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教学班：09级8班 行政班：09级3班 姓名：XXX（294010301） XXX（294010302） XXX（294010311） 1930s John Dos Passos John Steinbeck ★ Brief Introduction ★ Main Works ★ Literature Career ★ Award A Brief Introduction Considered one of the Lost Generation writers. John dos Passos(1896-1970) was an American novelist and artist. The younger Dos Passos received a first class education. In 1912 he attended Harvard University Main Works ① One Man’s Initiation《一个人的开始》 ② Manhattan Transfer 《曼哈顿中转站》 ③ Three Soldiers 《三个士兵》 ④ U.S.A 《美利坚 》 U .S .A .三部曲 《北纬四十二度》简介 二十年代成名的美国作家约翰.多斯.帕索斯（1896-1970）的代表作《美国》三部曲以藏而不露的写实风格及大胆的新写作手法，描写了瞬息万变的美国生活，再现了美利坚广阔的生活场景，这是其第一部，全书的十二位男女主人公有一半在本卷中先后登场，作者从每人的童年写起，文笔生动活泼，一直写到第一次世界大战前夕。 另有三种短文穿插在各人的故事之间：“新闻短片”由当时的报纸标题、流行歌曲、官方文件等摘录组成，点出时代背景：“摄影机眼”用意识流手法描写作者当时的心情及活动；“人物特写”为摩根、福特、爱迪生、邓肯、威尔逊总统等风云人物立传。 Literary Career Considered one of the Lost Generation writers, Dos Passos published his first novel in 1920,One Man’s Initiation. It was followed by an antiwar story, Three Soldiers, which brought him considerable recognition. Style focus on America care about lower class sentimentalism experimentalism Dos Passos Prize ① The John Dos Passos Prize is a literary award given annually by the Department of English and Modern Languages at Longwood University. ② The prize seeks to recognize American creative writers who have produced a substantial body of significant publication that displays characteristics of John Dos Passos’s writing: an intense and original exploration of specifically American themes, an experimental approach to form, and an interest in a wide range of human experiences. Life story 1. Born in Salinas, California; 2. Read English and French classical literature; 3. Working at a variety of manual jobs: farmer laborer, seaman, newspaper reporter, bricklayer, surveyor, migratory fruit-picke