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Willa Cather was one of the few “uneasy survivers of th e nineteenth century.”Most of the frontier women images make her fiction more m ature and make her one of the best novelists of her 's pioneer heroin es show her strong identity of women and enrich the feminist studies in the Amer ican literature. 维拉·凯瑟(1873-1947)是美国现代著名的女作家,于1922年获得普利策文学奖.她以饱蘸深情的笔触和优美的抒情手法,从各个侧面描写上世纪末叶美国中西部开拓者的顽强创业精神和坚韧不拔的刚毅性格,歌颂他们的高尚情操和美好心灵,因此她被评论家誉为人类追逐物质文明过程中精神美的捍卫者.近年来,她的作品越来越为西方评论界所重视,声誉越来越高.许多评论家把她与亨利·詹姆斯,海明威并列为美国最杰出的小说家,甚至有人把她推崇为美国立国以来一名最伟大的女作家.《我的安东尼亚》是凯瑟作品中最有力,最成功的一部.书中的文体,是凯瑟成熟后的散文体,文学舒展自如,易于引起联系,并且已经练得质朴无华却不流于苍白凉薄.该书的创作技巧,实属上乘,结构看似松散,却在错综复杂中又线索分明;人物也伸展到象征的暗示里,自然得就象树木在草原上夕照中投下的长长的影子;主题表现得充分,也隐含得紧密.薇拉·凯瑟的代表作<我的安东妮亚>以其塑造的伟大的、经历了重重困难依然坚强乐观的女英雄安东妮亚的形象而备受推崇.薇拉·凯瑟在小说中流露出明显的对西部拓荒者,尤其是女性拓荒者的敬慕之情,但同时也为女英雄的宿命思想感到同情和惋惜.本文主要通过对作品中人物的经历和性格的分析来揭示在生命轮回过程中的人,尤其是女性与艰难生活抗争过程的顽强与悲哀:她们在勇敢地接受生活的挑战,成为人们心目中的女英雄的同时,也接受了命运的安排. 《我的安东尼亚》中的女主人公就有几分《尖枞之乡》的阿尔弥丽·托德太太的影子。Abstract After Willa Cather (1873-1947) won the world reputation for her success of My Antonia, more and more literary critics started to project insight into Cather’s world and to present various criticisms on the novelist’s work. Insightful as their discussions are, they have not paid serious attention to a systematic analysis of the archetypes lurking in her novelistic world. The present thesis is an attempt to offer a tentative study on female images in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and My Antonia from the perspective of myth and archetypal criticism. In Chapter 1, the writer makes a literature review on the study of Willa Cather’s literary work and introduces her literary life and the social background at that time. Chapter 2 provides a brief introduction to myth and archetypal criticism for the convenience of analysis in this study. Chapter 3 and 4 attempt to offer a tentative study on systems of female images in O Pioneers! and My Antonia based upon the theories of myth and archetypal criticism. Chapter 5 concludes with the fruitful result after the analytical study on the two novels. The images of Alexandra and Antonia can be considered to be Great Mother and Earth Mother in ancient mythology. In these two novels, Willa Cather focuses her writing muscles on the mythical goddesses who reflect her unconscious of myth and archetypes in human beings’ memories. Key Words: female; image; myth; archetype; pioneer 请给我加分哦 我才有动力继续下去