欧美文学black-humorPPT课件

Beat Generation They are esentially anarchic, and they rejected traditional social and artistic forms.
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Place
Lost Generation
abroad, especially in Paris the United States
Beat Generation
in and around San Francisco living an unconventional and spontaneous way of life.
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Beat generation
• remarkable elite consciousness.
• one of the most influential schools of postmodernism literature after World War II
dark humor grotesque humor morbid humor
thteeriroibnley farnede funnywoilbl jective
persreoanlaitlyity
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anti-rational and anti-idealism literature.
Features
Themes
barbarism
disability
drug abuse
racism
sexual violence
domestic violence
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Where
literature drama film
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Development
France • 1935 American • 1960 China • 1970
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Significance
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Lost generation
VS
1883-1942
1948-1962 Beat generation
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Traits
Lost Generation
They are disilusioned intellectuals and aesthetes of the years. Following the First World War, they rebelled against the former ideals and values.
mocked objects aesthetic forms
ugliness comedy
kindness, pains, sufferrings
tragedy
aesthetic attributes
beautiful properties
ugly
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Function
insensitivity
cruelty of the modern world
paradox
absurdity
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to make light of serious
purpose
often taboo subject matter
as a tool for exploring vulgar issues
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corruption and crime
murder
suicide
chauvinism
• making a great contribution to the development of the literature in the twentieth Century.
• The creation of Crew Ark and Ginsberg has been listed as the most outstanding work.
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Representative Writers
Joseph Heller
His works
Kurt Vonnegut Thomas Pynchon
John Barth
1. Catch-22(1961) 2. Something Happened( 1974) 3.Good As Gold (1979) 4. God Knows(l984)
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The Beat Generation
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Definition
A group of authors whose works explored and influenced American culture and politics in the 1950s.
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Character
a rejection of materialism
2 anti-hero characters and the
anti-novel narrative structure
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the special theme
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aspects
Traditional humor
black humor
aesthetic effects
optimism
pessimism and despair
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Background
Second World War postwar economic boom
They saw runaway capitalism as destructive to the human spirit and antithetical to social equality.
"Black humor"
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What is black humor?
A kind of comedy with tragic color A kind of desperate comedy. A type of modern humor that is caused by anger.
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What is black humor?
experimentation w ith drugs
alternate forms of sexuality
an interest in Eastern religion
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Features
thrived on creativity and life lived life to its fullest in constant pursuit of the next crazy, eye opening, worldly experience.