A Tragedy of Human Beings,A Comedy of A Little Boy:Reflection of Social Conventions and Human Tragedy in Acorn-gatherer

Richard Jefferies presented one tragedy after another in a small and backward village in 19th England in his short story Acorn-gatherer.The paper explored the fundamental cause of those tragedies and drew a conclusion all those tragedies were the expression of human tragedy resulted from social conventions in the form of religion and the tragedy was actually a comedy for the little boy who was just the symbol of human tragedy in the story due to his special identity:an illegitimate child.     

Filling in the Blank: a Postmodern Experiment on Fiction and Human Existence

In his short story collection Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth attempts to deal with the existential plights that fictional writing and human beings are faced with."Title", the most postmodern story in the collection, centers on the issue of"filling in the blank,"in which Barth leads readers to solve the problem and create the story with him. To examine Barth’s postmodern experiment in"Title", this paper mainly focuses on the following three questions: what is the"blank"? How to fill in it? Why to fill in it in that way? By answering them, we may see how Barth reconciles the conflict between the urgency of"filling in the blank"and the failure of filling them.     

The Man in the War--a character analysis of Jeremiah Donovan in ＂Guests of the Nation＂

Jeremiah Donovan is one of the five main characters in Frank O'Connor's "Guests of the Nation". The story narrates how war distorts human mind and the struggles of people living in the war. This article analyses Donovan's behaviours in different settings and discusses his feelings and motivations may beneath along with author's intention of writing this story.     

Analyzing of "Xu Sanguan a blood":The Black Humor Artistic

"Black Humor",as a literary genre."Xu Sanguan a Blood" is a novel created by a well-known writer Yu Hua in 1995.It expresses the human desire to survive when the bad luck.The story tells us that Xu Sanguan spent relying on selling blood they had to get a life and overcome adversity.And when he was old,Xu Sanguan knows that nobody should want his blood,his spirit has collapsed.Black humor from this man gives us more heavy consider and let’s know what the truth of the life is.Xu Sanguan had the both of many hates and also many hopes about the family and the life in this story.And his black humor makes him crying with the smile and smiling with the tears.     

Birdman: The Devil from the Past

The film Birdman was a great success for its writing, direction, performances and cinematography. It tells the story of a former-famous actor’s struggle to cope with his current life. One continuous take is used to illustrate the actor’s self-search in the setting of a Broadway theater. The experimental style of the film highlights great performances and strengthens emotional tension, which makes it a great production.     

Social Conventions and Human Tragedy in Richard Jefferies “the Acorn Gatherer”

Social conventions sometimes are regarded as valuable treasure in some culture. But it can also lead to human tragedy. The Arti cle here tried to look into the social and religious conventions behind the human tragedy in Richard Jefferies’ short story "the Acorn Gath erer" and how those conventions and people’s belief affect the relationship between the grandmother and her grandson in the short story. The article discussed the underlying causes to the tragedy from three aspects, the outside pressure, the inner factors and the problem of the society. It attempted to explain how the social pressure influenced the attitude and action of the grandmother, how her inner belief com pelled herself to maltreat the boy and how the social convention and religious belief made the society seemingly pitiless and indifferent. It is also indicated that social and religious conventions still have a lasting effect on how people think and act in today’s world.     

Analysis on the Theme of Death in the Woods by Means of Symbols

Sherwood Anderson is an American famous short story writer.The most enduring work of his is the short story sequence Winesburg,Ohio.He is good at capturing the real sound of everyday speech in his writing and creating it in new forms and styles.And Death in the Woods is considered as one of his most distinctive stories.It depicts a miserable old woman who feeds others all her life by using symbols to enrich the simple story.This paper intends to reveal the author’s deep reflection of American’s indifferent and apathetic attitudes in the whole society by means of the symbols of the person,color and dog.     

A Brief Study of Wordsworth’s Romantic Poetry in Light of Ecocriticism

Ecocriticism is a new-born literary criticism that delves into the exposition of the relationship between human beings and other specimen in nature from the literary angle as well as observes and discloses in detail and with sincerity the effect of literature in the human activities and natural environment. The thesis combines the theory of ecocriticism with romanticism to study Wordsworth’s romantic poetry from an ecological perspective as Wordsworth,the great“worshipper of nature”can also be called an ecological critic since many of his poems are focused on ecological themes and he expresses his passion on an ecological basis. Going through the thesis is the most fundamental concept of ecocriticism: ecological holism. Supporting this backbone is analyzes of selected paradigmatic romantic poems by Wordsworth.     

Dreams and Reality—About Impressionism and Epiphany in Araby

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.     

Foregrounded Beauty: A Brief Analysis of Cummings’ Typical Poems from the Perspective of Stylistics

E. E. Cummings is one of the representatives of American modern experimental poets whose poems are well-known for the unique style. Cummings endeavors to make his poems be different from other poets’. He broke the traditional way of writing poems, invented in the changing of lines of the poem and the spelling of the words in the poem, thus to make his personal poem style distinctive. Therefore, standing on the stylistic point of view, this paper makes a brief analysis on Cummings’ typical poems from foregrounding perspective.     

The Alienation of Interpersonal Relationship——An Analysis of Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser’s first novel, Sister Carrie is a work of excellence with epoch-making significance in the history of American literature. It is written in the transition period of United States, and the consumption ideology gradually influences the human nature at that time. Based on the writing background, this paper attempts to explore the alienation of interpersonal relationship under the consumer society in this novel through the perspective of Marxism and text analysis.     

Hemingway and Nihility

Hemingway’s works have sometimes been read as an essentially negative commentary on a modern world filled with sterility,failure and death.Yet such a nihilistic vision is repeatedly modified by Hemingway’s affirmative assertion of the possibility of living with style and courage.Nihility in Hemingway’s works is primarily expressed in three forms:a) consciousness of death;b) consciousness of pains;c) consciousness of fantasies.It firstly comes from his life experiences,and then it is closely connected with his living environment and ages.Nihility makes notable impact on his creation.     

Comment on the Position and Love of Edie,the Protagonist in the Story "Edie's Avalanche: Snowed Up" As a Woman of the Late Victorian Period

"Edie’s Avalanche: Snowed up" is a previously unpublished short story of Richard Jefferies’, it has been studied from different approaches. This paper discusses the changing position and love of the protagonist from feminist approach.     

The Analysis of Willy’s Death in Existentialism

This thesis analyses Death of a Salesman from the perspective of existentialism.By probing into the story with Sartre’s theory of freedom,this thesis concludes that the protagonist’s living environment and his choice are both responsible for his death.But it also tells us no matter how difficult our situation is,we always have freedom to choose.Everyone can live a mean ingful life through his choice.     

Collapse of Goodman Brown’ s Faith:Perspective from Freudian Psychoanalytical Theories

This article, by applying Freudian psychoanalytical theories, offers a new interpretation on Young Goodman Brown written by Na thaniel Hawthorne. Firstly, by analyzing the Theory of Drive (especially the death theory), it points out that " evil" is one of human in stincts, and the whole story stems from this very instinct. Then, the article focuses on the mental struggles and the collapse of Brown’ s faith from perspective of Freudian Personality Structure. At last, it concludes that Brown’ s mental sufferings lie in the fierce conflicts be tween his id, ego and super-ego and his mental disorder is caused by his faith collapse.     

Reality,Imagination and Art-On Wallace Stevens’s Art of Poetry

Wallace Stevens is a distinguished American modern poet.He come up with the idea of Supreme Fiction,in which he holds poetry as the union of reality and imagination,brings power,order,and wisdom to the world,which features his work with philosophy and poetic wisdom.Stevens’s perspectives on poetry writing and the needs of spiritual enrichment share some similarities with Friedrich Nietzsche on art and aesthetics-Art is the final form of sublimation of the souls of human beings.