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1、潍坊学院本科毕业论文1IntroductionThe percentage of the Jewish writers is very large in contemporary times. Jewish culture is also mostly regarded as sub-culture or the stream of culture. The works concerning Jews has double meaning including ancient European culture and American culture, which adds the comple
2、xity of conclusions and reductions. The thoughts of religions and pogroms of siblings make Jewish writers have the sense of guilty, the fate of history also gets them own the sense of wandering and segregation of American society also lets them find no place to live.1 The sense of wandering makes th
3、em seek the sense of belonging, which shows in their works. Although Jewish-American literature is sub-culture or the stream of culture, the Jewish writers have made great contribution to American literature by their own power.2 In the nineteen sixties to seventies, plenty of excellent Jewish writer
4、s crowded in the stage of American literature such as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth and Neil Simon. Isaac Bashevis Singer was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He won two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Childrens
5、Literature for his memoir A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud was one of the great American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel
6、, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer, about anti-Semitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. As for Philip Roth, he has been one of the most honored authors of his generation: his books have twice been
7、awarded the National Book Award, twice the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three times the PEN/Faulkner Award. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel, American Pastoral, which featured his best-known character, Nathan Zuckerman, the subject of many other of Roths novels. His 2001 no
8、vel The Human Stain, another Zuckerman novel, was awarded the United Kingdoms WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year. His fiction, set frequently in Newark, New Jersey, is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction bet
9、ween reality and fiction, for its supple, ingenious style and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. As to Neil Simon, he is a playwright. He has written numerous Broadway plays, including Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues (Tony Award) and The Odd Couple (winning the Pu
10、litzer Prize). He won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his Lost in Yonkers. He has written the screenplays for several of his plays that were made into movies. He also has written the books for several musicals, including Sweet Charity.Of course, there are also lots of outstanding writers in Am
11、erica that we can not describe them in my thesis but I still introduce several writers in the paper. I hope that the readers can have a general idea about Jewish-American writers contribution to American literature.There is no doubt that Jewish writers play more and more important roles in American
12、literature. It is worthwhile to pay attention to the nation who suffers so many disasters but Jewish writers are so excellent. It is a question that we need have a deep thought. 潍坊学院本科毕业论文2Chapter 1 The Jewish American Novelists Contribution to American LiteratureCompared to Asian-American novelists
13、 and Africa-American novelists, the Jewish American novelists are minority, however, everyone can not ignore their contribution to American literature. The following is about it. As is known to all, there are lots of outstanding novelists, for example, Joseph Heller, Saul Bellow and so on.1.1 Joseph
14、 Heller and his Catch-22Joseph Heller (19231999) was an America satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His best known novel is Catch-22, a novel about US servicemen during World War II. The title of this works entered the English lexicon to refer to absurd, no-win choices, particula
15、rly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is impossible, and regardless of choice, the same negative outcome is a certainty. Heller is widely regarded as one of the best postWorld War II satirists. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his other works center on the liv
16、es of various members of the middle class and remain exemplars of modern satire.Although he originally did not intend the story to be longer than a novelette, Heller was able to add enough substance to the plot that he felt it could become his first novel. When he was one-third done with the work, his agent, Candida Donadio, began submitting the novel to several publishers. Heller was not particularly attached to the work, and decided that he would not finish it if publishers were no
