社会的涌动与青春的叛逆–《AP》与《屋顶丽人》中“失恋”的一代 A Turbulent Society and Teenager’s Rebellion–The “Lost Love” Generation in AP and A Woman on a Roof开题报告

1. 研究目的与意义（文献综述）

Research purpose:AP and A woman on a roof are two masterpieces at the same time, the early 1960s, while the former is published a year before the latter. Under the similar social background, these two authors John Updike and Doris Lessing both aim at illustrating a same topic-- a youth’s experience of rebellion for “love”in their own ways. Through analyzing these two works, this research makes a contrast upon particular words and plots between the two stories, aiming at finding out the similarities and differences on several points such as the characters of “the three men”, the image and symbolic meaning of the “bikini woman”, the protagonist’s reaction and reflection in the end, and, after all, indicating the two writers’ thoughts and viewpoints towards depicting same things, which are highly related to their own gender and writing style.Research significance：Writers are those the most keen and sensitive people on social state,at their time. While one author’s work might give readers a real fresh idea and unique insight on a topic, two authors’ works undoubtedly broaden people’s horizon and further complete the portrait of reality. Especially when the two authors are man and woman from two countries, who write two novels highly similar in many places. Analyzing and contrasting such two stories enable reader to experience the events within story under the viewpoint of different genders, thus have a better and more clear understanding of the theme, therefore further explore the literal meaning and significance of the two works, even literature writing itself.Existing researches analysis:Many studies and comments have been made upon these two works from different perspectives on themes, writing techniques and literature appreciation. On themes, there are papers named discussing the growth of American teenager through AP, the loss of oceanic complex in AP, the clash of intuition and convention in AP, discussing the gender relationship in A woman on a roof. On writing techniques, scholars explore the multiple metaphors of “Naked”, the comparison and symbol, the theory of character building in A woman on a roof, defamiliarization technique, post-modernism factors in AP. On literature appreciation, some review AP from the perspective of social morality, narrative form and single scene narration, others interpret A woman on a roof through structuralism, Gaze theory and feminism. Also, few of them associate these two works with each other by points like parody or the author’s humanistic care. However, they only involve one certain part, these two works need to be further analyzed and contrasted in order to reach a more profound comparison.

2. 研究的基本内容与方案

contents:

1.introduction (background, purpose, significance, innovation)

2.research methods

3. 研究计划与安排

before 4thjanuary : settlement of the title

before28thfebruarysubmission of the outline

before 29thapril : submission of the first draft

4. 参考文献（12篇以上）

[1] e. mcfarland r. updike and the critics: reflection on ap [j]. studies in short fiction 20.2-3(1983):95-100.

[2]lulu l. suffering and resistance in a woman on a roof based on disciplinary power theory [j].海外英语5（2018）：165-167

[3] saldfvar t. the art of john updike’s ap [j].studies in short fiction.30.2 1993