导　　师： 高继海

授予学位： 硕士

作　　者： ;

机构地区： 河南大学

摘　　要： Susan Sontag(1633—2004)is a renowned American writer and critic in the twentieth century.Her works have been translated into thirty-two languages，including novels，essays，plays，short stories，and film scripts.Moreover，she is also famous for her ardent activism in the cause of human rights，and leaves many precious spiritual values.For several decades，her works have occupied a place of prominence in literary circles.Sontag's The Volcano Lover(1992)，her third novel and also her favorite and most satisfied one，makes her achieve late popular success as a best-selling novelist.The Volcano Lover is a historical romance.Its subject is the infamous love triangle between Sir William Hamilton(the Cavaliere)，Emma Hamilton，and Horatio Nelson(the hero)，and its central setting is late-eighteenth-century Naples where Hamilton is the British envoy to the court of the Bourbon rulers.Western critics have appreciated Sontag and her works from various perspectives.The academic study at home is rather fragmentary.Generally speaking，Chinese scholars mainly do research on her life experiences and critical theories，yet less on the analysis of her novels.In addition，the studies on The Volcano Lover deal with its modernism，the aesthetic sense，the poetical features and narratology，so it is worthy to have a detailed study of it to broaden the study dimension.This thesis intends to make a detailed and theoretical analysis on the novel from the perspective of Foucault's theory of disciplinary power.The society of The Volcano Lover is a prison-like disciplinary society，in which omnipresent power controls and reforms individuals.The heroine Emma who belongs to the marginalized communities，has been disciplined by her husband and the society.Emma's misery is the natural product of the disciplinary society.The Volcano Lover displays the power of panoptical mechanism，in which women are practiced to be docile.They are deprived of the right to see，and do not see but are always seen.However，resistance can

关 键 词： 福柯 规训权力 火山情人 苏珊 桑塔格 人物角色解读

领　　域： [文学—其他各国文学]