犹太文学毕业论文

1950年，在埃利奥特教授的指导下，基辛格完成了他的本科毕业论文，题目为《历史的真义-关于施本格勒、托因比及康德的感想》。

1.英语论文-约翰·多斯·帕索斯《曼哈顿中转站》的互文性解读 [Admin|][2010年6月22日][20]本文主要运用互文性理论来分析美国三十年代著名小说家约翰·多斯·帕索斯的小说《曼哈顿中转站》与多个互文本之间的指涉关系，揭示出互文性理论对丰富小说内涵，加深小说意义方面起到的重要作用。 [详情……]2.英语论文-异化与自我实现：伯纳德.马拉默德《杜宾的生活》的主题研究 [Admin|][2010年6月22日][12]摘要:伯纳德.马拉默德是美国二十世纪与索尔·贝娄、艾萨克。巴什维斯。辛格、菲利普。罗斯齐名的著名犹太作家之一。自二战以来马拉默德就一直活跃在美国文坛上，在长达半个世纪的创作生涯当中，他共出版了七部长篇小说以及四部短篇小说集。 [详情……]3.英语论文-现代主义小说风格维度个案研究 [Admin|][2010年6月22日][16]文学翻译译什么、怎么译、以什么为翻译标准，一直以来是中外翻译界争论的焦点。过去翻译家大多倾向于译文学作品的“意”，而忽略其“形’，。当代翻译理论表明文学翻译须做到“形神兼备”，即译出原作的风格。因为风格决定了其文学水准。风格是其之所以为文学作品的根本原因。近些年外国小说翻译已经呈现出越来越重视风格的趋势，但是仍然有很多翻译作品不令人满意。 [详情……]4.英语论文-论《爱娃》中黑人女性的母爱 [Admin|][2010年6月22日][14]美国当代著名黑人女作家托尼·莫里森是迄今为止美国文学史上唯一一位获得诺贝尔文学奖的黑人女性。她在小说创作和文学评论上取得的巨大成就深刻地影响着美国乃至整个世界文坛。她的小说由于其意义深远的主题和独特的艺术造诣而在世界上广为流传并赢得了高度的评价。 [详情……]5.英语论文-安.瓦尔德曼诗歌中声音的运用 [Admin|][2010年6月22日][9]安·瓦尔德曼(1945一)是美国当代最具影响力的诗人之一。她的诗歌作品已达四十多部，而且她还编辑出版了许多其他作品。在诗歌生涯的初期，她主要与纽约派第二代诗人包括泰德·贝里根、罗恩·帕吉特、伯纳黛特·梅耶等诗人关系密切。同时她也受到其他流派和群体的影响。她与垮掉派诗人特别是艾伦·金斯堡一直保持着很亲密的关系。瓦尔德曼师从西藏佛教领袖及拿若葩创始人仲巴活佛和仁波切活佛。 [详情……]6.英语论文-文学弑父与黑人抗议文学传统 [Admin|][2010年6月22日][5]在二战后的美国黑人文学发展历程中，詹姆斯·鲍德温是一个举足轻重的人物，起着承上启下的作用。他的首部小说《向苍天呼吁》与理查德·赖特的《土生子》和拉尔夫·艾利森的《看不见的人》被并列为二十世纪四五十年代美国黑人文学的典范。他对其前辈黑人作家理查德·赖特矛盾的态度吸引了不少评论家的关注，人们对他的评价褒贬不一，而他本人也成了美国非裔文学界最受争议的作家之一。 [详情……]7.英语论文-《棕色姑娘，棕色砖房》的棕色梦 [Admin|][2010年6月22日][9]波·马歇尔(1929一)是美国黑人文学中一位出色的女作家，然而她的作品却没有得到应有的重视，尤其是她的第一部长篇小说《棕色姑娘，棕色砖房》。马歇尔的大部分作品集中于刻画黑人女性的形象，然而主题却具有世界性意义。她在美国黑人女性文学中独树一帜。 [详情……]8.英语论文-《紫颜色》的体裁研究 [Admin|][2010年6月22日][1]《紫颜色》（The Color Purple）是当代著名美国黑人女作家爱丽丝·沃克于1982年出版的第三部长篇小说，该书当年就成了人们竞相争读的畅销书，翌年又赢得美国文学界两项大奖------普利策奖和美国国家图书奖。小说成功地描述了一个14岁黑人女主人公西丽如何从一个天真顺从，倍受压迫而失去个体身份的小女孩成长为一个成熟，独立，自由完整的黑人女性的心路历程。《紫颜色》拓宽了黑人文学的主题和视野。可以说它是一部描写黑人女性成长力作。 [详情……]9.英语论文-从离散视浦解读《喜福会》 [Admin|][2010年6月22日][3]身份研究是华裔美国文学中一直颇受关注的主题。当去家离国的人们面对多种不同文化时，身份问题显得尤为复杂和严峻。在美国生活的华裔离散群体因其生活环境的特殊性，对其处境感到迷惑不解，迫切需要寻求一种新的身份属性和归属感。华裔美籍作家谭恩美的代表作《喜福会》真实感人，轰动了美国文坛，它使生活在美国的华人群体及其身后悠久的中国文化传统逐步凸现出来，把美国华裔文学推到了一个新的阶段。 [详情……]10.英语论文-文学翻译中的杂合现象 [Admin|][2010年6月22日][2]杂合由英语中hybrid一词翻译而来，表示不同种类的两方事物结合而产生第三方新的事物。目前，在学术界，无论是社会科学、语言学还是文学，都对杂合赋予越来越浓厚的兴趣。 [详情……]11.英语论文-基于流浪一追寻母题之上的《赫索格》主题阐释 [Admin|][2010年6月22日][1]作为一名自觉的人文主义知识分子，索尔·贝娄一直致力于探索如何解决现代人的精神困境问题。作为继海明威、福克纳之后的又一位美国文学大师，其创作深刻地刻画了在异化、人性缺失的现代社会中，那些满怀梦想的小人物/“反英雄”试图确立个人身份的精神诉求;其六十多年的文学创作生涯就是“对更宽泛、更灵活、更完整、更清晰的对于人类是什么、我们是谁、此生何为的全面理解”。 [详情……]12.英语论文-《甘加丁之路》中男性的呐喊 [Admin|][2010年6月22日][2]虽然美籍华裔在美国已生活了一百五十多年，但他们仍处于美国社会的边缘。主流文化的强权统治和人们对美籍华裔的偏见仍以公式化人物的形式普遍存在。作为美国亚裔文学奠基人之一的赵建秀指出写作即战斗，因此他以笔为武器，回击种族主义和那些华裔主流文化代言人的错误观念，尤其是他们对美籍华裔男子形象的歪曲。 [详情……]13.英语论文-男性人物的生态意识研究 [Admin|][2010年6月21日][20]威拉·凯瑟是20世纪上半叶在美国文坛中出现的一位杰出女作家。她主要以其内布拉斯加小说著称。《啊，拓荒者！》和《我的安东尼亚》就是其中比较重要的两部作品。阅读她的作品，读者可以领略到优美的西部草原风光，身临其境地感受浓郁的乡土气息，体会来自欧洲各国的开拓者们顽强的创业精神和坚忍不拔的刚毅性格，感叹于作者对人类与自然和谐共处的热切期盼。 [详情……]14.英语论文-威廉·福克纳《八月之光》中善与恶的抗衡 [Admin|][2010年6月21日][23]威廉·福克纳被誉为世界文学史上20世纪最杰出的美国小说家之一。《八光》这部被称为其里程碑式的杰作是福克纳创作的篇幅最长的一部小说，也最著名、最有争议的作品之一。19犯年小说一经问世便立即引起了广泛关注，入二十世纪九十年代，欧美文学评论家开始从各种角度解析这部作品，并取引人瞩目的成就。 [详情……]15.英语论文-《伙计》成长主题探析 [Admin|][2010年6月21日][14]伯纳德·马拉默德是美国著名的犹太裔小说家。犹太文学在美国文学领域占有重要地位，而在所有的犹太作家中，马拉默德是犹太性最强的一个。其作品具有强烈的现实主义精神。他生前两次获全国图书奖、一次普利策文学奖。其代表作《伙计》曾获美国全国文艺院颁发的罗森塔尔奖。 [详情……]16.英语论文-舍伍德·安德森的《小镇畸人》主题研究 [Admin|][2010年6月20日][6]作为美国现代小说的开创者之一，舍伍德·安德森在美国现代文学史上享有非常特殊的地位，由于对众多大家的影响而被称为“巨人们的导师”。其代表作《小镇畸人》更是美国文学史上的一支奇葩，栩栩如生地刻画在了美国社会工业化背景下，一群渴望爱与沟通却又疏于交流，为自我所隔离的的“畸人”群体，并以其独特的写作风格和深刻的主题而成为美国文学研究的热点。 [详情……]17.英语论文-解构视野下的《了不起的盖茨比》 [Admin|][2010年6月19日][19]菲茨杰拉德(1896-1940)作为美国爵士时代的“编年史家”和“桂冠诗人”，以他亲身经历的挫折与迷惘和对社会的冷静观察，通过《了不起的盖茨比》这部充满浓郁现实主义气息的作品，再现了美国二十世纪爵士乐时代的社会风貌和时代精神，深刻地反映了崇尚金钱的社会罪恶与美国梦想的破灭。 [详情……]18.英语论文-《布勒特.哈特最佳短篇小说》中的边疆幽默 [Admin|][2010年6月19日][4]本论文除绪论和结论部分外，正文由三章构成。论文第一章将探讨边疆幽默的三个重要元素，即牛皮故事、小术及让人忍俊不禁的形体幽默。它们为边疆幽默增添了无尽的活力和民间气息。论文第二章将研究边疆幽默的三个特色，即不和谐性、男子气和方言性。边疆人因其所处的特殊地域性，催生了诸多与传统的不和谐。 [详情……]19.英语论文-《白鲸》中悲剧英雄亚哈船长的原型解读 [Admin|][2010年6月19日][34]赫尔曼?麦尔维尔是美国浪漫主义时期最著名的作家之一。《白鲸》是他的代表作。这部小说的主人公是亚哈船长。由于亚哈船长是这部经典作品中的主要人物，且个性复杂，因此有很大的研究空间。尽管已经有很多人运用不同的文学批评方法从历史、宗教、哲学、地理、种族、资本主义的本质等方面对它进行了研究，但笔者认为原型批评是解读这个人物的绝佳视角，因为作品中存在大量原型引用和原型暗示。 [详情……]20.英语论文-华裔美国作家离散视角下的文化翻译-以三部华裔美国小说为例解析华裔作家的跨文化书写 [Admin|][2010年6月19日][11]华裔美国文学的研究热点通常集中在华裔美国人的文化身份以及与之相关的文化冲突方面，而对华裔作品本身的文化翻译属性论述不多，其中从离散视角切入的更寥寥无几。本文以三位华裔美国文学领军人物的代表作为例，通过将后殖民语境下的翻译理论与文化理论中的离散视角及叙事学理论相结合，对华裔美国作家及其作品的特质—“杂合性”进行跨学科深入探讨。 [详情……] 这里有很多，希望可以帮到你

American literature refers to written or literary work produced in the area of the United States and Colonial America. For more specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United its early history, America was a series of British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States. Therefore, its literary tradition begins as linked to the broader tradition of English literature. However, unique American characteristics and the breadth of its production usually now cause it to be considered a separate path and literatureSome of the earliest forms of American literature were pamphlets and writings extolling the benefits of the colonies to both a European and colonist audience. Captain John Smith could be considered the first American author with his works: A True Relation of ... Virginia ... (1608) and The General Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624). Other writers of this manner included Daniel Denton, Thomas Ashe, William Penn, George Percy, William Strachey, John Hammond, Daniel Coxe, Gabriel Thomas, and John religious disputes that prompted settlement in America were also topics of early writing. A journal written by John Winthrop discussed the religious foundations of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Edward Winslow also recorded a diary of the first years after the Mayflower's arrival. Other religiously influenced writers included Increase Mather and William Bradford, author of the journal published as a History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620–47. Others like Roger Williams and Nathaniel Ward more fiercely argued state and church poetry also existed. Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor are especially noted. Michael Wigglesworth wrote a best-selling poem, The Day of Doom, describing the time of judgment. Nicholas Noyes was also known for his doggerel late writings described conflicts and interaction with the Indians, as seen in writings by Daniel Gookin, Alexander Whitaker, John Mason, Benjamin Church, and Mary Rowlandson. John Eliot translated the Bible into the Algonquin Edwards and George Whitefield represented the Great Awakening, a religious revival in the early 18th century that asserted strict Calvinism. Other HOLY fire Puritan and religious writers include Thomas Hooker, Thomas Shepard, Uriah Oakes, John Wise, and Samuel Willard. Less strict and serious writers included Samuel Sewall, Sarah Kemble Knight, and William revolutionary period also contained political writings, including those by colonists Samuel Adams, Josiah Quincy, John Dickinson, and Joseph Galloway, a loyalist to the crown. Two key figures were Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine. Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin are esteemed works with their wit and influence toward the formation of a budding American identity. Paine's pamphlet Common Sense and The American Crisis writings are seen as playing a key role in influencing the political tone of the the revolution itself, poems and songs such as "Yankee Doodle" and "Nathan Hale" were popular. Major satirists included John Trumbull and Francis Hopkinson. Philip Morin Freneau also wrote poems about the war's . literatureJames Fenimore Cooper portrait by John Wesley Jarvis, the post-war period, The Federalist essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay prepresented a historical discussion of government organization and republican values. Thomas Jefferson's United States Declaration of Independence, his influence on the Constitution, his autobiography, the Notes on the State of Virginia, and the mass of his letters have led to him being considered one of the most talented early American writers. Fisher Ames, James Otis, and Patrick Henry are also valued for their political writings and first American novel is sometimes considered to be William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy (1789). Much of the early literature of the new nation struggled to find a uniquely American voice. European forms and styles were often transferred to new locales and critics often saw them as inferior. For example, Wieland and other novels by Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) are often seen as imitations of the Gothic novels then being written in American styleWith the War of 1812 and an increasing desire to produce uniquely American work, a number of key new literary figures appeared, perhaps most prominently Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe. Irving, often considered the first writer to develop a unique American style[citation needed] (although this is debated) wrote humorous works in Salmagundi and the well-known satire A History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker (1809). Bryant wrote early romantic and nature-inspired poetry, which evolved away from their European origins. In 1832, Poe began writing short stories -- including "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" -- that explore previously hidden levels of human psychology and push the boundaries of fiction toward mystery and fantasy. Cooper's Leatherstocking tales about Natty Bumppo were popular both in the new country and writers were also popular and included Seba Smith and Benjamin P. Shillaber in New England and Davy Crockett, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson J. Hooper, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, Joseph G. Baldwin, and George Washington Harris writing about the American New England Brahmins were a group of writers connected to Harvard University and its seat in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The core included James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), an ex-minister, published a startling nonfiction work called Nature, in which he claimed it was possible to dispense with organized religion and reach a lofty spiritual state by studying and responding to the natural world. His work influenced not only the writers who gathered around him, forming a movement known as Transcendentalism, but also the public, who heard him 's most gifted fellow-thinker was perhaps Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), a resolute nonconformist. After living mostly by himself for two years in a cabin by a wooded pond, Thoreau wrote Walden, a book-length memoir that urges resistance to the meddlesome dictates of organized society. His radical writings express a deep-rooted tendency toward individualism in the American character. Other writers influenced by Transcendentalism were Bronson Alcott, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Orestes Brownson, and Jones Very.[1]The political conflict surrounding Abolitionism inspired the writings of William Lloyd Garrison and his paper The Liberator, along with poet John Greenleaf Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe in her world-famous Uncle Tom's 1837, the young Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) collected some of his stories as Twice-Told Tales, a volume rich in symbolism and occult incidents. Hawthorne went on to write full-length "romances," quasi-allegorical novels that explore such themes as guilt, pride, and emotional repression in his native New England. His masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter, is the stark drama of a woman cast out of her community for committing 's fiction had a profound impact on his friend Herman Melville (1819-1891), who first made a name for himself by turning material from his seafaring days into exotic novels. Inspired by Hawthorne's example, Melville went on to write novels rich in philosophical speculation. In Moby-Dick, an adventurous whaling voyage becomes the vehicle for examining such themes as obsession, the nature of evil, and human struggle against the elements. In another fine work, the short novel Billy Budd, Melville dramatizes the conflicting claims of duty and compassion on board a ship in time of war. His more profound books sold poorly, and he had been long forgotten by the time of his death. He was rediscovered in the early decades of the 20th works from Melville, Hawthorne, and Poe all comprise the Dark Romanticism subgenre of literature popular during this poetryWalt Whitman, 's two greatest 19th-century poets could hardly have been more different in temperament and style. Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was a working man, a traveler, a self-appointed nurse during the American Civil War (1861-1865), and a poetic innovator. His magnum opus was Leaves of Grass, in which he uses a free-flowing verse and lines of irregular length to depict the all-inclusiveness of American democracy. Taking that motif one step further, the poet equates the vast range of American experience with himself without being egotistical. For example, in Song of Myself, the long, central poem in Leaves of Grass, Whitman writes: "These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me...."Whitman was also a poet of the body -- "the body electric," as he called it. In Studies in Classic American Literature, the English novelist D. H. Lawrence wrote that Whitman "was the first to smash the old moral conception that the soul of man is something `superior' and `above' the flesh."Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), on the other hand, lived the sheltered life of a genteel unmarried woman in small-town Amherst, Massachusetts. Within its formal structure, her poetry is ingenious, witty, exquisitely wrought, and psychologically penetrating. Her work was unconventional for its day, and little of it was published during her of her poems dwell on death, often with a mischievous twist. "Because I could not stop for Death" one begins, "He kindly stopped for me." The opening of another Dickinson poem toys with her position as a woman in a male-dominated society and an unrecognized poet: "I'm nobody! Who are you? / Are you nobody too?"American poetry arguably reached its peak in the early to mid 20th century, with such noted writers as Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Robinson Jeffers, Hart Crane, E. E. Cummings, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and many , Twain and JamesMark Twain, Twain (the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast -- in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the memoir Life on the Mississippi and the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain's style -- influenced by journalism, wedded to the vernacular, direct and unadorned but also highly evocative and irreverently humorous -- changed the way Americans write their language. His characters speak like real people and sound distinctively American, using local dialects, newly invented words, and regional accents. Other writers interested in regional differences and dialect were George W. Cable, Thomas Nelson Page, Joel Chandler Harris, Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock), Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Henry Cuyler Bunner, and William Sydney Porter (O. Henry).William Dean Howells also represented the realist tradition through his novels, including The Rise of Silas Lapham and his work as editor of the Atlantic James (1843-1916) confronted the Old World-New World dilemma by writing directly about it. Although born in New York City, he spent most of his adult years in England. Many of his novels center on Americans who live in or travel to Europe. With its intricate, highly qualified sentences and dissection of emotional and psychological nuance, James's fiction can be daunting. Among his more accessible works are the novellas Daisy Miller, about an enchanting American girl in Europe, and The Turn of the Screw, an enigmatic ghost of the centuryErnest Hemingway in World War I the beginning of the 20th century, American novelists were expanding fiction's social spectrum to encompass both high and low life and sometimes connected to the naturalist school of realism. In her stories and novels, Edith Wharton (1862-1937) scrutinized the upper-class, Eastern-seaboard society in which she had grown up. One of her finest books, The Age of Innocence, centers on a man who chooses to marry a conventional, socially acceptable woman rather than a fascinating outsider. At about the same time, Stephen Crane (1871-1900), best known for his Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage, depicted the life of New York City prostitutes in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. And in Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) portrayed a country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman. Hamlin Garland and Frank Norris wrote about the problems of American farmers and other social issues from a naturalist directly political writings discussed social issues and power of corporations. Some like Edward Bellamy in Looking Backward outlined other possible political and social frameworks. Upton Sinclair, most famous for his meat-packing novel The Jungle, advocated socialism. Other political writers of the period included Edwin Markham, William Vaughn Moody. Journalistic critics, including Ida M. Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens were labeled the The Muckrakers. Henry Adams' literate autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams also depicted a stinging description of the education system and modern in style and form soon joined the new freedom in subject matter. In 1909, Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), by then an expatriate in Paris, published Three Lives, an innovative work of fiction influenced by her familiarity with cubism, jazz, and other movements in contemporary art and music. Stein labeled a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s as the "Lost Generation".The poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was born in Idaho but spent much of his adult life in Europe. His work is complex, sometimes obscure, with multiple references to other art forms and to a vast range of literature, both Western and Eastern. He influenced many other poets, notably T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), another expatriate. Eliot wrote spare, cerebral poetry, carried by a dense structure of symbols. In "The Waste Land" he embodied a jaundiced vision of post-World War I society in fragmented, haunted images. Like Pound's, Eliot's poetry could be highly allusive, and some editions of The Waste Land come with footnotes supplied by the poet. In 1948, Eliot won the Nobel Prize in writers also expressed the disillusionment following upon the war. The stories and novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) capture the restless, pleasure-hungry, defiant mood of the 1920s. Fitzgerald's characteristic theme, expressed poignantly in The Great Gatsby, is the tendency of youth's golden dreams to dissolve in failure and disappointment. Sinclair Lewis and Sherwood Anderson also wrote novels with critical depictions of American life. John Dos Passos wrote about the war and also the . trilogy which extended into the . Scott Fitzgerald, photographed by Carl van Vechten, Hemingway (1899-1961) saw violence and death first-hand as an ambulance driver in World War I, and the carnage persuaded him that abstract language was mostly empty and misleading. He cut out unnecessary words from his writing, simplified the sentence structure, and concentrated on concrete objects and actions. He adhered to a moral code that emphasized grace under pressure, and his protagonists were strong, silent men who often dealt awkwardly with women. The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms are generally considered his best novels; in 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in years before Hemingway, another American novelist had won the Nobel Prize: William Faulkner (1897-1962). Faulkner managed to encompass an enormous range of humanity in Yoknapatawpha County, a Mississippian region of his own invention. He recorded his characters' seemingly unedited ramblings in order to represent their inner states, a technique called "stream of consciousness." (In fact, these passages are carefully crafted, and their seemingly chaotic structure conceals multiple layers of meaning.) He also jumbled time sequences to show how the past -- especially the slave-holding era of the Deep South -- endures in the present. Among his great works are The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, Go Down, Moses, and The era literature was blunt and direct in its social criticism. John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was born in Salinas, California, where he set many of his stories. His style was simple and evocative, winning him the favor of the readers but not of the critics. Steinbeck often wrote about poor, working-class people and their struggle to lead a decent and honest life; he was probably the most socially aware writer of his period. The Grapes of Wrath, considered his masterpiece, is a strong, socially-oriented novel that tells the story of the Joads, a poor family from Oklahoma and their journey to California in search of a better life. Other popular novels include Tortilla Flat, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, and East of Eden. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. Other writers sometimes considered part of the proletarian school include Nathanael West, Fielding Burke, Jack Conroy, Tom Kromer, Robert Cantwell, Albert Halper, and Edward Miller assumed a unique place in American Literature in the 1930s when his semi-autobiographical novels, written and published in Paris, were banned from the US. Although his major works, which include Tropic of Cancer (novel) and Black Spring, wouldn't be cleared for American sale and publication until 1962, their themes and stylistic innovations had already exerted a major influence on succeeding generations of American writers.