《美国文学》课件二十概要1.pptVIP

Reviewing Local Colorism and Mark Twain ______ defines local colorism as having such quality of texture and background that it could not have been written in any other place or by anyone else than a native. The appearance of Bret Hartes ______ in 1868 marked a significant development in the brief history of local color fiction. ______ are the major local colorists of that time. Reviewing Local Colorism and Mark Twain What is Mark Twains contribution to the American literature? Say something about the themes and views in Mark Twains works. Naturalism and American naturalistic literature Naturalism is a more deliberate kind of realism in novels, short stories and plays. Naturalistic writers give a more accurate description of life than realism; They report truthfully and objectively, with a passion for scientific accuracy and an overwhelming accumulation of factual details. Theodore Dreiser and Sister Carrie Dreiser is a prolific writer and many of his works are familiar to us Chinese readers. Among them, Sister Carrier (1900) is the best-known, tracing the material rise of Carrier Meeber and the tragic decline of Hurstwood. Theodore Dreiser and Sister Carrie With the publication of Sister Carrier, Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school known as literary naturalism. From the first novel Sister Carrier on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to be ——materialistic to the core. Literary Naturalism As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances. At bottom, life was shown to be ironic, even tragic. Literary Naturalism In naturalistic works, man is “a victim of forces over which he has no control.” To him, life is “so sad, so strange, so mysterious and so inexpl