美国文学作品选读论文
关于美国文学的论文
关于美国文学的论文美国梦作为美国文学中一个永恒的主题，始终贯穿于美国文学之中。
下文是店铺为大家搜集整理的关于美国文学的论文的内容，欢迎大家阅读参考!美国文学的论文篇1浅析美国文学中的旅行与美国梦摘要: 对于美国人而言，上路旅行不仅是自由和美国梦的隐喻，而且是实现“显明的命定”(Manifest Destiny)的物质手段和方式。
本文以惠特曼的《草叶集》和克鲁亚克的《在路上》等作品为例，说明旅行以及过路仪式表现了典型的美国经验，表达了对美国梦的追寻、实现和传播，成为美国文化传统的重要组成部分。
关键词: 旅行;美国梦;《草叶集》;《在路上》一道路将人们从一地引向另一地，它是不同地点彼此沟通的不可或缺的桥梁。
原本各自独立、互不关联的两地因而被连接起来，产生互动，拥有了更加丰盈的生命。
几乎所有的文化都赋予道路以特别的价值，对之倾注了连绵不断的情感。
在美国，道路四通八达，如同一张网把人们的日常生活联系起来，而由于美国人生性“不安分”，不愿久居一地，加上酷爱户外活动，上路旅行便成了美国生活的一种实现方式，同时也成为美国文化的一大隐喻。
这一隐喻对于美国有着特别的意义，因为美国毕竟是由旅行者创建的：当初，清教徒远离家国，跨越大西洋来到这片陌生的土地;后来，他们从偏居美利坚东北一隅的新英格兰逐步西进，扩展畛域，奠定今日美国之格局。
毫不夸张地说，道路在美国的建立和发展过程中建立了不朽的功勋。
此外，美国幅员辽阔、地域广袤，加上经济繁荣，汽车工业发达，美国成为举世闻名的车轮上的国家。
出于工作和生活的需要，美国人花费不少的时间“在路上”，驱车出行几乎成为他们的必需。
旅行不仅是指从出发地到目的地的跨越，而且常被视为对某种历程的经历，例如，它可以象征性地指代个人的成长，或者是对某种信仰(如宗教信仰)的追寻。
穿越全美、尤其是跨越大片未开发地区的旅行，是勇气和冒险精神的体现，这种对未知领域的探索伴随着美国向西部的扩张而被放大甚至神化。
关于文学论文美国文学论文：美国文学中的代表性意识流小说研究
关于文学论文美国文学论文：美国文学中的代表性意识流小说研究摘要：意识流小说是典型的心理小说，人物的意识流动成为小说的绝对主体。
美国文学中的意识流小说代表人物有亨利·詹姆斯和威廉·福克纳等等。
他们在自己的代表作中将意识流手法发挥得淋漓尽致，并以此来探索文学表现的新方法，为小说艺术的表现力开辟了新的途径，而且取得了突出的成绩，成为公认的美国文学大师。
关键词：美国文学；意识流；心理；小说一、引言“意识流”一词是心理学家威廉·詹姆士提出来的，指人的思想或感觉的持续流动。
后来文学评论者借用该词形容现代小说中模仿这一过程的创作流派。
美国文学中的意识流小说代表人物有亨利·詹姆斯和威廉·福克纳等。
詹姆斯在小说中通常选一个有洞察力的人物，从他的角度来叙述，以他的意识为“中心意识”，再选几个配角，像许多镜子一般从各个角度反照出叙述者的思想情绪。
二、詹姆士与意识流小说亨利·詹姆斯是美国文学中意识流小说的开创者，他出身高贵、深受欧洲文化影响，是描写上层资产阶级精神面貌的代表作家。
他的风格高雅、细致，讲究表现形式，并开创了心理分析小说的先河，他的作品，尤其是后期作品如《鸽翼》(1902)，不厌其详地发掘人物“最幽微、最朦胧的”思想与感觉，把“太空中跳动的脉搏”转化为形象。
詹姆斯认为，小说创作不应停留在对客观事物的表面摹写上，而应追寻生活的内在真实。
这种内在真实就是生活现象在人们内心深处引发的变化多端、不可名状、难以界说的内在精神。
詹姆斯的代表作品《一个美国人》(1877)、《黛西·米勒》(1879)和《贵妇人的画像》(1881)就已经预示着现代小说专写主观意识的气氛：“着眼点”(point of view)和“视角”(angle of vision)，他们正是一部部实践了作者描绘内在真实的艺术主张的作品。
《黛西·米勒》突破传统小说的套路，没有情节，没有环境，也没有结局，作者只抓住人物瞬间的没有行动的印象感觉和沉思冥想，将我们引入人物的精神世界。
美国文学选读-丧钟为谁而鸣
Analysis on the theme ofFor Whom the Bell TollsThe themes of Hemingway’s novel are always about the war ,love and death. But they are describe in different ways depending on his different books. For example, the a farewell to arms and the sun also rises were written in 1920s,for whom the bell tolls was written 10 years later. We can see the attitude of Hemingway to love war and death has developed a lot. After struggling in lostness in a long time,he got rid of his lostness.The theme of war.The writing of war in the novel A Farewell to Arms is based on Hemingway’s early experience in World War I．Frederick Henry the protagonist of the novel，goes to the war in a burst of enthusiasm．This is reflected from his blindness in joining the Italian army．The disillusionment of Frederick Henry comes to stand for the disillusionment of the World War I generation：I was always embarrassed by the words sacred，glorious，and sacrifice and the expression in war．．．now for a long time and I had seen nothing sacred，and the things that were glorious and no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it．There were many words that you could not stand to bear and finally only the names of places had dignity．Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything．Abstract words such as glory,honor,courage，or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages，the numbers of roads，the name of rivers，and the numbers of regiments and date.The First World War gave that generation too much pain．That is why they got cynical about it and antiwar sentiment permeated everywhere．After World War I grew a lost generation，among which，Hemingway was the representative．But the attitude towards the war changed in the For Whom the Bell Tolls.In the 1930s，Fascism had become militant，imperialistic，and international．Although the artist devoted to the development of his art，isolated from political and social affairs，he could not ignore it any more．Just as Hemingway said that there was only one form of government that could not produce good writers，and that system was fascism．Robert Jordan，the protagonist of the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls，is not only a teacher of Spanish and a lover of Spain；he is also a writer，just like Hemingway．As an artist he is fully aware of the threat of fascist domination．But he take the duty without hesitate. And he came to the poor village and made friends with the soldiers. In the end of the article , he was not fear of death. He felt he could fight for the people who are oppressed by the fascism.Like the feeling you expected to have but did not have when you made your first communion．It was a feeling of consecration to a duty toward all the oppressed of the world which would be a difficult and embarrassing to speak out as religious experience and yet it is authentic as the feeling you had when you heard Bach，or stood in Charters Cathedral or the Cathedral at Leon and saw the light coming through the great windows⋯．It gave you a part in something that you could believe in wholly and completely．．．．It was something that gave much importance to it and the reasons for it that your own death seemed of complete unimportance ．．．．But the best thing was that there Was something you could do without this feeling--You could fight．Human LifeMany characters die during the course of the novel, and we see characters repeatedly question what can possibly justify killing another human being. Anselmo and Pablo represent two extremes with regard to this question. Anselmo hates killing people in all circumstances, although he will do so if he must. Pablo, on the other hand, accepts killing as a part of his life and ultimately demonstrates that he is willing to kill his own men just to take their horses. Robert Jordan’s position about killing falls somewhere between Anselmo’s and Pablo’s positions. Although Robert Jordan doesn’t like to think about killing, he has killed many people in the line of duty. His personal struggle with this question ends on a note of compromise. Although war can’t fully absolve him of guilt, and he has “no right to forget any of it,”Robert Jordan knows both that he must kill people as part of his duties in the war, and that dwelling on his guilt during wartime is not productive.The question of when it is justifiable to kill a person becomes complicated when we read that several characters, including Andrés, Agustín, Rafael, and even Robert Jordan, admit to experiencing a rush of excitement while killing. Hemingway does not take a clear moral stance regarding when it is acceptable to take another person’s life. At times he even implies that killing can be exhilarating, which makes the morality of the war in For Whom the Bell Tolls even murkier.Romantic LoveEven though many of the characters in For Whom the Bell Tolls take a cynical view of human nature and feel fatigued by the war, the novel still holds out hope for romantic love. Even the worldly-wise Pilar, in her memories of Finito, reveals traces of a romantic, idealistic outlook on the world. Robert Jordan and Maria fall in love at first sight, and their love is grand and idealistic. Love endows Robert Jordan’s life with new meaning and gives him new reasons to fight in the wake of the disillusionment he feels for the Republican cause. He believes in love despite the fact that other people—notably Karkov, who subscribes to the “purely materialistic”philosophy fashionable with the Hotel Gaylord set—reject its existence. This new acceptance of ideal, romantic love is one of the most important ways in which Robert Jordan rejects abstract theoriesin favor of intuition and action over the course of the novelFace the DeathFor Whom the Bell Tolls was written after the defeat of the Republic．During the Spanish War,Hemingway saw many heroic deeds．Hemingway,just as Robert Jordan，the hero of the novel，seemed to have found something worth dying for．If you die as these men did．then physical death means nothing and you can say as you breathe your last“Death，where is thy sting?or to use Hemingway’s own words“Those who have entered it honorably，and no man ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain already have achieved immortality．Even though you died without having won，your sacrifice was not in vain，and victory shall yet be yours．Robert Jordan，like many Hemingway’s heroes，is obsessed by death from the beginning of the novel．death，Robert Jordan grows out of the fear of death at last and shows his courage in the face of death．For he has fervent belief in the cause of fighting for the people he loves deeply,as well as his perfect fulfillment in love.time．The bridge is successfully destroyed，and Jordan is mortally wounded．Instead of committing suicide，he decides to stay behind to cover the retreat of the guerrillas with his sub—machine gun．So he accomplishes his personal achievement through self-sacrifice．Each one does what he can，he thinks．He can do nothing for himself but perhaps he can do something for another．He dies not only for Spain，not only to save the girl Maria who he loves，but also his own sake in fulfillment of a moral duty．The grim world in which he had grown up has not broken Jordan nor forced him to a deal with his conscience．Jordan dies a moral victor．Whether one has fear of it or not．one’s death is difficult to accept．Sordo had accepted it but there was no sweetness in its acceptance even atfifty·two，with three wounds and him surrounded on a hill．He joked about itto himself but he looked at the sky and at the far mountains and heswallowed the wine and he did not want it．If one must die，he thought，andclearly one must，1 can die．But 1 hate it．Dying Was nothing and he had nopicture of it for fear of it in his mind．But living was a field of grain blowingin the wind on the side of a hill．Living Was a hank in the sky．Living was anearthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out andthe chaff blowing．Living Was a horse between your legs and a carbine underone leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the farside of the valley and the hills beyond．”Hemingway’s heroes grow up，and step by step their idea of meaning of life changes and crystallizes.参考文献1.靳伟英走出迷惘的迷雾—《丧钟为谁而鸣》的主题思想[学位论文]硕士 20022.张娜解读海明威死亡主题【学位论文】硕士 2006。
大学英语美国文学《洛丽塔》课程论文(原创)
我读《洛丽塔》目录一、摘要正文二、正文1、序言2、作者介绍及写作背景3、作品主题探究。
3.1理性与真爱3.2伦理3.3追求4、作品的叙事艺术手法三、小结四、参考文献一、摘要正文我通过品读《洛丽塔》小说的品读及对电影的欣赏，从整体感知了作品的悲剧性以及从中看到美国当时的一些社会现象，从几个部分来探究了自己对于作品主题的理解和认识，包括理性对爱情及自由的束缚，伦理道德，《洛丽塔》的一些不为人知的秘密和纳博科夫对艺术的执着追求等。
以此，阐述了自己对现实世界的认知和对艺术的坚定不移的不懈追求。
关键词：理性与真爱伦理追求二、正文1、序言小说描述一位从法国移民美国的中年男子亨·亨伯特在少年时期，与一14岁的少女安娜贝儿发生了一段初恋，最后安娜贝儿因伤寒而早夭，造就了亨伯特的恋童癖。
第一次听说洛丽塔时它是被排在世界一百大禁书之列，不免让我好奇，如此精湛的一本书怎能被人类所无视？看了电影“洛丽塔”，也许在看前面的时候还可以带着轻快的安静的甚至带着微微笑意甚至轻蔑的不屑的眼光。
最后一个镜头却给了我一串沉重的省略号。
随着亨伯特对自由世界的最后一瞥，镜头在慢慢趋向于山下小村庄的时候渐渐消失，彩色化为了黑白，耳边回响着他饱含希望却又有些沉重的声音“我还在回想着当时的村庄和孩子们的笑声，可是在那些笑声里，没有我的洛丽塔”。
过了一会，漆黑的屏幕上出现了几行字：“1950年11月16日，亨伯特因急病猝死在狱中；同年圣诞节，洛丽塔死于难产。
”这不免让我想起了中国有句古话“不求同年同月同日生，但求同年同月同日死。
”亨亨是爱洛丽塔的，这种爱痛彻心扉，深入骨髓，与伦理无关，与道德无关，他只是爱她。
在《洛丽塔》一书全文的最后，亨伯特写道：“我正在想欧洲的野牛和天使，在想颜料持久的秘密，预言家的十四行诗，艺术的避难所，这便是你与我能共享的唯一的永恒，我的洛丽塔。
”“预言家的十四行诗，艺术的避难所”自然而然让人想起了莎士比亚著名的十四行诗：“你在不朽的诗里与时同长／只要一天有人类，或人有眼睛／这诗将长存，并且赐给你生命。
美国文学毕业论文
美国文学毕业论文美国文学记录了美国人民不断探索、向西拓展、追求幸福的历程,艺术地再现了美国200多年的发展历史,并在不同时期以不同的表现形式表现出来。
下文是店铺为大家搜集整理的关于美国文学毕业论文的内容，欢迎大家阅读参考!美国文学毕业论文篇1浅析美国文学中的美国梦摘要：美国梦是美国文学中贯穿始终的主题。
不同历史时期美国文学中的美国梦有着不同的表现，如殖民时期的开拓致富梦、建国后的自由民主梦、内战后的扩张发迷梦，而到一战后传统美国梦开始出现迷茫与失落、二战后则走向了绝望与反叛。
关键词：美国文学;美国梦;本质;资产阶级美国文学从诞生到现在虽然只有200多年的历史，却产生了一大批对世界文学有着巨大影响的作品，在这些作品当中美国梦是一个贯穿始终的主题。
美国梦是目前国内人文社会学科的一个研究热点。
本文试图从论述美国文学中美国梦的演变过程人手，研究其变化的原因及在文学中的表现，进而揭示其本质。
一、美国梦产生的历史背景美国梦的产生有其特定的历史背景。
自从哥伦布发现新大陆之后，欧洲人就梦想着到这块土地上去掠夺财富，开拓疆域。
英国清教徒更梦想着到这里来建立起新的耶路撒冷—上帝在人间的王国。
而当时的士著印第安人尚未建立国家，整个“新大陆”都是“无主土地”，无边无际、任人开垦和占有的无限土地带来了无限的机会，许多在旧世界中不可想象的事情在这里发生了。
如果说得天独厚的自然条件是美国梦形成的基础，那么《独立宣言》的发表便使美国梦有了思想依据。
《独立宣言》不仅宣布了人“生而平等”，还将追求幸福规定为不可剥夺的天赋人权。
在欧洲旧大陆的封建等级制度下，灰姑娘只是童话里的人物，而在美国，白手起家“从破衣烂衫到腰缠万贯”的大亨则比比皆是。
在一个尚未定型的国度中，尚未定型的年代里，只要抓住机会，梦想就会实理。
于是，在美国文学中，美国梦也就成了一个贯穿始终的主题。
二、不同历史时期的美国梦一部文学史也可以说是一部美国梦的历史，有着200多年历史的美国文学记录了不同时期美国人的梦想。
美国文学期末论文
美国文学学期作业（2016-2017学年度第一学期）年级：姓名：学号：论文成绩：An Analysis of Scarlett’s Character inGone with the WindA war swallowed a beautiful woman, a perfect family and a love. Everything seemed to be a dream, going with the wind.Recently,I have just finished reading a famous novel written by Margaret Mitchell—Gone with the Wind,which is one of the most popular works among American novels.It took the author about 10years.Gone with the Wind is one of the most popular American novels. W hen it was published, its sales broke many records among the publishing circles, and it is famous all over the world. The novel mainly describes th e life of Scarlett who is the daughter of Tara’s master during the American Civil War. Meanwhile with the hint of a triangular love between Scarlett, Ashley and Rhett, the novel depicts a wide and prosperous picture of the social life of the South in America. Not only the rich content of the novel but also the complex plots and the contradictions between the figures of t he novel have an important artistic effect on shaping the characters in the novel. Among all the roles, Scarlett, is the most successful one who is full of conflicting and complicated features.Before the Civil War, spoiled and beautiful Scarlett is a proud prince ss. She is also naïve and carefree for she is brought up in a rich family, in which they have many large fertile fields to grow cottons and many slave s that work for them. It is no necessary for her to think about anything butjust to dress in new costumes to attract the sights of the boys and to join t he balls.Wherever she goes, she is always the focus and center among the young girls, and she is adored by many men, which irritates the other girl s. So she gradually becomes a girl who is coddled, undisciplined, egotisti c, fractious and narcissistic. She believes every man around the village will fall in love with her, and she can‟t endure the talk without a topic of her. But her self-centered and exclusive character causes the tragedies of her love. After her failure to confess to Ashley, she doesn’t fall down or le ave away which shows her courage for life at the first time.With the outbreak of the war, she loses everything she owns. In the summer of 1864, Sherman starts to attack Atlanta and everyone is fleeing the city. But Scarlett has to stay at Atlanta with Melanie for she has made a promise to Ashley to look after Melanie who is going into labor，she even braves the life danger to escort Melanie and her newly-born baby to go back to Tara in the flames of war. Her kindnessconquers theselfishness, which shows her nice aspect. She is so horrible but she sticks to go back home, but what she sees in Tara is only the endless loneliness and desolation.The war absolutely changes the way of her life and her affectionate h omestead, Tara. Scarlett can‟t lead a life comfortably as a child any more , for the reason that no one can protect her from threat. Scarlett changes h er concepts for the new life. She lays down her position of a lady of noblebirth and changes her concepts of the old Southern life. She wants to fee d her family and herself through her own work, which shows her realistic character towards life. When her sisters and the house servants complain, Scarlett even works in the fields of Tara herself to ensure a good harvest o f cotton. To her, the memory of hunger is clearer than the memory of brai n. She vows her famous line, "As God as my witness I will never be hung ry again.”The transition of the living environment is the exterior reason for Sc arlett‟s changing her character, which causes Scarlett‟s distinctive charac ter. Before the war, Scarlett lives in the traditional and conservative planta tion and the life style forms her plantation master‟s character of loving la nd than anything else in the world and her rebellious character spontaneo usly. She leads an extremely poor life during and after the war, and that a bominable environment molds her character to confront the reality bravel y; and her independence and selfishness to overcome difficulties. The rich life experience before war; the unstable life during the war and the extre mely poor life after war provide the foundation to form the character of S carlett. And thus in such environment, Scarlett’s character can be complic ated.Scarlett has the strong courage to face fresh and blood and to overco me difficulties, but this wish of independence is not accepted by the socie ty at that time. But in modern society, Scarlett is definitely an independent female who has strong will. She has the spirit of not admitting failure ev en it is at present.Scarlett is a hybrid who exhibits more of her Irish father’s hard-headedness than her mother’s refined Southern manners. Although initially she tries to behave prettily, her instincts rise up against social restrictions. Scarlett’s mother Ellen and Mammy also teach her all that a gentlewoman should know, but Scarlett never learns nor does she see any reason for learning it. Scarlett shows her distain for the artificial manners. She does as what she says with the development of the novel. Scarlett does not like the other girls at that time, who lead a life of waiting, they wait for men’s allegiance and acceptance; they wait for love and they wait for appreciation and compliment. Scarlett is completely different from them at all; instead, she strives for love and happiness actively. Her action is not different from the modern people.Scarlett hates the rules of the society. When she becomes a widow who has to wear black weeds and can’t show her face in the public, she is very displeased. After the war, in order to rebuild and protect Tara, she even goes outside to manage a sawmill herself and does other business successfully. People at that time can’t endure women to appear in public for earning money, and the men can’t tolerate the women who can defeat them. But Scarlett disregards of what people say, but just does what she believes.As f or Scarlett’ view of love and marriage spends most of her life being adored and loved by others. Wherever she goes, she is always the center and focus among the girls. Although she marries three times, she never understands the meaning of love or gets the true love. Scarlett divides love and marriage into two parts, which proves that she is a character full of contradictory and complexity. In the novel, Scarlett has been thinking that she loves Ashley and some decisions she made are also related with Ashley. However, she never considers marriage as a serious matter but just treats it as a play game, and she marries with the men she doesn’t love just in order to resolve living problems.Life is filled with various contradictions, and when a contradiction is over; another is coming, so the plots of the story will develop further and the portrayed image will be more charming.As readers, in my opinion, we don’t browse it, but peruse mind of it and apperceive it. To learn how to depict a character and to deliver a mind though the character is what we should do after perusing it.。
[美国文学的论文]美国文学论文选题
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[美国文学的论文]美国文学论文选题美国文学的论文篇1浅析禅文化在美国文学中的渗透和发展一、渗透阶段：从爱默生到狄金森，异曲同工的超验主义和禅爱默生及其同伴梭罗是美国第一代热爱佛学的人物。
早在1820年爱默生的日记中多次提到印度宗教思想，他熟读《薄伽梵歌》，并且向朋友们推荐。
1844年在其主办的刊物《日晷》上发表了《法华经》的译文，这是美国第一部佛教经典译作。
作为美国文化的精神领袖，爱默生终其一生想摆脱欧洲的文化束缚，因此，他转向古老的东方文化以寻求帮助，中国儒家思想和印度哲学成为其超验主义学说的重要源头。
爱默生的超验主义有许多内容与禅宗思想不谋而合，如万物一统、活在当下、热爱自然、自立、修身等精神。
①禅宗完全摆脱了外来偶像崇拜和繁琐教义的束缚，爱默生也竭力推动美国的文化独立和个性的解放。
百丈禅师说：“日日是好日”，爱默生宣称：“如果我们能始终‘活在当下’，我们应该受到祝福，我们懂得利用每一降在我们身上之事……”②受爱默生影响，狄金森写了五百多首描写自然、探讨自然与人的关系的诗篇(约占她全部诗作的三分之一)。
除此之外，她的诗歌主题多是对死亡的独特理解、对自身的反省、对内心直觉的描述，甚至对“无我”之境、对“空”的领悟。
梭罗、惠特曼的作品也或多或少有禅的影子。
二、借鉴阶段：从庞德到史蒂文斯，从禅诗到诗禅19世纪末禅宗被介绍到西方之前美国文坛对禅的关注从对中国古典诗歌和日本俳句的关注中开始了。
唐代诗人接受禅学影响，导致了在一定程度诗的禅化。
禅诗在唐朝达到高峰，流传到日本后又与日本文化相结合形成了具有日本特色的俳句，这两种诗歌形式都成为禅的重要传播媒介，尤其在20世纪初意象主义诗歌运动的上升时期，大量的意象和简洁的俳句手法成了意象派诗人们借鉴的首选。
以意象派的压轴之作、庞德的《在地铁站内》{1}为例：这些面孔在人群中幽灵般地显现：湿漉漉的黑树枝上朵朵花瓣。
意象主义诗歌运动对以后的英美诗歌创作走向产生了深远的影响，它把禅的人生态度和处理题材的方式植入了西方诗歌。
美国文学论文
美国文学论文美国文学是一门丰富多彩的学科，涵盖了从殖民地时期到现代的各种文学作品。
这门学科的研究内容包括但不限于小说、诗歌、戏剧和散文等文学形式。
在殖民地时期，美国文学主要以宗教、探索和殖民为主题。
这些作品强调对新大陆的探索和殖民定居者与原住民之间的冲突。
其中著名的作品包括威廉·布莱德福德的《普利茅斯艘女性纪实》和马丁·洛瑞德·金的《普尔加托里的传奇》。
随着美国的独立，美国文学开始呈现出不同的风格和主题。
浪漫主义成为19世纪美国文学的主导思潮，作家们开始追求个人情感和自然的表达。
鲁道夫·狄克斯、华盛顿·欧文和爱德加·爱伦·坡都是这一时期的重要作家。
20世纪是美国文学的鼎盛时期，许多现代作家的作品至今仍然被广泛研究和阅读。
欧内斯特·海明威、威廉·福克纳和弗兰兹·卡夫卡等作家的作品反映了两次世界大战对人类生活的冲击。
而艾米丽·狄金森、罗伯特·弗罗斯特和T.S.艾略特的诗歌作品被誉为现代诗歌的经典之作。
此外，美国文学还展现了多种文化和身份的交织。
非裔美国文学（如托妮·莫里森的作品）和拉丁裔美国文学（如桑德拉·西斯涅罗斯的作品）代表了美国不同族裔的声音和经历。
从以上简要介绍中可以看出，美国文学的论文课题可以是多种多样的。
文学的主题、风格、文化背景和历史背景都可以成为研究的焦点。
此外，理论研究、文学与社会等方面也是研究的热点。
总之，美国文学的论文研究可以通过对不同时期和不同类型的作品进行深入分析，揭示作品背后的主题和意义。
美国文学学期论文参考范文
美国文学学期论文参考范文美国文学的历史虽然不长,但却发展得非常迅速,也涌现出许多杰出的作家,因此美国文学发展中的每个阶段都留下了不少传世经典之作。
下文是店铺为大家搜集整理的关于美国文学学期论文参考范文的内容，欢迎大家阅读参考!美国文学学期论文参考范文篇1浅论当代美国女性文学的特点一、前言美国作为发展速度最快的发达国家，除了在经济、科技和军事领域有突出的建树，在文学领域也取得了不俗的成绩。
考虑到美国属于移民国家的特性，在多文化交流和冲突下，美国女性文学取得了快速的发展，并涌现出一大批风格独特、独树一帜的女性作家，所创作的作品也在美国本土以及世界范围内广为流传。
从美国女性文学的发展来看，美国女性文学的大发展，是文化交流的结果，也是移民文化与美国本土文化相结合后诞生的又一种新文化。
所以，对当地美国女性文学的特点进行分析，有助于了解美国女性文学中所倡导的价值观，对于了解美国文化很有必要。
二、当代美国女性文学的分类经过了解发现，当代美国女性文学取得突出成就的作家，都是具有移民背景的女性作家，按照移民背景分类，当代美国女性文学主要可以分成以下几类：1、亚裔作家创作的美国女性文学。
在美国女性文学的创作队伍中，亚裔作家是重要的创作力量，其中华裔作家更是以独特的视角及东方文化的魅力，提高了女性文学的创作质量，使美国女性文学在整体水平上有较大的提升。
目前亚裔作家最杰出的要属华裔获奖作家汤婷婷、唐恩美和印度裔女作家巴拉蒂·玛克姬等人。
这几位知名作家创作的作品不但在美国文学史上获得了重要奖项，同时推动了美国文学的快速发展，使美国文学更加多元化。
2、黑人女作家创作的美国女性文学。
从美国女性文学的发展史上看，黑人女作家是重要的创作力量。
基于美国种族歧视的社会背景，黑人女作家的数量较少，并且创作的作品主要以关注美国文化发展和种族歧视有关，同时也细致的刻画了美国社会黑人群体生活的人生百态，对研究美国黑人发展史和美国文化具有积极的借鉴意义。
美国文学论文(汤姆索亚历险记)
An Analysis of the Artistic Language Characteristics inThe Adventures of Tom SawyerPublished in 1876, The Adventure of Tom Sawyer has earned high reputation as one of the best-loved tales in American literature.The novel, which tells of the exciting adventures of a typical boy named Tom Sawyer and his friends during the mid-nineteenth century, is not as simple as a children’s book. On the one hand, regardless of time changing and the differences of cultures, the adventures of Tom Sawyer are still intriguing and delightful, for the unique charms that hits the basic instincts of nearly all young people. On the other hand, the author Mark Twain wrote in the preface to the first edition that "Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, part of my plan has been to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and what they felt and thought." Thus, it is obviously that by reading this book, the adult readers could also look back on his or her own childhood with fond reminiscences. Above all, the novel is a combination of the past and the present, of the entertainment and education function for children, and at the same time, of the well-remembered events from childhood told in such a way as to evoke remembrances in the adult mind. Besides, allowing for Mark Twain’s conventions of writing styles, the novel, exploring questions of freedom and responsibility, retains vitality and humor between the lines, applies slangy expressions, which are full of local characteristics, and last but not least sets some symbolic plots. This thesis is going to make an analysis on the artistic language characteristics in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, helping the readers to appreciate the novel in a better way.1.The Language Characteristic of Humor and SatireMark Twain is, as always, the satirist and commentator on the foibles of human nature. As the authorial commentator, Twain often steps in and comments on the absurdity of human nature. Not surprisingly, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer relies heavily on satire and humor to make a observation on human nature, as well as the picture of lives at that time, ultimately producing a satire of altogether two aspects: the hypocritical regions and obsolete school education. Thus this thesis determines to analyse the characteristics of humor and satire in the book by the above two aspects.1.1The Humor and Satire of the Hypocritical RegionsIn The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer is a mischievous boy who yearns for the carefree lives and exhibits many admirable character traits such as generosity and goodness in spite of his pranks. The unrestrained character of Tom contrasts favorably with the meaningless and hypocritical regulations in regions. In the novel, Aunt Polly, who is responsible for nurturing Tom, always stops Tom from having a meal without praying. Readers may find it both funny and satirical that Tom can’t wait to dine while aunt Polly takes it seriously out of religious restraint. In addition, Mr. Dobbins, the schoolmaster, who seems to be deeply religious, but actually is sanctimonious. Each day, Mr. Dobbins would take a book out of the desk and be absorbed in it at times when no classes were reciting. Every boy and girl has a theory about the nature of the book. One day, Becky Thatcher has a chance to uncover the mystery-- “She came at once upon a handsomely engraved and colored frontispiece--a human figure, stark naked.” Thus, Mr. Dobbins turns out to be a hypocrite, which reinforces the wry sense of humor on the religion. Besides, in the novel, the kids will be rewarded with some tickets of different colors by reciting the passages of Scripture. According to the rules by the school, “each blue ticket was pay for two verses of recitation. Ten blue tickets equalled a red one, and could be exchanged for it; ten red tickets equalled a yellow one; for ten yellow tickets the superintendent gave a very plainly bound Bible to the pupil.” Tom couldn’t recite Bible at all, however, he gets the tickets by exchanging his playthings with the classmates and finally gets the prize of a Bible. There’s no doubt that it is totally a joke, which is another ridiculous case concerned with black humor and the satire on the religion.1.2The Humor and Satire of the Obsolete School EducationTom Sawyer is undoubtedly the representative student who is antagonistic towards the obsolete school education. Therefore, he is quite a rebellious boy who despises the so-called excellent students and doesn’t recite the passages of Bible in accordance with regulations of the school, who dares to participate in an adventure despite the rules, for he actually looks down on the laws made by the adult. What’s more, he and his friends are brave enough to make a mischief as a retribution on theschoolmaster, who always lashes pupils just in order to make a good showing on “Examination” day. All these things show Tom’s challenge to the unreasonable school education even the whole society. By the attitudes and acts of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain aims to criticize the education at that time which tried to preach but of no practical use at all. Twain criticizes the adult attitudes and behaviors throughout the novel. That is part of the conflict: the maturation of a youth into adulthood conflicting with the disapproval of the adult behaviors that exist. It is this double vision of humor and satire that raises the novel above the level of a boy's adventure story.2.The Language Characteristic of Applying Slang and Absorbing ExpressionsAccording to the dictionary, slang is defined as a casual type of language that is playful or trendy. Funny American slang words consist both of coined words and phrases and of new or extended meanings attached to established terms. Slang tends to develop from the attempt to find fresh and vigorous, colorful, pungent, or humorous expression. In order to make the story recreational and readable, The Adventure of Tom Sawyer applies much slang, which not only contributes to enhance the entertainment of the book, but also full of local colors, helping the readers to learn about the American culture.In chapter one, when aunt Polly wants to catch Tom but fails, she says: “ Old fools is the biggest fools there is.” and “ Can’t learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is.” Here, the slang about old fools and old dog makes the image of aunt Polly more vivid. Then, in self-examination, aunt Polly uses slang once again. In the book, it goes: “Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I’m a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know.” and “Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it’s so.” Hence, it can be concluded that aunt Polly cares and loves him, paying much attention on him. The slang here becomes comfort and enlightenment to aunt Polly.Besides, in chapter 5, Tom feels extremely bored with the sermon so he gets a large black beetle out. Suddenly, a vagrant poodle dog comes by. Then about the reaction of the poodle dog, Mark Twain has used many absorbing expressions, which is typically child language: “ The poodle dog spied the beetle; the drooping tail liftedand wagged. He surveyed the prize; walked around it; smelt at it from a safe distance; walked around it gain; grew bolder, and took a close smell......” Here, the most extraordinary word is “prize”, a metaphorical term, which is lively enough to show the overwhelming superiority of the poodle dog.The reason why Mark Twain has a preference for using much slang and many absorbing expressions in his work is associated with his earlier experience, when he was working with the people at the bottom of the society. Day by day, year by year, his wording is more expressive and suitable for all ages. As the old saying goes: “Art comes from life and goes beyond it.” The slang contributes to the literature value of The Adventure of Tom Sawyer and makes it charming and classical forever.3.The Language Characteristic of Setting Some Symbolic PlotsWhether or not one has read the novel, many of the characters--Tom himself, Becky Thatcher, Huck Finn, Injun Joe, and Aunt Polly--have become the classical images of American literature. Likewise, many plots are familiar and have become a part of the American cultural heritage: it is true that there are many seemingly extraneous scenes; nevertheless, each scene has its symbolic meaning, contributing to building a broad picture of the lives of these youths. In the broadest sense, the novel concentrates basically on Tom's--and to a lesser degree, Huck's--development from carefree childish behavior to one that is filled with mature. Furthermore, the primary adventure--which features the murder the boys witness and its aftermath--provides a single event that begins in the graveyard and runs throughout the plot of lesser adventures. The appeal of the novel lies mostly in Twain's ability to capture--or re-capture--universal experiences and dreams and fears of childhood. Twain captures the essence of childhood, with all its excitement, fear, and mischievousness.Twain does not confine himself to telling a simple children's story. To some extent, the novel is a combination of the past and the present, of the well-remembered events from childhood told in such a way as to tell us the maturation of a boy into a real man.4. ConclusionThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, as the novel which remains one of the mostpopular and famous works of American literature, its story and characters have achieved folk hero status in the American popular imagination. Twain's reading audience loved this novel and its young hero, and the friendship of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn is one of the most celebrated in American literature, built on imaginative adventures, shared superstitions, and loyalty that rises above social convention. After analyzing the artistic characteristics of language of the novel, we could easily know that by the humor and satire, much slang, many absorbing expressions and the arrangement of the symbolic plots, Mark Twain wants to explore the inner world of the child and tell us how a boy ultimately grows up and becomes an adult who can still has his belief and can maintain the pureness in heart. Attracting in the content, profound in the meaning and mastered in language, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer can brighten the childhood of kids all around the world.Bibliography:[1] 马克·吐温.汤姆索亚历险记[M].刘光源译. 江苏:江苏译林出版社, 2019.[2] 王云霞. 永远的童年：童心·童趣·童真——谈《汤姆索亚历险记》[J].南都学坛, 2014(4): 61-62[3]李丽萍.《汤姆索亚历险记》的语言魅力[J]. 考试周刊, 2008(6): 8-14.。
美国文学阅读10篇
美国文学阅读10篇1. 《老人与海》 - 埃内斯特·海明威这是一部获得普利策文学奖的小说，讲述了老渔夫桑提亚哥与一条巨大的马林鱼搏斗的故事。
作者通过富有象征意义的描写，讲述了忍耐、坚持和信念的重要性。
2. 《百年孤独》 - 加夫列尔·加西亚·马尔克斯这部拉丁美洲文学的经典之作讲述了布昂迪亚家族七代人的传奇故事。
马尔克斯以幻想现实主义的手法讲述了爱、孤独、荒诞与时间的主题。
3. 《傲慢与偏见》 - 简·奥斯汀这是一部英国文学的经典作品，描写了19世纪英国社会中，女性婚姻观念和阶级之间的矛盾。
小说以幽默的方式揭示了社会偏见和对真爱的追求。
4. 《麦田里的守望者》 - J.D.塞林格这是一部美国文学中的经典之作，讲述了一个反叛的青少年霍尔顿的故事。
小说通过霍尔顿的视角，反映了社会的虚伪和人生的失落感。
5. 《南方文化发根史》 - 马克·吐温这是一部描写南方美国社会的讽刺小说，以幽默的方式展现了种族关系和社会等待的问题。
吐温通过生动的人物和细腻的描写，对当时的美国社会产生了有力的批判。
6. 《了不起的盖茨比》 - F.斯科特·菲茨杰拉德这是一部描写20世纪美国社会的巨著，展现了财富和爱情之间的冲突。
小说通过瑞奇·盖茨比的命运，揭示了金钱与社会地位对个人幸福的影响。
7. 《人性的枷锁》 - 威廉·福克纳这是一部描写南方美国社会的小说，以复杂的叙事结构展现了不同角色之间的人性和命运的交织。
福克纳通过深入的心理描写和对种族关系的探索，呈现了南方美国的独特氛围。
8. 《杀死一只知更鸟》 - 哈珀·李这是一部社会批判性小说，以一个小女孩的视角揭示了种族歧视和社会不公。
通过描写南方小镇的故事，作者让读者思考正义、道德和成长的重要性。
9. 《娱乐至死》 - 尼尔·波兹曼这是一本文化批评著作，探讨了媒体对现代社会的影响。
美国文学论文
美国文学论文美国文学是世界上最年轻的文学之一,从其诞生之时起,就因其尖锐的批判性、持续的独创性和精彩的多元性而独树一帜。
下面是店铺为大家整理的美国文学论文，供大家参考。
美国文学论文范文一：Analysis of the main character Ahab in Moby Dick摘要:«白鲸»讲述了饱经风霜的亚哈船长与他的仇敌白鲸之间惊心动魄的故事，亚哈身上体现了令人敬佩的正义品质:百折不挠、英勇无畏、经验丰富，同时还具有令人恐惧的邪恶力量:偏执、自私、专横。
他集正义与邪恶与一身，具有鲜明的双重性。
关键词:正义;邪恶;性格双重性Abstract:«Moby Dick» tells us a thrilling tale between Captain Ahab and his enemy whale called Moby Dick.Ahab's character is amphibious. On one hand,he is indomitable、brave and experienced. On the other hand, he is bigoted, selfish and presuming.Key words: justice; evil; character's amphibiousness«Moby Dick» written by Herman Melville is regarded as the first American prose epic. It's an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc. But it is first a Shakespearean tragedy of man fighting again overwhelming odds in an indifferent and even hostile universe.The story goes roughly as follows. Ishmael, feeling depressed, seeks escape by going out to sea on the whaling ship, Pequod. The captain is Ahab, the man with one leg. Moby Dick, the white whale, had sheared off his leg on the most as a reward for anyone who sights thewhale first. The Pequod marked a good catch of whales but Ahab refuses to turn back until he has killed his enemy. Eventually,the white whale appears, and the Pequod begins its doomed fight with it. On the first day the whale overturns a boat; On the second, it swamps another. When the third day comes, Ahab and his crew manage to plunge a harpoon into it, but the whale carries the Pequod along with it to its doom. All on board the whaler get drowned, except one, Ishmael, who survives to tell the tale. From the story, we can see that captain Ahab is a hero who dares to fight though he failed at last. Ahab is Byronic hero, a man with consuming desire to take revenge against the whale which has crippled him. He is brave. Though he knows that it has difficulty in killing whale, he never gives up. He thinks that man can make the world for himself and he tries his best to kill the whale. Although he fails at last, his spiritual is respectable and we should also be indomitable.We know that Ahab's character is amphibious, and we now more focus on the bleak view. As the author is negative, the story is full of tragedy, including the ending.Captain Ahab is a typical Melvillean “isolato”, and a typical Bartleby whose lips are set ever for an “I prefer not to”. He cuts himself off from his wife and kid, and stays away most of the time from his crew. He hates Moby Dick which is an embodiment of nature. He is angry because his pride is wounded. After the loss of his leg in his encounter with the white whale, he seems to hold God responsible for the presence of evil in the universe. Thus his anger assumes the proportions of a cosmis nature. In his egocentric obsession. He loves his sanity, and humanity and becomes a devilish creature rushing headlong toward his doom.Captain Ahab believed in his own power, he is too much of a self-reliant individual to be a good human being. His selfhood must be asserted at the expense of all else: lives may be sacrificed,and nature may be sacrificed, and nature may have to be vanquished in order that he may do what he wills. Ahab is ,to be more exact, a victim of solipsism, His tragedy stemming in the main from extreme individualism, selfish will, a spirit too much withdrawn to itself to warrant salvation.In conclusion, we should observe the two sides of the Captain's character. We need be brave and confident. We have to remind that man is in society, and we can't live without society. We should respect the nature.美国文学论文范文二：The review about the Literature of RomanticismⅠ. BackgroundFrom the early 1800s to the civil war，American was a land of paradoxes, a land stirred by spiritual dreams and shaped by the realities of a growing materialism. the United States had begun to change into an industrial cause society, technology would bring vast material benefits and cause overwhelming social disorders. Americans had sought new liberties and new ideas in life and art, but conflicts of their society had culminated in a bloody civil war. In the first half of the nineteenth century the proportion of Americans who labored on farms declined as increasing members left the land to work in urban businesses and factories. New York became American’s largest city, supplanting Boston and Philadelphia as the economic and cultural capital of the nation. Though the first half of the century the pursuit of simplicity, utility, and perfection remained an American characteristic.In the years preceding the Civil War relatively few volumes of imaginative literature were published in the United States. Most book were almanacs, schoolbooks, self-help manuals, or workson religion, medicine, or the law. Fewer than a dozen volumes of poetry were published annually. Fiction was a prime component of ladies’ magazines. Novels were increasingly popular, especially historical romances written by Europeans, most notably by “the monarch and master of modern fiction,” Sir Walter Scott. But as the century progressed, native American writers won increasing national and international fame. Washington Irving’s Sketch Book (1819-1820)became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.Ⅱ. The definition of RomanticismRomanticism is a movement prevailing the 19th century in Western World in literature. art music and philosophy beginning as a reaction and protest against the bondage of rules and customs of neo-classicism. It was marked and is always marked by a story reaction .It returned to nature and plain humanity for material. It brought about a renewed interest in medieval literature. It was also marked by sympathy for poor people and thus a deep understanding toward common people. It was a movement expression of indivdual orignality and different poets realized their variety.A dream of golden age is established against stern realities .Imagination is the key point.Ⅲ. The Characteristic s of the Romantic LiteratureThe main trends of thought of the literature of romanticism is Romanticism, Transcendentation, Anti-slavery. Transcendentation as a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematized. It exalted feeling over reason, individual expression over the restraints of law and custom. They believed in the transcendence of the “Oversoul”, an all-pervading power for goodness from which all things come and of which all things are a part.Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Romanticism canbe seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality that typified Classicism in general and late 18th-century Neoclassicism in particular. It was also to some extent a reaction against the Enlightenment and against 18th-century rationalism and physical materialism in general. Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.Among the characteristic attitudes of Romanticism were the following: a deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature; a general exaltation of emotion over reason and of the senses over intellect; a turning in upon the self and a heightened examination of human personality and its moods and mental potentialities; a preoccupation with the genius, the hero, and the exceptional figure in general, and a focus on his passions and inner struggles;a new view of the artist as a supremely individual creator, whose creative spirit is more important than strict adherence to formal rules and traditional procedures; an emphasis upon imagination as a gateway to transcendent experience and spiritual truth; an obsessive interest in folk culture, national and ethnic cultural origins, and the medieval era; and a predilection for the exotic, the remote, the mysterious, the weird, the occult, the monstrous, the diseased, and even the satanic.Ⅳ. Main writer and masterpieceⅰ.Washington Irving(1783-1851)He was the Father of American Imaginative Literature; the Father of American Short Stories. He was the first great prose stylist of American romanticism familiar style.The apparent ease of his writing is not simply that of the gifted amateur; it results from his purposeful identification of his whole personality with what he wrote. He was urbane and worldly, yet humorous and gentle, his great and graceful style combine with American roots shaped his independent literary personality. He was the first great belletrist, writing always for pleasure, and to produce pleasure. In 1819-1820 ,his Sketch Book appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature to write good history and biography as literary entertainment. The most story of his Sketch Book is The Legend of Sleep Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. He introduced the familiar essay to America. His best-known stories awakened an interest in the life of American regions. In 1819, A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker a rollicking burlesque of a current serious history of the early Dutch settlers, has become a classic of humor.Bracebridge Hall followed in 1822;then he first went to Germany in pursuit of an interest in German romanticism, which flavored the Tales of Traveller(1824), in Paris he with John Howard Payne wrote the brilliant social comedy Charles the Second or The Merry Monarch. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus(1828); A Chronicle of the Conquest of Grandada(1829); Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus(1831) ; a famous volume of stories and sketches—The Alhambra(1832) and Legends of the Conquest of Spain (1835) and so on.ⅱ. James Fenimore Cooper(1789-1851)He was the first important American novelist began his literary career on a dare. In 1821,The Spy was successful, it was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War .Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure tale, and the frontier saga. The Pilot is the best of his many sea romances(1824). He wrote the first official history of the U.S. Navy in 1839. His frontier stories Leather Stocking T ales including five novels: The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie. Allan Nevins calls these five novels the nearest approach yet to an American epic. with a vast group of supporting characters, virtuous or villainous, Cooper made the American conscious of his past, and made the European conscious of American. And the Textbooks works is The Last of The Mohicans.ⅲ.Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849)Poe was born in Boston. He was the Father of Modern Short Stories; the Father of Detective Story; and the Father of Psychoanalytic Critism. He was the jingle man. He won a contest with his story “Ms. Found in a Bottle” .Then he got a job as editor with the Southern Literary Messenger in 1833. He showed his true talents as an editor, a poet, a literary critic, and a writer of fiction. And he also issued The Fall of the House of Usher. In 1840, His first collection of short stories Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. The Raven was published as the title poem of a collection in 1845. In Europe, he was hailed as a pioneer in poetic and fictional techniques. His influence was especially strong on many French writers. The most famous works were To Helen; The Rav en; Annabel Lee; The Fall of the House of Usher. ⅳ. Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)He was responsible for bringing Transcendentalism to New England and was recognized throughout his life as the leader of the movement. He believed above all in individualism, independence of mind and self-reliance. He admired courage, he was not afraid of changing or clashing ideas. Like many original minds, he was often several jumps ahead of what his followers thought was his position or philosophy. He was one of the most influential American thinkers, yet he had no elaborate, formal system of thought and he never attempted to create one. Emerson believed above all in individualism, independence of mind, and self-reliance. In 1836,he issued the first book Nature , which met with a mild reception. However , two speeches in the next two years, The American Scholar and The Divinity School Address ,made him famous. Many of his lectures were later distilled into his famous Essays. Among his most important works are Representative Men (1850)and English Traits (1856).His Poem appeared in 1847. In his day, Emerson’s poems were criticized for their lack of form and polish. In recent years, hover, his poetry has received high praise.His harsh rhythms and striking images appeal to many modern readers as artful techniques. His prose style is sometimes as highly individual as his poetry. Many of his essays were put together from his journal entries, speeches, and random notes, and they are often somewhat disorganized. Yet his skill in polishing each sentence into a striking thought makes his writing memorable. One of his great statements was in The American Scholar. That title is now carried by one of the finest magazines in American. Oliver Wendell Holmes called the speech “our intellectua l Declaration of Independence”. He is the world ’s eye. He is the world’s heart.ⅴ. Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)He was Emerson’s truest disciple, who put into practice many of Emerson’s theories. Walden, the superb book came out of his two-year’s reside nce at Walden Pond. He explained many of the beliefs that led him to try this kind of life. He thought it better for a man to work one day a week and the rest of the week could be devoted to thought. For Thoreau, as for Emerson, self-reliance and independence of mind ranked above all each should find out his own way of living. In 1849, From his experience in jail came his famous essay” Civil Disobedience”, which stated Thoreau’s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government. His famous book is Walden Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.ⅵ. Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864)The House of the Seven Gables deals with the effects of a curse, and though the tale itself is fiction, the germ of the story sprang from the author’s family history. Hawthorne gathered his material by observing and listening to others whose talk was filled with New England Lore, legend, and superstition. His famous book is The Scarlet Letter.Hawthorne’s unique gift was for the creation of strongly symbolic s tories which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature. The finest example is the recreation of Puritan Boston, “The Scarlet Letter”. In this novel each word, image, and event works toward a single effect. It is a complex story of guilt, its effects upon various persons, and how deliverance is obtained for some of them. His ability to create vivid and symbolic images that embody great moral questions appear strongly in his short stories. It was Hawthorne’s ability to make a story exist in its own right but at the same time appear as a moral symbol.Hawthorne shares with Edgar Allan Poe the distinction of advancing the art of the short story, giving to the form qualities that are uniquely American. To Hawthorne and Melville, however, the telling of a tale was a way of inquiring into the meaning of life. His stories also have The Blithedale Romance(1852); splendid stories called Mosses from an Old Manse(1846); The Marble Faun(1860)ⅶ. Herman Melville(1819-1891)Moby Dick, a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale. The book is steeped in symbolism, another strong appeal to readers of his century. In 1846, Typee became known as the “man who lived among cannibals”. The book was basically factual but was no dou bt elaborated somewhat and built up from Melville’s reading as well as his experience. Equally successful was a sequel, Omoo(1847),about his adventures on Tahiti and other island. Later Melville based Bedburn(1849) on his first voyage to England, and White-Jacket(1850) on his brief career in the navy. He drew upon his naval experience again for Billy Budd(1891).He has two other philosophical novels Mardi, Pierre. two celebrated short novels Benito Cereno and Billy Budd. The story uses a ship as symbol of society and searchingly examines the problems of good and evil. Ahab’s ship was like a world inminiature with characters from all walks of life.ⅷ. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882)Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, on February 27,1807 and died on March 24,1882 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the most beloved American poet of his time. His main books are Longfellow’s first collection of poems entitled Voices of the Night(1838); Hyperion” the prose romance(1839) ;Ballads and other Poems(1841); Poems on Slavery(1842); Evangeline(1847); Song of Hiawath(1855); The Courtship of Miles Standish(1858)After his death, he became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s corner of Westminster Abbey. The gentleness, sweetness, and purity for which his poetry was popular during his lifetime.Ⅴ.SummaryFrom the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of he Civil War. It started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. It is also called “the American Renaissance”. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature. The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values. Besides, a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne，Melville and a host of lesser writers. The most clearly defined Romantic literary movement in this period is New England Transcendentalism. This Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far， Emerson and his young friend, Henry David Thoreau, whose writing has a strong impact on American literature. Basically, Transcendentalism has been defined philoso phically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively, or of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the senses.” Emerson once proclaimed in a speech, “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of you own mind.” Other concepts that accompanied Transcendentalism include the idea that nature is ennobling and the idea that the individual isdivine and, therefore, self-reliant. It ranges from the comic fables of Washington Irving to the Gothic tales of Edgar Allen Poe, from the frontier adventures of James Fenimore Cooper to the narrative quests of Herman Melville, from the psychological romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne to the social realism of Rebecca Harding.American romantic literature by western romantic literature influence.19 century, the rapid development of American capitalism, the national consciousness and patriotic enthusiasm, to get rid of the English literature of bondage, pay attention to the human spirit and the pursuit of freedom to create a fill transcendence, thus the romantic literature began to flourish.Bibliography:1. 王长荣. 《现代美国小说史》.上海：外语教育出版社，1992.2. 邵锦娣，白劲鹏. An Introduction to Literature. 上海：上海外语教育出版社，20013. 隋刚.《美国文学旧作新读》. 北京：外文出版社，1998.。
美国文学选读期末论文嘉莉妹妹
Analysis of Carrie as a Materialist According to the Naturalism inSister Carrie.Abstract：In the masterpiece Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser tells a story of Carrie’s rise from a poor country girl to Broadway star. In the novel, Dreiser uses lots of words to describe the psychology of Carrie from the satisfaction of basic life to the realization of self-development. This thesis aims to analysis the influence of naturalism on the main character Carrie in the road of desire. In the way of her development, th ere are two kinds of people: one is Carrie’s sister and the other is Drouet and Hurstwood, give Carrie the chance to fashion her ideal ego and be a successful actress. The former one stands for the poverty. In there, Carrie is driven by basic needs for survival and physiological necessities. The later one lets Carrie know she should realize her value but not to depend on man. The author finally indicates that in the survival of the fittest world people who industriously adapt to the society can live longer and better.Key Words: naturalism; Theodore Dreiser; Carrie; desire通过自然主义分析《嘉莉妹妹》中嘉莉这一物质主义形象摘要：西奥多德莱赛在他的杰作《嘉莉妹妹》中讲述了一位农村女孩到城市谋生最后成为百老汇名演员的故事。
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Toni Morrison has published9novels, alibretto, and a collection of critical essays.The impacts of her novels about black people living in the bottom Americanarenot only in the America, but also around the world in literary history. Morrison’s first novelThe Bluest Eyewas published in 1970, and then she published her second novelSulain 1973. During the following years, Morrison wrote the following six novels:Song of Solomon(1977),Tar Baby(1981),Beloved(1987),Jazz(1992),Paradise(1998),Love(2003)andA Mercy(2008). She was alsoappointedto write the playfor a new opera,Margaret Garner, first performed in 2005.
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Toni Morrison isone of the most outstanding and influential contemporary African American womenwriterswhoreceive the Nobel Prize in literature(1993). She is also the winner of the National Book Critic Circle Award (1977), the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1988) and many other literary awards.As a writer, she is fully aware of her responsibility. She knows why and what she writes. For her, the African American writing has“an obligation to bear witness”and“would take her people throughthepain and denial of their racially haunted history to a healing zone.”(DavidRon, 2000, p.32) This is clearly reflected in the novels; in particular inThe Bluest Eye.Morrison shows the distorted image of blacks under the control of white culture by her own experience. As a black woman writer, Toni Morrison pays much more attention to the destiny of black women, and tries to call on the black people to boycott the invasion of white culture. She would like toregain the traditional image of the blacks—natural and pure, cure the blacks from the emotional, psychological and culture aspects, and then reconstruct the national consciousness.Her works are usually based on thetraditionalhistory and lives of African Americans.She uses her influence to encourage other writers to pay attention to the blacks’ issuesand pushes African American novels to a newer and higherstandard.Afterawarding the Nobel Prize for Literaturein 1993, the Swedish Academy, DanilleTailor-GuthriepraisedMorrisonfor giving “life to an essential aspect of American reality” in novels “characterized by visionary force and poetic import”(Tailor-Guthrie, 1994, p.6).
06级毕业论文美国文学
06级毕业论文美国文学：1.从《最后的莫西干人》看殖民者对印第安人的压迫The Oppression of the Indians by the Colonists in The Last of the Mohicans 2.浅析《智血》中的女性哥特色彩On Female Gothic Flavor of Wise Blood3.论《竞选州长》的写作技巧The Writing Skills of Running for Governor4.浅析《心是孤独的猎手》的孤独主题The Theme of Loneliness in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter5.论《奥吉∙马奇历险记》的反传统风格On the Unconventional Style of The Adventures of Augie March6.浅析《螺丝在拧紧》中的哥特成分An Analysis of the Gothic Elements in The Turn of the Screw7.季诺碧亚和普里西拉的原型分析Archetypes of Zenobia and Priscilla8.《推销员之死》中的“美国梦”分析American Dreams in Death of a Salesman9.论《榆树下的欲望》中《圣经》场景的投影和颠覆A Projection and Overturn of Biblical Scene in Desire Under the Elms10.浅析《夜访吸血鬼》中的吸血鬼形象Analysis of the Vampire in Interview with the Vampire11.《冷山》的主题思想分析The Themes of Cold Mountain12.浅析《野性的呼唤》中个人英雄主义On the Individualism of The Call of the Wild13.两个关于幽灵的故事——对《厄舍古屋的倒塌》和《蝴蝶梦》的比较研究Two Stories Of Specter：The Contrast Analysis of the Fall of the House of Ursher and Rebecca14.霍尔顿悲剧成因分析Analysis on the Causes of Holden’s Tragedy15.浅析《野性的呼唤》中的自然主义The Brief Analysis of Naturalism in The Call of the Wild16.从《老人与海》看海明威作品中的硬汉形象—桑提亚哥On the Image of a Tough Guy in The Old Man and the Sea—Santiago17.试析《S.》中厄普代克对女权运动的态度On Updike’s Attitude towards Feminism in S.18.《飘》中女主角斯嘉丽的性格分析An Analysis of the Characters of Scarlett in Gone with the wind19.从变态心理学的视角分析电影《沉默的羔羊》An Analysis of the Silence of the Lambs—From the Perspective of Abnormal Psychology 20.《紫颜色》中艾伯特人物分析An Character Analysis of Albert in The Color Purpl21.浅析弗罗斯特的诗歌特色On the Features of Robert Frost’s Poetry22.论海明威作品《太阳照样升起》中的女性形象On the Images of Women in Hemingway`s The Sun Also Rises23.美国自然文学在斯蒂芬•克莱恩的作品中体现American Naturalism Reflected in Stephen Crane’s Works24.浅谈海明威的作品《太阳照常升起》中“迷惘的一代”‘The Lost Generation’ in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises25.《小妇人》中四姐妹的人物塑造On the Characterization of the Four Sisters in Little Woman26.美国黑人文化身份的困境：评托妮•莫里森的《柏油娃》The Dilemma of Black American Cultural Identity: on Toni Morrison’s Tar Boy 27.《看不见的人》的爵士乐风格Jazz Style in Invisible Man28.论《一个干净明亮的地方》的写作技巧On the Techniques of A Clean,Well-Lighted Place29.托妮•莫里森笔下的微笑意象The Smile Image in Toni Morison’s Writing30.成长的艰辛—《麦田里的守望者》的主题分析Difficulties in Growing Up: A Thematic Analysis of The Catcher in the Rye 31.《小镇畸人》中的怪人形象The Image of Grotesques in Winesburg, Ohio32.《赫索格》的艺术表现手法Techniques of Artistic Expression in Herzog33.浅谈纳博科夫的《洛丽塔》中的病态心理On Insanity in Lolita by Nabokov34.《汤姆叔叔的小屋》中女性意识力量The Female Consciousness in Uncle Tom's Cabin35.论《愤怒的葡萄》中体现的《圣经》元素On the Elements of the Bible in the Grapes of Wrath36.书信体叙述模式在《紫色》中的运用The Epistolary Narration in The Color Purple37.托尼莫里森作品中人物名字的意义The Meaning of Names in Toni Morisson's Novels38.论小说《在路上》中垮掉的一代A Survey on the Beat Generation from On the Road39.论《永别了,武器》中的悲剧策略Analysis on the Tragic Strategy of A Farewell to Arms The Tragic Spirit in Death of a Salesman40.孤独与失落的守望—析《麦田里的守望者》Waiting in Perplexity and Degradation ——Analysis of The Catcher in The Rye 41.论海明威《一个干净明亮的地方》中的虚无主义The Analysis on Nihilism in Hemingway’s Short Story A Clean, Well-lighted Place 42.试析《哈克贝利•费恩历险记》中的人性刻画On the Humanity Reflected in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn43.唐人街文化分析——以水仙花与朱路易作品为例Analysis of Chinatown Culture—Taking the Works of Sui Sin Far and Louis Chu as the Example44.意象派诗歌中东方审美因素的分析On the Analysis of Oriental Aesthetic Elements in the Imagist Poetry45.《这个杀手不太冷》的主人公性格分析Character Analysis of “LEON”46.论马丁•伊登和杰伊•盖茨比的比较研究A Comparative Study between Martin Eden and Jay Gatesby47.浅析《鸡蛋的胜利》中运用象征手法表现美国梦On the American Dream Expressed by Symbolism by The Triumph of the Egg48.从《教父》看两代人不同的家庭观The Discrepancy of Family Values between Two Generations in The Godfather49.《推销员之死》中的矛盾与冲突Conflict and Contradiction— On Death of a Salesman50.论霍桑作品中的象征手法 ----以《年轻人古德曼•布朗》为例On the Symbolism in Hawthorne's Works---taking Young Goodman Brown as a example 51.浅谈《厄舍古屋的倒塌》的叙事视角On the Narrative Point of View in The Fall of the House of Usher52.论《厄舍古屋倒塌》中的哥特元素On Gothic Elements in “The Fall of the House of Usher”53.解析《第二十二条军规》中的黑色幽默On the Black Humor in Catch-2254.论《所罗门之歌》的主题55.论《推销员之死》的悲剧观56.从休斯到莫里森浅析美国黑人文学的嬗变57.浅析爱伦•坡的侦探小说58.浅析《汤姆叔叔的小屋》主人公性格59.《嚎叫》——垮掉的一代的预言60.从愤怒的葡萄中看美国大萧条61.杰克伦敦的自然主义——通过作品《野性的呼唤》和《白牙》分析其自然主义倾向62.《哈克贝利•费恩历险记》的写作特点分析63.《愤怒的葡萄》中《圣经》的象征意义64.海勒斯与卡米拉的爱情对比分析65.浅析王熙凤与斯嘉丽的异同66.从生态女权主义角度来解读托妮•莫里森的《宠儿》67.《最蓝的眼睛》中非裔美国人的自我憎恨68.“心之罪”与“魂之恶”——比较研究《红字》与《厄榭尔府的倒塌》69.杰克•伦敦的《野性的呼唤》中的自然主义元素70.论简爱中的女性意识71.汤姆.索亚，哈克.贝丽芬和马克吐温的时代观72.海明威的女性意识73.论嘉莉妹妹成功的原因74.从《喧哗与骚动》中凯莉的悲剧看女性的社会地位75.透视《宠儿》中美国黑人女性的悲剧与成长76.浅析《心是孤独的猎手》中人物异化的生存状态77.论小男孩在《老人与海》中的作用78.浅析《论自助》中人生自主的源泉79.浅析马克•吐温小说的地方色彩主义特点On the Characteristics of Dickinson’s Poems80.哈克贝利•费恩的性格分析An Analysis of the Characteristics of Huckleberry Finn81.浅析《欲望号街车》的主题An Analysis of the Theme of A Streetcar Named Desire82.狄金森诗歌的特点之浅析On the Characteristics of Dickinson’s Poems83.浅析狄金森诗歌中的死亡主题On the Death Theme of Dickinson’s Poems84.从凯蒂的悲剧中看20世纪初女性的社会地位From Caddy’s Tragedy to View Women’s Social Status in the Early 20th Century 85.《乱世佳人》对21世纪女性的启示An Analysis of the Inspiration of Gone with the Wind to the 21st Century Women 86.解读《献给艾米丽的一朵玫瑰》中的悲剧元素On Tragic Elements in A Rose for Emily87.浅析《麦田里的守望者》中霍顿的性格特点An Analysis of Holden’s Characteristics in The Catcher in the Rye88.斯嘉丽：“旧”时代的“新”女性Scarlett O’Hara, A “New” Woman In “Old” Period89.“无形”困境——对《看不见的人》的主题分析“Invisible Plight” ---- An Analysis of the theme of Invisible Man90.情感与理智——浅析《飘》中的婚姻观Emotion and Intellect---- An Analysis of View of Marriage in Gone with the Wind 91.浅析《欲望号街车》中布兰奇的悲剧根源On the Origin of Blanche’s Tragedy in A Stre etcar Named Desire92.论对《哈克贝利•费恩历险记》的种族主义误读On Racist Misperception of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn93.从《喜福会》透视中美文化冲突与融合On the Cultural Conflicts and Blending Embodied in The Joy Luck Club94.浅析惠特曼的写作技巧A Brief Analysis of the Writing Techniques of Whitman95.对《宠儿》中叙事方法的分析An Analysis of the Narrative Tactics in Beloved96.浅析《赫索格》中的犹太情结A Brief Analysis of the Jewish Complex in Herzog97.抗争与守望：论《小镇畸人》中的畸形人物Struggle and Watch: A Study of the Grotesques in Winesburg, Ohio98.浅析《嘉莉妹妹》中的自然主义特征A Brief Analysis of Naturalistic Features in Sister Carrie99.浅析《看不见的人》中黑人的被漠视境遇An Analysis of Blacks’ Invisible Situation in Invisible Man100.浅析欧•亨利短篇小说的结尾艺术与人文关怀A Brief Analysis of the Twist Ending and the Humanity Cares in O. Henry’s ShortStories101.浅析《看不见的人》中的布鲁斯神韵An Analysis on the Spirit of the Blues in Invisible Man102.哈克贝利•费恩的性格分析An Analysis of the Characteristics of Huckleberry Finn103.伊迪斯•华顿《纯真年代》中的女性意识Feminine Consciousness in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence104.《嘉莉妹妹》中的早期自然主义Dreiser’s Early Naturalism in Sister Carrie105.论《夜色温柔》中美国梦的破灭On the Collapse of American Dream in Tender is the Night106.艾米莉•狄更森诗歌之主题研究On the Themes of Emily Dickinson’s Poems107.对《推销员之死》对话的语用分析A Pragmatic Analysis of the Dialogues in Death of a Salesman108.《红字》中的象征意义The Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter109.浅析《美国悲剧》中罗贝塔的悲剧性On the Tragedy of Roberta in An American Tragedy110.论《洛丽塔》中的彼岸世界On the “Otherworld” of Lolita111.通过《飘》看女人的觉醒Gone with the Wind and the Awakening of Women112.浅析托尼•莫里森《宠儿》中的魔幻现实主义的应用Magic Realism in Tony Morrison’s Beloved113.《看不见的人》中的社会问题分析Analysis of Social Problems in Invisible Man114.论《秀拉》中女性的自我寻找Self-realization of the Females in Sula115.浅析《了不起的盖茨比》比中颜色的象征意义The Symbolic Meaning of Color Words in The Great Gatsby 116.从《嘉莉妹妹》看女性价值观变迁Changes of Female’s Values in Sister Carrie117.浅析多斯• 帕索斯在“美国”三部曲中的写作手法Techniques Employed in U.S.A by John Dos Passos118.爱伦•坡小说中的恐怖因素Horror Elements in Edgar Allen Poe’s Fiction119.浅析《我有一个梦想》的修辞手法与主题表现An Analysis of Rhetoric Method and Theme of I Have a Dream 120.浅析《芒果街上的小屋》中的女性形象Analysis on the Female Images in The House on Mango Street121.浅析欧•亨利的黑色幽默O n O. Henry’s Black Humor122.欧•亨利短篇小说中的反衬艺术The Art of Making Contrasts in O• Henry's Short Stories123.论《了不起的盖茨比》中的美国梦On the American Dream in The Great Gatsby124.圣经对美国小说的影响The Influence of Bible in American Novel125.《白鲸》的生态解读Ecological Analysis of Moby-Dick126.论《汤姆•索亚历险记》的魅力所在The Charms of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer127.《老人与海》的象征主义Symbolism in The Old Man and the Sea128.《汤姆叔叔的小屋》主要人物性格分析Analysis of the Protagonists’ Character in Uncle Tom’s Cabin129.基督教在《汤姆叔叔的小屋》中的体现Christianity in Uncle Tom's Cabin130.论T.S.艾略特《荒原》中的宗教思想A Discussion of the Religious Ideas in The Waste Land of T. S. Eliot 131.论《推销员之死》的悲剧精神The Tragic Spirit in Death of a Salesman132.《秘密花园》现代主义主题分析On the Modernist Themes in The Secret Garden133.简析艾伦•金斯堡《嚎叫》中的“垮掉的一代”Brief Analysis of the Beat Generation in Allen Ginsber g’s Howl134.“嘉莉妹妹”—西方女性的缩影Sister Carrie—the Miniature of Western Women135.伊迪丝•华顿的《纯真年代》中的女性意识Feminine Consciousness in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence136.解析《红字》中A的象征意义On the Symbolic Meaning of A in The Scarlet Letter137.《小妇人》—一曲新女性的赞歌Little Women, a Celebration of New Women138.梭罗的《瓦尔登湖》中蕴含的深层生态学思想Deep Ecological Thoughts Contained in Thoreau’s Walden139.从《喧哗与骚动》中浅析20世纪初女性的社会地位Analysis of Women’s Social Position in Early 20th Century from The Sound and the Fury140.浅析海明威的《一个干净明亮的地方》A Brief Discussion of Hemingway’s A Clean and Well-lighted Place141.论《美国悲剧》中萝贝塔的悲剧性The Tragedy of Roberta in American Tragedy142.马克•吐温短篇小说的幽默与讽刺Humor and Irony in Mark Twain’s Short Story143.论马克•吐温小说的讽刺144.浅析马克吐温的《败坏了哈得莱堡的人》中的讽刺艺术145.论《觉醒》的主题和特点146.透过《嘉莉妹妹》看世纪之交的美国消费文化147.从女性主义视角解读《紫色》148.论《麦田里的守望者》中读者对艺术真实的认同与重建149.《宠儿》中黑人女性的社会地位150.浅析艾米莉•狄金森的爱情诗151.《白鲸》所反映出的生活态度152.浅析《嘉莉妹妹》中的新女性形象153.论《土生子》中的种族主义154.《喜福会》中母爱主题的阐释155.从庞德的作品品读意象派风格156.从超验主义重新解读《小妇人》157.评莫里森《最蓝的眼睛》的艺术特色158.论《老人与海》的悲剧色彩159.小男孩在《老人与海》中的作用160.浅谈尼采思想对杰克•伦敦及其小说《马丁• 伊登》的影响161.论《白象似的群山》中海明威独特的写作风格162.对海明威短篇小说艺术特色的研究163.从《嘉莉妹妹》看美国梦的幻灭。
美国文学 毕业论文
美国文学毕业论文美国文学：探索美国社会与人性的镜子导论美国文学作为一种独特的文化现象，以其多样性和独创性而备受瞩目。
其作品不仅仅是文学作品，更是对美国社会与人性的深刻反思。
本文将探讨美国文学的特点、主题以及其对社会和人性的影响。
一、美国文学的特点美国文学的特点在于其多元性和包容性。
美国作为一个移民国家，文学作品中融合了各种不同的文化、种族和背景。
从早期的美洲原住民文学到现代的移民文学，美国文学展现了不同群体的声音和经历。
此外，美国文学还以其独立性和创新性而著称。
美国作家们敢于挑战传统文学规范，追求个人风格和独特的创作方式。
例如，华尔登·桑德森的小说《追风筝的人》以其独特的叙事风格和主题深受读者喜爱。
二、美国文学的主题1. 美国梦美国文学中最为重要和常见的主题之一就是“美国梦”。
这一主题探讨了每个人都可以通过努力和奋斗实现自己的梦想的信念。
弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德的《了不起的盖茨比》就是一个典型的例子，通过描绘主人公盖茨比追求美国梦的故事，探讨了现实与幻想之间的冲突。
2. 种族与身份美国文学中经常涉及到种族与身份的问题。
这是因为美国社会的多元性和种族关系的复杂性。
例如，托尼·莫里森的小说《亲爱的》通过讲述一个黑人女孩的成长故事，揭示了种族歧视对个人身份和自我认同的影响。
3. 社会批判美国文学也经常用作对社会问题的批判。
作家们通过揭示社会不公正、阶级差距和权力滥用等问题，引发读者的思考和反思。
乔治·奥威尔的小说《1984》就是一个典型的例子，通过描述一个极权主义社会的恐怖景象，警示人们对权力的警惕。
三、美国文学对社会和人性的影响美国文学作为一面镜子，反映了美国社会和人性的方方面面。
它不仅仅是一种娱乐形式，更是一种思想的启发和社会变革的推动力。
首先，美国文学通过揭示社会问题和不公正，引起公众的关注和讨论。
例如，哈珀·李的小说《杀死一只知更鸟》通过描述一个种族歧视的故事，促使人们反思和改变对待不同种族的态度。
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An analysis of Emily Dickinson's poems' themesEmily Elizabeth Dickinson was a famous American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts. She lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life, as a result of Emily Dickinson's life of solitude, she was able to focus on her world more sharply than other authors of her time - contemporary authors who had no effect on her writing.Dickinson left no formal statement of her aesthetic intentions and, because of the variety of her themes, her work does not fit conveniently into any one genre. But some themes were frequently appeared in her poems, Dickinson payed high attention to these themes, were we can make an analysis of this.Flowers and gardens.Dickinson's "poems and letters almost wholly concern flowers" and that allusions to gardens often refer to an "imaginative realm ... wherein flowers are often emblems for actions and emotions". She associates some flowers, like gentians and anemones, with youth and humility; others with prudence and insight.The Master poems. Dickinson left a large number of poems addressed to "Signor", "Sir" and "Master", who is characterized as Dickinson's "lover for all eternity". These confessional poems are often "searing in their self-inquiry" and "harrowing to the reader" and typically take their metaphors from texts and paintings of Dickinson's day.Morbidity. Dickinson's poems reflect her "early and lifelong fascination" with illness, dying and death, her poems allude to death by many methods: "crucifixion, drowning, hanging, suffocation, freezing, premature burial, shooting, stabbing and guillotinage". She reserved her sharpest insights into the "death blow aimed by God" and the "funeral in the brain", often reinforced by images of thirst and starvation. Dickinson's most psychologically complex poems explore the theme that the loss of hunger for life causes the death of self and place this at "the interface of murder and suicide".Gospel poems. Throughout her life, Dickinson wrote poems reflecting a preoccupation with the teachings of Jesus Christ and, indeed, many are addressed to him. She stresses the Gospels' contemporary pertinence and recreates them, often with "wit and American colloquial language". In a Nativity poem, Dickinson combines lightness and wit to revisit an ancient theme: "The Savior must have been / A docile Gentleman – / To come so far so cold a Day / For little Fellowmen / The Road to Bethlehem / Since He and I were Boys / Was leveled, but for that twould be / A rugged billion Miles –".The Undiscovered Continent. Dickinson saw the mind and spirit as tangible visitable places and that for much of her life she lived within them. Often, this intensely private place is referred to as the "undiscovered continent" and the "landscape of the spirit" andembellished with nature imagery. At other times, the imagery is darker and forbidding—castles or prisons, complete with corridors and rooms—to create a dwelling place of "oneself" where one resides with one's other selves. An example that brings together many of these ideas is: "Me from Myself – to banish – / Had I Art – / Impregnable my Fortress / Unto All Heart – / But since myself—assault Me – / How have I peace / Except by subjugating / Consciousness. / And since We're mutual Monarch / How this be / Except by Abdication – / Me – of Me?".All the themes discussed above reflect Emily's unique perspectives and rich imagination, Emily was original and innovative in her poetry, most often drawing on the Bible, classical mythology, and Shakespeare for allusions and references. Apart from the major themes discussed above, Dickinson's poetry frequently uses humor, puns, irony and satire.。
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Fan Ruirui1001010516Intensive Reading of American LiteratureJune 24, 2012The Essence of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is set on the Long Land‟s Off Shore and in New York city during the summer of the 1922, and is a critique of American Dream in Jazz Age.“The Great Gatsby, the hero‟s dream is a kind of regretless pursuit in his life, a continuation of the idealism, materialism and spirit in the American dream.”(By Yang Hui). However, in the Jazz Age, the seeming prosperity in misleads Gatsby into believing that money has the power to gain everything wanted. However, the wealth through Gatsby‟s illegal behavior does not bring him happiness but material possessions. Gatsby‟s death is an irony of his soul and dream, which indicates the disillusion of the American dream. My paper mainly analyses the distortion of the American Dream connected with Gatsby‟s tragedy and the background.The American dream, in its broad sense, refers to the ideal of the nation such as democracy, equality, freedom, while in its narrow sense, it refers to the pursuit of its individuals to obtain the success of life through their own effort. The Great Gatsby is a representative work that reflects the nature of the American dream. Gatsby‟s life is full of the tragedy. Although he has a romantic relationship with Daisy, he is still deceived by his fate. The beautiful but shallow Daisy becomes Gatsby‟s dream. In order to pursue his dream, Gatsby decides to become a millionaire, and get his love back. He believes the spirit of the American dream, which leads him to earn the so-call “powerful money” despite his illegal ways. In fact, Gatsby, in aiming at an ideal and happy life, becomes confused with the mere making of the money. His dream of the pleasant reunion with Daisy is just one superficial dream; indeed, his prior dream is money in the Jazz Age. Despite the unaccountable wealth, he does not realize the corruption at the base of his fortune and the nature of Daisy whose voice is full of money.When Daisy sees the changes in Gatsby‟s house, she turns to be extremelyblissful, which reveals her real shallow nature. Gatsby‟s response to the changes that time brought Daisy‟s life is to “fix everything just the way it was before” (Fitz, P.133). He wants Daisy to te ll Tom that she never loves Tom. He also wants “go back to Louisville and be married from her house as if it were five years ago” (Fitz, P.133). Nick believes that Gatsby hopes to “recover everything, some ideas of himself perhaps that has gone into loving Daisy” (Fitz, P.133). However, Gatsby does not see the changed situation, and only wants to live in the past. He actually ignores that the modern world has become a moral and spiritual wasteland and his illusion can be probably be destroyed. Therefore, “his dream is bound to fail. The American dream starts to fail when it gradually becomes materialized. In a material world, Gatsby‟s transcendentalism cannot have proper object in a corrupted material world.”(By Wang Weiping，Wang ping) .He continues to believe that he can regain Daisy and can repeat the past. But time can actually ruin the illusion and dream. Although Gatsby got him famous around New York, he had elaborate parties every weekend at his mansion. The party is al most unbelievably luxurious, “looks like the World Fair.” He made friends who are famous. When Daisy went to his party and exclaimed, “I never met so many celebrities.” Gatsby died. His dream died too.To Gatsby, Daisy is his true love and represents perfection. She has the aura of charm, wealth, grace and aristocracy that he longed. In reality, however, Daisy falls far short of Gatsby‟s ideal. She is beautiful and charming, but also picky, shallow, hypocritical. She is careless person who smashes thing up and then retreats behind her money. She allows Gatsby to take the blame for killing Myrtle ever though she herself was driving the car. Finally, rather than attend Gatsby‟s funeral, Daisy and Tom move away, leaving no contact address. Daisy is love with money, easy, and material luxury. She seems to love Gatsby, but not of sustained loyalty or care.From the above, we know the real Daisy. But Gatsby did not know her clearly. This is the main reason why Gatsby‟s dream cannot come true. When Gatsby fell i n love with Daisy, …he knew that Daisy was extraordinary, but he didn‟t realize just how extraordinary a “nice” girl could be. She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby-nothing.‟ The green light where his lost lover lived i s dim andfar away.On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. Actually it is a story of the distorted American dream failing in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess. The American dream is that one can pursue their goals in life through hard work and moral righteousness. But in 1920‟s, as this novel The Great Gatsby published, the American economy soared. People began to spend and consume at unprecedented levels. The uncontrolled desire for money and pleasure surpassed other more noble goals. The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald of The Great Gatsby portrays the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values, roaring jazz age. Gatsby's dream is ruined by the unworthiness of its object, just as the American dream in the 1920s is ruined by the unworthiness of its object—money and pleasure.Although American Dream actually encourages a mounting number of people to pursue their dreams, it has been an excuse of people‟s pursuit of materials and eve n overnight wealth by unlawful methods, instead of inheriting the real essence of the American Dream, which is people‟s diligence, perseverance, courage, and determination. Gatsby‟s story is a disillusion of the American dream and also an alarm to the people in the modern life.Works CitedFitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby. Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 1982.Pingwei Wang, PingWang, The Great Gatsby—The Reflection of the Illusion Nature of the American Dream, (J) Journey of Guangxi University Wuhan Branch, 2004,(14/4) 杨慧，不悔的追求:《了不起的盖茨比》的美国梦，（J）外语论坛，2011年第9期。
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The Appreciation ofThe Love Song of J.Alfred PrufrockZhang Qi 章绮20130506044Class2, grade2013,AbstractOwing to the poem of T.S.Eliot, The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock arouse my interest in analyzing English poem. I find that English poem is also has it's own charm like our Chinese poem. Through seeking the poem's background information, Chinese translated meaning, the author's information, and my own poetic analysis to figure out the poem's main idea, main thoughts, significance and even details. It can concluded that the poem is a love poem to ask for marriage. But it explains J.Alfred Prufrock's hesitation and timidity.introductionThe author of the poem is T.S.Eliot. T.S.Eliot is his pen name, his real name is Thomas Steams Elliot. He was born in 26 September 1888. ST. Louis Missouri, United States. He was an American--born British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". His notable works include The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock(1915), The Waste Land(1922), and Four Quarters(1944). He was awarded the Nobel Price for literature in1948 for his composition of Four Quarters. (Wu Dingbo, 2013)Prufrock, a man caught in a sense of defeated idealism and tortured by unsatisfied desire, is presented as an interesting tragic figure in the poem. In the poem, he presents his two personalities: hesitation and timidity. ()analyzeMy own understanding of the main idea of the poem.It is about J.Alfred Prufrock wants to ask a woman to marry him, but he don't know how to say that. He is in two minds, which are love and reason against each other. He has no courage to make an offer of marriage. But in fact, this poem is a monologue of him. The poem emphasizes the inner thoughts and feelings of J.Alfred Prufrock. After a long struggle of "open mouth or not.", he choose to give up. The poem follows the conscious experience of a man, Prufrock, relayed in the "stream of consciousness" from characteristic of the Modernists, lamenting his physical andintellectual inertia with the recurrent theme of carnal love attained The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock, which is seen as a masterpieces of the Modernist Movement.We can find out that first section of the poetry is French and it quoted from Dante’s poetry. Why T.S.Eliot used Dante’s poetry? The reason is in Dante’s poetry, he can go to hell to ask Guido(the figure who appears in Dante’s poetry), thought he suffered misery, he come back at last. He know exactly what the hell is. This is different from Prufrock. He don’t know what the hell is, of course, he don’t know how to deal with his own problem--make a marriage proposal or not.In the 14th section, it is about Hamlet. He was always talking about the hell, but he don’t know whether he could out of the the hell. So, he is different from Dante, his reason prevent him from going to the hell. This is similar to Prufrock. His reason tells him be away from marriage and his trouble is more serious than Hamlet. Because he even don’t have his own goal, he can’t open his mouth to ask for a marriage. This may be ridiculous. In my view, this is a beautiful wish, a desire for love. Though, the woman, who is going to be asked for a marriage proposal is not really exist.We can find out that the 6th section and the section 3 have the same context.“In the room the women come and goTalking of Michelangelo”(T.S.Eliot,1915,section3&6)The two sections use “the women come and go” in order to express a nervous feeling. It can infer that, at the time, J.Alfred Prufrock must very intense because he can’t find a right way to say love to the woman. In this poetry, T.S.Eliot uses this section twice to emphasize this kind of nervous feeling that he don’t know how to start to make a marriage proposal.In the next section, section five, there are so many “there will be time...”(T.S.Eliot,1915,section5). The author uses this kind of structure--Parallelism for expressing Prufrock’s desire. He want a marriage, so he tell himself there will be time, there will have enough time my himself to prepare to make a marriage proposal and there also have enough time for the women to wait for being loved. He needs time to open his mouth to say love.There section can tells us the personality of Prufrock. That is hesitation. He wants a lover, but how to open his mouth is a big question. There must be something hard for him to show the love. But in this poetry, we can find the answer. Suppose I was Prufrock, why can’t I open my mouth for a marriage proposal? Maybe I am not good enough to match the woman, she deserve better. Maybe my healthy--condition isnot perfect, maybe I must leave here to somewhere and never come back. Maybe there still have some other reasons that we can’t understand. But there situations may become the reason for me, and also for Prufrock. These reasons makes him become timidity.In section seven, “Do I dare and Do I dare” (T.S.Eliot,1915,section7)In section eight, “So how should I presume”, “Then how should I begin”, “And how should I begin”(T.S.Eliot,1915,section8)The four sentences use rhetorical questions express Prufrock’s struggle against himself. He dare not to ask for a marriage proposal reflect in his timidity personality.In the next 12th and 13th sections,“That is not what I meat at all; That is not it, at all” (T.S.Eliot,1915,section 12) “That is not it at all; That is not what I meat, at all. (T.S.Eliot,1915,section 13)T.S.Eliot uses repeat sentence to stress Prufrock’s timid. He told himself to dispel make a marriage proposal because he dare not to ask for that. He continue to hinting himself that is not his real willing. And after a long struggle, he choose to remain silence.Through analyzing this poetry by myself from the context and own understanding. It can conclude that Prufrock’s personalities are hesitation and timidity. Sometimes hesitation and timidity may help to think more safe and reliable, but as a man or even a woman, especially a citizen of CQ, we should decide directly and simple. To much hesitation and timidity may lead to a wrong direction and do nothing.References:Wu Dingbo, 2013, An Outline American Literature, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. Prufrock, .T.S.Eliot, 1915, The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock, section 3,6,7,8,12,13.。