20世纪初美国小说

• The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
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(1892Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) • The first American authoress who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces.“ • The Good Earth (1931)
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(1885Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) • In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.”
Early Century American Fiction
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Background of Early 20th
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Writers
Natuபைடு நூலகம்alism
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American Modernism
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Naturalism •a literary movement taking place from 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character. American Modernism •Time: •Time: between World War Ⅰ and World War Ⅱ (1914-1945),the second American Renaissance, a transformation from order to disorder •A trend of thought that affirms the power of the human beings to create, improve and reshape their environment, with the aid of scientific knowledge. technology and practical experimentation. •both progressive and optimistic in its essence.
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
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Works
Ernest Hemingway (1899(1899-1961) •A tragic wartime love-affair between an ambulance driver and an English nurse •Topic: the unjust war Topic: destroyed all the good people and things on the earth
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Ernest Hemingway (1899(1899-1961) •Through this book, he was recognized as the spokesman of the “the lost generation” •It is about a group of It psychologically bruised, disillusioned expatriates living in postwar Paris
The Sun also Rises (1926)
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Ernest Hemingway (1899(1899-1961)
•Written from his experience in the Spanish Civil War. •Argues for human brotherhood.
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William Faulkner (1897(1897-1962) • A representative of Stream of Consciousness（意识流） • one of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States • received the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. • The sound and the fury (1929)
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Stream of Consciousness（意识流）
•the continuous flow of thoughts that makes up an individual's conscious experience •a literary device that seeks to describe this process by means of a long, unstructured soliloquy
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Theodore Dreiser (1871(1871-1945) • An American modern fiction pioneer • being considered as one of the three giants of American modern novels with Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner.
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The Lost Generation
• It refers to a group of American literary( literary(以写作为职 业的) notables who lived in Europe between World War I and the Great Depression(经济大萧条). They were members of the age classes called to duty(服兵役) in the WWI.
Iceberg Theory（冰山原理）
•“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” --Hemingway • Hemingway labored to hide profound meanings between the textual lines, and thus his language is highly symbolic and suggestive.
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Ernest Hemingway (1899(1899-1961) • A representative of The Lost Generation（迷惘的 一代） • won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 • the iceberg theory（冰 山原理）
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
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Ernest Hemingway (1899(1899-1961) •Won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953 •It shows the indomitable(不屈 不挠的)courage of an aged Cuban fisherman. •"Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated"一个人并不是生 来要打败的。你尽可以消灭他， 可就是打不败他。 The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
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Theodore Dreiser (1871(1871-1945) •Sister Carrie (1920) •Jennie Gerhard (1911) •Trilogy of Desire: The financier The Titan The Stoic
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• except the sharing sense of lost, disillusionment, pessimism(悲观主义) and emptiness expressed in their works, they have different writing features.
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(1885Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
• Main Street（1920） • Babbitt（1922）
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John Steinbeck (1902(19021968) • received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
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Theodore Dreiser (1871(1871-1945) •An American Tragedy (1925)-the greatest novel in America •Reflects the reality of the American society, has major and immediate significance