A Short Study About The Beat Generation
Lost Generation and Beat Generation
On the road
written in April 1951, and published in 1957
• It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drug experiences. While many of the names and details of Kerouac's experiences are changed for the novel, hundreds of references in On the Road have real-world counterparts. • When the book was originally released, The New York Times hailed it as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and most important utterance" of Kerouac's generation. The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
美国文学期末考试——名词解释
1.Hemingway Code Hero It refers to some protagonists in Hemingway's works. In the general situation of Hemingway's novels, life is full of tension and battles; the world is in chaos and man is always fighting desperately a losing battle. Those who survive and perhaps emerge victorious in the process of seeking to master the code with a set of principles such as honor, courage, endurance, wisdom, discipline and dignity are known as "the Hemingway code". man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually.2.Iceberg theory of Writing: it refers a writing style of Hemingway that is the sentences only give one small bit of the meaning. The rest is implied. One must go very deep beneath the surface to understand the full meaning of his writing.3.Imagism: imagism is the doctrine and poetic practice of a small but influential group of American and British poets calling themselves imagists between 1912 and 1917.aiming at a new clarity and exactness in the short lyric poem, the imagists cultivated concision and directness, building their short poems around single images; they also preferred looser cadences to traditional regular rhythms.4.free verse (自由诗体) without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.5.Lost Generation：it defines a sense of moral loss or aimlessness. The WWI destroyed the innocent ideas, many good young men went to the war and died, or returned damaged, both physically and mentally; their moral faith were no longer valid they are lost. narrow sense means a group of American writers, including Hemingway, F.S.Fitzgerald, etc. broad sense: the entire post WWI American young generation.6.The Beat generation:it was a group of authors whose literature explored and influenced American culture in the post-WW2 era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized throughout the 1950s. Central elements of “Beat “ culture: rejection of standard narrative values, the spiritual quest, exploration of American and Eastern religions, rejection of materialism, explicit portrayals of the human condition, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation, exploration.7.Modernism现代主义：is loosely a synonym of anything contemporary. Strictly, especially in literary criticism, which began in the late 19th century and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base. They pay more attention to the psychic time than the chronological one.8.Realism: realism is a term applied to literary composition that aims at an interpretation of the actualities of any aspect of life ,free from subjective prejudice, idealism, or romantic color.9.Naturalism:naturalism is a critical term applied to the method of literary composition that aims at a detached, objectivity in the treatment of natural man.10.Local color:loc al color is a term applied to literature which emphasizes its setting, being concerned with the character of district or of an era, as marked by its customs, dialects, costumes, landscape or other peculiarities that have escaped standardizing cultural influences.11.American romanticism : Romanticism is an artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature ,emphasis on the individual’s expressi on of emotion and imagination ,departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism ,and rebellion against established social rules and conventions.12.The Harlem Renaissance The first flowering of African-American literature. It was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture and Hughes is best-known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance.13. Stream-of-Consciousness Stream of Consciousness, in literature, is the technique that records the multifarious thoughts and feelings of a character without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence.15.Transcendentalism:In New England, an intellectual movement known as transcendentalism developed as an American version of Romanticism. The movement began among an influential set of authors based in Concord, Massachusetts and was led by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Like Romanticism, transcendentalism rejected both 18th century rationalism and established religion, which for the transcendentalists meant the Puritan tradition in particular. The transcendentalists celebrated the power of the human imagination to commune with the universe and transcend thelimitations of the material world. They found their chief source of inspiration in nature. Emerson‟s essay nature was the major document of the transcendental school and stated the ideas that were to remain central to it.16.The Jazz Age(享乐时代)：when New Orleans musicians moved “up the river”to Chicago, and the theatre of New Yorks Harlem pulsed with the music that had become a symbol of the times. Fitzgerald portrays the Jazz Age as a generation of “the beautiful and damned”, drowning in their pleasures.17.Symbolism: It is a movement in literature and the visual arts that originated in France in the poetry of Charles Baudelaire in the late 19th century. In literature, symbolism was an aesthetic movement that encouraged writers to express their ideas, feelings, and values by means of symbols or suggestions rather than by direct statements. Hawthorne and Melville are masters of symbolism in America in the 19th century.18.Darwinism:达尔文主义:an evident influence on naturalism, stress the animality of man, to suggest that be was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution.19.Psychological realism:It is the realistic writing that probes deeply into the complexities of characters‟ thoughts and motivation. Henry James‟ novel The Ambassadors is considered to be a masterpiece of psychological realism.20. Puritanism: The word is originally used to refer to the theory advocated by a party within the Church of England. It is also used to refer to attitudes and values considered characteristics of the Puritans. It denotes a rigid moral, or the condemnation of innocent pleasure, or religious narrowness adhered by the early New England Puritans. It exerted great influence over American Romanticism. The preoccupation with the Calvinist view of original sin and the mystery of evil marked the works by such famous writers as Hawthorne and Melville.21.Multiple points of view The employment of several narrators or narrative points of views to tell a story, thus making the structure of the book somewhat radioactive. For example, The Sound and the Fury uses four different narrative voices to piece together the story and thus challenges the reader by presenting a fragmented plot told from multiple points of view.。
陶洁美国文学第三版选择题复习资料
Test 1一、单选题（共2题，10分）1、Which of the following values doesn't belong to that of Puritans'?A、hard workB、thriftC、self-relianceD、Patriotism正确答案： D解析：Patriotism指爱国主义，早期清教徒初到北美时，当地并不是一个国家，同时，当时人们的宗教信仰更强烈2、________ is a book written by Benjamin Franklin to recollect his life and encourage young people to strive for a better life.A、Poor Richards AlmanacB、The AutobiographyC、The Arrival in PhiladelphiaD、The Way to Wealth正确答案：B二、多选题（共3题，15分）1、How much do you know about Benjamin Franklin?A、He is one of the founding fathers of America.B、He is a self-made man and set a good example for American Dream.C、He made a lot of contributions to America and has a colorful life.D、He is very proud of his achievements and shows his pride in his work The Autobiography.正确答案：ABC解析：Franklin 一直很谦虚，他写的《自传》全文语气温和，平易近人，死后墓碑上的铭文也只留下简单的一个身份词：A Printer。
大学生二人英语口语对话材料
【导语】当今时代，英语已经成为⼀种多国、多⽂化，多功能的国际语⾔。
“英语族”这⼀概念也开始为⼤家所熟悉。
整理了⼤学⽣⼆⼈英语对话材料，欢迎阅读!【篇⼀】⼤学⽣⼆⼈英语⼝语对话材料 Dennis: What the heck! He cut himself. 呀呀的。
他居然给⾃⼰动⼑⼦。
Lorry: What’s going on? Who got cut? I’ve got Band-Aid. 发⽣什么了?谁割伤了?我有邦迪。
Dennis: Relax. It’s this cool doctor. He felt pain in his stomach. He thought it was acute appendicitis and operated himself. 放松。
是这个医⽣了。
他感觉⾃⼰腹部疼痛。
他就觉得是急性阑尾炎。
然后就给⾃⼰做⼿术了。
Lorry: He’d better be right about that. 他没有判断失误吧。
Dennis: Of course, he was. He got recovered several days later. 当然没有了。
⼏天以后，他康复了。
Lorry: He is something, isn’t he? But I have my doubts. 他是很了不起。
但是我有点⼉怀疑. Dennis: What? Don’t you believe it? 什么?你不相信? Lorry: Well, it’s just too good to be true. Every famous doctor has a story. How could he stay cool when he was under anesthetic? 写得太不真实了。
每个名医⽣都有⾃⼰的传说。
在⿇醉状态下，他怎么可能保持清醒啊! Dennis: Come on! I have the photos of the operation. You are just jealous. 得了。
很常见但不被熟知的英语词汇
很常见但不被熟知的英语词汇很常见但不被熟知的英语词汇出镜率非常高，但却不被熟知的英文单词Beat generation 垮掉的一代Tea-ceremony 茶道Badger game 美人计Scene stealer 抢镜头的人Hooligan 阿飞，足球流氓Repeated offender 惯犯Double agent 双重间谍Mr. Big 黑社会老大Love child 私生子Hand-to-hand fighting 肉搏Box news 花边新闻Screen agers 整天看电视玩电脑的孩子June-December wedding 双方年龄悬殊的婚姻King’s English 标准英语Leap day/year 闰日2.29/年366Maid of Orleans 圣女贞德Narrow squeak 九死一生的脱险Ninja turtle 忍者神龟Poet laureate 桂冠诗人Ponytail 马尾辫Protestant 新教徒Rat race 激烈的竞争Red-light district 红灯区Russian roulette 俄罗斯轮盘赌Short fuse 易怒的脾气Soft-soap 奉承讨好Silent contribution 隐名捐款Silly money 来路不明的钱Silver screen 银幕，电影界Summer complaint 夏季病，拉肚子Tenth-rate 最低等的，劣等的Vertical/lateral thinking 纵向，横向思维Wide-body 大部头的作品Wheel of life(佛教)轮回Xenomania 媚外Yearbook 年鉴年刊Zen 禅Paparazzi 狗仔队Show people 娱乐界人士Exotic dance 脱衣舞Bearish 行情下跌的Bullish 行情上涨的State prisoner 政治犯Stowaway 偷渡者，逃票的乘客Plainclothesman 便衣警察Police dog 警犬Police post 派出所Negligent homicide 过失杀人Impostor 江湖骗子ICJ International Court of Justice 国际法院Espionage 间谍间谍活动Lifer 职业军人Mine 地雷水雷Panzer 装甲车坦克Off limits 军事禁区Q-boat 伪装成商船或渔船的武装船只Riot corps 防暴部队Standing army 常规军Sniper 狙击手Bermuda Triangle 百慕大三角洲Brain drain 脑力人才外流Brawn drain劳力外流Break- dancing 霹雳舞French windows 落地窗Funeral home 殡仪馆Taillight 车尾灯Visiting team 客队Runner-up 亚军Black referee 黑哨Foul play 犯规动作Standing broad jump 立定跳远Underachiever 差等生Hothouse 对儿童进行学前教育Whiz kid 神童优等生Newsbreak 重要新闻Needle trade 成衣业Massage parlour 挂按摩牌子的妓院Moonlight 作动词，干第二职业Mixed marriage 异族通婚Moon roof 汽车的顶窗Egghead 对知识分子的蔑称Dog days 七八月份的酷暑期，伏天Connoisseur 鉴赏家Box office 票房Bridesmaid 女相Bee(美)为互助友好而举行的聚会Bigtime 红极一时的，赫赫有名的Bank of issue 发行银行Big stick 大棒政策Oxbridge 牛津和剑桥大学Multiversity 综合大学CDV compact video disc 激光光碟Beeper BP机Exclusive 独家新闻Divorcee 离了婚的人disposable worker 临时工Eden 伊甸园Bandwagon 见风使舵Sapphire 蓝宝石Scrappage 报废物Shangri-la 香格里拉Obituary 补告Hangover 宿醉Full scholarship 全额奖学金Stone-cold fox 冰山美人Brain trust **的智囊团A-list 名流群，精英all-expense tour 自费游Bard-of-Avon 埃文河诗人，莎士比亚的别称Beau monde 上流社会Beautiful people 上流社会的时阶层Bagstuffer 街头广告传单Antichoice 反堕胎Backwater 死水，死气沉沉的'地方Intercom 对讲机，闭路通讯装置In vitro fertilization 体外受精，试管受精Cottonmouth snake 百步蛇Laser surgery 激光外科手术Intercept 截球Unscrupulous bombing 狂轰滥炸Tommy gun (美)冲锋枪Strafe 扫射，猛烈炮击Superbomb 氢弹Unconditional surrender 无条件投降Losing battle 必败之战Military operation 作战Missile equipped destroyer 导弹驱逐舰Mess 军用食堂Rock-bottom 最低的Seed money 本钱Principal 本金，可生息Securities 证券，有价证券Sag 萧条，下跌Profiteer 投机商，奸商Prime 银行贷款的最低利率Red ink 赤字，亏损Ready money 现钞Bell-bottom trousers 喇叭裤Julibee 五十周年大庆Jim Crow 对黑人的蔑称Iron lady 指铁娘子撒切尔夫人Itinerant 巡回的Intelligentsia 知识分子的总称，知识界，知识阶层Jack 千斤顶Blue moon 千载难逢的时机Benefit 义卖，义演，义赛Brainwave 灵感，突然想到的主意Honor man (美)优等生Full professor 正教授Doctorate 博士学位Alma Mater 母校Academician 院士Pony report 每日要闻报道Peter Funk (美俚)拍卖中冒充卖家抬高价格的冒牌出价人Pep rally 动员大会Pipe dream 白日梦，空想Pay TV 收费电视Plastic operation 整形手术Made man 成功的人Manicure 修指甲Mad money (美俚)私房钱Lotusland 逍遥乡Jolly Roger 海盗旗Invalid 病号，伤残者Informed sources 消息灵通的人士Hot air 吹牛，空话Idiot box (口)电视机Ins and outs 迂回曲折，底细In-flight meal 航空餐【很常见但不被熟知的英语词汇】。
垮掉的一代thebeatgeneration
垮掉的一代(the B eat G enera tion)第二次世界大战后在美国出现的一个文学流派。
有人根据英文“Beats”和“Be atnik s”(“垮掉青年”的俗称)译成“避世青年”或“疲塌派”，也有人取其诗歌的部分特征，称为“节拍运动”或“敲打诗派”。
“垮掉青年”对战后美国社会现实不满，又迫于麦卡锡主义的反动政治高压，便以“脱俗”方式来表示抗议。
他们奇装异服，蔑视传统观念，厌弃学业和工作，长期浪迹于底层社会，形成了独特的社会圈子和处世哲学。
50年代初，他们的反叛情绪表现为一股“地下文学”潮流，向保守文化的统治发动冲击。
多数垮掉派文人来自东部。
著名的有杰克·凯鲁亚克、艾伦·金斯堡、威廉·巴罗斯、格雷戈里。
柯尔索、约翰·克莱伦·霍尔姆斯、塞缪尔·克雷姆和加里·斯奈德等。
1950年，凯鲁亚克与巴罗斯合写侦探故事未成，却各自完成了一部垮掉派小说《小镇与城市》(1951)和《吸毒者》(1953)。
霍尔姆斯从中受到启发，在小说《走吧》(1952)中更明确地反映纽约“垮掉青年”的生活感受，又在《纽约时报》上鼓吹垮掉派文学，但这种尝试受到东部学院派势力的压抑，他们就往西部寻求同道和发展基地。
当时洛杉矶近郊的西威尼斯有个以劳伦斯·李普顿为首的垮掉派组织，他于1955年发表小说《神圣的野蛮人》。
在旧金山，以劳伦斯·弗林盖梯的“城市之光”书店为中心，聚合了一群立志从事“文艺复兴”的反学院派诗人，他们的首领即是后来成为“垮掉的一代”理论家的肯尼斯·雷克思罗斯。
1955年夏天，“垮掉文人”和反学院派诗人(包括旧金山诗人和黑山派诗人)在旧金山联合举办诗歌朗诵会，自此之后垮掉派文学作品开始流行。
美国文学-名词解释
美国文学1.殖民地时期及独立革命战争时期的美国文学Philip Freneau（菲利普﹒弗瑞诺）(1)He was considered as the “Poet of the American revolution” as the most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century. (2)He was a satirist, a bitter polemicist. (3)He wrote many poems encouraging revolution and encouraging the glory that would be won by overcoming the British.The Wild Honey Suckle 《野金银花》The Indian Burying Ground 《印第安人的殡葬地》The British Ship《英国囚船》The Rising Glory of America 《美洲光辉的兴起》(1)The Wild Honey Suckle is Freneau’s best lyric (2)It anticipated the 19th—century use of simple nature imagery.The Indian Burying Ground anticipated romantic primitivism and the celebration of the “Noble Savage”.Thomas Jefferson（托马斯﹒杰弗逊）The Declaration of Independence《独立宣言》(1)The Declaration of Independence was adopted July 4, 1776. (2)It not only announced the birth of a new nation, but also expounded a philosophy of human freedom. (3)It lists 13 cruelties committed by the King of Britain. (4)The famous lines are: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”(5) Thomas Jefferson’s thought was inspired by the thoughts of John Locke.浪漫主义时期的美国文学Calvinism（加尔文主义）(1)Calvinism refers to the religious teachings of John Calvin and his followers. (2) Calvin taught that only certain persons, the elect, were chosen by God to be saved, and these could be saved only by God’s grace. (3) Calvinism forms the basis for the doctrines and practices of the Huguenots, Puritans, Presbyterians, and the Reformed churches.American Romanticism（美国浪漫主义）(1) American Romanticism is one of the most important periods in the history of American literature.(2) It was a rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism. For romantics, the feelings ,intuitions and emotions were more important than reason and common sense. They emphasized individualism, placing the individual against the group. They affirmed the inner life of the self, and cherished strong interest in the past, the wild, the remote, the mysterious and the strange. They stressed the element “Americanness” in their works.(3)It started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Gra ss. (4) Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, it is also called “the American Renaissance.” (5) American Romantici sts include such literary figures as Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, WilliamCullen Bryant, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman and some others.Transcendentalism（超验主义）(1) Transcendentalism refers to the religious and philosophical doctrines of Ralph Waldo Emerson and others in New England in the middle 1800’s, which emphasized the importance of individual inspiration and intuition, the Over—soul, and Nature. Other concepts that accompanied Transcendentalism include the idea that nature is ennobling and the idea that the individual is divine and, therefore, self—reliant. (2)New England Transcendentalism is the product of a combination of native American Puritanism and European Romanticism.Free verse（自由体诗歌）(1)Free verse means the rhymed or unrhymed poetry composed without paying attention to conventional rules of meter.(2) Free verse was originated by a group of French poets of the late 19th century. (3)Their purpose was to free themselves from the restrictions of formal metrical patterns and to recreate instead the free rhythms of natural speech. (4)Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is, perhaps, the most notable example.Symbol（象征）(1) Symbol means an act, a person, a thing, or a spectacle that stands for something else, usually something less palpable than the named symbol. (2) The relationship between the symbol and its referent is not often one of simple equivalence. Allegorical symbols usually express a neater equivalence with what they stand for than the symbols found in modern realistic fiction.Theme（主题）(1) Theme means the unifying point or general idea of a literary work. (2) It provides an answer to such questions as “What is the work about”(3)Each literary work carries its own theme or themes. For example, King Lear has many themes, among which are blindness and madness.现实主义与自然主义时期的美国文学American Naturalism(美国自然主义)The American Naturalists accepted the more negative interpretation of Darwin’s evolutionary theory and used it to account for the behavior of those characters in literary works who were regarded as more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.American Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more pessimistic. It is no more than a gloomy philosophical approach to reality, or to human existence.Dreiser is a leading figure of his school.Darwinism(达尔文主义)Darwinism is a term that comes from Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory.Darwinist think that those who survive in the world are the fittest and those who fail to adapt themselves to the environment will perish. They believe that man has evolved from lower forms of life. Humans are special not because God created them in His image, but because they have successfully adapted to changing environmental conditions and have passed on their survival-making characteristics genetically.Influenced by this theory, some American naturalist writers apply Darwinism as an explanation of human nature and social reality.Local Colorists(乡土作家)Generally speaking, the writing of local colorists are concerned with the life of a small, well-defined region or province. The characteristic setting is the isolated small town.Local colorists were consciously nostalgic historian of a vanishing way of life, recorders of a present that faded before their eyes. Yet for all their sentimentality, they dedicated themselves to minutely accurate descriptions of the life of their regions. They worked from personal experience to record the facts of a local environment and suggested that the native life was shaped by the curious conditions of the locale.Major local colorists include Hamlin Garland, Mark Twain , Kate Chopin, etc.Theodore Dreiser(西奥多·德莱塞)He is generally acknowledged as one of America’s literary naturalists.Works Sister Carrie《嘉莉妹妹》(1) Sister Carrie tells about a poor country girl (Carrie Meeber) who goesto Chicago to pursue the American Dream.(2) The novel shows Dreiser’s naturalistic view about life by illustratingthe purposelessness of life.(3) The dominant symbol of the novel is the rocking chair that is the rocking chair that is indicative of the uncertainty of life.Jennie Gerhardt《珍妮姑娘》Trilogy of Desire《欲望》三部曲a. The Financier《金融家》b. The Titan《巨人》c. The Stoic《斯多葛》The Genius 《天才》An American Tragedy 《美国的悲剧》(1) An American Tragedy is Dreiser’s greatest work and the title of theBook implies Dreiser intention to tell us that it is the social pressurethat makes Clyde’s downfall inevitable.(2) Clyde’s tragedy is a tragedy that depends upon the American socialsystem which encouraged people to pursue the “dream of success ” atall costs.Sherwood Anderson (舍伍德·安德森)He has been called the first of America’s “psychological writers” because he first explored the motivations and frustrations of his fictional characters in terms of Sigmund Freud’s theories of psychology.He tremendously influenced such writers as Hemingway and Faulkner.Works Winesburg, Ohio《小镇畸人》(1) Winesburg, Ohio is a collection of 23 interrelated stories ofsamll-town life. These stories sound morbid and grotesque, butUnderneath them runs a strong desire to communicate, and love andbe loved.(2) It won the author a foremost position in contemporary Americanliterary.现代时期的美国文学The Lost Generation (迷惘的一代)The Lost Generation is a term first used by Gertrude Stein to describe the post-World War I generation of American writers: men and women haunted by a sense of betrayal and emptiness brought about by the destructiveness of the war.Full of youthful idealism, these individuals sought the meaning of life, drank excessively, had love affairs and created some of the finest American literature to date.The three best-know representatives of Lost Generation are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos.Others usually included among the list are Sherwood Anderson, Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, Ford Maddox Ford and Zelda Fitzgerald.Imagism (意象派诗歌)Imagism came into being in Britain ans U.S. around 1910 as a reaction to the traditional English poetry to express the sense of fragmentation and dislocation.The imagists, with Ezra Pound leading the way, hold that the most effective means to express these momentary impressions is through the use of one dominant image.Imagism is characterized by the following three poetic principles:i) direct treatment of subject matter;ii) economy of expression;iii) as regards rhythm, to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of metronome.Ezra Pound’s In a Station of the Metro is a well-known imagist poem.The Beat Generation (垮掉的一代)The members of the Beat Generation were new bohemian libertines, who engaged in a spontaneous, sometimes messy, creativity.The beat writers produced a body of written work controversial both for its advocacy ofnon-conformity and for its non-conforming style.The major beat writings are Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Allen Ginsberg’s Howl. Howl became the manifesto of the Beat Generation.American Dream (美国梦)American Dream refers to the dream of material success, in which one, regardless of social status, acquires wealth and gains success by working hard and good luck.In literature, the theme of American Dream recurs. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby comes from the west to the east with the dream of material success. By bootlegging and other illegal means he fulfilled his dream but ended up being killed. The novel tells the shattering of American Dream rather than its success.Expressionism (表现主义)Expressionism refers to a movement in Germany early in the 20th century, in which a number of painters sought to avoid the representation of external reality and, instead, to project a highly personal or subjective vision of the world.Expressionism is a reaction against realism or naturalism, aiming at presenting a post-war world violently distorted.Works noted for expressionism include: Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones, James Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, etc..In a further sense, the term is sometimes applied to the belief that literary works are essentially expressions of their own authors’ moods and thoughts; this has been the dominant assumption about literature since the rise of Romanticism.Feminism (女权主义)(1) Feminism incorporates both a doctrine of equal rights for women and an ideology of social transformation aiming to create a world for women beyond simple social equality.(2) In general, feminism is the ideology of women’s liberation based on the belief that women suffer injustice because of their sex. Under this broad umbrella various feminists offer differing analyses of the causes, or agents, of female oppression.(3) Definitions of feminism by feminists tend to be shaped by their training, ideology or race. So, for example, Marxist and Socialist feminists stress the interaction within feminism of class with gender and focus on social distinctions between men and women. Black feminists argue much more for an integrated analysis which can unlock the multiple systems of oppression.Hemingway Code Hero (海明威式英雄)Hemingway Hero, also called code hero, is one who, wounded but strong, more sensitive, enjoys the pleasures of life (sex, alcohol, sport) in face of ruin and death, and maintains, through some notion of a code, an ideal of himself.Barnes in The Sun Also Rises, Henry in A Farewell to Arms and Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea are typical of Hemingway Hero.Harlem Renaissance (哈莱姆文艺复兴)（1）Harlem Renaissance refers to a period of outstanding literary vigor and creativity that occurred in the United States during the 1920s.（2）The Harlem Renaissance changed the images of literature created by many black and white American writers. New black images were no longer obedient and docile, instead they showed a new confidence and racial pride.(3) The leading figures are Langston Hughs, James Weldon Johnson, Wallace Thurman, etc.. Impressionism (印象主义)Impressionism is a style of painting that gives the impression made by the subject on the artist without much attention to details. Writers accepted the same conviction that the personal attitudes and moods of the writer were legitimate elements in depicting character or setting or action. Briefly, it is a style of literature characterized by the creation of general impressions and moods rather than realistic moods.现代时期的美国文学Ezra Pound(1) He was identified as the father of modern American poetry and the most influential leader of the Imagist Movement.(2) He had an enormous influence on the modernist writers in Britain and America after WWII.Works The Cantos《诗章》In a Station of the Metro 《在地铁站里》(1) In a Station of the Metro serves as a typical example of the Imagist ideas.(2) The one-image poem is an observation of the poet of the human faces seen in a Paris subway station.(3) “Apparition” suggests a visible appearance of something not present, and especially of a dead person. Here the faces of people in the subway station are compared to petals on a wet, black bough.A Pact 《盟约》(1) A Pact is a poem in which Pound started to find some agreement between “Whitmanesque” free verse, which he had attacked for its carelessness in composition.(2) In the poem “broke the new wood” means that Whitman made experiments with the conventions of traditional poetry. “commerce” means the exchange of views or attitudes. The poem indicates that Pound would like to learn from the free verse and show respect to Whitman.。
Bob_Dylan鲍勃·迪伦_英文介绍
Had a great influence on music players and bands after him, including The Beatles（披头士）、The Rolling Stones(滚石) 、 Neil Young （尼尔 杨）. Contribute to various kings of music, from folk （民谣）、 blues（布 鲁斯）、rock and roll（摇滚乐） ,to even jazz and swing（爵士乐）. Especially in rock music ,Dylan was considered to endow rock music with soul.
Dylan’s trip to China !
4th 6thMarch 2011,In Beijing
Dylan’s well-known music
Blowin’ in the wind Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall Masters of War Like a Rolling Stone Desolation Row Forever Young
Bob Dylan and 1960s’ America
Dylan became a music star in 1960s.1960s is an unrest decade, so many contradictions were await to be solved.
Key Words of 1960’America: Hippie (嬉皮士）、Vietnam War(越南战 争)、The Beat Generation（垮掉一代）、 Cold War(冷战)、Defcon(核战危机)
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A Short Study about the Beat Generation
LuiGoNam ( 吕晧楠)
School of Astronautics, HIT, P.R.China
(中国哈尔滨工业大学航天学院)
Abstract:The Beat Generation is a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they are both documented and inspired. Central elements of “Beats” included rejection of received standards, innovation in style, experimentation with drugs, alternative sexuality, an interest in religion, a rejection of materialism, and explicit portrayals of the human condition. To study some materials from the period of The Beat Generation contributes to have a deep cognition on the modern history on the US. This paper is written to demonstrate how “The Beat Generation” had an influence on many aspects of the US in that period. For instance,The Beat Generation had transfused the spirit of rebellion and depravation into the music and literature in that period. This paper will discuss more about this topic below.
Key words:The Beat Generation,rebellion,rejection of materialism
Bibliography (Reference Books or Other Sources)
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2.McClure Michael . 《Scratching The Beat Surface:Essay on New Vision from Black to Kerouac》N Y: Penguin, 1994
3.Knight, Arthur Winfield. (ed). 《The Beat Vision》 (1987) Paragon House.。