大学英语专业八级现代文学.ppt

I. Imagism: Three Imagist poetic principles: 1. direct treatment of the “thing”（no fuss, frill, or ornament）, 2. exclusion of superfluous words（precision and economy of expression）, 3. the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of a metronome（free verse form and music）. Representative: Ezra Pound 意象主义 理智与情感瞬间的综合物 主张诗歌创作应兼顾精确性和暗示性 反对滥用修辞，主张客观直接地表现纯粹的事物 不容许加入作者自己的道德说教和主观评述 不容许感情泛滥 不主张强迫使语言带上主观色彩 In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. 人群中幽然浮现的一张张脸庞， 黝黑的湿树枝上的一片片花瓣。 A Chinese imagistic poetry: Autumn Evening crows perch on old trees wreathed with withered vine, Water of a stream flows by a family cottage near a tiny bridge. A lean horse walks on an ancient road in western breeze, The sun is setting in the west, The heart-broken one is at the end of the Earth. 《天净沙·秋思》 马致远 枯藤、老树、昏鸦，小桥、流水、人家， 古道、西风、瘦马，夕阳西下，断肠人在天涯。 万里长城今犹在， 哪见当年秦始皇。 踏花归来马蹄香 深山藏古寺 蛙声十里出山泉 Dominant influences on FSF Aspiration; Literature; Princeton; Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald; Alcohol. Major Works This Side of Paradise (1920) Flappers and Philosophers (1920) The Beautiful and Damned (1920) Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) The Great Gatsby (1925) Tender Is the Night (1934) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story) Jazz Age Coined the term “Jazz Age” “It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire.” from Echoes of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby (1925) The Great Gatsby: plot Jay Gatsby is a man possessed—driven by greed, ambition and, most of all, an unwavering desire for a woman he met before the Great War, when he was poor and she was unobtainable. As Gatsby reinvents himself in an attempt to buy his way into the social elite of Long Islands Gold Coast, he yearns to rekindle his romance with the woman who stole his heart years before. But when the chance finally arrives, a shadow of tragedy is cast over what Gatsb