西北师范大学美国文学通史课件 Chapter 18 Colonial Period.ppt

Porter · Welty ·McCullers · West · The New Criticism Life Selected Outline of Mexican Popular Arts and Crafts, 1922 Flowering Judas, 1930 《开花的犹大树》 The Jilting of Granny Weatherall《被抛弃的韦瑟尔奶奶》 Noon Wine, 1937 Pale Horse, Pale Rider, 1939 《灰色马，灰色骑士》 The old Order, 1944 The Leaning Tower and Other Stories, 1944 《斜塔》 The Days Before, 1952 A Defence of Circle, 1955 Holiday, 1962 The Ship of Fools, 1962 《愚人船》 Collected Stories, 1965 《小说集》 - National Book Award; Pulizer Prize A Christmas Story, 1967 Collected Essays and Occasional Writings, 1970 The Never-Ending Wrong, 1977 A Brief Analysis of the Author’s Important Work Eudora Welty (1909-2001) Life Selected Works Death of a Traveling Salesman 《旅行推销员之死》,1936 Welty’s first short novel The Robber Bridegroom, 1942 a second collection of stories The Wide Net, 1943 a second novel Delta Wedding《戴尔塔的婚礼》, 1946 a collection of interrelated stories The Golden Appeals, 1949 a short novel, The Ponder Heart, 1954 Welty’s longest novel, Losing Battles, 1970 a novel awarded the Pulitzer Price The Optimist’s Daughter, 1972 Ideas A Brief Analysis of the Author’s Important Work Point view She seems to think that some people are meant to live lives of horror and alienation. These mostly physical and spiritual freaks exist to represent forces that can wreck havoc with human life. What caught her attention were the grotesque, the freakish, and the incongruous of the human condition. The focus of her fiction was lonely and the outcast, the scene of not belonging. Love is important in her fiction, but it brings with it insoluble problems that cause pain or even death. Selected Works The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 《同是天涯沦落人》(1940) The Member of the Wedding 《婚礼成员》(1946) The Ballad of the Sad Café 《伤心咖啡馆之歌》(1946) Clock Without Hands 《无指针的时钟》(1961) In addition, she wrote numerous short stories, a play, and a book of children’s verses. Nathanael West (1903-1940) Theme violence of a brutalizing kind, his narrative are presente