英语文学赏析 全套课件.pptx

Lecture 1English NovelsIntroduction to the English NovelsThe three principle elements:Character: core of a storyPlot: beginning, rising action, climax and falling actionSetting: social setting and natural setting Main Terms of English NovelsCharacterProtagonistAntagonistClimaxConflictDictionFlashbackHow to Appreciate NovelsWe must grasp…1. The five basic elements:who what where when how why2. Style and rhetorical devices Eg: simile or metaphor or personification Symbolization and indication, the theme3. The way in which the author organize the story, his intention and why he does this4. The readers’ comments on the novel “This is the prose that I have been working for all my life that should read easily and simply and seem short and yet have all the dimensions of the visible world and the world of man’s spirit.” Earnest HemingwayThe Old Man and The SeaThe authorErnest Hemingway:1899–1961, American novelist and short-story writer, one of the great American writers of the 20th century.The Hemingway hero exercised the Hemingway theme (“grace under pressure”): He lived in a dark, hopeless environment and knew that he was ultimately doomed however hard he struggled, but his ”despairing courage” enabled him to behave as a true man and fight for his dignity in adversity.Main works:The Sun Also Rises (1926), he was recognized as the spokesman of the “lost generation” (so called by Gertrude Stein);? A Farewell to Arms (1929); Green Hills of Africa (1935); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940),etc,. Focusing on people living essential, dangerous lives—soldiers, fishermen, athletes, bullfighters—who meet the pain and difficulty of their existence with stoic courage. His celebrated literary style, influenced by Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, is direct, terse, and often monotonous.The Old Man and The SeaPlot OverviewIt is the story of an epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and the greatest catch of his life. For 84 days, Santia