摘要
F. 斯科特•菲茨杰拉德是美国二十世纪“爵士时代”最重要的代言人，与海明威和福克纳齐名，其代表作《了不起的盖茨比》被公认为“一部伟大的美国小说”和二十世纪最佳英文小说之一。小说以细腻感伤的笔触描写了那个年代上流社会的梦想、爱情和失败，揭示并批判了美国梦破灭的悲剧，为他所生活的“爵士时代”描绘了一幅狂欢与没落的图景。《了不起的盖茨比》在二战中受到极大欢迎，激发了学界的热烈反应，英语论文，针对小说的探讨和解读丰富多样，包括对菲茨杰拉德本人生活的争论、小说主题和象征性的探索、叙事风格的讨论，而应用女性主义和精神略论学进行的新阐释也层出不穷。
小说在艺术上的造诣在很大程度上是叙事风格的成功，其中关于主人公叙述者尼克•卡罗威的可靠性与不可靠性的认识是小说叙述探讨中的一个重要问题。由于（不）可靠性之争并无定论，本文从尼克叙述中的矛盾入手，借用叙事学中角色叙述者、隐含作者以及叙述者可靠性和不可靠性等概念，英语论文题目，试图理解隐含作者与叙述者的价值冲突，从而研讨菲茨杰拉德的创作理念以及这种矛盾式叙述关于美国梦矛盾内涵的揭示。
关键词：《了不起的盖茨比》，矛盾叙述，叙事学
Abstract
F. Scott Fitzgerald is the most important spokesman of the “Jazz Age” in 20th-century America, one of the most accomplished American writers along with Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. As Fitzgerald’s magnum opus, The Great Gatsby has been widely considered a “great American novel” and ranks among the best novels in the English language. The Great Gatsby probes romantically and tragically into idealism, decadence, social upheaval, love and failure, revealing the bankruptcy of the American Dream and creating a vivid portrait of the hilarious and disillusioned “Jazz Age.” After its great success during WWI, The Great Gatsby also received heated critical responses and triggered a wide range of studies on its themes, symbols, narrative, artistic maturity, and various readings from new perspectives, such as feminism and psychoanalysis.
The greatness of the novel’s artistry is largely due to its narrative style, with the (un)reliability of the character narrator Nick Carraway remaining a central issue. Since it is not yet determined whether Nick should be regarded a reliable or unreliable narrator, this thesis focuses on the paradoxes in Nick’s narration from a narratological perspective, borrowing concepts such as implied author and (un)reliability, in order to understand the conflicts between narrator and the implied author, thus to examine the Fitzgerald’s philosophy of composition and the function of this narrative strategy in revealing the paradoxical American psyche.
Key words: The Great Gatsby, paradoxes, narratological perspective
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