后现代主义解读《麦田里的守望者》

Abstract

The Catcher in the Rye was a novel written by Jerome David Salinger that wrote a story of Holden’s three days and two nights’ experience after he was deported. This book was just more than ten hundred thousand words and the plot was very simple, without rhetorical flourishes or a long historical standing. However, it gave us the figure of flesh and blood that renewed time. The story unfolded through child’s own unique eyes that broke the authority and traditional aesthetics concept. Postmodernism not only has a negative connotation (anti-rationalism, anti-subject, counter-authority), uncertainty and deconstruction, but also more or less has some positive, active and constructive connotation. Adopting the literature material law, this article simply analyses The Catcher in the Rye that reflects personal character and times brand, so that we can learn much further. Turning logocentrism into non-centrism, depth into flat and human-centered into anti-traditional humanism prompt us to wide our vision, update our mind and change our way of thinking, which brings disciplines’ integration into reality and is constantly close to daily life and mass population.

Keywords　Postmodernism; Hypocrite; Anti-hero; 

Contents

AbstractI

ContentsI

1.Introduction2

2 Postmodernism.....................................................................................................3

3.The Postmodernism Features in Holden4

3.1 Holden as the anti-hero...........................................................................................4

3.2Indeterminacy of characterization............................................................................5

4.Postmodernism Features in the Novel....................................................6

4.1Holden and his school..............................................................................................6

4.2Holden and his family..............................................................................................7

4.3Holden and soiety....................................................................................................7

5.Conclusion..............................................................................................8

References9