F._Scott_Fitzgerald_美国文学菲斯杰拉德英文课件ppt

Writing Style
• Fitzgerald is considered as a great stylist in American literature. His style, closely related to his themes, is explicit and chilly. His accurate dialogues, his careful observation of mannerism, styles, models and attitudes provide the reader with a vivid sense of reality. He used the scenic method in his chapters, each one of which consists of one or more dramatic scenes, sometimes with intervening passages of narration, leaving the tedious process of transition to the readers„ imagination. • Fitzgerald„s prose is smooth, sensitive, and completely original in its diction and metaphors.
Fitzgerald and the American Dream
• the American Dream is a popular belief that
people can achieve success, whether it is wealth, fame or love through honest hard working in a new world of liberty, equality, chances and promises. Fitzgerald's fictions often deal with the bankruptcy of the American Dream, which is highlighted by the disillusionment of the protagonists' personal dreams due to the clashes between their romantic vision of life and the sordid reality.
• To keep earning enough money, Fitzgerald wrote short stories and novels at a rapid speed.
Life and career
• The 1930s brought relentless decline for Fitzgerald with a series of misfortunes: his reputation declined, his wealth fell, his health failed. • Zelda had suffered from some serious mental breakdowns which confined her in a sanitarium(疗养 院) for the rest of her life. • Alcoholism, loneliness and despair combined to ruin Fitzgerald. He died in 1940 of a heart attack.
Writing Style
• Many of Fitzgerald’s works are half autobiography properties. • Because he married with a typical south woman, Fitzgerald showed interest in the southern United States in his novels. The homesickness and nostalgia emotions to the southern and the awareness and helpless on the north and south of the contrast provide background and fundamental key for many of his novels. • Fitzgerald created a kind of refreshing literature feminine image in his novels. They were trendy, independent and attractive. In the other hand, they had the courage to pursue their happiness at any cost. These typical heroines in Jazz Age also became the characteristics and marks of Fitzgerald’s novels.
Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age
• The Jazz Age:
It refers to the 1920s, a time marked by frivolity( 轻松快活), carelessness, hedonism(享乐主义) and excitement in the life of the flaming youth. Fitzgerald is largely responsible for the term and many of his literary works portray it. The Jazz Age is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.
Writing Style
• Although the most famous works of Fitzgerald are his novels, his short novels are also very features. In fact, during his lifetime, his short stories give him a commercial success and get him to win the general public recognition, rather than his novels. • Fitzgerald’s novels got praise of the field, but it didn’t bring significant income for him such as he hoped it would. To write short stories for popular magazines became the way to maintain his upper-class life. Therefore, Fitzgerald's short stories are generally strong entertaining. They have choicer and twisted layout, exquisite and luxuriant text and witty style. They often own O. Henry’s typical unexpected ending. If you read them, they will make you into great enjoyment.
Major works
• novel
• This Side of Paradise《天堂的另一面》: His first novel. It won for him wealth and fame. • The Beautiful and Damned 《漂亮冤家》又名《美 丽与毁灭》 • The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比/长岛春梦》: His masterpiece. It made him one of the greatest American novelists. • Tender is the Night《夜色温柔》 . • The Last Tycoon《最后的大亨》: His last novel. It remains unfinished.
Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age
• Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in the upper-class society, especially the upper-class young people.
Life and career
• Married Zelda Sayre, who exerted a strong influence on his literary career and his personal life. She was the prototype of a series of rich, beautiful women who figure prominently in his fiction. • The young couple frequently went abroad and lived extravagantly a luxurious life.
弗· 司各特· 菲茨杰拉德 Francis Scott Fitzgerald （1896－1940)
英语1006班王强 张涛
Major Topics
• Life and Career • Major Works • Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age • The American Dream • Writing Style
Major works
• short stories:
• Flappers and Philosophers (1921)《时髦女和哲学 家》 • Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) 《爵士乐时代的故事 》 • All the Sad Young Man (1926) 《一代悲哀的年轻 人》 • Taps at Reveille (1935) 《早晨的起床号》 • Babylon Revisited（1931）《重访巴比伦》
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Fitzgerald and the American Dream
• Fitzgerald„s own life was a mirror of the 1920s. He was the victim of his “American Dream.” He was fascinated with material wealth on one hand by writing hard to accumulate wealth to live an extravagant(铺张的) life, yet was bewildered(使 迷惑) with the wealth on the other, fully aware of the underlying spiritual disorientation and moral decay. Finally in his life, alcoholism, loneliness and despair combined to ruin him.
Life and career
• Born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896 • Had an expensive education in private schools at Princeton. • Due to illness and neglect of academic study, he left the university in 1917 without graduation.