Abstract The 18th century was a period when British novel rose and developed rapidly. Henry Fielding (1707-1754), as an important founding writer in the 18th century, created a new writing form, comic epic in prose. Joseph Andrews, as his...

Abstract Recently, the gothic culture gradually has captured the publics attention with the newly-born mess media means such as the modern films and novels, and particularly regained its prosperity by motion pictures. Long literary histor...

Abstract Little women is the most famous work of Louisa May Alcott. This is a family novel describing the happy life and their desires of the March family. Someone says it is novel about the history of the four sisters growth and developm...

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摘 要： 英国现实主义小说家简奥斯丁的著作多以刻画和描写英国乡村家庭女性的婚姻和生活为主。本文首先对《爱玛》中女主人公身上所折射出的女性意识进行略论归纳，其中包括爱...

摘要： 节日，作为民俗文化中的一个重要部分，包含着一个民族历史形成和沉淀下来的性格、心理、信仰、观念、思维方式、道德情操、审美情趣，寄托了人民对生活的热爱。本文以...

摘要: 一个是战火纷飞的年代，一个是日渐腐朽的封建王朝。当优雅的南方贵族生活被强大的新生北方资产阶级打败，当烈火烹油的权贵生活被王朝统治者终结，那些脆弱的曾经在家族...

摘要： 作为现代主义的代表作之一，托马斯艾略特的杰作《荒原》对西方文学产生了重大的作用。因为诗中有很多神奇的但又不相连贯的碎片，《荒原》以其复杂性而出名。在现代文...

摘要： 尤金奥尼尔在继承与发展古希腊悲剧的基础上，吸收近代优秀的哲学思想，以贴近现实生活的笔触，创作了一大批优秀的戏剧著作。在他的著作中，古希腊悲剧的核心思想即人...

摘要： 作为美国黑人文学史上的经典之作，拉尔夫埃里森著写的《看不见的人》主要讲述了一个没有名字的主人公努力追寻自我价值和身份认同的艰难成长史。背负着美国人和黑人这...

摘要： 《觉醒》是美国女作家凯特肖班的著作，它讲述了主人公艾德娜在父权社会中从自我意识苏醒，到觉醒后的行为转变直至最终走向自杀的过程。本文从女性主义理论视角出发，...

摘要： 海明威是美国20世纪的伟大作家，被称为自然之子。生态批评产生后，海明威的自然观日益受到关注，回归自然的意识在他的杰作《老人与海》中达到成熟。本文首先以生态批...

摘要： 戴维赫伯特劳伦斯是20世纪英国著名的小说家。《儿子与情人》是劳伦斯的成名作，这部著作承载了劳伦斯对男性与女性之间联系的探析。本论文通过略论《儿子与情人》中的...

摘要： 伏地魔是英国女作家乔安娜凯瑟琳罗琳创作的《哈利波特》系列小说中的反派人物。很多国内外学者探讨伏地魔这个反角，但大部分都是从反面批判这一角色，不够全面。本文...

摘要： 在东西方的文学国度里，简奥斯汀和张爱玲分别代表了两个无法逾越的高度。她们手握如椽大笔，饱蘸笔墨，或诙谐或苍凉地书写着各自时代女性最本真的生存姿态。她们各自...

摘要： 本文通过对布兰姆斯托克的小说《德库拉》、安妮赖斯的吸血鬼的圣经《吸血鬼编年史》以及当代最受欢迎的《暮光之城》中各个时期吸血鬼角色由魔鬼到魅力化身的转换，甚...

摘要： 唯美主义及唯美主义运动是在维多利亚时代后期（大致为18681901）出现的一场重要的文学运动。唯美主义提倡的是为艺术而艺术。奥斯卡王尔德是19世纪英国本土上杰出的唯美主...

Abstract F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most important American writers, and also a famous playwright. As the most significant representative of the Jazz Age, he has a profound and lasting effect on American literature. His characters...

Abstract Walt Whitman was a great American poet in 19th century. Due to his family background, he took a variety of jobs at early years for making money to help family. Therefore he had so much experience with the people he saw ,the surro...

Abstract In the late 17th century, China fever emerged in Western Europe. The Orphan of Zhao written by Ji Junxiang, a playwright of Yuan Dynasty, was translated into French by Ma Yuese, a missionary from the societies of Jesus. When firs...

Abstract Stream of consciousness, as one of the most remarkable features in contemporary western literature, is the fruit of many writers including Katherine Mansfield, who is one of the explorers and founders. This paper aims to demonstr...

Abstract Sand and Foam, one of the masterpieces of the Lebanon poet Kahlil Gibran, expresses the poets major concerns over life and death, love and beauty and good and evil in a poetic form. This thesis attempts to analyze Kahlil Gibrans...

Abstract Araby, the third short story selected from Dubliners by James Joyce, demonstrates to us the disillusionment of a boy and a paralysed wilderness pervading in Dublin by telling the story of a boys seeking for his first love. This p...

Abstract The Story of an Hour is one of the representative works on feminism by Kate Chopin, a famous American woman writer in the nineteenth century. The whole story happens in an hour, describing the protagonist Mrs. Mallards psychologi...

Abstract The Call of the Wild is the most famous novel of Jack London. This novel is mainly about a dog called Buck growing from a pet to a sled dog till becoming a wild wolf. This thesis begins with a brief introduction to Jack London an...

Abstract A Rose for Emily, the most outstanding among the short stories of William Faulkner who is the representative of the southern novelists in America, demonstrates to us the tragedy of a southern aristocratical ladyEmily Grierson--by...

Abstract The famous short story The Loons is written by a Canadian woman writer Margret Laurence. It tells of an Indian Mtis girl Piquettes short and miserable life. This paper, by analyzing in detail the tragedy of the loons which respec...

Abstract Kate Chopin is an American famous female writer in the 19th century. The Awakening, one long story, is her best works, which describes the awakening of female self-consciousness. This paper aims to analyze three male characters a...

Abstract As the basis of the knights domination, chivalry played an important role in the Medieval history of Western Europe. This thesis aims to study how the vicissitudes of romance and chivalry were linked with the development of weste...

Abstract The Moon and Sixpence, written by W. Somerset Maugham, mainly tells a story about the protagonist Charles Stricklands pursuit of his dream of painting and eventually finding his self and inner peace on the small island of Tahiti....