John Cheever's The Enormous Radio, written in 1953, is certainly different from those modernist works before the WW Ⅱ. It has particular features belonging to that transition period. Through three aspects, money,...John Cheever's The Enormous Radio, written in 1953, is certainly different from those modernist works before the WW Ⅱ. It has particular features belonging to that transition period. Through three aspects, money, marriage and interpersonal relationships, The Enormous Radio written by John Cheever reflects the contemporary American spiritual mind, depressed and alienated in the painful world like the earlier modernists but much too desperate to acknowledge their sufferings.展开更多
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 sto...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.展开更多
文摘John Cheever's The Enormous Radio, written in 1953, is certainly different from those modernist works before the WW Ⅱ. It has particular features belonging to that transition period. Through three aspects, money, marriage and interpersonal relationships, The Enormous Radio written by John Cheever reflects the contemporary American spiritual mind, depressed and alienated in the painful world like the earlier modernists but much too desperate to acknowledge their sufferings.
文摘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.
