作者 薇拉·凯瑟(Willa Cather，1873-1947)，美国著名小说家，编剧，诗人。她擅长以自幼熟悉的西部边疆生活为题材，创作富有地方特色的作品。1944年，她作为美国文学艺术院院士，获得该院最高奖。近年美国评论界认为她是20世纪美国ZUI杰出的小说家之一。她的作品被誉为美国文学的“珍珠”。代表作有《啊，拓荒者！》《我的安东尼娅》《我们的一员》等。 译者 胡蝶，1989年生，重庆人。同济大学博士，现为上海理工大学讲师。主要研究美国西部文学，特别是现当代美国西部小说。出版专著《科马克·麦卡锡对美国西部小说传统模式的颠覆与重构》。发表科研论文《走下神坛的美国亚当——论<边境三部曲>对西部牛仔形象的重构》《麦卡锡<路>中的不确定性研究》等。

Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores the life of Claude Wheeler, a young Nebraskan who refuses to settle for a life others have imagined for him. Alienated from his parents and rejected by his wife, Wheeler finally finds his destiny on the bloody battlefields of World War I.

This stirring novel about World War I won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. In the lucid, unadorned prose that were her hallmark, Cather brings to life the simple Nebraska farm folk and their tranquil rural lifestyle, showing how the Great War, seemingly so far away on the Old Continent, eventually touches them all.

Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by...(展开全部)

The novel follows life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native, searching for his purpose in life. We see Claude building friendships during his University years and these relationships interrupted when

Philosophy of language explores some of the most abstract yet most fundamental questions in philosophy. The ideas of some of the subject's great founding figures, such as Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, as well as of more recent figures such as Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, are central to a great many philosophical debates to this day and are widely st...(展开全部)

This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries. The early T'ang definition of 'This Culture of Ours' combined literary and scholarly traditions from the previous five centuries. The late Sung Neo-Confucian movement challenged that definition. The author argues that the Tang-Sung transition is best understood as a transition fr...(展开全部)

This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries. The early T'ang definition of 'This Culture of Ours' combined literary and scholarly traditions from the previous five centuries. The late Sung Neo-Confucian movement challenged that definition. The author argues that the Tang-Sung transition is best understood as a transition fr...(展开全部)

Chalmers was elected a fellow of the Academy of Humanities in 1997. His primary research interest is the philosophy of science and he is author of the best-selling textbook What Is This Thing Called Science? which has been translated into many languages. He has been a visiting scholar at the Flinders University Philosophy Department since 1999. For the 2007 fall semester he was...(展开全部)