Abstract

More Die of Heartbreak is an unfamous work written by the American writer Saul Bellow. Many papers in and out of china have studied the works of Bellow, but most of them mainly focus on the analysis of the themes, writing skills and the novel characters in his representative and most famous works such as the Herzog and Seize The Day, very few papers have touched the work More Die of Heartbreak which has fully displayed the features of the postmodernism works. 

This paper mainly adopts the literature analysis method to analyze the postmodernism factors of this work through three aspects, namely the usage of black humor, sarcasms, and the literary allusions and the theme of this paper is to reflect the spiritual wasteland of the modern westerners. This paper focuses on the analysis of the usage of black humor, sarcasms, as well as the literary allusions to further analyze the postmodernism factors reflected by this work， and how they reflect the post-modernism ideas. 

This research can help the readers to better appreciate about the postmodernism novels and deepen their understanding about the work and promote the popularity and application of the postmodernism in literature. Besides, the research on postmodernism can help the writers to better master the postmodernism writing techniques through analyzing the writing skills and understanding the writing theory. As a result, the writers can apply these writing skills more flexibly in writing, and in this way, the postmodernism literatures can be pushed forward. At last, the research of postmodernism novels can deepen our understanding about the current society. Since nearly all the current postmodernism works show the critical attitude towards the society. Thus, the postmodernism works which regard our objective world as an unreasonable and chaotic world that is full of cynicism and doubts can wake people up to some extent. 

Keywords: More Die of Heartbreak, postmodernism, spiritual wasteland

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction-１

2. Literature Review-２

2.1 Related studies abroad-２

2.2 Related studies in china-３

3. The analysis of More Die of Heartbreak from the perspective of post-modernism-３

3.1 The usage of black humor-３

3.2 The sarcasms-５

3.3 The usage of literary allusions-７

3.4 The spiritual wasteland reflected by the post-modernism factors-８

4. Conclusion-１０

Works Cited-１１