F斯科特菲兹杰拉德.pptVIP

American Literature Mandy Zhang Outline of American Literature I Colonial Period (1607—1765) II Revolutionary Period (1765--1800) III The Age of Romanticism (1800—1865) IV The Age of Realism (1865—1918) V American Modernism (1918—1945) VI Contemporary Literature (1945--) American Modernism (1918—1945) Section One Modernism Section Two Modern Poetry Section Three American Drama Section Four Modern Novels Modern Novels (1) General Background The Age of Jazz: F. Scott Fitzgerald The Lost Generation: Ernest Hemingway Literature of Depression Modern Novels (2) Literature of the South Other Famous Novelists Literary Critics Black Literature General Background A W W I B Great Depression W W I (1) Spirits: letdown, disillusionment; Economy: deceptive affluence, urbanism; Technology: automobile, radio, movie -- revolution; W W I (2) Culture: music -- jazz; Politics: social revolution, radicalism, feminism; Life: being dislocated and fragmented; intolerance in society; W W I Roaring Twenties postwar economic boom and the sense of spiritual disorientation --the Age of Jazz --the Lost Generation Great Depression nightmarish experience of a struggle for survival for millions of people, absolute poverty became a fact of life, widespread panic, sheer despair, New Deal of Theodore Roosevelt, WWII saved it, social involvement Great Depression a dim decade a physical waste land F. Scott Fitzgerald F.斯科特.菲兹杰拉德 (1896—1940) His Life His Works His Point of View His Style His Contribution F. Scott Fitzgerald best known for his novels and short stories which chronicle the excesses of Americas Jazz Age during the 1920s. The dominant influences on F. Scott Fitzgerald were aspiration, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol. His Life (1) Born in 1896 into a St. Paul middle-class family Expensive