| 摘要(英) |
Treating the consumer as an individual, studies of Chick-Lit have usually taken consumption to be a matter of the relation between things and persons who buy and use them. Commodities are useful in so far as they contribute to the fashioning of their self-identity. Availing itself of Judith Harris’s theory of social categories and group contrast effect, the thesis argues instead that identity formation is not a personal matter but social and interpersonal process; that one’s identity is realized only in social recognition. To the extent that commodities contribute to self-fashioning, they do so by creating the social conditions and social relations favorable to the realization of one’s identity. To demonstrate the social and interpersonal process of self-realization, the thesis analyzes the relationships Becky Bloomwood has with other people in the Shopaholic series by the British author Sophie Kinsella. Chapter one gives an account of Harris’s theory so as to pave the way for Becky’s relation and interaction with other Shopaholic characters in the following chapters. Chapter two discusses how Becky’s multiple identities are variously realized through her relations to, and differences from, traditional women and women of other social groups. Extending Harris’s theory of group contrast effect to the conception of territory invasion, the next two chapters discuss how getting into other’s territories or being blocked from them all assist Becky in the process of her self-realization and socialization. The concluding chapter talks about my finding and bring out further research possibilities.
|
| 參考文獻 |
Benstock, Shari& Suzanne Ferriss. Introduction. On Fashion. By Bensock & Ferriss. Ed. New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 1994. 1-15.
“Bildungsroman.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buildingsroman >. 21st Mar. 2011.
Botkin-Maher, Jennifer. “The Post-Feminist Mystique.” College Literature, 34.3, Summer 2007. Project Muse: Today’s Research. Tomorrow’s Inspiration. .
“Bainbridge denounces chick-lit as ’’froth’’.” Guardian.co.uk.
< http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/aug/23/bookerprize2001.bookerprize >. 24th Apr. 2011.
“Bridget Jones’s Diary.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Jones_Diary >. 20 th Apr. 2011.
Butler, Pamela & Jigna Desai. “Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras – Chick-Lit Criticism and Transnational Feminism.” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism - Volume 8, Number 2, 2008. Project Muse: Today’s Research. Tomorrow’s Inspiration.
.
“Chick lit.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. . 21st April. 2011.
Douglas, Mary & Baron Isherwood. The World of Goods – Towards an Anthropology of Consumption. 1976. New York: Routledge, 1996.
“Feminism.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. . 21st April. 2011.
Harris, Judith Rich. The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do. 1998. New York: Free Press, 2009.
---, No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality. New York: Norton, 2006.
“Harry Winston.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Winston >. 4th Dec. 2010.
Harzewski, Stephanie. “Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners.” Chick Lit : The New Woman’’s Fiction. Ed. Ferriss, Suzanne & Mallory Young. New York : Routledge, 2006, 29-46.
Johnson, Joanna Webb. “Chick Lit Jr.: More Than Glitz and Glamour for Teens and Tweens.” Chick Lit: The New Woman’’s Fiction. Ed. Ferriss, Suzanne & Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2006, 141-157.
Kinsella, Sophie. Confessions of a Shopaholic. 2000. New York: A Dell Book - Random House, 2003.
---. Shopaholic Takes Manhattan. 2001. New York: Random House, 2004.
---. Shopaholic Ties the Knot. 2001. New York: Random House, 2003.
---. Shopaholic & Sister. New York: Random House, 2004.
---. Shopaholic & Baby. New York: Random House, 2007.
---. Mini Shopaholic. New York: Random House, 2010.
Mazza, Cris. “Editing Postfeminist Fiction: Finding the Chic in Lit.” symploke, Volume 8, Numbers 1-2, 2000, 101-112. Project Muse: Today’s Research. Tomorrow’s Inspiration. .
Mlynowski, Sarah, and Farrin Jacobs. See Jane Write: A Girl’s Guide to Writing Chick Lit. Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2006.
“Postfeminism.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. . 21st April. 2011.
“Prada.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prada >. 4th Dec. 2010.
Smith, Caroline J. Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Van Slooten, Jessica Lyn. “Fashionably Indebted: Conspicuous Consumption, Fashion, and Romance in Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic Trilogy.” Chick Lit : The New Woman’’s Fiction. Ed. Ferriss, Suzanne & Mallory Young. New York : Routledge, 2006, 219-238.
Wells, Juliette. “Mothers of Chick-Lit?” Chick Lit : The New Woman’’s Fiction. Ed. Ferriss, Suzanne & Mallory Young. New York : Routledge, 2006, 47-70.
|
[Endnote RIS 格式]
[相關文章]
[文章引用]
[完整記錄]
[館藏目錄]
facebook
plurk
twitter
funp
google
live
udn
HD
myshare
reddit
netvibes
friend
youpush
delicious
baidu
Google bookmarks
del.icio.us
hemidemi