
美国文学Hemingway课件.ppt
29页Ernest Ernest HeminwayHeminway 1899--19611899--19611. stylists ,novelist, short-story writer and essayist; 2.Main achievementStyle:economy and understatement, deceptively迷惑地simple prose style , the Nobel Prize in 1954. Stockholmprotagonists are typically stoical坚忍 的men who exhibit an ideal described as “grace under pressure.“Hemingway’s hometown is Oak Park, Illinois, nearby Chicago.Hemingway’s life vOak Park, Illinois, on July 21,1899.vafter high school , 1917 a journalist for the Kansas City Star. 2. Early in 1918 a Red Cross ambulance driver. A Farewell to Arms 3. 1919 in big cities, Chicago, Toronto and Paris. place close to nature 4. he went to Spain twice in the civil war in 1936-1937, For Whom the Bell Tolls. 5. World War Ⅱ, china, as a correspondent. vin Cuba ,writing and fishing . The Old Man and Sea 6. On July 2 1961, suicide in IdahoIn baby dress Circa 1901Portrait1916Lost Generation(1920S-1930S)A group of expatriate American writers in Paris consisted of many influential American writers, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Carlos Williams.The group was given its name by the American writer Gertrude Stein, who, in a conversation with Hemingway, used an expression to refer to expatriate Americans bitter about their World War I (1914- 1918) experiences and disillusioned with American society.as descriptive of the loss to them of traditional values as a result of the war and other large-scale social evils and fought hard to seek new values and beliefs to fill the void of the post-war world.◆Hemingway’s Style, Theme and Code Hero1.style: deceptively simple, clear. In anguage, colloquial language; In diction, focuses on nouns and verbs,short sentences and vigorous and positive language, than the gorgeous adjectives;In sentencs structure, coordinated clauses than subordinated clauses . 2.Iceberg principle: only a very small amount of information is available or visible about a situation, whereas the 'real' information or bulk is either unavailable or hidden. only about 1/10th of an iceberg's mass is seen outside while about 9/10th of it is unseen, deep down in water. 2.Heningway’s theme v “grace under pressure”vcreated one hero who acts that theme out. Hemingway’s hero appears on the scene to learn to live in grace under pressure. a world of violence, disorder, violence, and death and learning the hard way about the world. vHe is a negative writer, he sees the world as “all a nothing” and “all nada”Code Herov1.despairing courage vThe hero knows that it must end in defeated, no matter how hard he strives against it , and engenders a sense of despair, but he possesses a kind of “despairing courage” v2.Dignityvit is this courage that enables a man to behave like a man, to assert his dignity in face of adversity. This is the essence of a code of honor in which all Hemingway’s heroes belive. v3. average man vThe hero is an average man of decidedly果断地masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent, a man of action, and one of few wordsv4. His Works: vThe sun also Rises, vA Farwell to Arms ; vFor Whom the Bell Tolls; vThe Old Man and SeaThe narrator, Barnes is an American veteran of WWI who suffered physical injuries that have made him physiologically impotent, and unable to pursue a sexual relationship with Brett. Having lost direction of his life as a result of his experiences during the war.Lady Brett is the object of lust for most of the male characters of the book. Brett also lacks direction in life and finds emptiness in activities.Barns , Ashley, and Cohn are seen wondering pointlessly, restless and impotent , enjoying things like fishing, swimming, bullfight and the beauty of the nature but aware all the while that the world is meangless and futile.The Sun Also RisesA Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel, the novel is told through the point of view of Lieutenant Henry, an American an ambulance driver in the Italian army during World WarⅠ. Henry goes to the war and discovers the insanity, by the death of his lover Catherine, Henry is completely disillusioned. And he is shocked into the realization that abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene. The novel caught the mood of the post-war generation.A Farewell to ArmsFor Whom the Bell Tolls Based on Hemingway's own experience, Robert Jordan is an American who travelled to Spain to assist the struggle against the forces of the Nationalist, Robert Jordan meets María, a young Spanish native whose life has been shattered by the outbreak of the war. The novel describes events which demonstrate the incredible brutality of civil war.The Old Man and the SeaThis parable old man’s struggle with the natural world of his noble courage and endurance, tells of the Cuban fisherman Santiago, who for 84 luckless days has rowed his skiff into the gulf stream in quest of marlin。
