英美短篇小 说Unit 20 The Magic Barrel共29页
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英美短篇小 说Unit 12 Butterflies[精]
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Awards and honors
First Love, Last Rites(1975): Somerset Maugham Award(毛姆奖) The Child in Time(1987): Whitbread Novel Award(布莱德奖) Amsterdam(1998): Man Booker Prize(布克奖) Atonement(2001): adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Keira
In an interview with Christopher Ricks in 1979, McEwan commented, "They were a kind of laboratory for me. They allowed me to try out different things, to discover myself as a writer." As a piece of work that portrays McEwan, the writer, at his youngest, it is perhaps fitting that the dominant theme is that of adolescence, of the blurry and perilous divide between childhood and adulthood; in addition themes of sex, perversion, and the grotesque in its many forms feature throughout.
Novels
The Cement Garden (1978) The Comfort of Strangers (1981) The Child in Time (1987) The Innocent (1990) Black Dogs (1992) Enduring Love (1997) Amsterdam (1998)
英美短篇小 说unit 24 Who's Irish-24页文档资料
Much of Gish Jen’s writing reflects her childhood experiences
Immigration, assimilation, ethnic tension are the major themes in her work
Mona In The Promised Lands has been compared to Robert Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Fiction
Several of her short stories have been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories. Her piece "Birthmates", was selected as one of The Best American Short Stories of The Century by John Updike. Her works include four novels: Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife, and World and Town. She has also written a collection of short fiction, Who's Irish?.
Warming- up Questions:
1. What is the reason for using broken English? 2. The Grandmother calls her daughter’s husband Irish
at the beginning of the story. The Labels of Irish and Chinese seem to stand for certain traits. What are these traits and why is this significant? 3. Ethnic labels have a tendency to be overly broad, why then are they used so much in this story? 4. There are disagreements between the mother and grandmother. To what degree are these differences a result of culture, and generation and personality?
Immigration, assimilation, ethnic tension are the major themes in her work
Mona In The Promised Lands has been compared to Robert Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Fiction
Several of her short stories have been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories. Her piece "Birthmates", was selected as one of The Best American Short Stories of The Century by John Updike. Her works include four novels: Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife, and World and Town. She has also written a collection of short fiction, Who's Irish?.
Warming- up Questions:
1. What is the reason for using broken English? 2. The Grandmother calls her daughter’s husband Irish
at the beginning of the story. The Labels of Irish and Chinese seem to stand for certain traits. What are these traits and why is this significant? 3. Ethnic labels have a tendency to be overly broad, why then are they used so much in this story? 4. There are disagreements between the mother and grandmother. To what degree are these differences a result of culture, and generation and personality?
英美短篇小 说Unit 17 The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Unit 17 The Snows of Kilimanjaro
———Ernest Hemingway
“The Hemingway Code”
Hemingway’s characters plainly embody his own values and view of life. The main characters of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls are young men whose strength and self-confidence nevertheless coexist with a sensitivity that leaves them deeply scarred by their wartime experiences. War was for Hemingway a potent symbol of the world, which he viewed as complex, filled with moral ambiguities, and offering almost unavoidable pain, hurt, and destruction. To survive in such a world, and perhaps emerge victorious, one must conduct oneself with honour, courage, endurance, and dignity, a set of principles known as “the Hemingway code.” To behave well in the lonely, losing battle with life is to show “grace under pressure” and constitutes in itself a kind of victory, a theme clearly established in The Old
———Ernest Hemingway
“The Hemingway Code”
Hemingway’s characters plainly embody his own values and view of life. The main characters of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls are young men whose strength and self-confidence nevertheless coexist with a sensitivity that leaves them deeply scarred by their wartime experiences. War was for Hemingway a potent symbol of the world, which he viewed as complex, filled with moral ambiguities, and offering almost unavoidable pain, hurt, and destruction. To survive in such a world, and perhaps emerge victorious, one must conduct oneself with honour, courage, endurance, and dignity, a set of principles known as “the Hemingway code.” To behave well in the lonely, losing battle with life is to show “grace under pressure” and constitutes in itself a kind of victory, a theme clearly established in The Old
英美短篇小 说Unit 6 Mr.Know All
THE SETTING
• Time-
– a short time after World War I. It is mentioned for two reasons. First, it justifies the accidental meeting in the same cabin of the narrator and Mr. Kelada. The passenger traffic on the ocean-liners was heavy, so the narrator had to agree to share a cabin with a person he disliked. Second, it may give us a possible reason for the narrator’s unjustified antagonism towards Mr. Kelada. Usually, during periods of war, feelings of prejudice and dislike for foreigners grow stronger.
➢His cabin-mate, a British citizen who is the nameless narrator of the story, dislikes Mr. Kelada even before he sees him. However, at the end of the story Mr. Kelada, the Levantine jeweler, proves to be a real gentleman when he sacrifices his own pride and reputation to save an American lady’s marriage. As a result, he earns the respect of the narrator.
英美短篇小 说Unit 9 Through_the_Tunnel
➢ It is a daring narrative experiment, in which the multiple selves of a contemporary woman are rendered in astonishing depth and detail. Anna Wulf, like Lessing herself, strives for ruthless honesty as she aims to free herself from the chaos, emotional numbness, and hypocrisy afflicting her generation.
Literary style
• Lessing’s fiction is commonly divided into three distinct phases:
• Communist theme (1944–1956), when she was writing radically on social issues (to which she returned in The Good Terrorist (1985)).
Background
Through the Tunnel was first published in the New Yorker on August 6, 1955, and two years later it was reprinted in Doris Lessing's collection of short stories, The Habit of Loving.
But like other women writers from southern African who did not graduate from high school (such as Olive Schreiner and Nadine Gordimer), Lessing made herself into a self-educated intellectual.
Literary style
• Lessing’s fiction is commonly divided into three distinct phases:
• Communist theme (1944–1956), when she was writing radically on social issues (to which she returned in The Good Terrorist (1985)).
Background
Through the Tunnel was first published in the New Yorker on August 6, 1955, and two years later it was reprinted in Doris Lessing's collection of short stories, The Habit of Loving.
But like other women writers from southern African who did not graduate from high school (such as Olive Schreiner and Nadine Gordimer), Lessing made herself into a self-educated intellectual.
英美短篇小 说Unit 6 Mr.Know All
Maugham's mother Edith Mary (née Snell) was consumptive, a condition for which the doctors of the time prescribed childbirth. As a result Maugham had three older brothers, already enrolled in boarding school by the time he was three and Maugham was effectively raised as an only child. Childbirth proved no cure for tuberculosis, and Edith Mary Maugham died at the age of 41, six days after the stillbirth of her final son.
The death of his mother left Maugham traumatized for life, and he kept his mother's photograph by his bedside until his own death at the age of 91 in Nice, France. William was sent back to England to be cared for by his uncle, Henry MacDonald Maugham, the Vicar of Whit stable, in Kent. The move was catastrophic.
In 1947, Maugham instituted the Somerset Maugham Award, awarded to the best British writer or writers under the age of thirtyfive of a work of fiction published in the past year. Notable winners include V. S. Naipaul, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis and Thom Gunn. On his death, Maugham donated his copyrights to the Royal Literary Fund.