純真年代老紐約“金字塔”及人物形象解讀

1、聊城大學碩士學位論文 i 碩 士 學 位 論 文 論文題目 論文題目《純真年代》老紐約“金字塔” 《純真年代》老紐約“金字塔” 及人物 及人物形象解讀 形象解讀 研 究 生 姓 名 房園 房園 專 業(yè) 名 稱 英語語言文學 英語語言文學 指導教師姓名 劉生 劉生 教授 教授 學 院 外國語學院 外國語學院 論文提交日期 20 2010 10 年 4 月 分 類 號 Ⅰ712 單 位 代 碼 104

2、47 密 級 無 研 究 生 學 號 0710070104 聊城大學碩士學位論文 iii Abstract Edith Wharton was one of the most influential female writers in America at the end of the 19th century. Wharton?s creativity and intelligence are evident ever since h

3、er childhood. As a prolific writer, Wharton wrote many works of different genres, such as novels, poems, autobiographies, critic essays, traveling diaries and prose on house decoration. The Age of Innocence contributes t

4、o establishing her reputation as a prominent writer in America. Wharton?s writing is exquisite, sometimes humorous and sometimes insinuative. Many of her novels choose New York urban atmosphere as the settings of the sto

5、ries. Her fictive world is peopled with both men and women, who must struggle for selfhood within the social context. She is skilled in depicting the wholesome picture of upper class. Meanwhile, as a woman writer, Edith

6、Wharton is aware of the position and status of women at that time. She demonstrates in her novels both the miserable fates of women and the tough position of men at her age. Wharton took woman?s suffering in a male-domin

7、ated world and the way to woman?s emancipation as her main concerns, which could be reflected in her classic work—The Age of Innocence. She is in an important position in the classic female writers in American literature

8、. Edith Wharton is outstanding as a good hand in the depiction of the pressure of society upon individuals and the analysis of the nature, position and status of women. The Age of Innocence is regarded as a perfect work

9、 portraying the contradiction between individuals and society as well as the subordinate positions and miserable destinies of women at Wharton?s age. It is also the American novel which best presents the wholesome atmosp

10、here of American life and the highest standard of American manners. In Edith Wharton?s times, women were the subsidiary to men so that they had fewer opportunities to do what they wanted to. Wharton pays a good deal of a

11、ttention to the difficulty and dilemma of women in most of her works and is called a feminist writer by some feminists. Wharton feels sympathized with the tragedy of women and tries to point out the way for them to walk

12、out of their dilemma, and at the same time she deconstructs the essential position of men in the binary opposition of man and woman. This thesis sets out to analyze the characters and social backgrounds which influence t