张玉洁文献综述.doc

新疆农业大学 专业文献综述 题 目: A Study of Portraits on Goodbye, Columbus 姓 名: 张玉洁 学 院: 科技学院 专 业: 英语专业 班 级: 英语104 学 号: 105237426 指导教师: 杨晓丽 职称: 讲师 2013年12月 19日 新疆农业大学教务处制 Literature Review on Characters in Goodbye, Columbus Philip Milton Roth (1933) is an American novelist. He first gained attention with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of American-Jewish life for which he received the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Roth’s fiction, regularly set in Newark, New Jersey, is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its “supple, ingenious style and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity” (Larry,2011:54). His profile rose significantly in 1969 after the publication of the controversial Portnoy’ s Complaint, the humorous and sexually explicit psychoanalytical monologue of “a lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish bachelor”, filled with “intimate, shameful detail, and coarse, abusive language” (Rumelhart, 2012:301). Roth is one of the most awarded U.S. writers of his generation; his books have twice received the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle award twice, and three times the Faulkner Award. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his novel, American Pastoral (1997), which is featured with one of his best-known characters, Nathan Zuckerman, the subject of many other Roth’s novels. The Human Stain (2000), another Zuckerman novel, was awarded the United Kingdom’s WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year. In 2001, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize. Goodbye, Columbus is a