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题目:英:A STUDY OF THE LORD OF THE
RINGS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF
ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM
中:《指环王》的原型分析
培养单位: 外国语学院
专业名称: 英语语言文学
指导教师: 郭忠壮
研究生: 庞元元
完成时间: 2014 年 5 月
沈阳师范大学研究生处制
全日制研究生√
类
教育硕士
别
同等学力
硕士学位论文
题目: A STUDY OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS
FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ARCHETYPAL
CRITICISM
《指环王》的原型分析
论文编号:
专业名称:英语语言文学
培养单位:外国语学院
沈阳师范大学研究生处制
A STUDY OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS FROM
THE PERSPECTIVE OF ARCHETYPAL
CRITICISM
A Thesis
Submitted to the School of Foreign Languages
Shenyang Normal University
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Arts
By 庞元元
Under the Supervision of
Professor 郭忠壮
May 2014
ABSTRACT
The Lord of the Rings , as the masterpiece of Tolkien, has been ed by its
readers all over the world since its publication. The work has surpassed other fantasies
with its cultural richness, moral depth as well as Tolkien‟s imagination and his talent
of language. Its critical reputation and historical role increase with each passing day in
English literature.
The characters are very simple, and the plots are plicated in the work.
But why can our hearts be touched so easily by it? Why do we cry for their tribulation
and cheer for their final ess? Why can it give a glitter of hope to the people living
in the modern society? This thesis attempts to find out the answers from archetypal
criticism. As one of the major literary criticisms, archetypal criticism has a great
influence on literary studies. The main representative scholars are Frye and Jung. For
Frye, literature origins from myth, and the archetype is a displacement of mythology.
Different from Frye, Jung holds that archetypes are embodiments of the collective
unconscious, the great physical and psychological experiences that repeated over
millions of years. Archetyp