_开题报告Magic Realism in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.doc

毕 业 论 文 开题报告 题 目: Magic Realism in Toni Morrison’s Beloved 开题报告填写要求 1．开题报告（含“文献综述”）作为毕业设计（论文）答辩委员会对学生答辩资格审查的依据材料之一。此报告应在指导教师指导下，由学生在毕业设计（论文）工作前期内完成，经指导教师签署意见及所在专业审查后生效。 2．开题报告内容必须用黑墨水笔工整书写或按教务处统一设计的电子文档标准格式（可从教务处网页上下载）打印，禁止打印在其它纸上后剪贴，完成后应及时交给指导教师签署意见。 3．“文献综述”应按论文的格式成文，并直接书写（或打印）在本开题报告第一栏目内，学生写文献综述的参考文献应不少于10篇。 4．有关年月日等日期的填写，应当按照国标GB/T 7408—94《数据元和交换格式、信息交换、日期和时间表示法》规定的要求，一律用阿拉伯数字书写。如“2008年11月20日”或“2008-11-30”。 毕业论文开题报告 1．结合毕业论文课题情况，根据所查阅的文献资料，每人撰写500 字左右的文献综述： Literature Review Beloved (1987) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison. The novel, her fifth, is loosely based on the life and legal case of the slave Margaret Garner, about whom Morrison later wrote in the opera Margaret Garner (2005). The books epigraph reads: Sixty Million and more, by which Morrison refers to the estimated number of slaves who died in the slave trade. Many themes are explored by scholars. The first major theme about this novel is the impact of slavery systerm. Beloved is a novel based on the impact of slavery and of the emancipation of slaves on individual black people.The effects of slavery on the self are inherited as a kind of intrinsic torment. It examines both the mental and physical trauma caused by slavery. Historical implications of the novel are also studied upon by critics. Many scholars find that Toni Morrison wrote Beloved on a foundation of historical events. History is woven throughout the novel. The Middle Passage is referenced along with the Underground Railway in many parts of the novel; the Sixty Million and More to whom Morrison dedicates the novel may refer to the many who died during the Middle Passage. The role of Beloved is another major topic of heated discussion. Some scholars think that Beloveds appearance reawakens memories of slavery among the other characters, and they are forced to deal with their pasts instead of trying to repress their memories. They maintain that on an allegorical level, Beloved represents the inescapable, h