美国文学(自然主义,意象主义作者及其作品)课件解说.ppt

Frank Norris 弗兰克·诺里斯 ( 5, 1870 – 25, 1902) American novelist Norris died on October 25, 1902 buried in Mountain View Cemeteryin Oakland, California In 1900 Frank Norris married Jeanette Black born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1870 Moran of the Lady Letty A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West McTeague The Octopus McTeague A novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couples courtship and marriage their subsequent descent into poverty, violence finally murder as the result of jealousy and avarice Masterpiece A Story of California is a 1901 novel The Octopus the first part of an uncompleted trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat It describes the wheat industry Cali in fornia the conflicts between wheat growers and a railway company The book emphasized the control of forces It also calls A California Story January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916 Early life On July 12, 1897, London (age 21) and his sisters husband Captain Shepard sailed to join the?Klondike Gold Rush First marriage (1900–1904) Second marriage in1905 Bessie Maddern London and daughters, Joan and Becky Jack and Charmian London (ca. 1915) at?Waikiki His life story The old Winery Cottage, where London died (in the left?sleeping porch) on November 22, 1916 Many older sources describe London’s death as a suicide. This conjecture seems to be a rumor, or speculation based on incidents in his fiction writings. His death certificate gives the cause as uremia, following acute renal colic, a type of pain often described as “the worst pain…ever experienced”, commonly caused by kidney stones. Uremia is also known as uremic poisoning. A young proletarian? autodidact?struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in Pacific Monthly magazine from Sept. 1908 to Sept . 1909 and published in book form by?Macmillan?in Sept. 1909. Main characters Martin Eden Ruth Morse Lizzie Connolly Joe Dawson Russ Brissenden Major themes Social clas