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Kaifu, Chen – English Language Teaching, 2019
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a reputed anti-slavery novel in American literary history. Tom, an unusually loyal and submissive slave, was sold to different slave masters again and again until he was tortured to death. Tom's tragic fate had multi-faceted roots. This paper tends to give an objective interpretation of Tom's personality so as to…
Descriptors: Novels, Slavery, United States History, Personality Traits
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Wang, Ru; Tian, Yunyun – English Language Teaching, 2016
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) is an eminent novelist in the history of American literature, especially famous for her short novels. "Noon Wine" is her important masterpiece, its plot and motif always lead to reader's deep meditation, and researches focus more on its narrative art, myth archetypes and themes. This paper tries to…
Descriptors: Novels, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles, Literature Appreciation
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Yuan-yuan, Peng – English Language Teaching, 2018
Hassan in "The Kite Runner" was brave, kind-hearted and loyal, but he still ended up with misery. From the three dimensional ethical perspective, Hassan's tragedy is not only greatly related to national and religious ethics, but also influenced by deformed family ethics. Thus it can be seen that national discrimination and religious…
Descriptors: Ethics, Novels, Literary Criticism, Religious Factors
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Yang, Hongyan – English Language Teaching, 2015
"The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" both are masterpieces of Jack London. The protagonists Buck and White Fang are the incarnation of Jack himself to some extent for the two novels reveal a great deal of the writer. This essay aims at psychoanalyzing Jack London's creative process, the Oedipus complex and the confliction…
Descriptors: Novels, United States Literature, Literary Criticism, Psychology
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Alaei, Mahya; Ahangari, Saeideh – English Language Teaching, 2016
The linguistic study of literature or critical analysis of literary discourse is no different from any other textual description; it is not a new branch or a new level or a new kind of linguistics but the application of existing theories and methods (Halliday, 2002). This study intends to determine how ideology or opinion is expressed in Joseph…
Descriptors: Literature, Novels, Discourse Analysis, Literary Criticism
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Wang, Jing – English Language Teaching, 2011
"Waiting for Godot" is one of the classic works of theater of the absurd. The play seems absurd but with a deep religious meaning. This text tries to explore the theme in four parts of God and man, breaking the agreement, repentance and imprecation and waiting for salvation.
Descriptors: Novels, Literary Criticism, Religious Factors, Christianity
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Xu, Runjiang; Li, Yucheng – English Language Teaching, 2009
This thesis attempts to search for the clues related to British domestic exploitation of the peasant labors and overseas colonization of other countries after rereading the novel "Pride and Prejudice," with an aim to bring out Austen's intimacy with Imperialism. It will offer some insights into a better understanding of provincial world…
Descriptors: Novels, Didacticism, Literature Appreciation, Literary Criticism