Real Estate and the Realist Short Story in the United States, 1973-1992

我的博士论文考察了“漫长的20世纪80年代”（1973-1992）美国现实主义短篇小说中对房地产的描绘，这段时期经济不确定，经济衰退结束。我的项目集中在露西亚·伯林、雷蒙德·卡弗和洛丽·摩尔身上，他们每个人都代表了那个时期现实主义短篇小说“复兴”的主要流派：伯林、卡弗和戴维斯的故事分别被莉迪亚·戴维斯称为现实主义的“自成小说”，被比尔·布福德称为“肮脏的现实主义”，被马克·麦古尔称为“程序时代”的现实主义。然而，我的研究有可能扩展到其他作家和运动。我的论文提出，20世纪80年代的现实主义短篇小说阐明了对美国“家”的重新概念化，将其作为一个短暂的地方，以应对刚刚不稳定的房地产市场。此外，我的论文认为，伯林、卡弗和摩尔在现实主义流派上的创新挑战了那个时期的经济金融化。通过描述房地产——资本的空间化——这些作者抵制了放松管制的资本主义经济的日益抽象。柏林和摩尔仍然被严重忽视，而卡弗还没有被研究与房地产的间接关系。研究问题：1)20世纪80年代漫长的美国现实主义短篇小说如何呈现房地产？2)经济转型是如何形成这些文学表现形式的？3)经济分期对经典的批判性解释有什么影响？

My doctoral thesis examines portrayals of real estate in American realist short stories of the 'long 1980s' (1973-1992)-aperiod of economic uncertainty bookended by recessions. My project focuses on Lucia Berlin, Raymond Carver andLorrie Moore, each of whom represents a major strand of the period's 'renaissance' of realist short fiction: Berlin's,Carver's, and Davis's stories have, respectively, been termed realist 'autofiction' by Lydia Davis, 'dirty realism' by BillBuford, and 'program era' realism by Mark McGurl. However, my research has the potential to extend to other writersand movements. My thesis proposes that realist short fiction of the long 1980s articulates a reconceptualisation of theAmerican 'home' as a place of transience, in response to the newly destabilised housing market. My thesis contends,moreover, that Berlin's, Carver's and Moore's innovations in the realist genre challenge the economic financialisation ofthe period. By describing real estate-the spatialisation of capital-these writers resist the increasing abstraction of thederegulated capitalist economy. Berlin and Moore remain critically neglected, while Carver has yet to be examined indirect relation to real estate. Research Questions: 1) How does American realist short fiction of the long 1980s presentreal estate? 2) How were these literary representations formed by economic transformations? 3) What impact doeseconomic periodisation have on critical interpretations of the canon?