《食肉之年》是日裔美国作家露丝·尾关的长篇小说,描述了作为纪录片制片人的主人公珍和她的上司在拍摄《美国主妇》过程中的冲突,揭露了隐藏在纪录片之下美国社会的一系列问题。本文利用克林斯·布鲁克斯的“反讽理论”对《食肉之年》进行文本细读,试图从新批评的反讽视角,从言语反讽、情境反讽、戏剧反讽这三个方面进一步剖析小说的深刻主题。 The Year of the Carnivore, a novel by Japanese-American writer Ruth Tauchuan, describes the clash between filmmaker Jane and her boss in the filming of “American housewives” A series of questions under American society. In this paper, Collins Brooks’s “Irony Theory” is used to carry out a textual reading of the “Year of the Carnivore” in an attempt to further analyze the profound aspects of the novel from the ironic perspective of the new criticism and from three aspects: verbal irony, situational irony and dramatic irony theme.