英美文学第十五章.ppt

George Bernard Shaw Shows on stage some parts of the daily lives of ordinary people in a realistic way that often contains social and political criticism Shaw’s plays was to face his audiences with new points of view and ways looking at themselves as well as the society they lived in Effects: shock and offence Saying and showing the opposite of what his audience expected Show in various ways the workings of his theory of the “Life Force,” the power that drives people to value life as a great gift and fight for a better world George Bernard Shaw Arms and the Man (1989) The Devil’s Disciple (1901): Man and Superman (1903) Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) Major Barbara (1905) Saint Joan (1924) Pygmalion (1912) –made into film My Fair Lady CONTENTS Thomas Hardy Joseph Conrad George Bernard Shaw Thomas Stearns Eliot * ROBIN * Thomas Stearns Eliot ( 1888, St. Louis, Missouri - 1965, London, Eng.) American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, a leader of the modernist movement in poetry in such works as The Waste Land (1922) and The Four Quartets (1943). Biographical Introduction Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Eliot went east for college and was educated at Harvard. After graduation, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne for a year, then won a scholarship to Oxford in 1914. An expatriate, he became a British citizen at the age of 39. [M]y poetry has obviously more in common with my distinguished contemporaries in America than with anything written in my generation in England, Eliot renounced his citizenship to the United States and said: My mind may be American but my heart is British. It wouldnt be what it is, and I imagine it wouldnt be so good ... if Id been born in England, and it wouldnt be what it is if Id stayed in America. Its a combination of things. But in its sources, in its emotional springs, it comes from America. One of the most distinguished literary figures of the 20th cent., He studied at Harvard, the Sorbonne, and Oxford