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1、 论文（设计）研究目标及主要任务
本论文的研究目标是探讨拉尔夫•埃里森《看不见的人》中主人公的自我迷失，自我发现与自我实现过程；同时通过分析三者之间的关系探讨现代美国文化的重要主题——自我身份认同。
2、 论文（设计）的主要内容
本论文分为四章，第一章从四个方面分析了主人公不可见的原因；第二章从主人公三个主要生活阶段分析了主人公的自我迷失；第三章从四方面分析了主人公的自我发现；第四章重点写主人公的自我实现。
3、 论文（设计）的基础条件及研究路线
本论文的基础条件是不同的专家对《看不见的人》从不同角度的主题分析及美国现代文化的研究。
研究路线是首先从四个方面分析主人公不可见的原因；其次分析主人公不可见的具体体现；再次从四方面分析主人公的自我发现；最后重点写主人公的自我实现。
4、 主要参考文献
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. Beijing：Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press,1999.
Li Gongzhao. A Survey of American Literature in 20th Century. Xi’an：Xi’an Jiaotong University,2000.
拉尔夫•埃里森.《看不见的人》.任绍曾等译.南京：译林出版社，2008.
易立君，杨红. 寻找迷失的自我—论《看不见的人》的身份追寻.常熟理工学院学报（哲学社会科学）.2007（05）.
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课题论证：讨论《看不见的人》中主人公的自我迷失，自我发现，自我实现的过程。
方案设计：第一章分析了主人公不可见的原因，主要从主人公的超我意识，种族歧视，文化价值，资本主义经济发展四个方面分析；
第二章从主人公三个主要生活阶段分析了主人公的自我迷失；
第三章从四方面分析了主人公的自我发现；
第四章重点写主人公的自我实现。

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拉尔夫•埃里森的《看不见的人》是美国文学史上的里程碑。这本小说体现了自我发现这一普遍主题，即每个人都会经历发现真正的自我这一过程。《看不见的人》是主人公自我身份认同的过程，可谓一波三折，从自我迷失，自我发现到自我实现。本篇论文就主人公的不可见，自我迷失和自我发现进行分析来发现它们之间的关系，同时探讨现代美国文化的重要主题——自我身份认同。本篇论文将分析主人公的自我迷失和自我发现，共包含四部分。第一章分析了主人公不可见的原因，主要从主人公的超我意识，种族歧视，文化价值，资本主义经济发展四个方面分析；第二章从主人公三个主要生活阶段分析了主人公的自我迷失；第三章从四方面分析了主人公的自我发现；第四章重点写主人公的自我实现。

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Literature Review
Published in 1952, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man has been acclaimed by a growing line of commentators writing in various critical tongues: structuralists, formalists, psychological critics, folklore and myth critics (O’Meally, 1980:78). Ralph Ellison has painted us a three-new-picture of modern life in the United States. Nathan A.Scott Jr. In Ellison’s Vision of Communitas locates Invisible Man in a line of twentieth-century modernist fictions, which have been organized toward the end of envisaging new forms of life for soul(2004).
Studies on Invisible Man Abroad
Ralph Ellison is a black writer, so a lot of critics have studied the theme of identity in Invisible Man, for example, Tonny Tanner’s 1971 study of the the contemporary American novel, City of Words, devotes a full chapter to Invisible Man, claiming that it is the most profound novel about American identity written since World War II. Robert G.O’Meally’s The Rules of Magic: Hemingway as Ellison’s’ Ancestor is an extended mediation on Ellison’s famous statement that while a writer cannot choose his relatives, he can, indeed must choose his ancestors (2004). Many critics have also paid attention to the unique structure of the novel. Kennth Burke in his essay Ralph Ellison’s Trueblooded Bildingsroman traces the invisible man’s progression toward mastery in a way compatible with his own pattern of “purpose, passion, perception” words Ellison wrote on the typescripts of Invisible Man to denote the novel’s movement and structure(2004) and, William Schafer’s 1968 article, Ralph Ellison and the Birth of the Anti-Hero, carefully explores the novel’s intricate plot patterns as a four-part spiritual quest beginning with the hero’s false sense of emancipation and ending with a disintegration of the self. The protagonist of Invisible Man has got a unique position in the novel, which has also caught the attention of some critics. In The Meaning of Narration in Invisible Man, Valerie Smith(2004) explores the Invisible Man’s “double consciousness of reliving one’s story as both narrator and protagonist”(209). Alain Locke praises Ellison for his three-dimensional characterizations, his brilliant use of irony, and his comprehensive and penetrating vision of race in America(2000). Some critics have analyzed Invisible Man from post-modernistic point of view, for instance, Alan Nadel’s Invisible Criticism(1988) makes extensive use of postmodernist critical theory to reveal how Invisible Man deconstructs twentieth century notions of American tradition, culture and identity, which reduce minorities to “invisibility” and marginality and Keith Byerman in Fingering the Jagged Grain (1985) examines in meticulous detail the dialectical narrative patterns in Invisible Man, arguing their ability to generate new ideas. John F.Callahan is really an expert in studying Ralph Ellison. His In the African-American Grain (1988) provides another provocative and nuanced probing of Ellison’s sophisticated use of black folk art to enrich twentieth century writing. In Invisible Man Ellison not only uses thematic motifs from the blues and folk tales but also skillfully employs a “call-and -response” technique which is central to black sermons and vernacular speech. In another essay Ellison’s Invisible Man Callahan attempts to show the inspired revisions behind the open-ended questioning form of the epilogue, especially the invisible man’s last concluding questioning (or challenge), which is addressed to everyone who reads the novel, no matter what that individual’s time, place or identity is. And finally, Ralph Ellison has strongly been influenced by Russian novelist Dostoevsky. William Barret in American Memory compares Invisible Man with important masterworks of European modernism such as Celine’s(1894-1961) Journey to the End of the Night(1932) and Dostoevsky’s (1821-1881) Notes from the Underground (1863)(2000). Dostoevsky’s strong influence on Ellison is carefully documented in important articles written by Joseph Frank who draws revealing parallels between the cultural source of alienation expressed in Notes from the Underground and Invisible Man.
Studies on Invisible Man in China
There are also a lot of critics studying Invisible Man in China, though most of them only translate the foreign materials into Chinese. Zhang Xiuming has studied its symbolic artistic features(1998) and Li Jiancang in 2004 studied the use of symbolism by Ralph Ellison in Invisible Man, such as structure symbolism, character symbolism, the symbolism of “invisible” and “identity” and other symbolism at the language level. In 1998 Wang Lili made a comprehensive study on the theme, symbolism, and artistic features of the novel. Chen Xizhi(2002) has explored Invisible Man from a stylistic viewpoint thus finding new meanings from the novel. For its narrative style, both Wang Fengzhen(1999) and Lin Yan(2002) have studied it in detail. Wang Fengzhen has highly praised the unique narrative pattern and combination of realism and surrealism in Invisible Man. Lu Shan(2002) and Xu Haiyan(2001) has analyzed the identity theme of the novel and, in 2006, Wang Wei exerted an existential approach to identity in Invisible Man. Professor Tan Huijuan from Zhejiang Univesity has studied Ralph Ellison and Invisible Man comprehensively. The artistic features, the identity problem, the symbolism and the theme of the novel have all been studied by her. What is more, she has studied the great influence of Freud’s psychobiological analysis on Ralph Ellison(2004). Other writers have also studied Invisible Man in their works from their own viewpoints, such as Fu Jingchuan(1996), Yang Renjing(2000), and Mao Xinde(2004). And recently, some scholars have paid attention to the artistic features of the novel in detail. Chen Lanxun has in her article The Irony of Invisible Man analyzed its verbal irony, situational irony and structural irony(2007). The use of satire in Invisible Man is explored by Dong Ying. She points out that satire provides profound meaning by simple words and exposes that there is, as a matter of fact, great injustice in the racist American society(2007).
Conclusion
Yet few people have paid serious attention to its dialogic features. Since the publication of Bakhtin’s major works on philosophy, linguistics, and literature, such as The Dialogic Imagination(1981), Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics(1984), Speech Henre and other later essays, dialogic theory, or dialogism, has become a newly independent critical weapon. It has greatly influenced the literary circle in the west. “The history of Bakhtin’s reception suggests that if we are to continue to think about his work in a way that is useful, some synthetic means must be found for categorizing the different ways he meditated on dialogue” (Holquist, 1990;15), it is obvious that dialogue is the most important key to the assumptions that guided Bakhtin’s work throughout his while career. The famous critic, Berndt Ostendorf(1986), has also witnessed the influence of Bakhtin on Ralph Ellison. He has observed, “a case could be made for a family resemblance between Ellison and Mikhail Bakhtin, whose understanding of the novel as a dialogic form with a polyphony of voice comes to mind”(151). And in China Lu Shan has also studied the identity problem of the novel based on polyphony theory of Bakhtin.

本科生毕业论文

题目： 论《看不见的人 》中主人公的
自我迷失和自我发现

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Analysis of the Narrator’s Self-loss and Self-discovery in Invisible Man

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For the Degree of B.A in English at XXXX University

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Abstract
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is a novel which embodies the universal theme of self-discovery, of the search to figure out who one truly is in life which we all are embarked upon. The story of Invisible Man is the process of the narrator’s seeking for his identity, which he has gone through a lot of twists and turns, from self-loss, self-discovery, to self-realization. “Loss of self-identity” and “seeking self” is an important theme of American literature. In this thesis, the invisibility of the narrator, loss of self-identity, self-discovery and seeking self are discussed in order to find the relation of these elements and the important theme of contemporary American literature: self-identity.
This thesis consists of four parts. Chapter One analyses the the causes for the narrator’s invisibility, in which his super-ego, racial discrimination, cultural value, and economic development of capitalism are employed to serve as the main factors； Chapter Two deals with self-loss of the narrator, which is reflected in his three main life stages; Chapter Three studies the process of his self-discovery from four perspectives; Chapter Four focuses on the self-realization and his emerging from hibernation.

Key words self-loss self-discovery self-realization self-identity

摘要

拉尔夫•埃里森的《看不见的人》是美国文学史上的里程碑。这本小说体现了自我发现这一普遍主题，即每个人都会经历发现真正的自我这一过程。《看不见的人》是主人公自我身份认同的过程，可谓一波三折，从自我迷失，自我发现到自我实现。本篇论文就主人公的不可见，自我迷失和自我发现进行分析来发现它们之间的关系，同时探讨现代美国文化的重要主题——自我身份认同。本篇论文将分析主人公的自我迷失和自我发现，共包含四部分。第一章分析了主人公不可见的原因，主要从主人公的超我意识，种族歧视，文化价值，资本主义经济发展四个方面分析；第二章从主人公三个主要生活阶段分析了主人公的自我迷失；第三章从四方面分析了主人公的自我发现；第四章重点写主人公的自我实现。

关键字 自我迷失 自我发现 自我实现 自我身份认同

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
Chapter I The Causes for the Narrator’s Invisibility 3
A Super-ego (self-loss) for his invisibility 3
B Racial discrimination for his invisibility 5
C Cultural value for his invisibility 7
D Economic development of capitalism for his invisibility 8
Chapter II Self-Loss of the Narrator 10
A Invisibility in university life 11
B Invisibility in New York 12
C Invisibility in brotherhood 13
Chapter III The Process of Self-discovery 15
A From the town to the college 15
B In the paint plant 15
C From the paint plant to Harlem 16
D Falling to the hole 16
Chapter IV Self-Realization and Emerging from the Hibernation 18
Conclusion...................................................................................................................20
Notes 22
Bibliography 23

Introduction

Invisible Man is a milepost in American literature, a book that has continued to appeal to readers since its publication in 1952. It was for sixteen weeks that it remained on the bestseller list, won the National Book Award for fiction, though it was a novel by an unknown writer, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the landmark writers of the century. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison embodies the universal theme of self-discovery, of the search to figure out who one truly is in life; at the same time it explores one road to lead one to go into himself.
Ralph Ellison was one of the most popular black writers in the history of American literature and he was considered as father of African-American modernism. He had made a great contribution both to African-American literature and the whole American literary creation. He was born in a black family in Oklahoma locating in the middle south of America in 1914. His father was Lewis Alfred, a building worker and smaller retailer. He named his son Ralph Waldo Ellison after Ralph Waldo Emerson, a renowned American poet and philosopher in the 19th century, hoping Ellison would be a successful man in literary. His mother was a domestic servant who also hoped her son to be a man of high credit. She used to bring books to her son from the family