美国文学课件2.pptxVIP

4.1 Feature 4.2 Representative Figure ; Apply principles of scientific determinism to fiction and drama. Viewing human beings as animals in the natural world responding to environmental forces and internal stresses and drives. ; American values—materialistic human individual is obsessed with a never-ending, yet meaningless search for satisfaction of his desires. Money Sex embracing social Darwinism “the survival of the fittest” ;Carrie—a country girl looking for a better life in Chicago. Drouet took her home as mistress. Hurstwood, Drouet’ s friend, deserted family and forced her to run away with him. Carrie became a famous actress; Hurstwood committed suicide. Dreiser’s naturalistic pursuit expounding the purposelessness of life attacking the conventional moral standards. ;Trilogy (三部曲) of desire The Financer (1912) The Titan (1914) The Stoic (1945) 《欲望三部曲》——《金融家》，《巨人》，《斯多葛》 masterpiece—The American Tragedy (1925) ;The Modern Period (1914-1939);American writers caught in WWI and cut off from the old values; unable to come to terms with the new era. ;The Great Gatsby—a masterpiece in American literature. Gatsby discovers the devastating cost of success in terms of personal fulfillment and love. Gatsby’s life pattern: first, a dream Then, disenchantment (觉醒) Finally, a sense of failure and despair end of the American Dream ;Nobel Prize winner major works A Farewell To Arms (1928)永别了，武器; For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)丧钟为谁而鸣 The Old Man and the Sea (1952)老人与海;Earnest Hemingway (1899—1961);Earnest Hemingway’s works;Representative Figure Ezra Pound (1885-1972)— a link between US and Britain Imagism “image” something that “presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.” The Cantos— he wrote and published until his death. ;The Contemporary Period （1939—）;Richard Wright—Native Son (1940) Ralph Ellison—Invisible Man (1952) James Baldwin—Go Tell It on the Mountain (1954) readers conscious of a