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

我的博士论文考察了美国现实主义短篇小说《漫长的20世纪80年代》(1973-1992)中对房地产的描绘。我的项目关注的是露西亚·伯林、雷蒙德·卡弗和洛丽·摩尔，他们中的每一个人都代表了那个时期现实主义短篇小说“复兴”的一个主要方面：柏林的、卡弗的和戴维斯的故事分别被莉迪亚·戴维斯称为现实主义的“自动小说”，比尔·布福德的“肮脏的现实主义”，以及马克·麦格尔的“节目时代”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年代漫长的现实主义短篇小说清楚地表明，为了应对新出现的不稳定的房地产市场，美国人将“家”重新定义为一个短暂的地方。此外，我的论文认为，柏林、卡弗和摩尔在现实主义体裁方面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--这些作家抵制了对放松管制的资本主义经济日益抽象的看法。柏林和摩尔仍然被严重忽视，而卡弗还没有被考察与房地产的间接关系。研究问题：1)20世纪80年代美国现实主义短篇小说是如何呈现房地产的？2)这些文学表现是如何由经济转型形成的？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?