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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上一：作家作品1. Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio(小镇畸人，1919) The Triumph of the Egg(鸡蛋的胜利，1921)2.John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath(愤怒的葡萄，1939，strong sociological novel,1940年获普利策奖（Pulitzer Prize),1962年获诺贝尔文学奖theforemostnovelistoftheAmericanDepression.美国大萧条时期最杰出的小说家。代表作：“OfMiceandMen”人鼠之间port
2、rayedthetragicfriendshipbetweentwomigrantworkers“TheGrapesofWrath”愤怒的葡萄regardedasmasterpiece,showed the migration of the Okies from the Dust Bowls to California ,a migration that ended in broken dreams and misery but at the same time affirmed the ability of the common people to endure and prevail. T
3、heme : strength comes from unity i-we ;faith in life; struggle to live better2. John Dos Passos: 约翰多斯帕索斯His trilogy U.S.A(美利坚)-The 42nd Parallel(北纬42度，1930), 1919(1932), The Big Money(1936), Three Soldiers。三个士兵。 Experimental writing skills(实验性写作技巧)3. F. Scott Fitzgerald: he began as a spokesman for
4、the jazz age and became its symbol.爵士年代的代言人This Side of Paradise(1920), Tales of the Jazz Age(爵士时代的故事,1922,作品：“This Side of Paradise”人间天堂，the first novel. “The Great Gatsby” 了不起的盖茨比Jay Gatz Daisy. Tom Buchanan . novel .theme: the hollowness of the upper class; the meaning of the past . desire inevit
5、ably invited disappointment, for the gap between actuality and possibility was only rarely bridge in his world. “Tender Is the Night” 夜色温柔 novel 第二本小说的开展过程：dream梦想 Daisy self-centered 理想化的淑女，自我为中心 disenchantment, disillusion魔法消失，(因阶级差异)梦想破灭 sense of failure and despair (light)失败和绝望 Ash 灰(象征) forest树
6、木，西部开发，树木变成灰了 limited point of view有限视角 suspense悬念 + mystery神秘真实性reliable可信的，不偏，不评价4. Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms(1929,救护车司机和一个英国护士之间的悲剧爱情), The Sun Also Rises(1926,反法西斯小说，歌颂兄弟般的友谊), For Whom the Bell Tolls(1940), The Old Man and the Sea(1952),硬汉形象(tough guy image),冰山原则风格(the iceberg princi
7、ple),生活态度：压力下的风度，失败者的尊严grace under pressure.5. William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury(喧哗与骚动,1929),Benjy:a moaning, speechless idiot.Quentin, Tason.Absalom, Absalom(押沙龙，押沙龙),1950年获诺贝尔文学奖(Nobel Prize in Literature)，意识流(stream of consciousness)、世系小说(Yoknapatawpha country) Light in August, Joe Christm
8、as.6. Katherine Anne Porter: Ship of Fools(愚人船,1962，讽刺纳粹主义Nazism兴起)7. Carson McCullers: The Member of the Wedding(1946-1950),人类精神的孤寂8. Eudora Welty: The Optimists Daughter(1972,Pulitzer Prize)9. A Good is Hard to Find(1955),南方哥特式风格Ezra Pound: The Cantos(1925),美国现代诗歌之父Imagism 意象派的代表人物。Pound and Eliot
9、 became the early leaders in restoring to poetry the use of literary reference as an imaginative instrument. 庞德和爱略特都是运用意象主义作为文学表现手法的早期诗人。 major work of poetry is the long poem called “The Cantos”11.Robert Frost: New Hampshire(1923)对人类悲剧的恐惧，对复杂人生的态度，对生活负担的坦然罗伯特.弗洛斯特 自然主义诗人 poet 诗歌特点和内容：(1)rejected th
10、e revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries, choosing instead “the old-fashioned way to be new.” He employed the plain speech of rural New Englanders and preferred the short, traditional forms of lyric and narrative. (2)He saw nature as a storehouse of analogy and symbol. (3)His concern
11、with nature reflected deep moral uncertainties, and his poetry, for all its apparent simplicity, often probes mysteries of darkness and irrationality in the bleak and chaotic landscapes of an indifferent universe where men stand alone, unaided and perplexed. he become a national bard美国民族诗人的翘首, win f
12、our Pulitzer Prizes获得了四次普利兹奖. “The Road Not Taken”、“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”向往大自然，想逃避社会；死亡、迷惑10. Langston Hughes: New Negro Renaissance哈林文艺复兴运动(Harlem Renaissance)中的重要作家和思想家，颂扬黑人生活11. Richard Wright: The Outsider(1953)Cross Damon, Native son(1940), Bigger Thomas .Black Boy(1945)autobiog
13、raphic .12. Eugene ONeil: 4次普利策，一次诺贝尔。Beyond the Horizon(1920),在天边外，表现主义，美国的莎翁(William Shakespeare) George Bernard Shaw.萧伯纳 Three greatest playwrights in English language theatre. Desire under the elms,榆树下的欲望。The Iceman Cometh.送冰的人来了。Long Days Journey into Night.进入黑夜的漫长旅程, 代表作。James Tyrone Sr. his w
14、ife, Mary.13. Joseph Heller: Catch-22(1961)第二十二条军规。Non-chronological style. self-contradictory. What is right to do in a basic moral, social, prisoners dilemma .14. Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five(1969)第五号屠宰场 Billy Pilgrim.15. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon托马斯鲁格斯品钦 Gravitys Rainbow 万有引力之虹。Four parts: bey
15、ond the zero, un perms au casino Hermann goering, in the zone, the counter force.16. J.D.Salinger: The Cather in the Rye 麦田的守望者。Holden Caulfield, 16,Phoebe妹妹。Major theme of alienation as a form of self-protection, the painfulness of growing up and the phoniness of the adult world.17. Allen Ginsberg:
16、 Howl 嚎叫。Three sections. 金斯伯格被奉为“”之父，18. Saul bellow: The Victim(1947) The adventures of augie march (1953) Herzog (1964) Humboldts Gift.洪堡的礼物,诺贝尔奖和普利策奖。Seize the day .19. Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon (1977),Native Son. Invisible Man. milestone.The Bluest Eye(1970) .Beloved 1987,宠儿Sethe is a proud a
