西北师范大学美国文学通史课件 Chapter 14 Colonial Period.ppt

Chapter 14 Fitzgerald and Hemingway I. Modern fiction before 1945 A. Background B. Lost generation Lost generation refers to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following WWI, who rebelled against former ideals and values but could replace them only by despair or a cynical hedonism. The remark of Gertrude Stein, You are all a lost generation. Addressed to Hemingway, was used as a preface to the latters novel The Sun Also Rises, which brilliantly describes an expatriate group typical of the lost generation. Other expatriate American authors of the period to whom the term is generally applied included E. E. Cummings, Fitzgerald, and Ezra Pound and so on. I. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) 1. Literary Status Prince of the Jazz Age Representative of the Lost Generation of the Twenties an American writer of novels and short stories in the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. widely regarded as one of the twentieth centurys greatest. He finished four novels, including The Great Gatsby and dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age. 2. His Life And Career (pp.218-222) Born in 1896 into a St. Paul middle class family Princeton University – Friends with Edmund Wilson – editor – his meeting Zelda Sayre I. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) 3. His major works Novels This Side of Paradise 1920 The Beautiful and Damned (New York: Scribner, 1922) The Great Gatsby (New York: Scribner, 1925) Tender Is the Night (New York: Scribner, 1934) The Last Tycoon (New York: Scribners, 1942) Short Story Collections Flappers and Philosophers (1920) Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) All the Sad Young Men (1926) Taps at Reveille (1935) Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (1960) The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1989) I. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) 4. His masterpiece: The Great Gatsby (pp.222-225) A. content: (para.2, p.222) He found in his personal experience the embodiment of that of the nati