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降低原材料成本 本文反映结束！ 谢谢大家观看！ 同步糖化发酵工艺 ，能耗下降30% American Literature  School of Foreign Studies Anhui University Xu Qinghong 2011 Summer XQH-AHU-2011 Henry James (1843-1916) Study Question Point of view in the works of Mark Twain, Henry James and William Faulkner Major Issues I. A brief assessment II. Life and Writing III. Thematic concerns IV. Style V. Close reading XQH-AHU-2011 I. Henry James --- a brief assessment his importance wide influence as a novelist and critic -- the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms -- revival in mid 20th century: the founder of psychological realism; helped shape the modern novel -- the forerunner of stream-of-consciousness novels II. His life and writing father elder brother (Wil1iam James): wealthy, well-known intellectual; the theory of the stream-of-consciousness technique. Harvard Law School read intensively: Balzac, Merimee , George Sand, George Eliot and Hawthorne. toured Europe and met Flaubert, Maupassant, Zola and Turgenev settled down in London in 1876, and in 1915 a naturalized British citizen His friendship with Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence) Primary works bulky and voluminous: stories, novels, literary criticism 1. The first period (1865-1882): “international theme”: The American (l877), Daisy Miller (l878), The Europeans (l878), and The Portrait of A Lady (188l ) 2. The middle period: experimentation with different themes and forms: The Turn of the Screw 3. The last and major period from 1895 to 1900: international theme”: The Wings of the Dove (l902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904). James’s literary criticism: “The Art of Fiction” (1884) III. James’ international theme Confrontation between European and American Cultures: -- American innocence VS European sophistication; -- American vulgarity VS European refinement IV. Jamess style of writing 1. James’s psychological realism 1) Inner Life instead of Plot 2) Absence of the Hero: A