Application of Symbolism in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”

William Faulkner, the Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1950, is one of the most famous American writers. In "A Rose for Emily", he boldly uses the symbolism writing technique. Emily’s tragedy reveals the conflicts and contradictions between the old and new social concepts and values. With the help of symbolism, William Faulkner thoroughly and deeply portrays the southern American’s spiritual crisis during the historic reform in terms of artistic writing style and unique thoughts.     

A Comedy of Absurdity and Chaos-A Brief Study on Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and His Black Humor

Catch-22,which is written by Joseph Heller,can be recognized as the "Modern Classic" of American literature,and this fiction uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration,describing the stories from different figures’ visual angles.The novel features tragic content with comic form,anti-hero and illogical narrative structure.Catch-22,which no one can get out of,is not a simple rule;in other words,it’s really a snare and this no-win situation exists in every corner of people’s daily time.     

On The Conceptions of Time and Order in Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury

The publication of the famous novel The Sound and The Fury projects the long-enduring reputation of William Faulkner as a household American writer in every nook and cranny of the world.Just in this novel,Faulkner employs the literary device of stream of consciousness and makes a good play with time and order to his own joy,which makes it an outstanding literary feature in the novel.In this essay,the unusual conceptions of time and order in the novel are tentatively probed mainly from the following three perspectives:1) the initiative for Faulkner creating the novel as a novel against time and order.2) the disordered arrangement as an artistic device——the optimum key to delivering the story.3) the potential order underlying the seeming disorder in the novel.     

William Faulkner’s Speech at the Nobel Banquet

美国作家威廉·福克纳深受家庭传统和南方风土人情的影响。他的作品中有南方人特有的幽默感,深入刻画黑人与白人的地位、相处、矛盾等敏感问题,生动描绘出惟妙惟肖的南方人形象。福克纳的很多小说都设在虚构的约克纳帕塔法郡(Yoknapatawpha County)中,原型是他故乡所在的拉斐特郡(Lafayette)。约克纳帕塔法是福克纳作品的标志,是文学史上有名的虚构地点之一。莫言笔下的"高密东北乡"就是类似福克纳的约克纳帕塔法镇一般的文学地理世界。1949年,因为"(for)his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modernAmerican novel",福克纳获得诺贝尔文学奖。他在斯德哥尔摩发表的得奖感言是诺贝尔文学奖最精彩的感言之一。他说道:"我拒绝认为人类已经走到了尽头……人类能够忍受艰难困苦,也终将会获胜。"这席发言和他的性格十分吻合。他捐献了自己获得的奖金,要"成立一个基金以支持鼓励文学新人",最后建立了国际笔会/福克纳小说奖。     

Forecasting the Future of Self-producing Marketing from Prince William’s Marriage

Self-producing marketing is a kind of classical and effective marketing measure;recently it has drawn more and more attention and won wider application.This paper will start from Britain’s prince William’s wedding on April 29th,2011 and analyze the self-producing marketing in marriage.Moreover,adjusted to the current marketing environment,the paper will forecast the development trend of self-producing.     

A Critical Study of William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily:Its Narrative Technique and Structure

A Rose for Emily, written by William Faulkner in the twentieth century, is an absorbing mystery story with a surprisingly chilling ending. This paper intends to analyze the symbolic meaning of the rose, and the relationship between the rose and Emily, giving people a thorough understanding of the theme and the heroine’s personality. Although simple, the story shows great narrative techniques and typical and artful structure in Faulkner’s works.     

On the Hypothetico-Deductive Nature of Science—Darwin’s Finches

Allchin (2006) has misinterpreted a classic case of hypothetico-deductive (HD) science in terms of his preferred ‘let’s-gather-some-data-and-see-what-emerges’ view. The misrepresentation concerns the research program of Peter and Rosemary Grant on Darwin’s finches. The present essay argues that the Grants’ research is HD in nature and includes a statement by Peter Grant to that effect.

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On the Formation of Lawrence’s Tragic Thought

Tragic thought has been interwoven throughout D.H.Lawrence’s works,and his tragic sense is the direct result of the social realities,cultural context and his personal experiences.     

On Rhetorical Devices of Martin Luther King’s I HAVE A DREAM

Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream is a world famous and influential lecture on August 28,1963 at the Lincoln Memorial.To make lecture powerful,Dr.King use large number of rhetorical devices to conveyed a message for justice and equality.The analysis of these rhetorical devices aims at a better understanding of the theme of the speech.     

An Analysis of Dean Moriarty in On the Road——A True Hero in the 1950’s America

This paper studies post-war America around the 1950’s when On the Road was written and analyzes the protagonist Dean Moriarty as a spokesman of the Beat Generation.He is a typical beat who revolts against the traditional social values and chases after the spiritual complacency.In addition,he opposes wars and advocates the equality between men and women.Thus in a sense Dean is a rebellious hero and stands ahead of his age.     

On Implicit Information Translation of Shakespeare’ s Works from the Perspective of Relevance Theory:In the Case of Zhu’ s Translation and Liang’ s Translation

The Relevance Theory put forward by Sperber and Wilson not only gives rise to a new research on pragmatics, but also provides a new theoretic foundation for other disciplines. Gutt applies the theory to translation and gives a relevance-theoretic account of translation. The relevance-theoretic communicative model provides rational explanation for existence of the implicit information. The appropri ate treatment of the implicit information is consistent with readers’ cognitive environment and expectation. Human communication de pends on not only the text, but also the inferential context. The adequate contextual effect is derived from the correct judgment and infer ence of the implicit information in communication. Therefore, the translator should match the original author’ s intention with target text readers’ expectation to make sure that they yield adequate contextual effects with appropriate processing efforts. Implicitness is one of the features of Shakespeare’ s works. It is more demanding for the translators to catch and transfer to the target readers the implicit information. Zhu Shenghao and Liang Shiqiu, the two famous translators adopt different translation strategies to deal with the implicit information in the works.     

On Emily Dickinson’s Because I Could Not Stop for Death from the Per spective of Deviation Theory

Emily Dickinson,one of the most celebrated American poets,writes nearly 1800 poems during her lifetime.Her poetry,a flower rooted in Puritanism,expresses the poetess’s love for life,mediation on nature and religion,and longing for beauty and truth.Along with Walt Whitman,Dickinson is regarded as the pioneer of American modernistic poetry.However,studies on such a great poet are mainly from the perspective of literary criticism,and few of them are from the linguistic approach.This thesis will give a detailed analysis of one of her poems in the perspective of deviation,so as to reveal her unique stylistic features.     

From Jatz to God’s Boy: On the Greatness of Gatsby

As the spokesman of the Jazz Age,F.Scott Fitzgerald presents readers a panoramic view of the 1920s American life with his publications.Considered as his best-written book and the most widely read one,the success or greatness of The Great Gatsby,to a large degree,owes to the protagonist–Jay Gatsby.Through a brief literature review,this paper mainly focuses on the analysis of the greatness of Gatsby from three aspects-the consummate hero of intense will and belief,the notion of"Appearance made Real"and his endeavors in the pursuit of spiritual values.     

On the Dramatic Features in Robert Browning’s Poems of Dramatic Monologue

This paper explored the three dramatic features intrinsic in Robert Browning’s poems of dramatic monologue, namely, the employment of first-person point of view, the use of irony, and the intricate psychological exploration and vivid characterization. Such features are crucial in the successful presentation of various human nature and experience with profundity, making his poems an enduring classic in the English literature.     

On the Wisdoms of Human Life Embodied in Robert Frost’s Poems-A Brief Analysis of Motifs of Robert Frost’s Poems

Robert Frost is one of the famous poets of the 20th century American literature who won the Pulitzer Prize for four times. The reason for his popularity is partially because he employs traditional verse form and iambic pentameter pattern in poem writing, but the most important reason for the reputation of his poems lies in the thematic concern of something universal, such as death and life, love and hate, war and peace, the good and the evil, the wisdom of human life and etc. . A brief analysis will be given in the following text about the wisdoms of human life embodied in Robert Frost’s poems from three aspects: 1. Relaxation and responsibility of man. 2. The decisions in life.     

On the Symbolic Meaning of Imaginary Son in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

According to the relationship between symbol and meaning in semiotics,this paper analyzes the symbolic meaning of the imaginary son and the meaning of killing him in Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,and concludes that killing the imaginary son is the only way to escape the bondage of rigid social morality and come back to the reality.     

On the Self-portrait of Modern Men in T.S. Eliot’s Prufrock

T.S.Eliot,a great American poet in the twentieth century,is a spokesman of the Imagist Movement.He emphasizes describing the rotten Western civilization and the decayed morals after the First World War.Prufrock that T.S.Eliot described in his early poems is timid,hesitant,sensitive,anxious,lack of will and confidence;This paper will analyze the detailed behaviors of the characters in Eliot’s early poems and reveal the major image of modern men more clearly.     

The crisis of representation in the postmodern era: On Barry Levinson’s film Wag the Dog

Barry Levinson’s film Wag the Dog(1997) is concerned with the technological transformation of American culture in the postmodernism which is isomorphic with the media culture of American society in the late twentieth century. By exploring three dualities illustrated in the film,this paper aims to show the insecure and uncertain categories of these oppositions under the dominant phenomena of this period: the media,so as to bring about the public’s ability to discern the postmodern world as well as a new ways of thinking and living.     

On the Pilgrim to “A Room of One’s Own” in The Hours

In A Room of One’s Own,Virginia Woolf argued her famous proposition that a woman needed to have a room of her own to achieve literary autonomy,and laid the foundation for present-day feminist criticism.Yet the author believes that economic independent does not foster women’s identity with certainty.In this thesis,the author explores the crucial place of spiritual and economic independence in building up women’s autonomy through analyzing Michael Cunningham Pulitzerwinning work The Hours,which he draws inventively on the life of Virginia Woolf and her work Mrs.Dalloway.