价值，会被 后人所放弃。遇到不协调或者互相矛盾的研究发现，尽管要花费更多的时间来处理，但是不
要避重就轻，甚至主动放弃。其实这些不协调或者冲突是很有价值的，应多加利用。将现有
文献的冲突与矛盾加以整合是必要的，新研究比旧研究具有更好、更强的解释力，原因之一
是新的研究会将过去的所得做一番整合与改善。 四、选择性地探讨文献
有些学生不是系统化地回顾现有的研究文献，找出适合研究的问题或可预测的假设，却
宣称某种研究缺乏文献，从而自认他们的研究是探索性研究。如果有选择性地探讨现有文献，
则文献综述就变成了学生主观愿望的反映，成了一种机会性的回顾。
因此，文献综述一定要系统而全面，以严谨的科学设计来寻找、评估以及整合科学研究
的证据，确保文献综述完整不偏。要端正学风，勇于探索和不回避冲突。分析冲突的原因、 方法与结论，可以为未来的研究及论文奠定成功的基础，使论文的研究结果对后续研究有应
用价值和理论意义。 38
选题参考 一、文学类 （一）诗歌
1. On the Realistic Significance of The Canterbury Tales 2. Chaucer’s Art of Humor in The Canterbury Tales 3. The Theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnets 4. The Imagery of Shakespeare’s Sonnets 5. The Theme of Milton’s Paradise Lost 6. On the Imagery of Satan
7. On the Imagery of John Donne’s Love Poems 8. William Wordsworth’s View on Nature
9. The Images of the Laboring People in Wordsworth’s Poems
10. A Comparative Study of Wordsworth’s Nature Poems and Those by Tao Yuanming
11. On the Theme of Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 12. Don Juan: A Satiric Epic
13. The Images of Nature in Shelley’s Lyrical Poetry 14. The Bird Imagery in Romantic Poetry 15. On Themes of “Ode to the West Wind”
16. The Differences between Elizabethan Poetry and Metaphysical Poetry 17. A Comparative Study of Romantic Literature and Neo-Classical Literature
18. Comment on Wordsworth’s Poetical Theory and Practice
19. The Symbolic Meanings of Natural Images in “Ode to the West Wind” 20. The Theme of John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” 21. The Theme of Shelley’s Political Lyrics 22. Robert Browning’s Writing Style
23. On the Writing Devices of Tennyson’s Lyrical Poems 24. On the Theme of Emily Dickinson’s Death Poems 25. On the Theme of Dickinson’s Love Poems 26. On the Theme of Dickinson’s Nature Poems 27. Whitman’s Poetical Themes
28. The Theme of W. B. Yeats’ Love Lyrics 29. The Theme of Yeats’ Lyrics on Nature
30. On the Theme of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” 31. Robert Frost’s View on Nature
32. A Comparison between Wordsworth’s Nature Poems and Those by Robert Frost
33. On the Themes of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
34. The Contrasting Pictures between Songs of Innocence and Songs of 39
Experience
35. The Theme of Robert Burns’ Love Lyrics
36. On the Theme of Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 37. The Theme of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene 38. Alexander Pope’s View on Poetry
39. Byron’s Rebellious Spirit Shown in His Poems
40. A Comparative Study of English Nature Poems and Chinese Nature Poems （二）戏剧
1. The Humanist Ideas in Christopher Marlow’s Plays 2. The Image of Portia in The Merchant of Venice 3. Woman’s Imagery in Shakespeare’s Comedies 4. On the Theme of Romeo and Juliet 5. On the Image of Shylock
6. On the Theme of Shakespeare’s Comedies 7. The Cause of Tragedy in Othello
8. The Animal Images Used in King Lear 9. On the Theme of Hamlet
10. On the Hesitation of Hamlet 11. Macbeth, a Tragedy of Ambition
12. The Satirical Art in Sheridan’s The School for Scandal 13. On the Image of Mrs. Warren’s Profession 14. On Bernard Shaw’s Characterization
15. The Art of Inversion in Bernard Shaw’s Plays 16. On the Image of Eugene O’Neill’s Tragedies 17. On the Image of the Hero in The Hairy Ape
（三）小说
1. On the Allegorical Meanings of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress 2. The Art of Satire in The Pilgrim’s Progress 3. The Social Significance of Robinson Crusoe 4. On the Writing Style of Robinson Crusoe 5. The Themes of Gulliver’s Travels 6. Jonathan Swift: A Great Satirist 7. Tom Jones: A Great Satirist
8. An Analysis of Tom Jones’ Character 9. The Contrast Technique Used in Tom Jones 10. On the Language Style of Tom Jones 11. The Art of Irony in Pride and Prejudice
12. The Imagery of Woman Characters in Pride and Prejudice
13. The Contrast Technique Used by Jane Austen in Characterization 14. The Dramatic Art Used by Austen in Pride and Prejudice 15. On the Theme of Oliver Twist 40
16. Charles Dickens: the Master of Critical Realism 17. The Optimistic Spirit Displayed by Charles Dickens in His Early Novels 18. The Art of Humor in Dicken’s David Copperfield 19. On the Theme of A Tale of Two Cities
20. On Charles Dickens’ Character-Portrayal 21. On Child Characters in Dickens’ Novels
22. On the Horrible and Grotesque Characters in Dickens’ Novels 23. The Art of Satire in Dickens’ Great Expectations 24. Vanity Fair: A Great Satirical Novel
25. Exposure and Condemnation of English Educational System in Jane Eyre 26. On the Religious Hypocrisy of Charity Institutions in Jane Eyre 27. The Growth of A New Woman ( Jane Eyre )
28. A Woman’s Struggle for Recognition and Equality 29. On the Psychological Descriptions in Jane Eyre
30. The Functions of Describing Natural Scenes in Wuthering Heights 31. Romantic Elements in Wuthering Heights
32. On the Narrative Techniques in Wuthering Heights 33. An Analysis of Heathcliff’s Revenge
34. The Destiny of Women in George Eliot’s Novels
35. The Psychological Art Applied by George Eliot in Her Novels 36. The Dream and Disillusionment of Dorothea Brook in Middlemarch 37. Tess of the D’Urbervilles: A Victim of the Modem Society
38. The Functions of the Description of the Natural Environment Tess of the D’Urbervilles
39. The Conflicts between the Traditional and the Modern in Tess of the D’Urbervilles
40. On the Theme of The Man of Property
41. Soames Forsyte: A Typical Representative of the Bourgeois Class 42. The Art if Satire in The Man of Property
43. On the Theme of Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence 44. D.H. Lawrence’s View on Love
45. Psychological Device Used by Lawrence in Character-Portrayal 46. On the Symbolic Art Used by James Joyce in the Short Story Araby 47. The Gothic Elements and the Supernatural Atmosphere in Rip Van Winkle 48. On Ralph Waldo Emerson’s View on Nature
49. Hawthorne’s View on Sin and Evil in The Scarlet Letter 50. Hawthorne’s Symbolic Art in The Scarlet Letter
51. On the Theme of Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne
52. The Symbolic Art Used by Herman Melville in Moby-Dick 53. On the Language Style of Mark Twain’s Novels 54. On the Child Image in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
55. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Local Color Novel 56. On the Theme of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
57. The Art of Humor Used by Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 41
58. Mark Twain’s Wonderful Characterization of Huck 59. Henry James’ Psychological Approach in Daisy Miller 60. Daisy Miller: A Novel of International Theme
61. Daisy Miller: The Embodiment of the Spirit of the New World 62. On the Theme of An American Tragedy by Dreiser 63. Sister Carrie: A Naturalistic Navel 64. Sister Carrie’s Broken Dream 65. On the Tragedy of Hurstwood
66. On the Double Vision of Fitzgerald in His Fiction
67. The Great Gatsby: A Story of the Bankruptcy of the American Dream 68. Hemingway’s View on War in A Farewell to Arms 69. On the Image of Hemingway’s Fiction Heroes
70. On Hemingway’s Language Style in A Farewell to Arms
71. The Symbolic Functions of Hemingway’s Description of Nature 72. On the Theme of Indian Camp by Hemingway
73. The Symbolic Meaning of the Story A Rose for Emily by Faulkner
74. The Gothic Devices Used by Faulkner in Narration of the Story of Emily 二、翻译研究
1. The Great Translator Yan Fu
2. Gu Hongming: A Pioneer of Translating the Chinese Classics in English 3. On the Principles of Equivalence in Literary Translation 4. A Brief Comment on E.A. Nida’s Concept of Translation 5. Cultural Gaps and Untranslatability
6. Translating and the Background Information
7. A Preliminary Study on Explanatory Translating 8. Translating the English Articles into Chinese
9. Translating the English Plural Nouns into Chinese
10. Translating the Lengthy English Sentences into Chinese 11. On Translating English Book Titles into Chinese
12. A Brief Comment on the Several Chinese Versions of Jane Eyre 13. Views on the Chinese Version of Emma
14. The Chinese Version of Jude the Obscure: An Outstanding Example of Artistic Recreation
15. Translating the Style of Literary Works –A Preliminary Study of Wu Ningkun’s
Version of The Great Gatsby
16. A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Versions of The Merchant of Venice 17. A Reading of Fang Zhong’s Translation of The Canterbury Tales 18. On the English Versions of Some of Du Fu’s Poems 19. Translating the Titles of Chinese Classic Poetry 20. Common Errors in Translation: An Analysis 42
21. English Idioms and the Translation
22. How to Deal with Ellipsis in Translating
23. The Importance of Comprehension in Translating 24. The Importance of Knowledge in Translating
25. English Proverbs and Their Chinese Translation 26. On the Theory and Practice of Translation 27. Literal Translation and Free Translation 三、英语语言学
1. Sexism as Reflected in the Chinese and English Languages 2. Lexical Items as Means of Cohesion in English Texts 3. Lexical Cohesion in English
4. On English Oration as a Variety of Language 5. The Polite Language in the English Language 6. Reflection on the English Taboo Words 7. Remarks Modern American Slang
8. The Different Usage of American Folk Language and Modern American Language
9. A Comparative Analysis of British and American English 10. An Account of Advertising Language
11. Stylistic Comparison between Broadcast News and Newspaper News 12. News Headlines: Their Features and Style
13. A Comparative Study of Chinese and English Body Languages
14. Influences of Chinese Dialectic Accents over English Pronunciation 15. A Contrastive Analysis of English and Chinese Intonation 16. Note on Ambiguity of English Language
17. A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Proverbs 18. A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Idioms