美国文学 Henry James 人物讲解材料.ppt

Henry James 1843-1916;Life;Citizenship: American:1843-1915 British :1915-1916 ;Father-Henry James, Sr. (eminent scholar) ;Brother-William James ; Sister-Alice James;Literal Career; At several points in his career James wrote plays, beginning with one-act plays written for periodicals（期刊） in 1869 and 1871 and a dramatization （编剧） of his popular novella（中篇小说）?Daisy Miller?in 1882. From 1890 to 1892, having received a bequest（遗赠） that freed him from magazine publication, he made a strenuous（奋发的） effort to succeed on the London stage, writing a half-dozen plays of which only one, a dramatization of his novel?The American,?was produced.;Transatlantic Sketches (1875) The American (1877) Daisy Miller (1878) The Europeans (1878） The Portrait of a Lady (1881) Washington Square (1881) A Litter Tour in France (1884) The Art of Fiction ;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); The Wings of the Dove(1902) The Ambassadors (1903) The Golden Bowl (1904) The Jolly Corner ;Themes;International Themes;Achievements;Steam of consciousness; 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 make the prose（散文） difficult to trace （追溯） a character’s fragmentary（断断续续的） thoughts and sensory（传递感觉的） feelings. Stream of consciousness and interior monologue are distinguished from dramatic monologue, where the speaker is addressing an audience or a third person, and is used chiefly in poetry or drama ;In steam of consciousness, the speaker’s thought processes are more often described as overheard（偶尔听到） in the mind (or addressed to oneself) and is primarily a fictional device（图案）. The term was first introduced to the field of literary studies from that of psychology by philosopher and psy