William Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular British writers of his era.Many of his works are closely related to China,among which is the famous novel The Painted Veil.This novel narrates the love story betwee...William Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular British writers of his era.Many of his works are closely related to China,among which is the famous novel The Painted Veil.This novel narrates the love story between the heroine Kitty,an attractive but vainglorious middle-class lady,and the intelligent bacteriologist Walter Fane.This thesis aims at exploring the hetero image of China in The Painted Veil from the perspective of imagology.It comprises four chapters.Chapter one introduces the definition of the terms“Image”and“hetero image”.Chapter two analyzes Maugham’s diversified concepts of China:one is the positive and good image,and the other is the negative image.Chapter three illustrates the specific images of China revealed in the novel The Painted Veil,on both positive and negative aspects.After the exploration of the image of China from the perspective of imagology,we can sum up that actually,the image of China in Maugham’s eyes indicated in The Painted Veil is not the real China.It is a combination of the real world observed by Maugham and the imaginative world conceived by him influenced by his own specific culture and society.展开更多
There were over one hundred short stories written by William Somerset Maugham, and in each story, he is good at use simple and clear language to describe several vivid portraits and characters, this paper briefly disc...There were over one hundred short stories written by William Somerset Maugham, and in each story, he is good at use simple and clear language to describe several vivid portraits and characters, this paper briefly discusses the main characters and personalities of the portraits in his story, The Treasure, with a view to contributing to a better understanding of the whole story.展开更多
文摘William Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular British writers of his era.Many of his works are closely related to China,among which is the famous novel The Painted Veil.This novel narrates the love story between the heroine Kitty,an attractive but vainglorious middle-class lady,and the intelligent bacteriologist Walter Fane.This thesis aims at exploring the hetero image of China in The Painted Veil from the perspective of imagology.It comprises four chapters.Chapter one introduces the definition of the terms“Image”and“hetero image”.Chapter two analyzes Maugham’s diversified concepts of China:one is the positive and good image,and the other is the negative image.Chapter three illustrates the specific images of China revealed in the novel The Painted Veil,on both positive and negative aspects.After the exploration of the image of China from the perspective of imagology,we can sum up that actually,the image of China in Maugham’s eyes indicated in The Painted Veil is not the real China.It is a combination of the real world observed by Maugham and the imaginative world conceived by him influenced by his own specific culture and society.
文摘There were over one hundred short stories written by William Somerset Maugham, and in each story, he is good at use simple and clear language to describe several vivid portraits and characters, this paper briefly discusses the main characters and personalities of the portraits in his story, The Treasure, with a view to contributing to a better understanding of the whole story.
