美国文学选读--Lecture 9.ppt

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AmericanModernism(1914-1945)

HistoricalBackground1.twoworldwars WorldWarIinparticulardeepeneddoubtanddisillusionment.2.theworksofMarxandFreud3.modernEuropeanarts4.expatriatemovement

Themesidentityalienation(class,gender,race)challenging:traditionalmoralandvaldoubting:convention

Skillspsychologicalrealismfromwhat’sthestoryistoldhowisthestoryistoldwhat’stherealityitselflikewhat’stherealityinone’smindlikeperspectivismhighlysubjective

TheSchoolsofAmericanModernism 1.Modernpoetry:experimentsinform(Imagism) 2.Fictionwriting:modernrealism(theLoGeneration)3.HarlemRenaissance(AfricanAmericans) 4.The20thcenturyAmericandrama(ModernDrama)5.Southernwriters(SouthernRenaissance

F.ScottFitzgerald

F.ScottFitzgerald(1896-1940) FitzgeraldwasborninSt.Paul,MinnesotaonSeptember24,1896. Bornofmiddle-classparents,heattendedprivatschools.In1913,hestudiedinPrincetonUnivers Butduetoillnessandneglectofacademicstudy,lefttheuniversityin1917withoutgraduationanjoinedthearmy. WhilestationedinMontgomery,Alabama,hemetanfellinlovewithZeldaSayre,thedaughterofalojudge.Andtheygotmarriedin1920.

Zeldahasbeenregardedastheprototypeofaserierich,beautifulwomenwhofiguresoprominentlyinhisfiction. Theyoungcouplefrequentlywentabroadandlivedextravagantlyaluxuriouslife.Andtokeepearninenoughmoney,Fitzgeraldwroteshortstoriesandnovelsatarapidspeed. The1930sbroughtrelentlessdeclinedforhimwithseriesofmisfortunes:hiswealthfell,hishealthandwhat’smore,Zeldahadsufferedfromsomeseriousmentalbreakdownswhichconfinedherinasanitariumfortherestofherlife. Alcoholism,lonelinessanddespaircombinedtoruFitzgerald.Hediedin1940ofaheartattack.

FitzgeraldandZelda

HemingwayandFitzgerald

WorksNovels:ThisSideofParadise(1920)《人间天堂》TheBeautifulandDamned(1922)《漂亮的与倒霉的TheGreatGatsby(1925)《了不

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