論文名稱：權力劇場: 大衛•馬梅特之《房地產大亨》及《美國水牛》中的衝突、反抗與傅柯式權力觀
頁數：一百二十八頁
校所組別：國立中山大學外國語文研究所
畢業名稱及提別要：八十八學年度第二學期碩士學位論文提要
研究生：陳宛伶 指導教授：王儀君 教授
論文提要

本論文旨在以傅柯式權力觀詮讀分析大衛•馬梅特著名之「商業三部曲」中的《房地產大亨》及《美國水牛》。多數的評論家在檢視這兩部劇作中的權力關係時，著重在權力的負面觀念上，例如：剝削與壓制。本文主要探討在《房地產大亨》及《美國水牛》中的人際關係裡之權力正向性，並進而闡明馬梅特的商人角色其自我維護之失敗，乃因運用錯誤的權力策略所導致。傅柯式權力通徹地彰顯出馬梅特式商業世界中權力運作的精密性與權力功效的正面性。
緒論一章提及馬梅特之商業戲劇的獨特風格，並指出所選的二部戲劇與傅柯式權力分析觀的關連性。首章概述本文之理論架構，介紹傅柯式權力觀。此章中，除了探論傅柯之權力觀念的變遷和梗概，且提出法律的迂迴論証之權力模型(juridical-discursive model of power)的特質。由此，在接續的次兩章權力分析過程中，揭櫫筆者採傅柯式權力觀為本論文詮解之原因。第二章企圖由《房地產大亨》中一連串的背叛行為來檢視其中的權力關係。為求生存，馬梅特的商人角色以反抗之名為其在權力關係中的反叛行為掩護。第三張主要探討《美國水牛》中角色間的矛盾衝突及精細的權力運作。劇中三位主要角色因無法將友誼與商機間的考量清楚區別，造成物質利益涉入之人際關係的扭曲。經由這二齣權力劇的權力關係探討，結論一章肯定大衛•馬梅特戲劇創作目的已臻至善，倘使其讀者能警覺錯誤的權力策略造就扭曲的人際關係之危機。

This thesis is focused on the Foucauldian analysis of power in two of David Mamet’s famous “Business Trilogy” – Glengarry Glen Ross and American Buffalo. Most of Mamet’s critics concentrate on the negative notion of power, i.e., exploitation and repression, while examining relations of power in the business worlds of these two plays. The primary concern of this study is to explore the positivity of exercises of power in human relationships in Glengarry Glen Ross and American Buffalo and then illuminate the fact that Mamet’s figures of businessmen’s false employment of strategy of power thereupon leads them to fail their self-assertions. Foucauldian analytics of power thoroughly manifests the subtlety of operation of power as well as the productive effects of power in Mametian business world.
The introduction mentions the distinctiveness of Mamet’s business plays and explains the connection between these two plays of Mamet and Foucauldian analytics of power. Chapter one deals with an overview of Foucault’s conception of power, which provides a theoretical frame for the body of this study. In this chapter, not only the transformation and the skeleton of Foucauldian power are proffered, but the characteristics of juridical-discursive model of power are also introduced. Therefore, in the following two chapters, the reasons of employing Foucauldian analytics of power for this research are displayed in the process of analyzing exercises of power. The second chapter attempts to exam the power relations from a series of actions of betraying in Glengarry Glen Ross. It is shown that Mamet’s businessmen, for the sake of survival, practice betrayals in the light of exercising resistance in relations of power. Chapter three is chiefly concerned with the conflicts and delicate exercises of power among the characters in American Buffalo. The three main characters’ failure of distinguishing business from friendship causes the distortion of human relations in which material advantages are involved. Throughout the examination of power relations in these two plays of power, the last chapter concludes that David Mamet’s aim of writing plays will be achieved if his readers become to be aware of the danger of wrongly adopting strategies of power in human communities.

Introduction -----------------------------------------------------------------------------1


Chapter One
An Overview of Foucauldian Power ------------------------------------------20


Chapter Two:
Glengarry Glen Ross:
Betrayals as Resistance ----------------------------------------------50


Chapter Three
American Buffalo:
Where There Is Conflict, There Is Power --------------------------84


Conclusion ----------------------------------------------------------------------------113


Works Cited --------------------------------------------------------------------------123

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