A Thematic Exploration of Twentieth-Century Western Literature

ISBN-13: 9781032169293 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 216 str.

Jiang Chengyong; Liu Jiaqi

Opis

This title takes classic literature by European and American authors of the twentieth-century as research objects to explore their thoughts, values, aesthetics and narratives. Six major themes are used as units for analysis—existential meaning, self-identity, war and human nature, growing confusion, love and marriage, and anti-Utopia.

Spis treści

Introduction. 1. Inquiry into Existential Situation and Meaning. 2. Interrogation of the Self. 3. Price of Humanity in Wars. 4. Loss and Predicament of Growing Up. 5. Variations in the World of Love. 6. Historical and Philosophical Reflections of “Anti-Utopia” Literature. Epilogue.

O autorze

Jiang Chengyong is Senior Professor of Liberal Arts in Zhejiang Gongshang University (ZJSU), Dean of ZJSU Institute of Western Literature and Culture, and guest researcher of Beijing Foreign Studies University, Academy of Foreign Literature Studies.