book report：jane austen.ppt

* (湖南师大附中内部资料)高三化学习总复习课件：高三第五次周考试卷分析课0801(课件)(培训课件)班组建设与5S管理培训多媒体计算机系统常用硬件设备教材 Jane Austen English novelist 国商 17班 向骄 200836010176 structure information about Jane works Pride and prejudice life Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature. Austen lived her entire life as part of a small and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English gentry.She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to Austens development as a professional writer. Austens artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about thirty-five years old. During this period, she wrote three major novels and began a fourth.[B] From 1811 until 1815, with the release of both published after her death in 1817, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it. 奥斯汀终身未婚，家道小康。由于居住在乡村小镇，接触到的是中小地主、牧师等人物以及他们恬静、舒适的生活环境，因此她的作品里没有重大的社会矛盾。她以女性特有的细致入微的观察力，真实地描绘了她周围世界的小天地，尤其是绅士淑女间的婚姻和爱情风波。她的作品格调轻松诙谐，富有喜剧性冲突，深受读者欢迎。从18世纪末到19世纪初，庸俗无聊的“感伤小说”和“哥特小说”充斥英国文坛，而奥斯汀的小说破旧立新，一反常规地展现了当时尚未受到资本主义工业革命冲击的英国乡村中产阶级的日常生活和田园风光。她的作品往往通过喜剧性的场面嘲讽人们的愚蠢、自私、势利和盲目自信等可鄙可笑的弱点。奥斯汀的小说出现在19世纪初叶，一扫风行一时的假浪漫主义潮流，继承和发展了英国18世纪优秀的现实主义传统，为19世纪现实主义小说的高潮做了准备。虽然其作品反映的广度和深度有限，但她的作品如“两寸牙雕”，从一个小窗口中窥视到整个社会形态和人情世故，对改变当时小说创作中的庸俗风气起了好的作用，在英国小说的发展史上有承上启下的意义，被誉为地位“可与莎士比亚平起平坐”的作家 Evaluation 她在英国文学中的地位却随时间的过去而日益显得重要，以致竟有批评家认为“作家当中其手法最接近于（莎士比亚）这位大师的，无疑就要数简·奥斯丁了，这位女性堪称是英国之骄傲。她为我们创造出了一大批的人物……”（托·巴·麦考莱语）。另一位将她与莎士比亚相比的是现代美国的批评家艾德蒙·威尔逊。他说：“一百多年来，英国曾发生过几次趣味上的革命。文学口味的翻新影响了几乎所有作家的声望，唯独莎士比亚与简·奥斯丁是经久不衰。”赞赏奥斯丁的作家，从瓦尔特·司各特开始，可以说是绵延不绝，粗略一排就有：特洛罗普、乔治·艾略特、柯勒律奇、勃朗宁夫人、骚塞、爱·摩·福斯特等位。但是她的杰出与伟大之处究竟表现在哪些方面，也不是一下子说得清楚的。弗吉尼亚·吴尔芙就曾说过：“在所有的伟大的作家中，她的伟大之处是最最难以捕捉到的。” works Sense and Sensibility (1