JIANGHAN ACADEMIC ›› 2011, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (2): 48-51.

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Predicament and Transcendence:A Brief Study of “the Trees” in American Classical Literary Works

ZENG Li1,RENG Xiao-jin2   

  1. 1.School of Foreign Languages, Jianghan University, Zengli, Wuhan 430056,China;
    2.School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan University, Renxiaojin, Wuhan 430072, China
  • Received:2010-07-10 Online:2011-04-01 Published:2014-01-02

Abstract: In American classical literary works, the trees’ images, such as Trees at Night written by Helene Johnson, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening written by Robert Lee Frost, Leaves of Grass written by Whitman, The Scarlet Letter written by Hawthorne, Beloved written by Toni Morrison, have shown the rethinking and the transcending of predicament for human beings. After reading the “Dialogue Theory” written by a Russian literary theoretician, Mikhail Bakhtin, we have also sought the pluralistic concept of dialogue in different texts from the angle of intertextuality. The images of trees have given human beings infinite imagine and spiritual wishes in different works. And at the same time the writers of these texts are also elaborating the most essential anthropology proposition through the angle of philosophy.

Key words: “Trees”, American Literature, Intertextuality, Predicament of Human Beings

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