美国文学 Henry James 人物.ppt

The Bostonians (1886)—the women movement The Princess Casamassima (1886) The Aspern Papers (1888) The Tragic Muse (1890) The Spoils of Poynton (1897) The Turn of a Screw (1898) In the second period, James experimented with different themes and forms in his middle period. The Wings of the Dove(1902) The Ambassadors (1903) The Golden Bowl (1904) The Jolly Corner In his last and major period, James turned to his international themes, the most famous works in the theme of children and adolescence is WHAT MAISIE KNOWS. After that, he successfully created many works. Themes Freedom Responsibility Betrayal Sexuality and difference International Themes The meeting America and Europe, American innocence in contact and contrast with European decadence（衰落）, and its moral and psychological complications（复杂） American innocence in face of European sophistication(复杂，老于世故) Achievements One of the three staunch（坚定的） advocates of 19th century American realism（现实主义）， the other two being Howells and Mark Twain. The founder of psychological realism. At the age of 25, he was recognized as the best short story writer in American. The forerunner（先驱） of stream of consciousness’ novel. James first achieved recognition as a writer of the “ international novel” James wrote 20 novels, 112 stories, 12 plays and a number of works of literary criticism. Steam of consciousness In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode that seeks to portray(描绘) an individual’s point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character’s thought processes, either in connection to his or her actions. The introduction of the term to describe literature--transferred from psychology -- is attribute（归属） to May Sinclair, and is mostly a dead metaphor Steam-of-consciousness writing is usually regarded as a special form of interior(本质) monologue and is characterized by associative leaps(跳跃) in syntax （排列顺序）and punctuation（标点符号） that can