SinclairLewis辛克莱刘易斯.pptxVIP

会计学;Born in the town of Sank Center, Minnesota; Graduated from Yale; Became an editor and a writer; Published Main Street in 1920 and won the Nobel Prize in literature; Published Babbitt in 1922. ;Our Mr. Wrenn (1914) The Trial of the Hawk (1915) Main Street (1920) Babbitt (1922) Arrowsmith (1925) The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928) It Can’t Happen Here (1935) ;Main Street; Photographs of “Main Street”;Illustrations of the photographs;Sinclair Lewis’ Nobel Prize Address; 对美国文学的未来，我充满了希望，也满怀着各种热切的信念。我认为，我们正在从四平八稳、迟钝沉闷的地方主义的束缚中挣脱出来。现在有许多年轻的美国人，正满腔热情，稳健可靠地工作着，以致使我因年迈不能与他们为伍而感到有点淡淡的哀愁。其中有欧内斯特·海明威，一位严格、有拚命工作精神的年轻人，受过严酷经历的熏陶，用高标准严格锻炼自己，是一位真正的艺术家，一直投身于现实生活的浪潮之中；还有托马斯·沃尔夫，是位30岁或者不到30岁的小伙子。他的惟一一部长篇小说《天使，望故乡》，堪与我们文学创作中最优秀的作品相媲美，是一部散发着浓郁生活气息的巨著.; 还有桑顿·怀尔德，处在现实主义时代的他，却缅怀梦想着不朽的浪漫主义往昔的良辰美景，还有约翰·多斯·帕索斯，他憎恶巴比特那四平八稳的标准观，及其他那堂而皇之的所谓革命；还有斯蒂芬·贝尼特，他用自己那对老约翰·布朗的光彩夺目的回忆，给单调乏味的美国文坛恢复了叙事诗的生气，还有迈克尔·戈尔德和威廉·福克纳，前一位揭示了犹太东区文学的新疆界；后一位将南方各州的文学从女人的裙子那儿解脱出来；还有许多其它年轻的诗人和小说家，他们现在大多住在巴黎，大多数对詹姆斯·乔伊斯的传统表现出某种狂热。然而，无论多么狂热，他们都已拒绝装腔作势摆架子，拒绝墨守陈规，拒绝迟钝呆滞的文风。 ; 美国有许多名山大川，有无尽的草原，建造了许多庞大的城市，同时也丢掉许多边远的茅屋村舍，丢掉了亿万财富，也丢掉了许多信念，美国像俄国一样陌生新奇、像中国一样错综复杂，这些年轻的美国作家们，决心给美国带来与美国的伟大浩瀚相称的文学，我很高兴我个人与??们的决心相去还不甚远。我就是怀着这样的喜悦，向他们表示我的敬意的。 ;Main Street (1920);Lewis criticized at times the American way of living, but his basic view was optimistic.; Babbitt -a Miniature of the American Middle Class in the 1920s ;Babbitt;Babbitt;Babbitt;Babbitt (1922);Money erodes every holy thing. Either priests or artists change their roles to serve the businessmen and the real estate brokers. The holy religion is debased, becoming just another marketable commodity. Babbitt has enormous admiration of all mechanical devices which are his symbols of truth, beauty, wisdom, and the substitutes for joy and passion. ;A money-minded materialist ; Babbitt’s worship of Zenith’s landscape shows that his mind is preoccupied with materialistic values. Babbitt’s home is a miniature representation of the American middle-class’ worship of material obje