美国文学的重点整理.docxVIP

美国文学重点整理 美国文学题型： 60分 三篇小说，三个诗歌，作者，出处，作品分析 20分 名词解释 20分 论述 1. 20世纪美国文学发展的经济背景 关键词： Urbanization（new farm machines, rising productivity, rising leisure time） Industrialization(electric lights, camera, telephone, radio, type writer) Commercialization Globalization. Philosophy: Schopenhauer叔本华 Nietzsche 尼采 Jean Paul Freud 补充：Fitzgerald：tender is the night, all the sad young man, the rich boy, 2. What is Lost Generation? ①It is a term to describe a group of American intellectuals, poets, artists and writers who fled to France in the post WWI years to reject the values of American materialism and to seek the bohemian lifestyle in Paris. ②It is full of youthful idealism, seeking the meaning of life, drank excessively, have love affairs,creating some of the finest American literature to date. ③American poet Gertrude Stein coined this expression, speaking to Hemingway, she said, you are all a lost generation.the term stuck the mystique surrounding these individuals continues to fancy us. ④Main representatives: F. Scott.Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos 3. What is modernism? Main features. A cultural movement that generally includes the progressive art and architecture, design, literature, music, dance,painting and other visual arts which emerged in the beginning of the 20century, particularly in the years following WWI. It was a movement of artists and designers who rebelled against late 19th century academic and historic tradition, and embraced the new economic ,social and political aspects of the emerging modern world. The avant-garde movements that followed including impressionism, post-impressionism, cubism（立体主义）, futurism, expressionism, contructivism（构成主义） are generally defined as modernism . 4. The Great Gatsby 作者：? HYPERLINK /wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald \o F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald 男女主人公： HYPERLINK /wiki/Jay_Gatsby \o Jay Gatsby Jay Gatsby? Daisy Fay Buchanan Why is Gatsby great? Why did he die? His flaws