My Neighbor Rosicky,"one of the representative short stories by Willa Cather,the American local colorist famous for her de scription of frontier life on the Great Plains,conveys Cather's deep understanding about life.In this paper,the author attempts to apply Jung's archetypal theory to the analysis of Mr.Rosicky,the hero of the short story and gets the conclusion that Mr.Rosicky is in constant pursuit of"Rebirth"through the medium,"the ground.
Debate on whether American Southern Literature still exists in the postmodern era poses a hot topic in contemporary literary world. Among the many southern-born writers, Richard Ford publicly denied to be labeled as a southern writer. The author of this paper holds a close study of how time and place, two major traditional southern themes are treated in Richard Ford's Sportswriter, and draws the conclusion that despite the southern staples embedded in the novel, Richard Ford, as a representative of postmodern writers, works for a national or even universal writing by successfully fusing southern tradition and postmodern temper in a crossroad of history.
