解析《啊，拓荒者!》叙事艺术-英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

An An Analysis of the Narrative Art of O Pioneers! An An Analysis of the Narrative Art of O Pioneers! 4 4 PAGE PAGE 13 学位论文原创性声明 本人所提交的学位论文“An Analysis of the Narrative Art of O Pioneers!, ” 是在导师的指导下，独立进行研究工作所取得的原创性成果。除文中己经注明引 用的内容外，本论文不包含任何其他个人或集体已经发表或撰写过的研究成果。 对本文的研究做出重要贡献的个人和集体，均已在文中标明。 本声明的法律后果由本人承担。 论文作者( 签名) : 指导教师确认( 签名) : 年 月 日 年 月 日 学位论文版权使用授权书 本学位论文作者完全了解河北师范大学有权保留并向国家有关部门或机构 送交学位论文的复印件和磁盘，允许论文被查阅和借阅。本人授权河北师范大学 可以将学位论文的全部或部分内容编入有关数据库进行检索，可以采用影印、缩 印或其它复制手段保存、汇编学位论文。 论文作者( 签名) : 指导教师确认( 签名) : 年 月 日 年 月 日 Introduction Willa Cather (1873-1947) is a Great Plains writer in American literary history, and she is well known for celebrating the pioneers in the Midwestern America. Her novels refer to the immigrants on the Nebraska prairie and convey an affectionate vision of America. Many critics consider her as an accomplished American female writer. Susan Rosowski has written that Cather was “the first to give immigrants heroic stature in serious American literature.”[1] Sinclair Lewis said that “The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather’s books.”[2] F. Scott FitzGerard admired Cather, John Galsworthy liked Cather’s work and Robert Frost called Cather our best novelist. Still later writers like Eudora Welty and Wallace Stegner have expressed unqualified appreciation of Cather’s artistry and achievement. Willa Cather was born of a small farming community at Back Creek, Virginia in 1873. When Willa Cather was nine years old, the Cathers moved to a ranch near Nebraska, about twenty miles west of Red Cloud. At first Cather felt the displacement cruelly because of homesickness, but before long Cather took considerable pleasure in her life on the prairie. Her awareness had been deeply touched by two things: new landscape and diverse immigrants. In 1908 when Cather left for Boston to study the career of Mary Baker Eddy, she met Sarah Orne Jewett. Jewett functioned as guide at the crucial moment of Cather’s literary life, though two women corresponded w