AmericanLiteratureReview.ppt

d. O. Henry? 欧.亨利?? short story 短篇小说 His famous stories include “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Cop and the Anthem”. The father of modern short novels in America 美国文学史复5(the?20th?century) 1、Imagism 意象派：is a poetic movement of England and the United States, flourished from 1909-1917. Its credo, expressed in Some Imagist Poets, included the use of the language of common speech, project matter, the evocation of images in hard, clear poetry, and concentration. ? 2、Lost Generation：迷惘的一代，Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a “Lost Generation,” devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization. It describes the Americans who remained in Paris as a colony of “expatriates” or exiles. It describes the writers like Hemingway who lived in semi- poverty. It describes the Americans who returned to their native land with an intense awareness of living in an unfamiliar changing world. ? 3、Modernism现代主义：is loosely a synonym of anything contemporary. Strictly, especially in literary criticism, which began in the late 19th century and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base. They pay more attention to the psychic time than the chronological one. ? 4、现代主义的标志：T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”, the most significant American poem of the twentieth century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought. ? 5、典型的迷惘一代： F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” 《了不起的盖茨比》? novel Ernest Hemingway “The Sun Also Rises”《太阳照样升起》 “A Farwell to Arms”《告别了，武器》“The old man and the sea” William Faulkner? “The Sound and the Fury” 《喧嚣与骚动》 ? 6、Playwrights戏剧、剧作家：Eugene O’Neill “Long Day’s Journey into night” 《进入黑夜的漫长旅程》, “The Emperor Jones”《琼斯国王》、“Anna Christie”《安娜.克里斯蒂》、“The Hairy Ape”《毛猿》；Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire 《欲望号街车》；Arthur Miller “Death of a Salesman ” 《推销员之死》 7、The Jazz Age(享乐时代)：when New Orleans musicians moved “up the river” to Chicago, and the theatre of New York’s Harlem