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1、The American Modernism Lecture 10 (1914 - 1945),American Literature,Objectives,To enable the Ss to get to know William Faulkner and his works; To enable the Ss to get a general idea about American Novels of Social Awareness (Sinclair Lewis and John Steinbeck); To enable the Ss to get in touch with s
2、ome important representatives in the Harlem Renaissance like Langston Hughes,Teaching Materials,William Faulkner “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech” John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath Langston Hughes “Dreams”,The Prominent Representative of Southern Writers,William Faulkner (1897 - 1962),American noveli
3、st and short-story writer who was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel. He wrote works of psychological drama and emotional depth, typically with long serpentine prose and high, meticulously-chosen diction,also
4、 using groundbreaking literary devices such as stream of consciousness, multiple narrations or points of view, and time-shifts within narrative. The general ambience of the South. Mississippi marked his sense of humor, his sense of the tragic position of Blacks and Whites, his keen characterization
5、of usual Southern characters and his timeless themes, one of them being that fiercely intelligent people dwelled behind the facade of good old boys and simpletons. Faulkner was known rather infamously for his drinking problem as well, and throughout his life was known to be an alcoholic.,Faulkners m
6、ost celebrated novels include The Sound and the Fury (1929) As I Lay Dying (1930) Light in August (1932) The Unvanquished (1938) Absalom, Absalom! (1936), usually considered his masterpiece. His first short story collection, These 13 (1931), includes many of his most acclaimed (and most frequently a
7、nthologized) stories, including A Rose for Emily, Red Leaves, That Evening Sun, and Dry September. During the 1930s, in an effort to make money, Faulkner crafted a sensationalist pulp novel entitled Sanctuary. Its themes of evil and corruption (bearing Southern Gothic tones), resonate to this day. A
8、 sequel to the book, Requiem for a Nun, is the only play that he has published. It involves an introduction that is actually one sentence that spans for a couple pages. a National Book Award (posthumously) for his Collected Stories.,Since the 1890s, an undercurrent of social protest had coursed thro
9、ugh American literature, welling up in the naturalism of Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser and in the clear messages of the muckraking novelists. Later socially engaged authors included Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck, John Dos Passos, Richard Wright, and the dramatist Clifford Odets. They were link
10、ed to the 1930s in their concern for the welfare of the common citizen and their focus on groups of people - the professions, as in Sinclair Lewiss archetypal Arrowsmith (a physician) or Babbitt (a local businessman); families, as in Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath; or urban masses, as Dos Passos acc
11、omplishes through his 11 major characters in his U.S.A. trilogy.,4. Novels of Social Awareness,Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951),Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930 for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour,
12、 new types of characters, was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, in 1885. Probably the greatest satirist of his era, Lewis wrote novels that present a devastating picture of middle-class American life in the 1920s. Although he ridiculed the values, the lifestyles, and even the speech of his characters,
13、 there is affection behind the irony. He was the conscience of his generation and he could well serve as the conscience of our own. His analysis of the America of the 1920s holds true for the America of today. His prophecies have become our truths and his fears our most crucial problems. Lewis began
14、 his career as a journalist, editor, and hack writer. With the publication of Main Street (1920), a merciless satire on life in a Midwestern small town, Lewis immediately became an important literary figure. His next novel, Babbitt (1922), considered by many critics to be his greatest work, is a sca
15、thing portrait of an average American businessman, a Republican and a Rotarian, whose individuality has been erased by conformist values.,Sinclair Lewis was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Main Street and Babbitt, and won the award for Arrowsmith (although he turned it down). Arrowsmith (1925)
16、satirizes the medical profession. Elmer Gantry (1927) attacks hypocritical religious revivalism. Dodsworth (1929), a more mellow work, is a sympathetic picture of a wealthy American businessman in Europe; it was successfully dramatized by Lewis and Sidney Howard in 1934. During his lifetime he publi
17、shed 22 novels, and it is generally agreed that his later novels are far less successful than his early fiction. Among his later works are It Cant Happen Here (1935), Cass Timberlane (1945), Kingsblood Royal (1947), and World So Wide (1951). From 1928 to 1942 Lewis was married to Dorothy Thompson (1
18、8941961), a distinguished newspaperwoman and foreign correspondent. He died in Rome in 1951.,John Dos Passos (1896 - 1970),John Dos Passos is one of the most overtly political authors in this unit. Involved in many radical political movements, Dos Passos saw the expansion of consumer capitalism in t
19、he first decades of the twentieth century as a dangerous threat to the health of the nation. The son of unmarried Portuguese American parents, Dos Passos grew up in Chicago. He attended prestigious East Coast schools, first the Choate School and then Harvard University. He graduated from Harvard in
20、1916 and joined the war effort before the United States entered World War I, becoming a member of a volunteer ambulance corps and later serving in the American medical corps. Following the war he became a freelance journalist, while also working on fiction, poetry, essays, and plays. Like Sinclair L
21、ewis, John Dos Passos began as a left-wing radical but moved to the right as he aged. Dos Passos wrote realistically, in line with the doctrine of socialist realism. His best work achieves a scientific objectivism and almost documentary effect.,Dos Passos developed an experimental collage technique
22、for his masterwork U.S.A., consisting of The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936). This sprawling collection covers the social history of the United States from 1900 to 1930 and exposes the moral corruption of materialistic American society through the lives of its characters.
23、 Dos Passoss new techniques included newsreel sections taken from contemporary headlines, popular songs, and advertisements, as well as biographies briefly setting forth the lives of important Americans of the period, such as inventor Thomas Edison, labor organizer Eugene Debs, film star Rudolph Val
24、entino, financier J.P. Morgan, and sociologist Thorstein Veblen. Both the newsreels and biographies lend Dos Passoss novels a documentary value; a third technique, the camera eye, consists of stream of consciousness prose poems that offer a subjective response to the events described in the books.,J
25、ohn Steinbeck (1902 - 1968),General Introduction: John Steinbeck was born in Sainas, California on 27th February, 1902. He studied marine biology at Stanford University and worked as a agricultural labourer while writing novels and in 1929 published Cup of Gold. This was followed by a collection of
26、short stories portraying the people in a farm community, The Pastures of Heaven (1932) and a novel about a farmer, To a God Unknown (1933). Tortilla Flat (1935), a novel about Monterey, brought him national recognition and this was followed by In Dubious Battle (1935), Of Mice and Men (1937), The Lo
27、ng Valley (1938) and his best-known novel, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), a novel in defense of the poor as against the rich. This novel of a family fleeing from the dust bowl of Oklahoma won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. During the Second World War Steinbeck went to Europe where he reported the war
28、for the New York Tribune. He also published The Moon is Down (1942), a novel about the resistance in Norway to the Nazi occupation.,Other books by Steinbeck include Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), A Russian Journal (1948), Burning Bright (1950), East of Eden (1952), Sweet Thursday (1954), The
29、Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957) and a selection of his writings as a war correspondent, Once There Was a War (1958) and Winter of our Discount (1961). East of Eden is probably Steinbecks most substantial work. In it Steinbeck stops looking towards social injustice as the source of evil, and instead
30、explores the roots of evil in human psychology. Steinbeck received the Nobel prize for literature in 1962 for his “realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.” He died in New York in 1966.,His Masterpiece: The Grapes of Wrath In stark and m
31、oving detail, John Steinbeck depicts the lives of ordinary people striving to preserve their humanity in the face of social and economic desperation. When the Joads lose their tenant farm in Oklahoma, they join thousands of others, traveling the narrow concrete highways toward California and the dre
32、am of a piece of land to call their own. Each night on the road, they and their fellow migrants recreate society: leaders are chosen, unspoken codes of privacy and generosity evolve, and lust, violence, and murderous rage erupt. A portrait of the bitter conflict between the powerful and the powerles
33、s, of one mans fierce reaction to injustice, and of a womans quiet, stoical strength, The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature, one that captures the horrors of the Great Depression as it probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America.,The Harlem Renaissance,The Harle
34、m Renaissance (HR) was a flowering of the arts in the 1920s and 30s. African Americans used writing, music, and art to demonstrate strong beliefs. Many of these beliefs were grounded in the works of W.E.B. Du Bois who emphasized the necessity of black liberation, retaining black cultural pride, and
35、not giving into white standards. Especially the notion of twoness shows a divided awareness of the blacks identity. Feelings were strong, however there was little violence involved and many white accepted it. New ideas and beliefs were expressed in innovative, non- conventional ways. For example, th
36、e music style of jazz flourished and improvisation was embraced. Harlem, N. Y. C. became the biggest hot spot in American for any aspiring African American artist. The city came alive at night as bars and clubs burst with music and dancing.,Responding to the heady intellectual atmosphere of the time
37、 and place, writers and artists, many of whom lived in Harlem, began to produce a wide variety of fine and highly original works dealing with African-American life. These works attracted many black readers. New to the wider culture, they also attracted commercial publishers and a large white readers
38、hip. Writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance include Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, Claude Mckay, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Toomer. HR was more than just a literary movement: it included racial consciousness, the back to Africa movement led by Marcus
39、Garvey, racial integration, the explosion of music particularly jazz, spirituals and blues, painting, dramatic revues, and others. It was a huge leap for black liberation and culture. The Great Depression caused the Harlem group of writers to scatter; many were forced to leave New York or to take ot
40、her jobs to tide them over the hard times.,The Main Representatives,James Weldon Johnson was one of the leading figures of the period, author of the pioneering novel Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (1912), and perhaps best known for Gods Trombones (1927), a collection of seven sermons in free ve
41、rse, expressing the characteristic style and themes of the black preacher in pure and eloquent English. Johnson also acted as mentor to many of the young black writers who formed the core of the Harlem group. Claude Mckay, an immigrant from Jamaica, produced an impressive volume of verse, Harlem Sha
42、dows (1922), and a best-selling novel, Home to Harlem (1928), about a young Negros return from World War I. Countee Cullen was another important black poet. Cullen helped bring more Harlem poets to public notice by editing Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets in 1927.,Langston Hughes published his first collection of verse, The Weary Blues, in 1926, and his novel Not Witho
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