On Terry McMillan’s Waiting to Exhale from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism
英文摘要 Abstract in English
中文摘要 Abstract in Chinese
目录 Table of Contents
英文摘要 Abstract in English
中文摘要 Abstract in Chinese
简介 Introduction
1. 特丽•麦克米兰及《等待梦醒时分》简介 An Introduction toTerry McMillan and Waiting to Exhale
2. 特丽•麦克米兰作品的文献综述 Literature Review
3. 文学伦理学批评及关键概念界定 Ethical Literary Criticism and Key Concepts
2.1 Love Ethic
2.2 Family Ethic
2.3Social Interpersonal Ethic
第一章《等待梦醒时分》中的爱情伦理 Chapter One Love Ethic in Waiting to Exhale
1.1 无爱的性 Sex without Love
1.2 三角关系 Love Triangle
1.3 性与爱的结合 Unity of Sex and Love
第二章《等待梦醒时分》中的家庭伦理 Chapter Two Family Ethic in Waiting to Exhale
2.1 不和谐的夫妻关系 Disharmony in Conjugal Relationship
2.2 和谐的代际关系 Harmony in Parent-children Relationship
第三章《等待梦醒时分》中的社会人际伦理 Chapter Three Social Interpersonal Ethic in Waiting to Exhale
3.1 强有力的姐妹情谊 Powerful Sisterhood
3.2 团结的女性社团 United Women Community
3.3 互信互助的工作关系 Trustful and Supportive Work Relationship
结论 Conclusion
3.2.1 Love ethnics
The black Women take initiative in the love. In definition, Love is a multi-faceted and variegated concept which often seems ‘as elusive as it is crucial to the lives of almost all of us’ (Sternberg & Grajek, 1984, p. 312). A history of study in social psychology reflects this diversity and has increasingly come to appreciate Barthes’ (1990) claim that any pretensions to a singular theory of love should be replaced with a concern about its affirmation and what people actually say and do in love’s name. This has led to a focus on the personal definition and subjective experience of love. Lee (1977) was the first to exemplify this approach, studying love as a problem of competing ideologies about the optimum arrangement of intimate adult partnering. Citing six central ideologies or styles, which variously promoted love as passionate/erotic, as game playing and uncommitted, as friendship, as practical and calculating, as altruistic, and as a potential obsession, Lee (1988) suggested that people would simply ‘buy into’ one or more of these cultural ideologies at different times and in different contexts and relationships. Sternberg’s (1995, 1996, 1998) theory of ‘love as a story’ extends this emphasis on personal definition still further. The theory proposes that each person’s experiences of love coalesce to form their own love story. In western, individualistic cultures, for example, love has traditionally been dominated by feminine images and understood in terms of gender difference, a situation attributed primarily to the rise of capitalism and the concomitant separation of home and workplace (Burns, 2002; Cancian, 1987). Men place more emphasis on the physical attractiveness of a partner and have tended to understand love in passionate terms, as a powerful and short-term feeling driven primarily by the pursuit of sex, fun, and excitement (Buss & Barnes, 1985; Greitemeyer, 2005; Hatfield, 1988). However, in the history of the black, this situation is totally different. Women are more willing to get love , so that they are more active more men in the engagement.
Love ethics in the western culture could cover a wide range, including love of God, love of neighbors, love of others, etc (CUSVELLER, 2014). In this paper, it specifically focus on the respective of love ethics between a man and woman, namely "sexual ethics" is the relationship between sex, sexuality, and sexual attitudes among other things. These relationships include the relationship between sex and love, sex and marriage, sex and birth, sex and relationships, sex and work, and many other things, as well as sexual relations between men and women in gender relations. Sexual ethics is the attitude and grasp the standard in dealing with people, held the balance of these relations. Sexual ethics or sex ethics, also called sexual morality are ethics that concern issues from all aspects of human sexuality, including human sexual behavior. Broadly speaking, sexual et
