The Value That Is In The Culture Collision Claim | | Posted on:2008-08-11 | Degree:Master | Type:Thesis | | Country:China | Candidate:Y N Lin | Full Text:PDF | | GTID:2155360215965968 | Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature | | Abstract/Summary: | PDF Full Text Request | | In the United States Saul Bellow has been regarded as the most important contemporary literary writer .In his life ,he has write a lot of articles ,and his masterpiece is the novel "Herzog" .In addition, he is also the author of other nine novels, and a lot of Stories, Essays, and Travel notes.There were many domestic comments of Bellow's works, in the summary of my thesis; I have a general overview of it. Then I tried to discourse the infection of Jewish culture and the American culture on the Bellow's novels, from it I discourse the impact of his novels for a comprehensive exposition. First of all, It is a long historical and cultural traditions of the Jewish people ,Bellow's parents educated him a Jewish soul, his literary writings have imperceptibly invasive nature of the Jewish elements. Then, I tried to discourse the infection to Bellow of the striver of their families in USA and the impact of the American culture. He grow up at industrial city of Chicago, the message of the living environment transmitted him to become a real American. He also efforts to be close to this standard, his enormous impact of American culture is undeniable. when Bellow got reputation, money, station in the American society, he did not find spiritual happiness. He has a soul of Jewish, life in the United States and mingle with the conflicts and collisions become the driving force behind his writing. This is also because the two cultures. Makes Bellow's novels are both wise and common custom. This is Bellow's novels can become a gradual erosion of the cultural elite in contemporary society; Literary writers boarded the bestseller list in a serious reason. Therefore, I have four separate article, in the main part of this literary criticism. The first part, I thought from the traditional Jewish culture and the American culture of the characters in the novel to talk about. Combining Bellow's novel "Herzog" and "Dangling man" was discussed. The second part, I mainly in the context of Bellow's novels "Herzog" and "more die of a heartbreak" to specifically address Bellow's novels are part of women in the traditional, contemporary views on love and marriage and the Jewish community in the United States conflict with contradictions. Bellow the desire to spread Western society is full of deep depression. But he also pointed out a rescue path to the world that love, desperate to save the soul. The third part, I mainly talked about the combination of Bellow's novels Jewish family values and the traditional concept of money into American society in which the subject impact of modern society is a frenzied worship of money and material means that the traditional family is no longer there, But there is still the family relatives, this is another way to save people's soul in modern times. In this chapter 's fourth part, I talked about the novel combination of Bellow's novels the dramatis personae of the Jewish community in the United States suffer misery and the search for identity The difficult journey, but this does not mean that they seek recognition in cost of the loss of self-identity. Bellow's dramatis personae who seek self-worth, the journey to escape the alienation of their community were carried out in the street. May be they have found the answer. . | | Keywords/Search Tags: | Bellow's novels, cultural collisions, Value, the Jewish component, American culture | PDF Full Text Request | Related items |
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