Babbitt: A Novel of Initiation

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210313.061How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Babbitt, initiation, archetype

Abstract

The masterpiece of Sinclair Lewis Babbitt was the first novel in America that won the Nobel Prize. Although there are already a large amount of studies on the novel, most of them focused on the commercial culture it reflects. From the perspectives of archetype theory and initiation story, this paper makes its concentration on the protagonist Babbitt, analyzing the five stages of the initiation progress of Babbitt from ignorance to maturity. In doing so, this paper attempts to resolve the controversial problem aroused by the characterization of Babbitt.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Aoshuang Yang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/15
TI  - Babbitt: A Novel of Initiation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 323
EP  - 325
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210313.061
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210313.061
ID  - Yang2021
ER  -