美国文学课件13The Literature of the Modernist Period培训资料.pptVIP

The Literature of the Modernist Period (3) Chapter 5 Outline I. “The Lost Generation” Ⅱ. Ernest Hemingway Ⅲ. Text study of “Indian Camp” I. “The Lost Generation” Historical Background (1920s): 1920s: a time of carefree prosperity Industrialization and urbanization Women’s liberation Mass media and luxuries US: a greedily consuming society T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) “The Lost Generation” (Gertrude Stein ): Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O’Neill, etc. The American society: hypocritical, vulgar and crude Individual thought and expression were crushed. Looked for a complete change Ⅱ. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) His life: chaos and violence An ambulance driver in World War I A foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star Married four times Traveled widely, and lived in Paris, Spain, and Key West, Florida An alcoholic The Sun Also Rises, 1926 A Farewell to Arms, 1929 The Snows of the Kilimanjaro, 1936 For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 The Spanish Civil War The Old Man and the Sea, 1952 The Sun Also Rises, 1926 A classic of the “Lost Generation” A group of expatriates in Paris journey to Pamplona for the bullfights. Jake Barnes: an American journalist Brett Ashley: a British Lady Drinking, dancing, and debauchery The aimlessness of the “Lost Generation” Iceberg Principle Hemingway’s theory of omission: to strengthen that story Symbolic interpretations Ⅲ. Text study of “Indian Camp ” “Indian Camp” is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The story was first published in 1924 in Ford Madox Ford’s literary magazine transatlantic review in Paris, and republished in 1925 in the American edition of Hemingways first volume of short stories In Our Time. 1. Who is the narrator? Third Person (Limited Omniscient)/Nick Nicks view of things, both in terms of what he sees and how he feels about what he sees 2. The Story Line ⑴ “Where are we going, Dad?” (179) Nick and his father with Uncle George went to an Indian camp to pr