From Ironweed To Study William Kennedy's Experimental Realism

This paper straightens out the thread of thought of William Kennedy and his life , attaches most importance to idiographic and meticulous text unscrambling,and,adopting comparative analytical method and text unscrambling analytical method,from the writer's traditional and innovative understanding of the relation between the literature and the reality and the truth of art, from the art skill of the novel, such as shaping model characters, depicting dialogs, depicting dramatic scenes, recording characters'lives, monologue, expressing one's emotion, symbol and metaphor, the appearance and disappearance of ghosts, imaginary realism, the stream of consciousness, the black humor, the typical environment description and so on, dividing to three parts:"Ironweed" with "the bums novel", the characterization in "Ironweed" and the environmental description in "Ironweed" ,to analyze the representation of "experiment realism" in "Ironweed" carefully and specifically. Finally, the paper summarizes the characteristics of "experiment realism" in "Ironweed", studied the reason that the appearance and the welcome of "Ironweed", and points out that William ? Kennedy is an outstanding writer, "Ironweed" is an outstanding English novel.