新乡学院外国语学院美国文学课件 第13章.pptVIP

新乡学院外国语学院美国文学课件 第13章.ppt

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John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) * He writes about violence, sex, homosexuality (taboos in drama). Some of his plays rooted in southern social scene. *The characters are often unhappy wanderers; lonely, vulnerable women indulged in memory of the past or illusion of the future. * He was attracted to bizarre(odd) characters and their predicament. He looked deeply into the psychology of the outcasts of society. He viewed life as a game which cannot be won. Almost all his characters are defeated. 三十年代的美国文学 A. Background The great stock market crash of 1929---the Great Depression An abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles Struggling to find a solution to the global depression Presidential Franklin Roosevelt’s “ New Deal” 罗斯福新政: attempted to use government spending to combat large-scale unemployment and severe negative growth. end the depression until the beginning of WW2 Content: Social involvement and concern about the society Technique: the revival of naturalism and realism in addition to the influence of modernism the foremost novelist of the Great Depression --- American novelist, story writer, playwright, and essayist. John Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Born in California, of German-Irish ancestry. His father was a county treasurer. Studied marine biology in Stanford, although he never took his degree. He travelled to New York where he worked as a reporter, but was fired. He then took odd jobs. During World War Two, Steinbeck became a war correspondent. In the 1960s, he made a tour of 40 states of the USA with his poodle, publishing Travels with Charley in search of America (1962) as a result of his journey. In the same year he was awarded the Nobel prize 1929-1934: Cup of Gold (1929) 《金杯》; The Pastures of Heaven(1932) 《天国牧场》; etc. 1935-1939: Tortilla Flat (1935) 《托第拉平地》; Of Mice and Men (1937) 《人鼠之间》; The Grapes of Wrath(1939) 《愤怒的葡萄》, etc. 1940-1968: Pearl (1947) 《珍珠》; East of Eden (1952) 《伊甸园之东》,etc

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