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美国文学之了不起的盖茨比中英文PPT
These were the ten years when the First World War was just over, when new inventions and manufacturing techniques greatly changed the way people lived; when people moved from the countryside in great numbers; when women won the right to vote and many started to earn their own money.
Special experience: familiar with life style, mental state and moral standards of the rich
Critical of the rich and showing the disintegrating effects of wealth on the emotional make-up
Becoming “the angel of twenties” ; The Beautiful and the Damned published in 1922
Going to France in 1924; spokesman of “The Lost Generation”; producing The Great Gatsby in 1925; Tender Is the Night and stories
生前完成的最后一部长篇，描写 一个出身寒微但才华出众的青年 对梦幻般理想的追求以及最终遭 到失败、变得颓废消沉的故事。
小说背景是作者熟悉的欧洲大陆， 时间为1917－1930，但小说展现 的仍是美国“爵士乐时代”的社 会场景。
Special experience: familiar with life style, mental state and moral standards of the rich
Critical of the rich and showing the disintegrating effects of wealth on the emotional make-up
Becoming “the angel of twenties” ; The Beautiful and the Damned published in 1922
Going to France in 1924; spokesman of “The Lost Generation”; producing The Great Gatsby in 1925; Tender Is the Night and stories
生前完成的最后一部长篇，描写 一个出身寒微但才华出众的青年 对梦幻般理想的追求以及最终遭 到失败、变得颓废消沉的故事。
小说背景是作者熟悉的欧洲大陆， 时间为1917－1930，但小说展现 的仍是美国“爵士乐时代”的社 会场景。
《文学美国文学》PPT课件
因为人类的祖先亚当和夏娃是有罪的),
total depravity(人类是完全堕落的，所以
人要处处小心自己的行为，要尽可能做到
最好以取悦上帝), limited atonement (有
限救赎，只有被上帝选中的人才能得到上
帝的拯救)
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American Puritanism
Features of American Puritan
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2. Early American Puritan Writers
• John Smith, one of the founders of the colony of Jamestown: His descriptions about the new world became the source of information for the later settlers.
Exercise
Colonial period and Revolutionary period Early Romanticism Transcendentalism Late Romanticism
The age of Realism
Irving Franklin Cooper Emerson Hawthorne Twain James Dreiser Melville Thoreau
himself to writing Amh erican subject
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2. Evaluation. (Benjamin Franklin1706 – 1790)
1) He was a rare genius in human history. Everything seems to meet in this one man, mind and will, talent and art, strength and ease, wit and grace, and he became almost everything: a printer, postmaster, citizen, almanac maker, essayist, scientist, inventor, statesman, philosopher, political economist and ambassador.
美国文学第二章浪漫主义PPT课件
1) He works aimed to entertain and amuse not to moralize
2) Vivid and true characters 3) Finished and musical language 4) Strong sense of humor 5) Never shocking but a bit sentimental at
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>> Irving’s Writing style:
Vivid, memorable characters,
Detailed, insightful description of American scenery, traditions and cultures,
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To sum up:
As a logical result of the foreign and native factors at work, American romanticism was both imitative and independent. However, it was in essence the expression of “ a real new experience” and contained “an alien quality” for the simple reason that “ the spirit of the place” was radically new and alien.
>>At mid-century a cultural reawakening brought a “flowering of New England”.
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2) Vivid and true characters 3) Finished and musical language 4) Strong sense of humor 5) Never shocking but a bit sentimental at
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>> Irving’s Writing style:
Vivid, memorable characters,
Detailed, insightful description of American scenery, traditions and cultures,
NEW
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To sum up:
As a logical result of the foreign and native factors at work, American romanticism was both imitative and independent. However, it was in essence the expression of “ a real new experience” and contained “an alien quality” for the simple reason that “ the spirit of the place” was radically new and alien.
>>At mid-century a cultural reawakening brought a “flowering of New England”.
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《美国文学》课件.ppt
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• When he woke up, he noticed that his joints were stiff and that his beard had grown a foot long. Returning to his village, he found it changed almost beyond recognition.
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3) What does “this legendary superstition” refer to? (Para. 2) 4) What is “the general purport of this legendary superstition”? (Para. 3—Para. 4)
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5) Is the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” the story of the Headless Horseman? If not, what does the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” deal with?
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Literary Terms: 1.Protagonist: The leading character in a play or story, originally the leader of the CHORUS in the AGON (“contest”) of Greek drama, faced with the ANTAGONIST, the opposition.
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6) How many major characters are mentioned in the “legend”? Who are they? And what’s the relationship between them? Who is the protagonist? And who is the antagonist?
• When he woke up, he noticed that his joints were stiff and that his beard had grown a foot long. Returning to his village, he found it changed almost beyond recognition.
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3) What does “this legendary superstition” refer to? (Para. 2) 4) What is “the general purport of this legendary superstition”? (Para. 3—Para. 4)
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5) Is the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” the story of the Headless Horseman? If not, what does the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” deal with?
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Literary Terms: 1.Protagonist: The leading character in a play or story, originally the leader of the CHORUS in the AGON (“contest”) of Greek drama, faced with the ANTAGONIST, the opposition.
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6) How many major characters are mentioned in the “legend”? Who are they? And what’s the relationship between them? Who is the protagonist? And who is the antagonist?
20世纪文学课件 Fowles_Collector
John Fowles
(1926-2005)
The United Kingdom
Birthplace
•Leigh-on-Sea, Essex England
Leigh-on-Sea
Education
• Bedford School • New College, Oxford
Other Jobs
• A teacher
• A full time writer
Holywell Street, New College, Oxford
Gate leading to the gardens of New College, Oxford
The old quad of New College, Oxford
Do you know? • In Lyme Regis home, he made a writing center.
Structure
★ The Collector presents the same story from two different viewpoints. ★ This book divided into four parts
The Collector (1965 film)
Structure (1)
journals and indeed, he finds the journals and responds to their contents.
Structure(2)
• The second Part: Miranda’s diary blending with letters ★Her narrative in the form of personal journal entries running from 14 October to 7 to December is highly reactive in nature, as indeed journals tend to be. ★ Miranda’s narrative lacks clear overall structure; that is to say, she has no large-scale plan. Such a narrative strategy fits Miranda’s situation, since a captive cannot see the larger design.
(1926-2005)
The United Kingdom
Birthplace
•Leigh-on-Sea, Essex England
Leigh-on-Sea
Education
• Bedford School • New College, Oxford
Other Jobs
• A teacher
• A full time writer
Holywell Street, New College, Oxford
Gate leading to the gardens of New College, Oxford
The old quad of New College, Oxford
Do you know? • In Lyme Regis home, he made a writing center.
Structure
★ The Collector presents the same story from two different viewpoints. ★ This book divided into four parts
The Collector (1965 film)
Structure (1)
journals and indeed, he finds the journals and responds to their contents.
Structure(2)
• The second Part: Miranda’s diary blending with letters ★Her narrative in the form of personal journal entries running from 14 October to 7 to December is highly reactive in nature, as indeed journals tend to be. ★ Miranda’s narrative lacks clear overall structure; that is to say, she has no large-scale plan. Such a narrative strategy fits Miranda’s situation, since a captive cannot see the larger design.
Part7.The1920s20世纪20年代的美国文学
Part 7. The 1920s 20世纪20年代的美国文学Imagism意象主义：Ezra Pound 艾兹拉·庞德(1885-1972)：The Spirit of Romance罗曼司精神；The Anthology DesImagistes意像派诗选；Cathay华夏——英译中国诗；Literary Essays文学论；A Few Don’ts by Imagist意象派戒条；Personage面具；Polite Essays文雅集；The Cantos of Ezra Pound庞德诗章——109首及8首未完成稿Thomas Stearns Eliot 托马斯·艾略特(1888-1965)：Prufrock and Other Observations普罗夫洛克；The Waste Land荒原：TheBurial of the Dead死者的葬礼；A Game of Chess弈棋；The Fire Sermon 火诫；Death byWater水边之死；What the Thunder Said雷电之言；名诗：Ash Wednesday圣灰星期三；Four Quarters四个四重奏；诗剧：Murder in the Cathedral大教堂谋杀案；Family Reunion大团圆；Cocktail Party鸡尾酒会Wallace Stevens 华莱士·史蒂文斯(1879-1955)：Harmonium风琴；The Man With the Blue Guitar弹蓝吉他的人；Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction关于最高虚构的札记：Peter Quince at the Clavier彼得·昆斯弹风琴；Sunday Morning礼拜天早晨；The Auroras of Autumn秋天的晨曦；Collected Poems诗集William Carlos Williams 威廉·卡罗斯·威廉斯(1883-1963)：Spring andAll春；The Journey of Love爱的历程；Pictures from Brueghel布留盖尔的肖像；Paterson佩特森——5卷长诗；Asphodal, That Green Flower常青花日光兰——长诗；Red Wheelbarrow红色手推车；The Widow’s Lament in Spring寡妇的春怨；The Sparrow, to My Father麻雀——致父亲；Proletarian Portrait无产阶级画像Robert Frest 罗伯特·弗罗斯特(1874-1963)：A Boy’s Wish少年心愿；North of Boston波士顿之北：Mending Wall修墙；After Apple-picking摘苹果之后；Mountain Interval山间；The Road Not taken没有选择的道路；West-running Brook西流的溪涧；A Further Range又一片牧场；A Witness Tree一株作证的树Carl Sandburg 卡尔·桑德堡(1878-1967)：Always the Young Stranger永远是陌生的年轻人；In Reckless Ecstasy肆无忌惮的狂热；The Prairie Years草原的年代；The War Years战争的年代——林肯传记；The American Songbag美国歌袋；The People,Yes人民，好；Honey and Salt蜜与盐；Corn-huskers辗米机；Smoke and Steel烟与钢E Cumings 肯明斯(1894-1962)：Tulips anddd Chimneys郁金香与烟囱；The Enormous Room大房间；XLI Poems诗41首；Viva万岁；No, Thanks不，谢谢；Collected Poems诗集；Eimi爱米——访苏游记The Lost Generation迷惘的一代：F Scott Fitzgerald 弗朗西斯·菲茨杰拉德(1896-1940)：The Side of Paradise人间天堂；The Beautiful and the Damned美丽的和倒霉；The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比；Tender in the Night夜色温柔；The Last Tycoon最后的巨头；短篇小说：Flappers and Philosophers姑娘们和哲学家们；Tales of the Jazz爵士时代的故事；Taps at Reveille早晨的起床号；The Ice Palace冰宫；May Days五一节；The Diamond as Big as the Ritz像里茨饭店那样大的钻石；Winter Dreams冬天的梦；The Rich Boy富家子弟；Babylon Revisted重访巴比伦；The Crack-up崩溃——自传体文集“迷惘的一代”代表人物：Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威(1899-1961) ：In Our Time在我们的年代里；The Torrents of Spring春潮；The Sun Also Rises太阳照样升起；Farewell to Arms永别了，武器；For Whom the Bell Tolls丧钟为谁而鸣；短篇小说：Men Without Women没有女人的男人；The Winners Take Notheing胜者无所获；The Fifth Column and First Forty-nine Stories第五纵队与首次发表的四十九个短篇；政论：To Have and Have Not贫与富回忆录：A Moveable Feast到处逍遥William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳(1897-1962)：The Marble Faun云石林神——诗集；Soldiers'Pay兵饷——小说；Absalom, Absolam押沙龙，押沙龙——家世小说；短篇小说：Dry September干燥的九月；The Sound and the Fury愤怒与喧嚣；As I lay dying当我垂死的时候；Light in August八月之光Sherwood Anderson 舍伍德·安德森(1876-1941)：Windy McPherson’s Son饶舌的麦克斐逊的儿子；Marching Men前进中的人们；Mid-American Chants美国中部之歌；Winesburg,Ohio/The Book of the Grotesque俄亥俄州的温斯堡/畸人志；Poor White穷苦的白人；Many Marriages多种婚姻；Dark Laughter阴沉的笑声The Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories鸡蛋的胜利和其他故事；Death in the Woods and Other Stories林中之死及其他故事；I Want to Know Why我想知道为什么美国第一个获诺贝尔奖获得者：Sinclair Lewis 辛克莱·刘易斯(1885-1951)：Dur Mr Wrenn我们的雷恩先生；The Job求职；The Main Street大街；Babbitt巴比特；Arrowsmith艾罗史密斯；Elmer Gantry艾尔默·甘特里；Dodsworth多兹沃斯；It can’t Happen Here事情不会发生在这里；Kingsblood Royal王孙梦Villa Sibert Cather 维拉·凯塞(1873-1947)：O, Pioneers啊，先驱们；My Antonia我的安东尼亚；The Professor’s House教授之家；Death Comes for the Archibishop大主教之死Thomas Wolfe 托马斯·沃尔夫(1900-1938)：Look Homeward, Angel天使，望故乡；Of Time and the River时间与河流；The Web and the Rock蛛网与岩石；You Can’t Go Home Again有家归不得；The Hills Beyond远山——未完成；短篇小说：From Death to Morning从死亡到早晨。
美国文学ppt课件
histories, travel accounts, diaries,
biographies, letters, autobiographies, sermons,
and poems.
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Major writers:
Captain John Smith （约翰·史密斯）
? the first American
? The “newness” of Americans as a nation is in connection with American Romanticism.
? As a logical result of the foreign and native factors at work, American romanticism was both imitative and independent
Politics dominated the revolutionary phase of American writing.
The crisis in American life carried by the Revolution made
artists self-conscious about American subjects.
?“Poet of the American
Revolution”
?“Father of American
Poetry”
?“Pioneer of the New
Romanticism”
?“A gifted and versatile lyric
Wor
poet”
? “The Rising Glory of America” (1772)
美国文学Sister Carrie英文(课堂PPT)
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Carrie(a country girl)
Charles H. Drouet(traveling salesman)
live together; mistress(情妇)
George W. Hurstwood (resort manager)
mistress; Eloping（私奔）
famous actress 3
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Criticize
it mainly analyzes the character to depict a real American social life in the late 1890’s, especially those of poor people’s lives from struggling, fighting to failing for their socalled “American Dreams”. At last, the article points out the most important resource resulting in the tragedies: the American social system.
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Chas.H.Drouet:
a buoyant traveling salesman ;
good clothes; daring;
kindly familiarity
Caroline Meeber: bright; timid;
full of the illusions ; ignorance; youth
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Words Characteristic
❖ using lots of words to discribe the environment and human inside that to form the characters.
Carrie(a country girl)
Charles H. Drouet(traveling salesman)
live together; mistress(情妇)
George W. Hurstwood (resort manager)
mistress; Eloping（私奔）
famous actress 3
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Criticize
it mainly analyzes the character to depict a real American social life in the late 1890’s, especially those of poor people’s lives from struggling, fighting to failing for their socalled “American Dreams”. At last, the article points out the most important resource resulting in the tragedies: the American social system.
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Chas.H.Drouet:
a buoyant traveling salesman ;
good clothes; daring;
kindly familiarity
Caroline Meeber: bright; timid;
full of the illusions ; ignorance; youth
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Words Characteristic
❖ using lots of words to discribe the environment and human inside that to form the characters.
th Century American Literature20世纪美国文学.ppt
20s, Jazz Age
Economically, because of the war, American industry developed fast. The nation is full of bouncing ebullience, fearful of nothing, confident smug isolationism.
Lost Generation
refers to those writers who were devoid of faith, values and ideals and who were alienated from the civilization the capitalist society advocated. It includes the writers such as (Hemingway, F.S. Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, and Louis Bromfield) and poets (like Malcolm Cowley, E. E. Cummings, Archibald Macleish, and Ezra Pound), who rebelled against former values and ideas, but replaced them only by despair or a cynical hedonism. They were totally frustrated by the WWI and returned from that “Great War” to their own country only to find the grim reality that the social values and civilization were hollow and affected if compared to the cruel realities of the battleground. They felt alienated from American civilization, which was conveyed in their
美国文学课件1The Literature of the Colonial Period
in 1492 Controversial reputation
“The New World” in 1503
The “fourth part” of the world on his 1507 world map
Amerigo Vespucci
Martin Waldseemuller
The diverse discoveries of America: • Cultural pluralism in the US • The American spirit: discovery
1. Colonial and Revolutionary Period (early 17th century—end of 18th century)
2. American Romanticism (first half of 19th century) 3. The Age of Realism (after the civil war—end of 19th
2. American Puritanism The story of the Puritans The first landing of the Pilgrims, 1620
In 1620, a tiny ship called the “May flower” sailed from England for the New world, with 102 passengers. 50% were Pilgrims. Landed in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts on the fourth Thur. in Nov. (Thanksgiving Day)
Requirements
“The New World” in 1503
The “fourth part” of the world on his 1507 world map
Amerigo Vespucci
Martin Waldseemuller
The diverse discoveries of America: • Cultural pluralism in the US • The American spirit: discovery
1. Colonial and Revolutionary Period (early 17th century—end of 18th century)
2. American Romanticism (first half of 19th century) 3. The Age of Realism (after the civil war—end of 19th
2. American Puritanism The story of the Puritans The first landing of the Pilgrims, 1620
In 1620, a tiny ship called the “May flower” sailed from England for the New world, with 102 passengers. 50% were Pilgrims. Landed in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts on the fourth Thur. in Nov. (Thanksgiving Day)
Requirements
美国文学Sister Carrie英文PPT
❖ the Naturalism of Theodore Dreiser
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Criticize
it mainly analyzes the character to depict a real American social life in the late 1890’s, especially those of poor people’s lives from struggling, fighting to failing for their socalled “American Dreams”. At last, the article points out the most important resource resulting in the tragedies: the American social system.
beauty and unspoiled manner. They
exchange contact information and both off
the train.
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Characters
❖ Caroline Meeber: bright; timid; full of the illusions ; ignorance; youth (P139)
husband Sven Hanson, have agreed to take
her in. On the train, Carrie meets Charles
Drouet(P146), a traveling salesman, who is
attracted to her because of her simple
A
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Plot Summary
A
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Criticize
it mainly analyzes the character to depict a real American social life in the late 1890’s, especially those of poor people’s lives from struggling, fighting to failing for their socalled “American Dreams”. At last, the article points out the most important resource resulting in the tragedies: the American social system.
beauty and unspoiled manner. They
exchange contact information and both off
the train.
A
4
Characters
❖ Caroline Meeber: bright; timid; full of the illusions ; ignorance; youth (P139)
husband Sven Hanson, have agreed to take
her in. On the train, Carrie meets Charles
Drouet(P146), a traveling salesman, who is
attracted to her because of her simple
A
3
Plot Summary
20世纪美国小说ppt课件
—Ralph Ellison
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Addie Bundren has died and her
family is carting her coffin to Jefferson
to be buried with her people. The
macabre funeral journey faces natural
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About the Title: The Naked and the Dead
“Those who had fought such a war were either stripped naked, having lost all hope, or dead, having lost even life itself.” the waste of war and madness of war mentality
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A Good Man is Hard To Find (short story collection) - 1955
O'Connor once referred to the collection as 'nine stories about original sin'. Combining a deft comic sensibility with the grotesque and tragic, they are stories in which characters lead lives of brutal poverty and fierce cruelty; where ordinary events can tip over into misfortune, violence and despair.
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Addie Bundren has died and her
family is carting her coffin to Jefferson
to be buried with her people. The
macabre funeral journey faces natural
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About the Title: The Naked and the Dead
“Those who had fought such a war were either stripped naked, having lost all hope, or dead, having lost even life itself.” the waste of war and madness of war mentality
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A Good Man is Hard To Find (short story collection) - 1955
O'Connor once referred to the collection as 'nine stories about original sin'. Combining a deft comic sensibility with the grotesque and tragic, they are stories in which characters lead lives of brutal poverty and fierce cruelty; where ordinary events can tip over into misfortune, violence and despair.
20世纪美国文学英文版.ppt
Elizabethan Essays The Use of Poetry and The Use of
Criticisms After Strange Gods
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
It depicts a timid middle-aged man going to propose marriage to a lady but hesitating all the way there. It takes the form of soliloquy, like interior monologue like that of Browning’s.
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IV. Principles
1. Direct treatment of the “thing”, whether subjective or objective;
2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation;
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艾略特的诗歌创作以《荒原》和伴以英国天主教为标志可以分为早、中、 晚三个时期。
早期：主要包括《普鲁弗洛克及其他》和The Poems（1920）《诗集》 两个本子。
中期：The Waste《荒原》
The Hollow Man《空心人》
后期：Gerontion《小老头》、 Ashy Wednesday 《圣灰星期三》
它是诗人登峰造极之作，在诗中诗人对诗歌 语言进行了严肃的思考，思考的结果从该 诗本身的语言特色就可以看出来：普通正 规而又十分精确。此时艾略特担心语言会 因使用不当而退化，进而影响到我们思想 情感的品质。它最初是四首独立的诗： Burnt Norton, 1935 《烧毁的诺顿》、 East Coker, 1940 《东库克》、The Dry Salvages, 1941 《干燥的塞尔维吉斯》 Little Gidding, 1943 《小吉丁》
20世纪美国文学
An Analysis of the American Dream in The Great GatsbyAbstractThis thesis based on an analysis of the break of Gatsby’s American Dream in the novel The Great Gatsby which was written by Fitzgerald. From the analysis, we can have a view about the relationship between love and money of the characters in the novel—love is closely connected with money. And then according to the status quo in reality, it draws a conclusion that there is a close relationship between love and money in reality. In sum, it is an analysis of the relationship between love and money in reality according to the break of Gatsby’s American Dream.Key Words The American Dream love money disillusionmentIntroductionThe Great Gatsby is a love story written by F. Fitzgerald about the life which the youth lead at that time, and it mainly describes Gatsby’s quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan, which is the symbol of his American Dream. In the novel, the character Gatsby is overwhelmed by only one thing that he does not possess, that is to be loved. Gatsby’s love for Daisy is real and strong, and he can do everything to win Daisy.In different social and historical backgrounds, the concepts of American Dream are different, and for different people, they have different understandings of American Dream and the ways to pursue their American Dream are also various. As for Gatsby, the symbol of his final American Dream is to win the love of Daisy. However, owing to the fact that Gatsby is subject to their different social status and life styles, his American Dream is doomed to be a failure.Chapter One American Dream in Different Social Backgrounds The American Dream arose in the colonial period and developed in the nineteenth century, based on the assumption of each person, no matter what his origin was, could succeed in changing their social positions and making their dreams come true through their own efforts, and getting new, free and better life. This is what often called “American dream”. 1（Zhao Hongwei,2003,6:2）American dream is a popular belief that hard work will bring forth America's bounty in the form of material well-being, a counter culture that rejects traditional thinking while promoting their own causes, information explosion, reverse discrimination----in the workplace because so manyemployers are hiring women and minorities.In different historical backgrounds, the meanings of American Dream are also different from each other. In Colonial period, American Dream was the crying for wealth; and in the later 18th century, people’s American Dream was to fight for democracy.In order to show off the wealth, many people in upper class also held big parties in weekends. They were looking forward to having more money and then lived a better life, which was much more extravagant. In such a special period, there was a fact that the person who had more money and lived a more extravagant life would be respected much more and have more friends. Whatever their American Dream was, the only way and first thing they should do was to earn enough money. At that time, almost every one of the youth had an American Dream for themselves. Everyone had a different idea for his or her American Dream; everyone’s American Dream may be totally different from each other; that is what makes them all individuals. The dream may differ in that some people wanted to work hard and had financial success, or others might just want to have enough food and income to survive, and made their life simple, healthy and happy. 2However, there was a common truth that everyone who lived in that period actually had an American Dream and eager to achieve it and everyone has an American Dream which is to have a good opportunity to realize personal dream.Chapter Two Gatsby’s Pursuit of American Dream From the novel The Great Gatsby, there is a knowledge that Gatsby’s American Dream is to win daisy’s love, and everything he spares no effort to do is to regain the love of Daisy.2. 1 Gatsby’s America n DreamAs for the great Gatsby, his American Dream is to have much money and then win Daisy, who is the wife of Tom. Gatsby thinks that only if he has much money, at least has more money than Tom, should he win Daisy’s love. So it is reasonable for him to pursue material wealth in order to win the love of Daisy. Through his great effort, he gets much money authentically although it is from illegal business.Gatsby’s success in fortune is great; his strong will of love and achieving life goal is also great. However, the falling of his American Dream, that Daisy goes together with her husband to another city happily while Gatsby is murdered mistakenly, improves that all his great characterizes means nothing. In other words, Gatsby’s final American Dream, which is to win Daisy, is totally a failure.3From the above analysis of Gatsby’s American Dream, there is a conclusion that whatever it is broken or not, Gatsby’s American Dream is to get as much money as he can even through every illegal means, and then he can have the economical strength to achieve his final goal——win the love of Daisy.2.2 Gatsby’s Efforts in Achieving his American DreamGatsby has an ambition to win wealth and position depending on his intelligence and diligence. During the time of serving in the army, Gatsby is in love with Daisy who is in a big and rich family. But the relationship between them are not possible, because he doesn’t have enough money to afford Daisy a luxuriant life. Gatsby believes that it is money which makes her leave him, so he determines to be rich. After several years’ self-imposed hardships, Gatsby become wealthy and successful by illegal operations, and his faithful belief in ideal love which is the symbol his American Dream.For such an American Dream, Gatsby spares no effort in achieving it. He tries his best to make Daisy believe in his love for her and gives Daisy everything he can. But the story comes to an end with Gatsby’s death. Gatsby has done a great effort for his love, but all his efforts turn out to be a failure.Chapter Three Disillusionment of Gatsby’s American Dream Different social statuses have different styles of life. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes and contrasts the difference between East and West Egg, shows the separation of the upper class and the lower class, and it provides some insight with the use of symbolism of color.Gatsby’s spends his whole life in attaining money and status so that he can reach a certain position in life and then he can win Daisy back. That is what motivates him to move to West Egg, and makes money by any means necessary, holds extravagant parties in every weekend, does everything what Daisy requires him to do and so on. There is a position in life that he yearns for and will do all that it takes to achieve it, and the final goal for his American Dream is to get Daisy’s love. Daisy and Tom on the other hand show how people can use their position to look down on others and live their life carelessly. By comparison, Gatsby and Daisy belong to different kinds of people, they have different backgrounds and life styles. It is doomed to be a failure if Gatsby wants to be in love with Daisy, and live with her forever.ConclusionThis thesis chooses the novel The Great Gatsby as the main material. It aims at analyzing the relationship between love and money in reality according to the break of Gatsby’s American Dream. The author compares the American Dream in different social and historical backgrounds, we have a general knowledge of American Dream in the special period that Gatsby lives. Thus comes to the conclusion that love in reality is closely connected with money through the analysis of Gatsby’s American Dream and the reason it breaks.In the novel, if Gatsby doesn’t lie to Daisy that he is rich enough to afford her a better life, Daisy would not have been in love with him, either. Through illegal trade of alcohol, Gatsby becomes a millionaire and he can give Daisy an extravagant life easily. And Daisy falls in love with him again. However, t he time Gatsby is murdered mistakenly, and all his wealth doesn’t mean anything to Daisy ever after, Daisy, with her husband, goes traveling happily. It means that Gatsby’s American Dream is broken. There is nothing left to him, and he doesn’t win Daisy’s love till the end of his life. Therefore, based on the analysis above we can reach at a conclusion that love and money in reality has a close relationship.Notes1.Zhao Hongwei. Disillusionment of Gatsby’s” American Dream” From the Perspective ofSociety--Analysis of “The Great Gatsby”. [J] Journal of Harbin University, 2003, 6: 2,9.2.邓年刚,谭素钦.再论美国梦[J].湖北民族学院学报,1997,1:1-3.3.杨慧群.菲兹杰拉德的小说了不起的盖茨比浅析[J].江苏广播电视大学学报,2002,5:3-5.BibliographyFitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. [M]. Jiangsu YiLing Press, 1998,Zheng Chenggong. The Beginning and Collapse of “American Dream”--On Fitsgerald’s the Great Gatsby. Journal of Tangshan Teachers College, 2002, 3:5-6.Zhao Hongwei. Disillusionment of Gatsby’s” American Dream” From the Perspective of Society--Analysis of "The Great Gatsby". Journal of Harbin University, 2003, 6: 2,9. 邓年刚,谭素钦.再论美国梦[J].湖北民族学院学报,1997,1:1-3.杨慧群.菲兹杰拉德的小说了不起的盖茨比浅析[J].江苏广播电视大学学报,2002,5:3-5.。
20世纪文学课件 Dylan Thomas
Stanza 2- the focus changes from relationship between
man and the biological world to man and the geological world. L6 “the force”-the same with the first stanza that give birth to the mountain stream. L7 “blood”- is pushed through man’s veins; “the mouthing stream”-stream’s mouth is the place where it enters another body of water L8 “mine”-refers to the speaker’s blood L9 “dumb”-the speaker was unable to communicate with the rose L10 “mouth”-takes on an almost “vampirish quality”
Villanelle and Oxymoron
Villanelle: One of the French verse forms, in 5 tercets (3- lines), all rhyming aba, and a quatrain (4lines), rhyming abaa. The entire first and third lines are repeated alternately as the final lines of tercets 2, 3, 4, and 5, and together to conclude the quatrain. Examples include E.A. Robinson’s “The House on the Hill,” William Empson’s “Missing Dates,” Theodore Roethke’s “The Waking,” and Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.” Oxymoron: oxy: “sharp,” plus moron. One of the great ironic figures of speech—for example, “Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears”.
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1. 1908~1909: London, Hulme 2. 1912~1914: England -> America, Pound 3. 1914~1917: Amy Lowell
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III. What is an “image”?
An image is defined by Pound as that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time, “a vortex or cluster of fused ideas” “endowed with energy”. The exact word must bring the effect of the object before the reader as it had presented itself to the poet’s mind at the time of writing.
4. It is this movement that helped to open the first pages of modern English and American poetry.
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VI. Ezra Pound
1. life 2. literary career 3. works (1) Cathay (2) Cantos (3) Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
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II. Background 1. First World War – “a war to end all wars” (1) Economically: became rich from WWI. Economic
boom: new inventions. Highly-consuming society. (2) Spiritually: dislocation, fragmentation. 2. wide-spread contempt for law (looking down upon law) 3. Freud’s theory
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III. Features of the literature Writers: three groups (1) Participants (2) Expatriates (3) Bohemian (unconventional way of life) – on-
lookers
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Two areas: (1) Failure of communication of Americans (2) Failure of the American society
3. As regarding rhythm, to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of a metronome.
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V. Significance
1. It was a rebellion against the traditional poetics which failed to reflect the new life of the new century.
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IV. Principles
1. Direct treatment of the “thing”, whether subjective or objective;
2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation;
American Literature
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Part V Twentieth-Century Literature
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Section 1 The 1920s
I. Introduction The 1920s is a flowering period of American
literature. It is considered “the second renaissance” of American literature. The nicknames for this period: (1) Roaring 20s – comfort (2) Dollar Decade – rich (3) Jazz Age – Jazz music
2. It offered a new way of writing which was valid not only for the Imagist poets but for modern poetry as a whole.
3. The movement was a training school in which many great poets learned their first lessons in the poetic art.
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Imagism
I. Background Imagism was influenced by French symbolism, ancient Chinese poetry and Japanese literature “haiku”
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II. Development: ew
(1) Confident in Pound’s belief that the artist was morally and culturally the arbiter and the “saviour” of the race, he took it upon himself to purify the arts and became the prime mover of a few experimental movements, the aim of which was to dump the old into the dustbin and bring forth something new.
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III. What is an “image”?
An image is defined by Pound as that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time, “a vortex or cluster of fused ideas” “endowed with energy”. The exact word must bring the effect of the object before the reader as it had presented itself to the poet’s mind at the time of writing.
4. It is this movement that helped to open the first pages of modern English and American poetry.
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VI. Ezra Pound
1. life 2. literary career 3. works (1) Cathay (2) Cantos (3) Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
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II. Background 1. First World War – “a war to end all wars” (1) Economically: became rich from WWI. Economic
boom: new inventions. Highly-consuming society. (2) Spiritually: dislocation, fragmentation. 2. wide-spread contempt for law (looking down upon law) 3. Freud’s theory
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III. Features of the literature Writers: three groups (1) Participants (2) Expatriates (3) Bohemian (unconventional way of life) – on-
lookers
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Two areas: (1) Failure of communication of Americans (2) Failure of the American society
3. As regarding rhythm, to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of a metronome.
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V. Significance
1. It was a rebellion against the traditional poetics which failed to reflect the new life of the new century.
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IV. Principles
1. Direct treatment of the “thing”, whether subjective or objective;
2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation;
American Literature
1
Part V Twentieth-Century Literature
2
Section 1 The 1920s
I. Introduction The 1920s is a flowering period of American
literature. It is considered “the second renaissance” of American literature. The nicknames for this period: (1) Roaring 20s – comfort (2) Dollar Decade – rich (3) Jazz Age – Jazz music
2. It offered a new way of writing which was valid not only for the Imagist poets but for modern poetry as a whole.
3. The movement was a training school in which many great poets learned their first lessons in the poetic art.
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Imagism
I. Background Imagism was influenced by French symbolism, ancient Chinese poetry and Japanese literature “haiku”
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II. Development: ew
(1) Confident in Pound’s belief that the artist was morally and culturally the arbiter and the “saviour” of the race, he took it upon himself to purify the arts and became the prime mover of a few experimental movements, the aim of which was to dump the old into the dustbin and bring forth something new.