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华南师范大学本科毕业论文 (设计) 开题报告 院 系 外文学院 专 业 英语教育 学生姓名 朱宴云 学号 20060201410 指导教师 张华鸿 选 题 The Art of Arguing for Beauty --A Stylistic Analysis on Susan Sontag’s Beauty 本选题的意义及国内外研究状况： Susan Sontag, as a famous American writer, critic and feminist, was a controversial figure in modern western. Her works ranged from nonfictions, fictions and essays, which include: Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor and The Benefactor. Against Interpretation, being Susan Sontag’s most outstanding and attractive work, won her the title of “ the current acutest writer” in America. Susan Sontag was considered different in that she had a deep understanding of anesthetics and photography. The reason that I choose her work—Beauty, which was first published in Vogur magazine in 1975, is that she argued about beauty, an abstract word, in a very logical and convincing way. Meanwhile, Susan Sontag presented her art of arguing about beauty in a feminist’s perspective. By analizing this text, readers can better appreciate Susan Sontag’s fine art of arguing of an abstract word. Thus this essay can provide readers a better skill in arguing forcefully and logically. This essay will focus on the various stylistic feautures of Beauty with Sara Mills’ theory in her book Feminist Stylistics, through which we can analize Susan Sontag’s choice of words, grammar and sentences. The importance of doing such a research are as follows: By analizing the stylistic features of the text, we are able to have a profound understanding of Sontag’s argument on beauty and how she draws our attention to sexism. Though many researches have done on feminist literary criticism, most of which are from the aspects of the development, the influnce and the current situation, which leaves much space for a research on a particular writer, as Susan Sontag. Few researches on Susan Sontag and her works have been conducted except some on her perspective of aesthetics, so a research on Beauty from the styl