1. 研究目的与意义（文献综述）

kingsleyamis was an english novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, writing more than20 novels, along with works of social and literary criticism. he was regarded,according to his biographer, zachary leader, as “the finest english comicnovelist of the second half of the twentieth century.” lucky jim is amis’ first novel, and also one of his most famousrepresentatives, for which he won the 1955 somerset maugham award. lucky jimwas published in 1954 by victor gollancz.

after decidingwhat i will analyze and the title of my paper under the help of my supervisor, inorder to well prepare my paper, i made great effort to get further informationfrom different sources. firstly, i downloaded the original english version of lucky jim and also the authentic chineseversion. for the novel itself is the first source, i have read both the twoversion twice and underlined what i would refer to later and what i do notunderstand. after figuring out what the whole story talks about, i began tosearch for second-hand source, especially others’ book reviews. because of thedepartment requirement that both chinese and english reference should bereferred to, i have searched on cnki (chinese national knowledgeinfrastructure), wanfang and weipu for chinese reference, and ebsco,springerlink for english. i have downloaded about 15 references so far, andread and marked half of them, which benefits a lot for my paper-writing.

2. 研究的基本内容与方案

this paper will be a far cry from those mentioned above. it is meant to reveal the challenge to english highbrow culture by studying the preposterousness and rebellion demonstrated in lucky jim. though the anti-cultural method has been used by others, what the culture actually is and what the characteristics of this culture are matter a lot and need to be figured out.

thispaper will mainly consist of three parts, namely, introduction, body andconclusion. in the first part, it will briefly introduce the author, the noveland the literature reviews about it. in the body paraphrases, it will firstdescribe highbrow culture, including definition and characteristics. then it willfocus on its unusual plot, comical characters and its funny words andappearance at length, and finally compare the highbrow culture with the threeelements in order to make a striking contrast, which in turn reflects itsunderlining theme----challenging and criticizing english highbrow culture. inthe final part, this paper will restate what it analyzes and show its result ofthe survey and point out the real benefit resulting from this paper-writing.

3. 研究计划与安排

the schedule of this paper is designed as follows:

before 10^th, jan. settlement of the title

before 19^th, mar. submission of thesisproposal

4. 参考文献（12篇以上）

[1] barber, m. iflucky jim could see him now [j]. the hudson review, 2002(14): 510-513.

[2] jin, s. powerlessrebellion and hopeless breakthrough: the study of kingsley amis' lucky jim [j].oversea english. 2015(15): 169-172.

[3] nightingale,b. lucky jim: the quiet rebel [j].times, 2014: 43.