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1、Lecture 9The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1920s (F. S. Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner) Teaching ContentLost Generation; F. S. Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway; William Faulkner Time Allotment2 periods Teaching Objectives and Requirements1 Make the students know about the Lost G
2、eneration. 2 Make the students know clearly about F. S. Fitzgerald and his work The Great Gatsby. 3 Make the students know about Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Key Points and Difficult Points in Teaching1 F. S. Fitzgerald 2 Ernest Hemingway 3 William Faulkner Teaching Methods and MeansLectur
3、e; Discussion; Multi-media Teaching Process1 The Lost Generation It refers to many prominent American writers of the decade following the WWI, disillusioned by their war experience and alienated by the crassness of American culture and its commercialization. A number of these writers moved to Europe
4、 in the quest for a richer literary and artistic milieu. The name of “Lost Generation” was given by the female writer Gertrude Stein and the representatives of the group should be Fitzgerald, Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, Sherw
5、ood Anderson, Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, Thornton Wilder, Thomas Wolfe, Ford Maddox Ford, John Steinbeck, Zelda Fitzgerald and others. They all were a generation of the “purest sense” and their emotional responses to the changes in the world around them were very alike. By the end of the war they were c
6、ompletely irritated by the numerous senseless patriotic slogans of the senseless war that took so many priceless lives.) 2 Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 1940) (He has been an outstanding novelist in his life time and admired by lots of people. He was once an idol signifying success, wealth, beauty
7、and youth. However, his life was not as happy as the public imagined. He never failed to remain detached and foresee the failure and tragedy of the “Dollar Decade”. He is the spokesman of “the roaring 1920s”, “the Jazz Age”“Inside he knew it well, outside he saw it ironically.”) 2.1 Works Novels “Th
8、is Side of Paradise (life in Princeton, frustration of young men): representing the triumph of matter over form “The Beautiful and the Damned” (love story with Zelda) “The Great Gatsby” (masterpiece) “Tender is the Night”: seeking to trace the moral doom of its protagonist to the sapping influence o
9、f wealth and portraying an American dying, in bar-room brawls and decadence, of spiritual sterility and meaninglessness which characterized the times. “The Last Tycoon” (unfinished): the tragic story of a man who begins to realize all the show of life Short story collection “The Flappers and Philoso
10、phers” (flappers: fashionable and unconventional young woman of the 1920s): representing the triumph of form over matter “Tales of the Jazz Age” : a legend of “Americans adolescence before pain set in” (The 1920s was called “the Jazz Age”: a time marked by frivolity, carelessness, hedonism and excit
11、ement in the life of the flaming youth. Because of this book; Fitzgerald became “the angel of the twenties”) “All the Sad Young Man” “Taps at Reveille”2.2 His Theme Love and money, life of upper class young generation, the breaking up of American dream, illusion and disillusion Money brought only tr
12、agedy and remorse. In his best novels, he both condemned and pitied the rich. Fitzgerald dealt with most cleverly with the double theme of love and money. He understood the corrupting relationship between the two better than any other American novelist. He also understood, from his own experience, t
13、he constant need for more money which drove these men and women to unscrupulousness. He did not like the rich whereas he wanted to be rich. He resented their undeserved privileges, their vulgarity, and their secret belief in their own superiority. He was for that the rich boys could buy more than lu
14、xuriesthey could attract the affection of any girl they wanted. He believed that the wealthy class corrupted the whole of American society. He wrote from true experience, for he himself was fatally attracted to it. A deep attitude of morality underlies his stories. 2.3 His Style He is a great stylis
15、t 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. The accurate details, the completely original diction and metaphors
16、, the bold impressionistic and colorful quality have all proved his consummate artistry. 2.4 Discussion of The Great Gatsby Setting: 1920s; New York City (signifying the materialized American society) Theme: disillusionment of American Dream in the materialized America Point of view: first-person point view; using the “dramatic narrator” (means the narrator is also a character in the novel) Nick Carraway is a delicate
