The Town Writing In Carson Mc Cullers’ Novels

Carson McCullers was a leader of southern writer, she bases on the Southern town where she grew up, has constructed a bizarre and fascinating in its creation, complex and simple little town, depicts a group of town in lonely but wanting to be understand, depressing but hopeful soul, which had shown a timeless charm and value. The study of Mc Cullers has never stopped, and the research results more and more rich, but few pay attention to the town,which is very special as the background. In recent years, with the theory of space has evolved, the significance of space in the literature are highlighting, which for the study of town in Mc Cullers’ novels offers a new research idea. In view of this, the author will take Mc Cullers’ s novels as the main object of this thesis, with relying on the space theory of criticism, and attemp to render their work space in the small town with the system illustrates the emotional connotations.Paper is divided into four parts. Part I discusses the creation of Carson Mc Cullers and Southern town literary relationship. The Southern has been the town literary tradition, has formed its unique literary landscape. The Southern which Carson lived in, the town which in urban and rural crossroads occupies a particularly important place, and Mc Culler’s own experience of life in a small town, the town literary traditions, contemporary writers focus on town, has prompted concerns and writing South. Part II focuses on space of the Southern town, include the narrow broken streets, dark, ambiguous empty coffee shop,closed the family’s door, constitute the basic style of Carson’s southern town, a small town image in normal life through these spaces appear on, expressing Carson Mc Cullers’ critique of small-town life and reflections. Part III explains the emotional meaning behind the town image, Carson closed old southern town in the novel, not only is the sign of people’s normal lives, caused by emotional and mental depression and pain.The small town in traditional agricultural civilization and modern civilization of caught in,shows the unique characteristics which different from rural and urban, concentration and specifically reflects the problems of all aspects of American southern society after the civil war. As a Southern writer, Mc Cullers recorded small-town life, and reproduce the historical changes in the small town,which as we know the post-war south real basis, and all of these are the value of Mc Cullers’ works. The papers will be Carson’s novel combines text with space for criticism, cultural studies, illustrating the characteristic of the space images of the town described by Carson Mc Cullers, digging out the small town spirits, showing the emotional stance of the author in a small town in changing times, as well as reveal the unique value of her creation.