Abstract W. S. Maugham enjoyed the great reputation as a playwright and novelist in the 20th century and was known as the English Maupassant. He lived in the World War time, but he focused his eyes on the topics which was irrelevant with...

Abstract Sherwood Anderson is an important American novelist and short-story writer of the early twentieth century. The Egg, one of Sherwood Andersons best short stories, is highly symbolic. The thesis attempts to analyze the use of symbo...

Abstract Harry Potter is the representative work of British female writer J.K. Rowling, which has been translated into seventy-four languages and over 500 million copies have been sold worldwide. As an important character in the book, Sev...

Abstract The Birth-Mark is one of Nathaniel Hawthornes masterpieces, and it also ranks among the literary treasures in American history. Though the plot of the story is not complicated, the message Hawthorne tried to convey is thought pro...

Abstract As the aestheticism movement pioneer in Britain, Oscar Wilde shows the aesthetic thoughts in the novel, poetry, etc. Through the research object of The Picture of Dorian Gray and method of aestheticism, the paper is devoted to th...

Abstract As the first black writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon with its unique writing style and the touching story made a great success. The way of using magic realism not only accurately conve...

Abstract The paper analyzes the new world and the old world in Kazuo Ishiguros fiction Never Let Me Go. From the perspective of Sartres Existentialism, the paper discloses the illusory nature of the seemingly happy old world represented b...

Abstract This Paper studies the popularity and strong vitality of the Relative Concealment in ancient China. From systemic functional linguistic perspective, this paper analyzes sections and chapters from Confucian classics that embodied...

Abstract: Louisa May Alcott, an American writer in the 19th century won her overnight fame by the publication of Little Women. This book was written in the form of a family journal, vividly representing a story of the March girls upbringi...

Abstract This paper endeavors to analyze the images of middle-aged women with the perspective of feminism in Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage written by Alice Munro. It attempts to read their life and emotional experien...

Abstract Mammon and the Archer by O. Henry is chosen as the study subject, and with the help of the device of class theory, this paper focuses on the short storys social analyses. Based on the overview of American society in late 19th cen...

Abstract In the global context, the essay studies the history of English in becoming a world language, and discussed three main reasons. Firstly, the colonization of the British Empire; secondly, some countries self colonization; thirdly,...

Abstract William Faulkner is a great American writer in the 20th century. This paper examines the interpersonal relationship in Faulkner's three famous short stories: A Rose for Emily, Barn Burning, and Dry September. The thesis analyses...

Abstract Reader-reception theory originated in Germany in the 1960s, with representatives like Jauss and Iser. They oppose to the traditional thinking that authors are the most important, and believes that readers are the true reason of s...

Abstract Jack London(1876 -1916) is a well-known writer whose works have been read every corner of the world．Jack Londons works are well nourished with different schools of thought，which provide him with the powerful driving force to...

Abstract Malamud grew up striving for his success in the unbalanced collision of the contemporary American culture and the traditional Jewish culture.Therefore his emotions for these two cultures are confused and conflicting, which are de...

Abstract This paper analyzes the American realist Theodore Dreisers work, Sister Carrie (1900) from the female perspective. As a female image who breaks traditional social ideas, Sister Carrie, the leading character of this work is a typi...

Abstract This essay is from the perspective of the impact of writers character and life experiences on literature creation to analyze the main areas of the impact, and on the basis of which to interpret Alexandre Dumas and his work Count...

Abstract This paper endeavors to analyze the story environment in Joseph Hellers Catch-22 and the survival modes of the minor Characters from the prospective of existentialism. Among the various characters in this novel ,only a few of the...

Abstract Theodor Dreisers book Sister Carrie takes the protagonists (Carries) growing up as the mainline, focusing on depicting Carries individual development. This paper will use Lukacss theory of materializing to analyze Carries charact...

Abstract The history of European medieval dramas is called the the dark millennium for the monopoly of religious drama formed by the rapid development of religious influence. Religious dramas, including miracle plays, mystery plays, moral...

Abstract Michael Cunningham is an American famous writer. The Hours, published in 1998, is his third works, which helped him win the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. This novel is written on the base of Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway to pay his hon...

Abstract This paper endeavors to discuss how to determine lie detection in detective fictions, taking three of the most famous works written by Agatha Christie for data------Death on the Nile, The ABC murder, In the Murder of Roger Ackroy...

Abstract The Mayor of Casterbridge, belonging to the selection of the Environment and Character novels, is a masterpiece of Thomas Hardy. In Victorian Era, especially the mid-Victorian times, the economy of Britain reached its peak. Befor...

Abstract Harry Potter became popular around the world and scholars studied the phenomenon from various perspective. However, scholars were focus on the heroes and heroines, while they neglected the supporting roles. Few researches have do...

Abstract Focused on the concept of metaphor by Lakoff and based on the differences between traditional and cognitive metaphor, this paper probes the classification, connotation and pragmatic meaning of conceptual metaphor in English idiom...

Abstract WilliamWordsworth, a great Romantic poet, refreshed from the nature and portrayed his feeling about the nature in his poem. RuanJi , a Chinese philosopher in the Wei dynasty , also found strength in the nature. Nature provides pe...

Abstract Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as the modern classic of American literature in 20th century. Holden Caulfield is a rebel, an anti-realistic, and a boy who turns himself against the whole adult world. In connection...

Abstract The Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk concerns about the relationship between vulnerable civilization and dominant western civilization. He tries to seek a way out for vulnerable civilization. In his masterpiece My name is Red, Pamuk re...

Abstract The thesis takes utopian and dystopian literature as the point of departure to decode the Neverland, a fantastic and ethereal island created by J.M.Barrie. It aims to reveal the spiritual salvation hidden in the modern fairy tale...