Flannery O’Connor is one of the representative figures of American Southern writers.Being recognized as the most outstanding writer of the American South after Faulkner,she has great influence in the literary world.H...Flannery O’Connor is one of the representative figures of American Southern writers.Being recognized as the most outstanding writer of the American South after Faulkner,she has great influence in the literary world.Her works are always shrouded in a strange and grotesque atmosphere and full of death as well as religious metaphors.The protagonists are a series of American Southern freaks struggling with the crisis of spiritual belief.The protagonists of her novel A Good Man is Hard to Find are a hypocritical believer in the world of sinners and a lost man suffering in the midst of real sin,thus O’Connor uses the highest form of violence-death to bring ultimate redemption to them.In people’s conception,violence and redemption are often opposite to each other,but O’Connor uses bloody and violent plots to explore the theme of religious salvation,integrating and unifying the two contrary concepts to form her unique and profound violent redemption writing.展开更多
Flannery O'Connor is considered one of the outstanding female writers of the American South in the 20 th century.Her works not only reveal to readers a world of nihilism,but also describe a society of original sin...Flannery O'Connor is considered one of the outstanding female writers of the American South in the 20 th century.Her works not only reveal to readers a world of nihilism,but also describe a society of original sins.Nihilism reflected by two major characters and their fates in A Good Man Is Hard to Find demonstrate her concern about the lack of belief and emptiness of modern people's soul.展开更多
Stylistics is a branch of linguistics which studies the feature of situationally distinctive uses(varieties) of language, and tries to establish principles capable of accounting for the particular choices made by indi...Stylistics is a branch of linguistics which studies the feature of situationally distinctive uses(varieties) of language, and tries to establish principles capable of accounting for the particular choices made by individual and social groups in their use of language. Different perspective will be adopted and different attention will be fixed when we are facing different styles of literary works. This paper will analyze the novel"A Good Man is Hard to Find"from the following perspectives: pattern of lexis, and rhetorical device.展开更多
Speech Act Theory is one of the most important theories in pragmatic field.And this theory has gradually been applied into literary criticism.Irony is not only a generally-used communicative skill,but also a hot langu...Speech Act Theory is one of the most important theories in pragmatic field.And this theory has gradually been applied into literary criticism.Irony is not only a generally-used communicative skill,but also a hot language phenomenon in literature which aroused linguists,writers and even philosophers'interest.The speech act theory and the irony have one thing in common,which is the illocutionary act they both have.Accordingly,the combination of both can enable readers have a better understanding of the literature works.Hence,this thesis reviews theoretical research to analyze the relationship between irony and Speech Act Theory;elaborates on irony in A Good Man is Hard to Find on the basis of Speech Act Theory.展开更多
It is a long, tiresome trip between Shanghai and Tuebingen, anexhausting flight that is often delayed, followed by hours in a train or car. On my way to Tuegingenfor the funeral of Prof. Dr. Uli Schwarz last December,...It is a long, tiresome trip between Shanghai and Tuebingen, anexhausting flight that is often delayed, followed by hours in a train or car. On my way to Tuegingenfor the funeral of Prof. Dr. Uli Schwarz last December, I thought about how many times over thepast 20 years he had taken such a long journey, probably up to 100 times. It is not at all easy.展开更多
Maugham was very successful for his short fiction. In this article the author is to talk about Maugham’s short story The Treasure which completely reflects the features of his short fiction. The author is also to ana...Maugham was very successful for his short fiction. In this article the author is to talk about Maugham’s short story The Treasure which completely reflects the features of his short fiction. The author is also to analyze its structure and present the theme and the moral of this conventional story.展开更多
文摘Flannery O’Connor is one of the representative figures of American Southern writers.Being recognized as the most outstanding writer of the American South after Faulkner,she has great influence in the literary world.Her works are always shrouded in a strange and grotesque atmosphere and full of death as well as religious metaphors.The protagonists are a series of American Southern freaks struggling with the crisis of spiritual belief.The protagonists of her novel A Good Man is Hard to Find are a hypocritical believer in the world of sinners and a lost man suffering in the midst of real sin,thus O’Connor uses the highest form of violence-death to bring ultimate redemption to them.In people’s conception,violence and redemption are often opposite to each other,but O’Connor uses bloody and violent plots to explore the theme of religious salvation,integrating and unifying the two contrary concepts to form her unique and profound violent redemption writing.
文摘Flannery O'Connor is considered one of the outstanding female writers of the American South in the 20 th century.Her works not only reveal to readers a world of nihilism,but also describe a society of original sins.Nihilism reflected by two major characters and their fates in A Good Man Is Hard to Find demonstrate her concern about the lack of belief and emptiness of modern people's soul.
文摘Stylistics is a branch of linguistics which studies the feature of situationally distinctive uses(varieties) of language, and tries to establish principles capable of accounting for the particular choices made by individual and social groups in their use of language. Different perspective will be adopted and different attention will be fixed when we are facing different styles of literary works. This paper will analyze the novel"A Good Man is Hard to Find"from the following perspectives: pattern of lexis, and rhetorical device.
文摘Speech Act Theory is one of the most important theories in pragmatic field.And this theory has gradually been applied into literary criticism.Irony is not only a generally-used communicative skill,but also a hot language phenomenon in literature which aroused linguists,writers and even philosophers'interest.The speech act theory and the irony have one thing in common,which is the illocutionary act they both have.Accordingly,the combination of both can enable readers have a better understanding of the literature works.Hence,this thesis reviews theoretical research to analyze the relationship between irony and Speech Act Theory;elaborates on irony in A Good Man is Hard to Find on the basis of Speech Act Theory.
文摘It is a long, tiresome trip between Shanghai and Tuebingen, anexhausting flight that is often delayed, followed by hours in a train or car. On my way to Tuegingenfor the funeral of Prof. Dr. Uli Schwarz last December, I thought about how many times over thepast 20 years he had taken such a long journey, probably up to 100 times. It is not at all easy.
文摘Maugham was very successful for his short fiction. In this article the author is to talk about Maugham’s short story The Treasure which completely reflects the features of his short fiction. The author is also to analyze its structure and present the theme and the moral of this conventional story.
