20世纪美国文学英文版.ppt
美国文学之了不起的盖茨比中英文PPT
Special experience: familiar with life style, mental state and moral standards of the rich
Critical of the rich and showing the disintegrating effects of wealth on the emotional make-up
Becoming “the angel of twenties” ; The Beautiful and the Damned published in 1922
Going to France in 1924; spokesman of “The Lost Generation”; producing The Great Gatsby in 1925; Tender Is the Night and stories
生前完成的最后一部长篇，描写 一个出身寒微但才华出众的青年 对梦幻般理想的追求以及最终遭 到失败、变得颓废消沉的故事。
小说背景是作者熟悉的欧洲大陆， 时间为1917－1930，但小说展现 的仍是美国“爵士乐时代”的社 会场景。
《文学美国文学》PPT课件
因为人类的祖先亚当和夏娃是有罪的),
total depravity(人类是完全堕落的，所以
人要处处小心自己的行为，要尽可能做到
最好以取悦上帝), limited atonement (有
限救赎，只有被上帝选中的人才能得到上
帝的拯救)
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American Puritanism
Features of American Puritan
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2. Early American Puritan Writers
• John Smith, one of the founders of the colony of Jamestown: His descriptions about the new world became the source of information for the later settlers.
Exercise
Colonial period and Revolutionary period Early Romanticism Transcendentalism Late Romanticism
The age of Realism
Irving Franklin Cooper Emerson Hawthorne Twain James Dreiser Melville Thoreau
himself to writing Amh erican subject
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2. Evaluation. (Benjamin Franklin1706 – 1790)
1) He was a rare genius in human history. Everything seems to meet in this one man, mind and will, talent and art, strength and ease, wit and grace, and he became almost everything: a printer, postmaster, citizen, almanac maker, essayist, scientist, inventor, statesman, philosopher, political economist and ambassador.
美国文学第二章浪漫主义PPT课件
2) Vivid and true characters 3) Finished and musical language 4) Strong sense of humor 5) Never shocking but a bit sentimental at
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>> Irving’s Writing style:
Vivid, memorable characters,
Detailed, insightful description of American scenery, traditions and cultures,
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To sum up:
As a logical result of the foreign and native factors at work, American romanticism was both imitative and independent. However, it was in essence the expression of “ a real new experience” and contained “an alien quality” for the simple reason that “ the spirit of the place” was radically new and alien.
>>At mid-century a cultural reawakening brought a “flowering of New England”.
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《美国文学》课件.ppt
• When he woke up, he noticed that his joints were stiff and that his beard had grown a foot long. Returning to his village, he found it changed almost beyond recognition.
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3) What does “this legendary superstition” refer to? (Para. 2) 4) What is “the general purport of this legendary superstition”? (Para. 3—Para. 4)
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5) Is the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” the story of the Headless Horseman? If not, what does the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” deal with?
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Literary Terms: 1.Protagonist: The leading character in a play or story, originally the leader of the CHORUS in the AGON (“contest”) of Greek drama, faced with the ANTAGONIST, the opposition.
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6) How many major characters are mentioned in the “legend”? Who are they? And what’s the relationship between them? Who is the protagonist? And who is the antagonist?
20世纪文学课件 Fowles_Collector
(1926-2005)
The United Kingdom
Birthplace
•Leigh-on-Sea, Essex England
Leigh-on-Sea
Education
• Bedford School • New College, Oxford
Other Jobs
• A teacher
• A full time writer
Holywell Street, New College, Oxford
Gate leading to the gardens of New College, Oxford
The old quad of New College, Oxford
Do you know? • In Lyme Regis home, he made a writing center.
Structure
★ The Collector presents the same story from two different viewpoints. ★ This book divided into four parts
The Collector (1965 film)
Structure (1)
journals and indeed, he finds the journals and responds to their contents.
Structure(2)
• The second Part: Miranda’s diary blending with letters ★Her narrative in the form of personal journal entries running from 14 October to 7 to December is highly reactive in nature, as indeed journals tend to be. ★ Miranda’s narrative lacks clear overall structure; that is to say, she has no large-scale plan. Such a narrative strategy fits Miranda’s situation, since a captive cannot see the larger design.
Part7.The1920s20世纪20年代的美国文学
Part 7. The 1920s 20世纪20年代的美国文学Imagism意象主义：Ezra Pound 艾兹拉·庞德(1885-1972)：The Spirit of Romance罗曼司精神；The Anthology DesImagistes意像派诗选；Cathay华夏——英译中国诗；Literary Essays文学论；A Few Don’ts by Imagist意象派戒条；Personage面具；Polite Essays文雅集；The Cantos of Ezra Pound庞德诗章——109首及8首未完成稿Thomas Stearns Eliot 托马斯·艾略特(1888-1965)：Prufrock and Other Observations普罗夫洛克；The Waste Land荒原：TheBurial of the Dead死者的葬礼；A Game of Chess弈棋；The Fire Sermon 火诫；Death byWater水边之死；What the Thunder Said雷电之言；名诗：Ash Wednesday圣灰星期三；Four Quarters四个四重奏；诗剧：Murder in the Cathedral大教堂谋杀案；Family Reunion大团圆；Cocktail Party鸡尾酒会Wallace Stevens 华莱士·史蒂文斯(1879-1955)：Harmonium风琴；The Man With the Blue Guitar弹蓝吉他的人；Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction关于最高虚构的札记：Peter Quince at the Clavier彼得·昆斯弹风琴；Sunday Morning礼拜天早晨；The Auroras of Autumn秋天的晨曦；Collected Poems诗集William Carlos Williams 威廉·卡罗斯·威廉斯(1883-1963)：Spring andAll春；The Journey of Love爱的历程；Pictures from Brueghel布留盖尔的肖像；Paterson佩特森——5卷长诗；Asphodal, That Green Flower常青花日光兰——长诗；Red Wheelbarrow红色手推车；The Widow’s Lament in Spring寡妇的春怨；The Sparrow, to My Father麻雀——致父亲；Proletarian Portrait无产阶级画像Robert Frest 罗伯特·弗罗斯特(1874-1963)：A Boy’s Wish少年心愿；North of Boston波士顿之北：Mending Wall修墙；After Apple-picking摘苹果之后；Mountain Interval山间；The Road Not taken没有选择的道路；West-running Brook西流的溪涧；A Further Range又一片牧场；A Witness Tree一株作证的树Carl Sandburg 卡尔·桑德堡(1878-1967)：Always the Young Stranger永远是陌生的年轻人；In Reckless Ecstasy肆无忌惮的狂热；The Prairie Years草原的年代；The War Years战争的年代——林肯传记；The American Songbag美国歌袋；The People,Yes人民，好；Honey and Salt蜜与盐；Corn-huskers辗米机；Smoke and Steel烟与钢E Cumings 肯明斯(1894-1962)：Tulips anddd Chimneys郁金香与烟囱；The Enormous Room大房间；XLI Poems诗41首；Viva万岁；No, Thanks不，谢谢；Collected Poems诗集；Eimi爱米——访苏游记The Lost Generation迷惘的一代：F Scott Fitzgerald 弗朗西斯·菲茨杰拉德(1896-1940)：The Side of Paradise人间天堂；The Beautiful and the Damned美丽的和倒霉；The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比；Tender in the Night夜色温柔；The Last Tycoon最后的巨头；短篇小说：Flappers and Philosophers姑娘们和哲学家们；Tales of the Jazz爵士时代的故事；Taps at Reveille早晨的起床号；The Ice Palace冰宫；May Days五一节；The Diamond as Big as the Ritz像里茨饭店那样大的钻石；Winter Dreams冬天的梦；The Rich Boy富家子弟；Babylon Revisted重访巴比伦；The Crack-up崩溃——自传体文集“迷惘的一代”代表人物：Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威(1899-1961) ：In Our Time在我们的年代里；The Torrents of Spring春潮；The Sun Also Rises太阳照样升起；Farewell to Arms永别了，武器；For Whom the Bell Tolls丧钟为谁而鸣；短篇小说：Men Without Women没有女人的男人；The Winners Take Notheing胜者无所获；The Fifth Column and First Forty-nine Stories第五纵队与首次发表的四十九个短篇；政论：To Have and Have Not贫与富回忆录：A Moveable Feast到处逍遥William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳(1897-1962)：The Marble Faun云石林神——诗集；Soldiers'Pay兵饷——小说；Absalom, Absolam押沙龙，押沙龙——家世小说；短篇小说：Dry September干燥的九月；The Sound and the Fury愤怒与喧嚣；As I lay dying当我垂死的时候；Light in August八月之光Sherwood Anderson 舍伍德·安德森(1876-1941)：Windy McPherson’s Son饶舌的麦克斐逊的儿子；Marching Men前进中的人们；Mid-American Chants美国中部之歌；Winesburg,Ohio/The Book of the Grotesque俄亥俄州的温斯堡/畸人志；Poor White穷苦的白人；Many Marriages多种婚姻；Dark Laughter阴沉的笑声The Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories鸡蛋的胜利和其他故事；Death in the Woods and Other Stories林中之死及其他故事；I Want to Know Why我想知道为什么美国第一个获诺贝尔奖获得者：Sinclair Lewis 辛克莱·刘易斯(1885-1951)：Dur Mr Wrenn我们的雷恩先生；The Job求职；The Main Street大街；Babbitt巴比特；Arrowsmith艾罗史密斯；Elmer Gantry艾尔默·甘特里；Dodsworth多兹沃斯；It can’t Happen Here事情不会发生在这里；Kingsblood Royal王孙梦Villa Sibert Cather 维拉·凯塞(1873-1947)：O, Pioneers啊，先驱们；My Antonia我的安东尼亚；The Professor’s House教授之家；Death Comes for the Archibishop大主教之死Thomas Wolfe 托马斯·沃尔夫(1900-1938)：Look Homeward, Angel天使，望故乡；Of Time and the River时间与河流；The Web and the Rock蛛网与岩石；You Can’t Go Home Again有家归不得；The Hills Beyond远山——未完成；短篇小说：From Death to Morning从死亡到早晨。
美国文学ppt课件
histories, travel accounts, diaries,
biographies, letters, autobiographies, sermons,
and poems.
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Major writers:
Captain John Smith （约翰·史密斯）
? the first American
? The “newness” of Americans as a nation is in connection with American Romanticism.
? As a logical result of the foreign and native factors at work, American romanticism was both imitative and independent
Politics dominated the revolutionary phase of American writing.
The crisis in American life carried by the Revolution made
artists self-conscious about American subjects.
?“Poet of the American
Revolution”
?“Father of American
Poetry”
?“Pioneer of the New
Romanticism”
?“A gifted and versatile lyric
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? “The Rising Glory of America” (1772)
美国文学Sister Carrie英文(课堂PPT)
Carrie(a country girl)
Charles H. Drouet(traveling salesman)
live together; mistress(情妇)
George W. Hurstwood (resort manager)
mistress; Eloping（私奔）
famous actress 3
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Criticize
it mainly analyzes the character to depict a real American social life in the late 1890’s, especially those of poor people’s lives from struggling, fighting to failing for their socalled “American Dreams”. At last, the article points out the most important resource resulting in the tragedies: the American social system.
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Chas.H.Drouet:
a buoyant traveling salesman ;
good clothes; daring;
kindly familiarity
Caroline Meeber: bright; timid;
full of the illusions ; ignorance; youth
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Words Characteristic
❖ using lots of words to discribe the environment and human inside that to form the characters.
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III. What is an “image”?
An image is defined by Pound as that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time, “a vortex or cluster of fused ideas” “endowed with energy”. The exact word must bring the effect of the object before the reader as it had presented itself to the poet’s mind at the time of writing.
4. It is this movement that helped to open the first pages of modern English and American poetry.
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VI. Ezra Pound
1. life 2. literary career 3. works (1) Cathay (2) Cantos (3) Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
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II. Background 1. First World War – “a war to end all wars” (1) Economically: became rich from WWI. Economic
boom: new inventions. Highly-consuming society. (2) Spiritually: dislocation, fragmentation. 2. wide-spread contempt for law (looking down upon law) 3. Freud’s theory
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III. Features of the literature Writers: three groups (1) Participants (2) Expatriates (3) Bohemian (unconventional way of life) – on-
lookers
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Two areas: (1) Failure of communication of Americans (2) Failure of the American society
3. As regarding rhythm, to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of a metronome.
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V. Significance
1. It was a rebellion against the traditional poetics which failed to reflect the new life of the new century.
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IV. Principles
1. Direct treatment of the “thing”, whether subjective or objective;
2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation;
American Literature
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Part V Twentieth-Century Literature
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Section 1 The 1920s
I. Introduction The 1920s is a flowering period of American
literature. It is considered “the second renaissance” of American literature. The nicknames for this period: (1) Roaring 20s – comfort (2) Dollar Decade – rich (3) Jazz Age – Jazz music
2. It offered a new way of writing which was valid not only for the Imagist poets but for modern poetry as a whole.
3. The movement was a training school in which many great poets learned their first lessons in the poetic art.
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Imagism
I. Background Imagism was influenced by French symbolism, ancient Chinese poetry and Japanese literature “haiku”
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(1) Confident in Pound’s belief that the artist was morally and culturally the arbiter and the “saviour” of the race, he took it upon himself to purify the arts and became the prime mover of a few experimental movements, the aim of which was to dump the old into the dustbin and bring forth something new.