最新第五单元TheLibidoforTheUgly.ppt

The Libido for The Ugly H.L. Mencken Henry Louis Mencken The author: Henry Louis Mencken (1880--1956), American educator, controversialist, humorous journalist, and pungent（辛辣的尖锐的 ）critic of American life who powerfully influenced U.S. fiction through the 1920s. “The bad boy from Baltimore”, （来自巴尔的摩的坏男孩）renowned for his tough,cynical style and wit,editor of The Smart Set（时髦者） and The American Mercury（美国水星）. About the author Description is painting a verbal picture of a person,a place, an object, a scene,etc.In order to enable his reader to perceive the reality essentially origional, the writer reproduces an image and invokes that reality essentially by specific and concrete words that appeal to the readers sence of sight,smell,sound,taste and touch.The description of a place is usually organiazed and developed by space order. Space order of his description From Pittsburgh to Greensburg, a distance of twenty-five miles→churches, stores, warehouses; the headquarters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; a steel stadium His Style He is well-known for his bombastic style and acid tongue. What impression can you get? shabby; ugly; hideous Thank you! Page ? * Page ? * Page ? * * * * * 英本1104班 骆明丹 谢少兰 刘长琴 汤萌 洪豆 The most influential American literary critic in the 1920s; using his criticism as a point of departure to attack various American social and cultural weaknesses. In literature he fought against what he regarded as fraudulently(欺骗性的) successful writers . He jeered at(嘲讽） American falsehood, pretension, and prudery(假正经), and he ridiculed the nations organized religion, business, and middle class. 1.His choice of words,diction 2.His scathing tone is also achieved through sentence structure and image 3.His skillful use of the various r