handicapped because of lupus; but as a conservative Catholic, she called upon her readers to guard against this modern machine which would corrode traditional values and manipulate its users’ mentality.

Keywords: Flannery O’Connor; automobile metaphor; status symbol; sexual object; spiritual emblem