工业社会中缺少交流和自我调节的小镇畸人-英语语言文学专业论文.docx

GROTESQUES LACKING COMMUNICATION AND SELF-ADJUSTMENT IN THE INDUSTRIALIZED SOCIETY By Qian Lai’e Under the supervision of Associate Professor Qi Tao A thesis Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the School of Foreign Studies Anhui University April 2008 i i Acknowledgements First of all, I avail myself of this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to all my teachers, classmates and friends, whose encouragement and support are so precious in my three-year postgraduate life and study in the School of Foreign Studies of Anhui University, My special thanks go in particular to Associate Professor Qi Tao, my supervisor, for his patience, gracious instructions, invaluable suggestions, and inspiring comments, without which the completion of this paper would have been impossible. This thesis also owes a great deal to Professor Hong Zeng-liu, Professor Chen Zheng-fa, Professor Chen Bing, Professor Hua Quan-kun, and our conscientious Australian teacher Annette Stewart, whose lectures have given me considerable instruction and inspiration. A special acknowledgement is made to my good friends Wang Yu-ning and Xia Xing, as this thesis is shaped after the constant discussions with them. Lastly, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my family for their sincere concern, selfless consideration, and great support, which enables me to finish this thesis in time. ii ii Abstract Winesburg, Ohio, the masterpiece of American writer Sherwood Anderson, is attracting more and more critical attention with its peculiar writing form and controversial motif. Apart from unanimously acknowledging Anderson’s status as an innovative modernist, especially in storytelling, critics have analyzed from different points of view his writing motive of Winesburg, Ohio and the causes of the grotesques in the stories. To the author of the present thesis, Winesburg, Ohio is first of all about the inner flounder of a special group of Americans—