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| 《边境三部曲》中，麦卡锡借用了刘易斯提出的美国亚当神话人物的创作符码，但其通过独特的叙事技巧和准确且富于变化的语言揭露和批判了美国亚当式人物背后隐含的意识形态。美国亚当的个人主义意识体现为一方面期冀平等民主，另一方面却诉诸暴力来换取正义和公平，因此是矛盾且内在冲突的。美国亚当的历史意识则是混乱的，他们试图摆脱历史的约束，然而其种种遭遇完全印证了过去对现在的操控；当代美国亚当身上的帝国主义意识是根深蒂固的，这也是导致其悲剧命运的重要原因。麦卡锡对美国亚当意识形态的揭露和批判是对美国亚当神话的当代反思，是对美国情感架构中的不合理因素的质疑，亦是对美国建构历史的真实性的审视与反思。 |
| 关键词: 边境三部曲 美国亚当 神话批判 麦卡锡 |
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| Criticism of American Adam’s Ideology in McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy |
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School of Foreign Languages，Shanghai University of Science and Technology，Shanghai 200092，China
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| In the Border Trilogy，Cormac McCarthy adopts the figure of American Adam which was first proposed by R.W.B.Lewis.However，he criticizes and deconstructs those figures fundamentally and thoroughly.In the myth，Adamic protagonists are regarded as supermen with extraordinary skills，gracious characters and noble minds.They are free and independent，breaking from all constraint，living without any limits.While in the Border Trilogy，McCarthy describes the powerlessness and frustrations of Adamic protagonists in commercialized modern American west by exploring and criticizing their paradoxical individualism，the ambivalent sense of history and the imperialistic ideology.McCarthy criticizes and renovates cowboy codes which structure the behavior patterns of his protagonists.Those cowboy codes embody ideals which signify well beyond western borders，reflecting national notions of a fundamental American identity and revealing an essential American anxiety over the apparent instability of that identity.By criticizing Adamic heroes’ ideologies，McCarthy deconstructs the myth of American Adam. |
| Key words: the Border Trilogy,American Adam,criticism of myth,Cormac McCarthy |
