美国文学课课件 海明威 英文简介Ernest Hemingway.pptVIP

Hemingway in Italy In Europe in the 1920s , Ernest learned from avant-garde writers like Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound their literary spareness and compression. Main works Lost Generation Group of U.S. writers who came of age during World War I and established their reputations in the 1920s; more broadly, the entire post – World War I American generation. The term was coined by Gertrude Stein in a remark to Ernest Hemingway. The writers considered themselves lost because their inherited values could not operate in the postwar world and they felt spiritually alienated from a country they considered hopelessly provincial and emotionally barren. The term embraces Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, and Hart Crane, among others. “Lost” Generation World War I seemed to have destroyed the idea that if you acted virtuously, good things would happen. Many good, young men went to war and died, or returned home either physically or mentally wounded (for most, both), and their faith in the moral guideposts that had earlier given them hope, were no longer valid...they were Lost. These literary figures also criticized American culture in creative fictional stories which had the themes of self-exile, indulgence (care-free living) and spiritual alienation. For example, Fitzgeralds This Side of Paradise shows the young generation of the 1920s masking their general depression behind the forced exuberance of the Jazz Age. Another of Fitzgeralds novels, The Great Gatsby does the same where the illusion of happiness hides a sad loneliness for the main characters. Who are involved in the Lost Generation? Two Types of Hemingway’s Characters One of the foremost authors of the era between the two world wars, Hemingway in his early works depicted the lives of two types of people. One type consisted of men and women deprived, by World War I, of faith in the moral values in which they had believed, and who lived with cynical disregard for