《新编美国文学史（第三卷）》课件lecture 13

1、“ARoseforEmily”has been read variously as “. . .a Gothic horror tale, a study in abnormal psychology, an allegory of the relations between North and South, a meditation on the nature of time, and a tragedy withEmilyas a sort of tragic heroine.” Which interpretation make the most sense to you?Can A R

2、ose for Emily be considered a story of love?Modernism 1900-1945 (III)Lecture 13Outline1. Americans in Paris2. Ernest Hemingway: life and achievement3. “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”: discussion1. Americans in Parisfavorable exchange rateartistic freedomParis , the “cultural capital” Gertrude Stein and A

3、lice B. Toklas The Lost Generation: Hemingway friends and Hadley on the right.Midnight in ParisStory F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sun Also Rises Jake Barnes Brett AshleyErnest Hemingway, Sissy BoyHemingway legend 2. Ernest Hemingway: life Ernest skiing near Gstaad, Switzerland, February 1927WWI“At the sta

4、rt of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera. But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army.”(A Farewell to Arms, 1929)“Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the number

5、s of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and dates.” (A Farewell to Arms, 1929)Ernest Hemingway with Red Cross ambulance service in World War I, 1918.Nobel prize in literature 1954“man can be destroyed but not defeated” Suicide, 1961Ernest Hemingway: achievement“Hemingway more than

6、any other writer of his time in America, has given new directions to the course of story telling, new cadences in prose, particularly in dialogue.”Style“I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. ” He did not still feel w

7、eak, he was merely luxuriating in that supremely gutful lassitude of convalescence in which time, hurry, doing, did not exist, the accumulating seconds and minutes and hours to which in its well state the body is slave both waking and sleeping, now reversed and time now the lip-server and mendicant

8、to the bodys pleasure instead of the body thrall to times headlong course. (Faulkner)他感到不再虚弱，只是美美地沉浸在极度的饱暖倦慵之中。人处这种境界，时间、奔忙、劳作不复存在；人在健康时，不论苏醒还是沉睡，身体总受时间的支配，听任分分秒秒积累成为钟点，如今却颠倒过来，化整为零了；身体不再受着一去不回的时间的束缚，反倒是时间成了为身体的愉悦服务的仆人，乞讨的丐儿。Manuel drank his brandy. He felt sleepy himself. It was too hot to go out i

9、nto the town. Besides there was nothing to do. He wanted to see Zurito. He would go to sleep while he waited.-Ernest HemingwayHe has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway) Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions co

10、me from big words?Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner) his central theme was “the bearing of one who is put to the test and who steels himself to meet the cold cruelty of existence.”Theme“grace under pressure.”“why did the chicken cross the road?”ERNEST HEMINGWAY:To die. In the rain.3. “THE SNO

11、WS OF KILIMANJARO”: DISCUSSIONThe Story questions for discussion (30-40s)A. Harry: Who is harry? Why did he choose to marry Helen? What is his greatest regret in life? B. Helen: Edmund Wilson once wrote: “The men in both these African stories are married to American bitches of the most soul-destroyi

12、ng sort.” Do you agree that Helen is a “bitch” character? Why? C. Narration: What is the function of Harrys italicized reminiscences?D. Theme: What does The Snows of Kilimanjaro have to say about death?8 groups; 1,5-A; 2,6B; 3,7C ; 4,8D oral report: key words (3-5) research topicHemingwayasmisogynist?Read The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber“ Can you draw any conclusions about Hemingways portrayal of women based on your analysis of the two female charact