解析托尼·莫里森作品《秀拉》和《宠儿》中大母神原型.doc

编 号： 硕士学位论文  题  目：AN EXPLORATION OF THE GREAT MOTHER ARCHETYPE IN TONI MORRISON’S SULA AND BELOVED 解析托尼·莫里森作品《秀拉》和《宠儿》中的 大母神原型  所 专 指 研 完  在 院 业 名 导 教 究 成 时  系：外国语学院 称：英语语言文学 师：范革新 生：周游 间：2013 年 5 月 20 日 沈阳师范大学研究生处制  学位论文独创性声明 本人所呈交的学位论文是在导师的指导下取得的研究成果。据我 所知，除文中已经注明引用的内容外，本论文不包含其他个人已经发 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， 均已在文中作了明确说明并表示了谢意。  作者签名：  日期：  学位论文使用授权声明 本人授权沈阳师范大学研究生处，将本人硕士学位论文的全部或 部分内容编入有关数据库进行检索；有权保留学位论文并向国家主管 部门或其指定机构送交论文的电子版和纸质版，允许论文被查阅和借 阅；有权可以采用影印、缩印或扫描等复制手段保存、汇编学位论文。 必威体育官网网址的学位论文在解密后适用本规定。  作者签名：  日期： AN EXPLORATION OF THE GREAT MOTHER ARCHETYPE IN TONI MORRISON’S SULA AND BELOVED A Thesis Submitted to the School of Foreign Languages Shenyang Normal University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Masters of Arts By Zhou You Under the Supervision of Professor Fan Gexin May 2013 ABSTACT Toni Morrison is one of the great contemporary American female novelists. She is the first black woman to win the Nobile Prize for literature in 1993, because of her remarkable creativity. Her works have drawn a wide range of domestic and foreign readers’ attention. Sula and Beloved are her masterpieces. Sula and Beloved have been studied from various angles since their publication. The rich African myth and legend in the novels have also attracted the attention of critics at home and abroad. The lifelike archetypal characters are deeply rooted in the minds of the readers. Archetypal criticism is an important literary critical school, which was very popular in the 1950s and 1960s and introduced to China in the 1980s. It tries to interpret the images, the narrative structures and character in the literal works from the perspective of archetype. The Great Mother is one of the female archetypes, who characterizes the creative and destructive aspects. Based on the archetype criticism and the theory of the Great Mother, the thesis attempts to analyze the Great Mother archetypes in the novels of Sula and Beloved , compare and explore the two mo