美國(guó)文學(xué)史重點(diǎn)名詞解釋-英文版(編輯修改稿)
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【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 be regarded as his process of education and his way to grow up. At first, he stands by slavery, for he clings to the idea that if he lets go the slave, he will be damned to go to hell. And when the “King” sells Jim for money, Huck decides to inform Jim’s master. After he thinks of the past good time when Jim and he are on the raft where Jim shows great care and deep affection for him, he decides to rescue Jim. And Huck still thinks he is wrong while he is doing the right thing. Huck is the son of nature and a symbol for freedom and earthly pragmatism. Through the eye of Huck, the innocent and reluctant rebel, we see the preCivil War American society fully exposed. Twain contrasts the life on the river and the life on the banks, the innocence and the experience, the nature and the culture, the wilderness and the civilization. II. Henry James : influenced by Freud, pioneer of streamofconsciousness”, founder of psychological realism: The Portrait of A Lady (masterpiece): international themes Miller1. Theme: The novel is a story about American innocence defeated by the stiff, traditional values of Europe. James condemns the American failure to adopt expressive manners intelligently and point out the false believing that a good heart is readily visible to all. The death of Daisy results from the misunderstanding between people with different cultural backgrounds. 2. The character analysis of Daisy: She represents typical American girl, who is uninformed and without the mature guidance. Ignorance and parental indulgence bine to foster he assertive selfconfidence and fierce willfulness. She behaves in the same daring naive way in Europe as she does at home. When someone is against her, she bees more contrary. She knows that she means no harm and is amazed that anyone should think she does. She does not promise to the European manners. 3. The character analysis of Winterbourne: He is a Europeanized American, who has live too long in foreign parts. He is very experience and has a problem understanding Daisy. He endeavors to put her in sort of formula, . to classify her. Ⅲ. Emily Dickinson features:(1)she uses a particular rhyme pattern, dashes are used as a musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis(2)laconic brevity, simplicity and plainness(3)focus on a single image or symbol and centered on one subject matter.(4)poems are personal and meditative(5)personification to vivify some abstract ideas.2. Idea:Skeptical about the relationship between man and nature, concerns religion, death, immortality, love, nature: This is my letter to the World。 I heard a Fly buzzwhen I died。 because I could not stop for DeathⅣ. Theodore DreiserNaturalism(1)heredity and environment are the forces determining man’s destiny, under what life was ironic, even tragic(2)human beings’ life was trapped into ‘a(chǎn) welter of inscrutable forces’(3)Darwin’s idea of survival of the fittest is embodied as kill or to be killed
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