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An Analysis of Nuclear Anxiety in the Nuclear Age from a Perspective of Spatial Narrative

Author: WuChangGuo
Tutor: ZhaoZuo
School: National University of Defense Science and Technology
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: The nuclear age Nuclear anxiety Text space Story space Psychological space
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract


For the human history of science, the invention of nuclear weapons adds a splendid touch, the morphology of the war also changed. The end of World War II the U.S. military to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan is the first human use of nuclear weapons in the war, it devastated not only to the people at the time brought immeasurable trauma, but also the future generations of people in the nuclear deterrent . After entering the Cold War, the United States and the former Soviet Union launched the arms race-based nuclear weapons, leading to hoarding a large number of nuclear weapons on Earth; frequent outbreak of the crisis between the two groups, a tense situation between the two sides, people live permanently under the nuclear haze . Psychologists the Mass Psychology concerned about nuclear deterrence many, research quite good, the novelist given less attention, the American writer Tim O'Brien's \Of O'Brien by juxtaposition, repeatedly switching collage postmodernism creative approach to break the tradition of the novel linear narrative, and in general to create a sometimes Quantm vast and sometimes suffocation pressing changes caused by the effect of the space. Creative approach to stick to the original, the application of narrative theory from space founded by Joseph Frank O'Brien novel construct the text space, three aspects of the story space and readers psychological space to analyze the novel \under the protagonist of nuclear anxiety. The text space arrangements through the novel structure and plot to explain the former is similar to the \physical behavior; story space including physical space and abstract space, it reveals the impact of nuclear anxiety the hero escape of desire, longing for the living environment of peace and security as well as the hero all relationships; the readers mental space carrying of Earth, love for the homeland, it is shaped by psychological trauma hero is triggered and writer psychological resonance. Therefore, the paper's conclusion is: the narrative space is one of the most effective means of performance figures of mental activity; to novel nuclear age, \arms race in the far-reaching impact of the human world, but also help scholars to further study the Cold War culture.

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