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This paper re-appreciates this famous short story by combining the symbol studies and the cultural studies,especially trying to find the theme of the story by analyzing the African indigenous animal symbols in the story.This analysis of the symbol ic meaning of the African indigenous animal symbols tries to prove that the theme of the story is not only the death but also the theme of anti-imperialism.This analysis of the African indigenous animal symbols helps convey Hemingway’s feelings and thoughts of anti-imperialism and inspire people’s awareness of anti-imperialism during the 1920s-1930s. 相似文献
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James Joyce’s short story "The Dead was one of the most popular short stories in Modern English Literature.To a certain degree,the hero Gabriel is the maturity Joyce.Gabriel’s epiphany to life and death in the Christmas midnight is also the author’s "the adventures of the mind".The paper attempts to explain the similarities between Gabriel and Joyce in terms of their complex national sentiments,political views and thei r relationship with their own wife.It also analysis the device of symbolism used in the short story. 相似文献
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Babylon Revisited is F.Scott Fitzgerald’s most renowned and most considered work of short fiction.In the short story "Babylon Revisited,"F.Scott Fitzgerald generally centers on a theme of defining American character.The central figure in Babylon Revisited,Charlie Wales,serves as the lens through which readers observe the events of the story and the life that once thrived in Paris.The controversial questions are also explained in this paper. 相似文献
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"29 Inventions" gives a superb demonstration of the contradictory,chaotic and alarmed state of a psychosomatic woman.Such experimental characterization is attributed to the narrative techniques,the free interchangeability of the identities of "I" and "She" and the different types of speech presentation.In terms of two aspects,the narrator and the speech presentation,this paper explores into its artistic and the thematic effects.The makeup of two different identities out of one person,for one thing,is helpful to show the character more objectively and comprehensively;for another,is convenient to show the character’s inner mind.Besides,DD,FID and FDD,used in the exact position,contribute to the success of this short story. 相似文献
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"How I Finally Lost My Heart" is a short story written by Doris Lessing,the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature.Unlike her novels,Doris Lessing’s many short stories are less mentioned or studied by Chinese researchers and scholars,especially "How I Finally Lost My Heart".Therefore,this paper is intended to analyze this short story from the feminist perspective,and attempts to show the exact process of women’s emotional independence as well as highlight the writer’s deep concern on women’s thorough liberation. 相似文献
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Greimas’s Semiotic Square is a new approach in analyzing literary works.Based on Sassure and Jacnson’s claim on binary opposition,Gereimas extends it to four actants and adds contradictory relationships.By assign meanings to the four actants,an analysis of the complicated relationship between the roles in a text can be made and a revelation of the theme of the text can be realized.Previous studies of this novel take it as an excellent work revealing loneliness and isolation is thought to be the basic condition of human existence.Other study covers the effects of the unrequited love.Quiet differently,this paper tries to interpret this novel by Greimas’semiotic square and thereby revealing the widely accepted theme of this novel that isolation and loneliness is the final destiny of human being in modern society. 相似文献
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Winesburg Ohio is a famous short story in American literary history, through the study of this short story collection,the main and primary aim is to discuss social background of that certain time. People’s social life in this story was in Midwest America, which represented the whole country at that period of time. For Winesburg as a microcosm: The so called grotesque figures of Winesburg were forced to meet and handle issues and events, which people universally undergo. Winesburg then became Any Town, USA and the flaws and struggles represented by these characters were same as be met by the ordinary people with the common human experience. Sherwood Anderson’s motivation to write them was to show the typical human community to us.With analysis of three famous figures below to illustrate how depressed they were, and to indicate Anderson’s great contribution to the American literature. Also what were readers’ reactions to this masterpiece. 相似文献
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The Unicorn in the Garden,written by James Thurber,is an ironic short story.It is believed that this short story can be considered as a representative of the war between men and women.The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the use of symbolism in this short novel and therefore reveal the indifferent relationship and marital conflict between the husband and the wife.By the interpretation of the symbolic meanings of several images,this thesis will explore the humor,theme,as well as the characters of the husband and the wife. 相似文献
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The Journey to the West has adopted a conventional theme--life is a journey;in order to deliver one’s soul,one has to go on the path of salvation.The purpose of this paper is to examine what steps the author has taken to enlighten the readers as to the progress of spiritual salvation.In view of this purpose,the analysis will be focused on the preaching of religious doctrines and the criticism of social realities in the novel. 相似文献
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James Joyce is one of the greatest pioneers of Modern novel history.The Dead is the most famous story in his early short story collection Dubliners,and is widely recognized as one of the finest short stories in the English language.This study tries to analyze the hero Gabriel’s mind change:from "living dead" to "reviving after death" from his epiphany,indicating that there is merely a delicate line between the two:death is the end of life as well as the beginning of a new life for death actually carries within itself a new life. 相似文献
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In the present paper the approach of formalism was adopted to analyze Zhang Chengzhi’ s work History of the Soul.According to the analysis to its form selection,unique style,the speaker’ s voice and the symbol,it is proved that a proper form and literary experience function to each other.And a conclusion was drawn that this work both contains a fantasy in reality and a reality in history.It is a journey of the author’ s soul,a real fiction. 相似文献
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The Awakening of Self-consciousness of the African American Women—an Analysis of Dee in Everyday Use
Alice Walker is one of the prominent American writers in American women’s literature and black literature in 1950s-1960s. Everyday Use is regarded as Alice Walker’s best-written short story. The prevailing opinion among the critics about this story is that Dee is the traitor of black American’s cultural heritage, and the mother and Maggie are the hope of true value of the African Americans’ tradition and heritage; however, after considering the historical and cultural background of the story, we may safely come to the conclusion that Dee actually took the first step toward the awakening of self-consciousness of the African Americans women. 相似文献
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Hemingway’s In Another Country expresses rich ideological connotation with extremely concise language,and reveals the cruelty of war and the huge trauma caused by war to human body and mind.This paper explores the multiple meanings of“an?other”in this short story by analyzing the background,environment,character identity,social relationship and personal concept. 相似文献
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A Rose for Emily is a short story written by William Faulkner, the famous and prolific writer of novels and short stories in America. His unique style of writing fiction always draws much attention of scholars. The narrative mode in A Rose for Emily is studied in this paper thus to explore the impact of the narrating technique on fortifying the theme of the novel. 相似文献
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In Araby, Joyce’s well written style is exemplified, as well as his deep thoughts. From the perspective of literary devices, Joyce employs"impressionism"and"epiphany"which are special artistic devices he has applied in this story. The author discusses the plot, setting in Araby, and analyzes the characters in it. Through a thorough study of Araby, the thesis is in order to push forward the understanding of Joyce’s purpose in writing the story. The discussion of impressionism and epiphany in this thesis is an attempt to focus the discussion on the story alone, combing the inner unity and integrity of this device, providing better understanding of the functions and management of such new innovations, thus a better understanding of the work itself. 相似文献
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This short essay gives a general introduction and analysis of one of Hemingway’s short stories-In Another Country.By depicting the physically injured soldiers in a hospital in Milan because of the war,the story shows the damaging psychological and physical effects of World War I,which will never been recovered.It also examines people’s disillusionment of old faiths and views of the world,and their courage to face the tragedy and reality. 相似文献
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Alice Walker is one of the prominent American writers in American women’ s literature and black literature in 1950s-1960s.The short story Everyday Use was published early in her writing career.She displays the differences in the behav iors and minds of the mother and her two daughters during the process of seeking the self-consciousness of black woman from the point of view of " womanism".This paper attempts to explore the awakening of their heritage and self-consciousness in or der to deepen the understanding and thoughts on the theme of the text. 相似文献
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Araby is one of the short stories in James Joyce’s collection,Dubliners.In this novel,the writer used lots of symbolic images to create a special and symbolic setting.This paper attempts to analyze the symbols in Araby which helps readers have a deeper and better understanding about the social background of that time and the main theme the writer wanted to express. 相似文献