From the beginning of the American history, the settling of the far westernfrontier has habitually been viewed in almost mystical political terms as a hea-vensent opportunity to "go West and grow up with the coun...From the beginning of the American history, the settling of the far westernfrontier has habitually been viewed in almost mystical political terms as a hea-vensent opportunity to "go West and grow up with the country." This assumptionof the West as a kind of Eden is also a major theme in Western American Liter-ature although it has been challenged by such pioneering, observant and realisticwriters as Hamlin Garland and Willar Cather. Viewed against this background,John Steinbeck’s masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath constitutes another展开更多
文摘From the beginning of the American history, the settling of the far westernfrontier has habitually been viewed in almost mystical political terms as a hea-vensent opportunity to "go West and grow up with the country." This assumptionof the West as a kind of Eden is also a major theme in Western American Liter-ature although it has been challenged by such pioneering, observant and realisticwriters as Hamlin Garland and Willar Cather. Viewed against this background,John Steinbeck’s masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath constitutes another
