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Chapter One Introduction 

1.1 Background Information 
Ann  Beattie,  a  contemporary  American  woman  writer,  is  an  influential  writer since  her  works  arouses  intense  responses.  In  the  United  States,  both  the  academic critics  and  the  common  readers  show  great  enthusiasm  to  her.  Numerous  comments about her works can be found in literary magazines and comment articles in America. Regrettably, Chinese scholars and critics pay little attention to her works and only two related articles can be found in Chinese academic journals. Although her works are translated into Chinese and published in China in recent years,  there  is  no  comprehensive  study  about  them.  Some  of  the  critics  have  studied Beattie’s  minimalism  style,  while  no  one  has  ever  developed  it  into  further  and thoroughly  research  except  Qiao  Xueying(2007).  Therefore,  it  is  the  only  particular disquisition on Beattie’s writing style in Chinese literary criticism field. According  to  Russian  Formalists,  the  term  “foregrounding”  was  elaborated  by some  Prague  School  scholars  in  the  early  twentieth  century  and  got  its  further development  in  British  stylistics.  As  a  means  of  explaining  the  differences  between the poetic and normal language, foregrounding has long been considered as one of the most important literary theories for stylistic analysis in the west.  
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1.2 Aims and Significance of the Present Study 
It is impossible for us to ignore the importance of stylistics since it is developed from modern linguistics. According to Leech & Short (2001), stylistics is the meeting ground  of  linguistics  and  literary  study,  and  literary  stylistics  has,  implicitly  or explicitly,  the  goal  of  explaining  the  relation  between  language  and  artistic  function. As everyone knows, stylistics consists of two different research fields, one is general stylistics and another is literary stylistics. What literary stylistics differs from general stylistics is that literary stylistics was mainly used to analyzing literature books.  Foregrounding  does  not  belong  to  linguistic  category  at  the  first  place.  Almost everyone who studies linguistics is aware of the fact that the source of foregrounding can be derived from the art of painting. Its original meaning deals with that the painter sticks out the art image which he/she trying to emphasize by comparing it with other people  or  objects  to  attract  the  attention  of the  audience,  so  as  to  achieve  the  artistic effect  the  painter  expected,  and  other  people  or  objects  本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。