Eugene_O’Neill 简介奥尼尔的作品.ppt

Eugene O’Neill(1888-1953)尤金·奥尼尔 I. Life 1. Birthplace: New York City 2. Family: his father, an actor 3. Education: a Catholic boarding school, Betts Academy, Princeton 4. Working Experiences: Prospector, sailor II. Prize Winner O’Neill was no doubt the greatest American dramatist of the first half of the 20th century. Three Pulitzer Prizes(1920, 1922, 1928) and the Noble Prize in 1936 show his achievement and influence at home and abroad. III. Main works Different period WORKS FEATURES Early naturalistic vein Bound East for Cardiff, 1914 Beyond the Horizon ,1920 sea——destiny Theme: death Technique: contrast Middle symbolism and expressionism The Emperor Jones, 1920 The Hairy Ape , 1921 Desire Under the Elms ,1924 The Great God Brown ,1925 Non-liner narration Masks Freudian psychology expressionism Naturalist spirit The Iceman Cometh ,1939 Long Day’s Journey into Night,1940 Symbols Disillusion of American dream The mother-son-prostitute relationship IV. Expressionism表现主义 a general term for a mode of literary or visual art which in extreme reaction against realism or naturalism, presents a world violently distorted under the pressure of intense personal moods, ideas, and emotions: image and language thus express feeling and imagination rather than represent external reality. In literature, a common concern of expressionism is with the eruption of irrational and chaotic forces from beneath the surface of a mechanized modern world. Expressionism Some of its explosive energies issued into Dada, Vorticism, and other avant-garde movements of the 1920s. In the English-speaking world, expressionist dramatic techniques were adopted in some of the plays of Eugene O’Neill and Sean O’Casey, and in the ‘Circe” episode of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses(1922); in poetry, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) may be considered expressionist in its fragmentary rendering of post-war isolation. V. features (1) O’Neil was a tireless experimentalist in dramatic art. He