英美文学重点名词解释备课讲稿.doc

英美文学重点名词解释 精品文档 精品文档 收集于网络，如有侵权请联系管理员删除 收集于网络，如有侵权请联系管理员删除 精品文档 收集于网络，如有侵权请联系管理员删除 local colorism is an unique variation of American literary realism. Generally, the works by local colorism are concerned with the life of a small region or province. This kind of fiction depicts the characters from a specific setting or of an era, which are marked by its customs, dialects, landscape, or other peculiarities that have escaped standardizing cultural influence. Tasks of local colorism is to wirte or present local characters of their regions in truthful depicton distinguished from others, usually a very small part of the world. local colorism concerned themselves with presenting and interpreting the local character of their regions. they tended to idealize and glorify, but they never forget to keep an eye on the truthful color of local life. Their truthful depiction of the common people in their commonplace lives added strength to the fight for realism. Mark Twains the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the most representive one uncertainty: 1. distorted time2.the characters uncertainty about Godots coming3.changeable about everything4.uncertainty of Godot5.uncertainty of other characters6.uncertainty about the plays theme the only certain thing-----waiting 1. the Lost Generaion ?? The term of lost generation was first used by Gertrude Stern(1874--1946), one of the leaders of this group. It include the young English and American expatriates as well as men and women caught in the First World War and cut off from the old values and yet unable to come to terms with the new era when civilization had gone mad. It means this generation had lost the beautiful sense of the calm idylic past. Steins comment suggests the ambiguous and pointless lives of expatriates as they aimlessly wandered about the continent, drinking, making love, and traveling from place to place and from party to party. These activities seem to justify their search for new meaings to replace the ol