英国文学Thomas Hardy作者介绍ppt

1856 At 16, he was apprenticed to a local architect.
1862
He moved to London and become an architect. Meanwhile, he tried writing poetry, but was rejected
by publishers, so he failed to get any published.
1867
poor health forced him to return to Dorset, but he still worked as an architect to support himself while writing
• Their setting is the agricultural region of the southern counties of England. He truthfully depicts the poverty and decay of small farmers who become hired field hands(沦落为雇佣的田间劳动者) and these labourers are mercilessly exploited by the rich landowners.
Thomas Hardy 托马斯·哈代 (1840-1928)
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0 1 Life 0 2 Writing styles 0 3 Works 0 4 Comments
• Novelist and poet, is one of the representatives of English critical realism at the turn of the 19th century.
• famous for his depictions of the imaginary county "Wessex"(威塞克斯) .
• His principal works are the Wessex Novel.
• Hardy's work reflected his stoical pessimism and sense of tragedy in human life.
3.Novels of Ingenuity（机巧和实验小说）
Desperate Remedies 《计出无奈 》 (1871) The Hand of Ethelberta《艾塞尔伯塔的手》 (1876) A Laodicean 《一个冷漠的人 》(1881)
Influence
Hardy's works reflect the profound changes in social economy, politics, morality, customs and the tragic fate of the people (especially women) after the invasion of capitalism into the British countryside.
He succeeded Tennyson and Meredith(丁尼生和梅瑞迪斯) as president of the Society of Authors(作家协会主席).
He died of a cold, his ashes were placed in the Poet's Corner of 1928 Westminster Abbey(威斯敏斯特教堂的诗人角), and his heart
Comments
“英国小说家中的最伟大的悲剧大师” ——伍尔芙
“英国小说中的莎士比亚” ——韦伯
20世纪最伟大的诗人 ——菲利普
It exposed the hypocrisy of the bourgeois morality, law and religion.
His work is a connecting link between the preceding and the following.
He not only inherited the excellent tradition of English critical realism, but also opened up the road for the 20th century English literature.
1.Novels of Character & Environment（性格与环境小说）
Undeቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ the Greenwood Tree 《绿荫下 》 (1872)
Far Form the Madding Crowd 《远离尘嚣 》 (1874)
The Return of the Native 《还乡》
was buried in the graveyard at Stinsford Church(斯丁斯福德教堂).
Features of Hardy's Works
1.Wessex Novels 威塞克斯小说
• Wessex novels: novels describing the characters & environment of his native countryside.
(1878)
The Mayor of Casterbridge 《卡斯特桥市长 》(1886)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles 《德伯家的苔丝 》 (1891)
Jude the Obscure 《无名的裘德 》 (1895)
2. Romances and Fantasies（传奇与幻想小说）
马克思 弗洛伊德
达尔文 托马斯·哈代
His Major Works
Hardy himself divided his novels into three groups: Novels of Character & Environment Novels of Romances & Fantasies Novels of Ingenuity
A Pair of Blue Eyes 《一双蓝蓝的眼睛》 (1873) The Trumpet Major《号兵长》 (1880) Two on a Tower 《楼塔上的两个人》(1882)
The Well-Beloved (1897) (first published as a serial from 1892)
Most Hardy’s novels are tragic. According to Hardy, man is not the master of his destiny; He is at the mercy of indifferent forces which manipulate his behavior and his relations to others.
2.Fatalist outlook 宿命论的人生观
Determinism 宿命论 It refers to the belief or theory that human actions and events are controlled by and result from causes that determine them.
in his leisure time.
1874 He got married and gave up arthitecture.In order to support his family, he turned his writing from poetry to novel.
1896
He turned from Victorian novels to post-Victorian lyrical poetry, which was considered as great as his novels.
Life
1840 born in Dorset, in the centre of the Wessex country, which figured in his works.
1848
As a delicate boy, he was educated at home until
he was eight, and then in the village schools and Dorchester(多切斯特).