Application and innovation of thesis topic

Gothism in Wuthering Heights

First, the significance of the topic and the research status.

1. The purpose, theoretical significance and practical significance of the topic.

For a long time, people regarded Emily? Bronte is the Sphinx in English literature. There are many mysteries about herself and her works. Many critics have studied them in different ways from different angles and come to different conclusions. Therefore, as soon as the old mystery is solved, the new one comes out, and the craze for solving puzzles seems endless.

Based on the Gothic tradition in European and American literature, this paper studies the creative source of Wuthering Heights and points out that Emily?

Bronte draws lessons from the Gothic tradition in terms of theme, characters, environmental description, images and plot structure, and at the same time, with his extraordinary imagination, he blends reality with surrealism, injecting strong emotion, psychological depth and fresh vitality into the ancient form, realizing the perfect unity of Gothic form and passionate content, and making Wuthering Heights surpass both the "black romanticism" of the Gothic school and the "realism" of the Victorian era.

2. Overview of research and development related to the selected topic at home and abroad.

There are many thrilling horror stories in the literature of all ethnic groups, but it seems that no literature has not only created a large number of high-quality horror literature works like British and American literature, but also formed a Gothic tradition with sustainable development and wide influence. Gothic literature has now become an important field of British and American literature research. The serious study of Gothic literature began in the 1920s and 1930s. After the 1970s, due to the influence of new academic thoughts and literary criticism concepts, the study appeared an unprecedented upsurge. Searching on the Internet, as of September 2000, scholars from Britain and the United States have published at least 184 monographs, among which 126 monographs were published after 1970, and 59 monographs were published in the 1990s alone, accounting for almost one third of the total. Of course, the study of Gothic literature in recent years is not only a rapid increase in research results, but more importantly, it has been greatly expanded in depth and breadth, combining Gothic tradition with the overall development of history, society, culture and literature in Britain, America and even Europe.

Second, the research plan

1. Basic contents and expected results of the study (outline)

The basic content of the study: based on the Gothic tradition in European and American literature, this paper studies the creative source of Wuthering Heights and points out that Emily?

Bronte draws lessons from the Gothic tradition in terms of theme, characters, environmental description, images and plot structure, and at the same time, with his extraordinary imagination, he blends reality with surrealism, injecting strong emotion, psychological depth and fresh vitality into the ancient form, realizing the perfect unity of Gothic form and passionate content, and making Wuthering Heights surpass both the "black romanticism" of the Gothic school and the "realism" of the Victorian era.

Expected results (outline):

1. Overview of Gothic Architecture

The definition of 1. 1 Gothic

1.2 the origin of gothic novels

1.2. 1 historical reasons

1.2. 1. 1 Germanic folk customs

Renaissance 1.2. 1.2 drama

Legends in the Bible and Christianity

1.2.2 The development of the novel itself

The challenge of romanticism to rationalism

1.2.2.2 sublime and beautiful

2. Emily's Gothic Tradition

2. 1 theme

2. 1. 1 good and evil

2. 1.2 Revenge

2.2 Character description

2.2. 1 villain hero

2.2.2 Exquisite girl

2.3 Atmosphere, environment and plot

2.3. 1 terror

mysterious

Supernatural phenomenon

3. Emily's Gothic Innovation

3. 1 the combination of romanticism and realism

3. 1. 1 background change

3. 1.2 the use of symbolism

3. 1.3 Stream of consciousness

3. 1.4 hallucination and subconscious

3.2. Emotional and psychological description of characters

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2. Research methods to be adopted

There are mainly data search, theoretical research and reading methods.

3. Necessary conditions and possible problems of research.

Research requirements: papers, printing equipment, libraries, Internet access to domestic and foreign literature;

Possible problems: (1) insufficient literature;

(2) Due to the limitations of personal views and abilities, the analysis of the research object is not comprehensive and in-depth.

Three. Research schedule, references and review opinions

1. Research schedule

(1) the first week of thesis guidance (the eighth week of the semester): students complete the first draft.

(2) the second week of thesis guidance (the ninth week of the semester): the instructor will review the first draft of the thesis and send it back for revision.

(3) the third week of thesis guidance (the tenth week of the semester): students hand in the second draft of the thesis.

(4) The fourth week of thesis guidance (the eleventh week of the semester): Instruct the teachers to review the second draft and send it back to the students for further revision.

(5) The fifth week of thesis guidance (the twelfth week of the semester): the final draft.

(6) The sixth week of thesis guidance (the thirteenth week of the semester): submit the final printed draft and electronic text.

(7) The sixth week of thesis guidance (the thirteenth week of the semester): from Friday of this week to Friday of the seventh week of thesis guidance (the first week of the semester), teachers and reviewers are instructed to write comments, and students are prepared to reply.

(8) The seventh week of thesis guidance (the fourteenth week of the semester): The defense work is carried out on Wednesday of the eighth week of thesis guidance (the fifteenth week of the semester).

2. Information to be collected and main references (not less than 8 articles)

Bronte of Charlotte. 1907. Preface written by Charlotte Brontexq for the second edition of Wuthering Heights. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. Page 20.

[2] Gillan, Winifred. 197 1. emily bronte [M]. New york: Oxford University Press.

[3] Mary, Marvi Roberts. Edited by … 1998. Gothic Literature Handbook. New york: new york University Press. Page 83.

[4] Ponte, David. 1980. horror literature [M]. London: Longman. Page 6.

[5] Fang ping Hope is in the world-On Wuthering Heights (preface to Wuthering Heights translation) [M]. Shanghai Translation Publishing House. Page 24.

[6] Mrs Gaskell. 2000. Charlotte. The biography of Bronte [M]. Trans. Zhang, wait for translation. Beijing: Unity Publishing House. Page 1 1- 12.

[7] Xiao Minghan.2001. Gothic tradition in British and American literature [J]. Foreign Literature Review No.3 。

[8] Fresh and quiet. 2003. Mysterious and grotesque charm-A study of Gothic art in Faulkner's novel Light in August [Ma]. China full-text dissertation database.