Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Economics, Management Engineering and Education Technology (ICEMEET 2016)

An Analysis of Sherwood Anderson's Expressionist Art in Winesburg, Ohio

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Jiaying Meng, Zhifan Wang
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Jiaying Meng
Available Online January 2017.
DOI
10.2991/icemeet-16.2017.135How to use a DOI?
Keywords
grotesques, expressionist art, alienation, repetition.
Abstract

Sherwood Anderson is a well-known writer in the history of American literature who has exerted great influence on writers of the flowing generations. As his masterpiece, Winesburg, Ohio reflects many expressionist characteristics. This thesis aims to discuss the expressionist features in the book. Firstly it introduces the development of expressionist art, secondly it analyzes how the expressionist art is revealed in the book from the perspectives of theme, writing techniques and language and plots, finally it summarizes Anderson's expressionist writing and its significance in American literature.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Economics, Management Engineering and Education Technology (ICEMEET 2016)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
January 2017
ISBN
978-94-6252-288-6
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icemeet-16.2017.135How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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