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About Author--Willam FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury
《喧哗与骚动》1929
A Rose for EmilyAchievementsAn American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi
Regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century
Awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature
理查德年鉴Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)The Scarlet Letter 《红字》American novelist
Short story writer
A central figure in the American Renaissance
Greatest Romance writer
Pioneering psychological novelist
Moral novelistHawthorne’s Major WorksTwo collections of short stories: Twice-told Tales 《故事重述》,1837 + Mosses from an Old Manse 《古宅青苔》, 1843
★The Scarlet Letter 《红字》,1850The House of the Seven Gables,《七个尖角阁的房子》,1851
The Blithedale Romance 《福谷传祺》,1852
The Marble Faun 《大理石雕像》, 18606Style – typical romantic writera man of literary craftsmanship，extraordinary inthe use of symbolthe use of ambiguityrevelation of characters’ psychologythe use of supernaturalThe symbol serves as a weapon to attack reality. It can be found everywhere in his writingto keep the reader in the world of uncertainty – multiple point of viewThe Scarlet Letter《红字》Setting (time ): middle of the seventeenth century
Setting (place ). Boston, Massachusetts
Protagonist : Hester(a old English scholar's wife), Dimmesdale(a priest), Chillingworth(Hestor's husband, disguised as a physician), Pearl(daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale)
Edgar Allan PoeA. novelist, poet, critic;B. good at writing Gothic and detective fiction, father of western detective stories;C. father of psychoanalytic criticism;Short stories1 MS. Found in a Bottle (1833) 《瓶中手稿》
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) 《毛格街血案》
4 The Fall of the House of Usher 《厄舍古屋的倒塌》
5 The Cask of Amontillado 《一桶白葡萄酒》
6 Ligeia 《丽姬娅》
7 The Purloined Letter 《窃信案》
乌鸦1844This story contains a nameless narrator, an old man, a neighbor and the police who enter near the end of the story.
The old man: seemingly harmless elder who has a hideous "evil eye" that unnerves the narrator.
Neighbor: person who hears a shriek coming from the house of the narrator and the old man, then reports it to the police.
Three policemen: officers who search the house after a neighbor reports hearing a shriek. Theme 1: A human being has a perverse, wicked side---another self---that can goad him into doing evil things that have no apparent motive.
The narrator admits in the second paragraph of the story that he committed a senseless crime. However, he does not that his evil deed, murder, was not entirely unprovoked; for the old man he killed had a hideous eye that unnerved him. Unable to look upon it any longer, he decided to kill the old man. Theme 2: Fear of discovery can bring about discovery.
At the end of the story, the narrator begins to crack under the pressure of a police investigation, hearing the sound of the murdered man's beating heart, and tells the police where he hid the body. Fear of discovery is the principle under which lie detectors work. Walt Whitman (1818-1892)Father of American Modern Poetry
Poet of the first genuine American epic poem: Leaves of Grass
Most original and inspiring American poet
Body, mind and soul—the new worldIntroduction to Walt Whitman Literary position
◆ man of the people:
the country’s democratic spirit.
◆ Leaves of Grass altered the course of American poetry:
free-verse form;
sexuality;
democratic sensibility;
extreme Romantic assertionSong of MyselfOne of 12 poems of Leaves of Grass
Combination of biography, sermon, and poetic meditation
Title, 1881 version
“It’s all about me, myself and I”.
Fundamentally, it is a song of freedom, democracy, equality and love. It shows the poet’s philosophical and religious thinking of life and cosmic inventory. Also there is marked transcendentalism in the poem. It incarnates the process of mysterious experience of transcendentalist.
In this poem, Whitman sings of nationalism and of the nature of the self in relation to the cosmos and the meaning and purpose of birth and death.
Individualism, nationalism, and internationalism or cosmopolitanism, the three contradicting beliefs are reasonably united
Theme of “Song of Myself” Mark Twain (1835—1910)Humorist & writer
Journalist, social critic and pessimist;
The founder of American critical realism literature;
Real name: Samuel Langhorne ClemensA WriterThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867)
He traveled to the Sandwich Islands.
In 1867, he went on a voyage to Europe and the Middle East.
In 1869, he published The Innocents Abroad 《傻子国外旅行记》
fellowship, moral and literary self-improvement, and charity.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)the first Great American Novel
fathered Modern American literature
The book marks the climax of Twain's literary creativity. It is considered as the best book that Twain ever produced. Hemingway once described the novel the one book from which "all modern American literature comes".Huck runs from his depraved father while at the same time Jim, a slave, escapes from being sold down the river. Huck and Jim meet and raft south on the Mississippi River. The pair got involved with thieves on a wrecked riverboat, witness the murder of a harmless drunkard, encounter feuding planter families, and are dragged into the schemes of two fugitive con-men, the Duke and the Dauphin. The time the boy and the run-away slave spend together has nurtured such love between them that in a moment of crisis Huck renounces his upbringing in the south in order to continue to help Jim escape. PlotTheme 1.Racism and Slavery 2.Freedom4.Intellectual and Moral Education3.Conflict between civilization and“ natural life"5.SuperstitionMain Literary WorksSister Carrie (1900)嘉莉妹妹
Jennie Gerhardt (1911)珍妮姑娘
Trilogy of Desire (欲望三部曲):
The Financier (1912)金融家
The Titan (1914) 巨人
The Stoic (posthumously) 斯多葛
The Genius (1915) 天才
An American Tragedy (1925) 美国的悲剧
Dreiser Looks at Russia 1928
《德莱赛对俄罗斯的观感》
㘚Naturalism & Theodore DreiserPlotsSister Carrie tells the story of two characters: Carrie Meeber, an ordinary girl who rises from a low-paid wage earner to a high-paid actress, and George Hurstwood, a member of the upper middle class who falls from his comfortable lifestyle to a life on the streets. Neither Carrie nor Hurstwood earn their fates through virtue or vice, but rather through random circumstance. Their successes and failures have no moral value; this stance marks Sister Carrie as a departure from the conventional literature of the period.?
ThemesAmerican Dream
Change and Transformation
Choices and Consequences
Wealth and Poverty
Identity
Sex
20th-Century American PoetsImagism(意象派诗歌)Robert Lee Frost (l874-l963)(1) The theme: This is a deceptively simple poem in which the speaker literally stops his horse in the winter twilight to observe the beauty of the forest scene, and then is moved to continue his journey.
Philosophically and symbolically, it stems from the ambiguity of the speaker's choice between safety and the unknown.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eveningchoice is inevitable, but you never know what your choice will mean 内容过长，仅展示头部和尾部部分文字预览，全文请查看图片预览。 Rises 《太阳照常升起》
1927 Men Without Women 《没有女人的男人》
1929 A Farewell to Arms 《永别了，武某某》
1932? Death in the Afternoon 《午后之死》
1933 Winner Take Nothing 《胜者无所得》
1935? Green Hills of Africa 《非洲的青山》
1937 To Have and Have Not 《富有与贫穷》
1940? For Whom the Bell Tolls 《丧钟为谁而鸣》
1950? Across the River and Into the Trees 《过河入林》
1952 The Old Man and the Sea 《老人与海》
His Major WorksHemingway's Style of WritingIceberg principle
code hero
Emphasis on emotion
colloquial style
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