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【正文】 t FitzgeraldThis Side of Paradise—his first novel。 the first American novel depicting the casual dissipations of “flaming youth”The Great Gatsby—his best novel which deals with the frustration and despair resulting from the failure of the American dream★Sinclair Lewis—the first American writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1930)Main Street satirizes the smug provincial placency of the middle classBabbitt—his masterpieceThe word “babbittry” means energetic shallowness and selfsatisfactionSatiric monologueJohn Steinbeck—the foremost writer of the Great DepressionThe Grapes of Wrath—his masterpiece, won a Pulitzer PrizeA bination of naturalist and symbolist techniqueV. Modern Period: 3) DramaEugene O’Neill—the founder of modern American drama3 Pulitzer Prizes amp。 the Nobel PrizeIntroduced trends of realism, naturalism and expressionismBeyond the HorizonLong Day’s Journey into NightTennessee WilliamsThe Glass MenagerieA Streetcar Named Desire—won him his first Pulitzer PrizeColloquial southern speechArthur MillerDeath of a Salesman—his masterpiece。 an American myth and a contemporary tragedyVI. Postwar RealismJohn Cheever—short fictionJohn Updike—the most realistic of all the postwar realists。 “Olinger” storiesJames Thurber—the greatest American literary humorist of the 20th centuryJerome Salinger—a representative of alienated young Americans。 generation gapThe Catcher in the Rye—a modern Huck FinnVII. Postmodernism: FictionModernism vs. postmodernismUnlike modernism, which suggested a historic period, postmodernism described a sensibility, a feeling for innovation.Controllable vs. uncontrollable。Order vs. disorderRealistic vs. nihilisticThe fundamental rule: the absurd and the arbitraryStyle: fragmented, discontinuous, ironic, and full of black humorVladimir Nabokov: LolitaBeat GenerationWomen WritersBlack LiteratureSouthern Literature1. Beat GenerationThe term is associated with the first half of the 1950s.★Jack Kerouac—the founder of the Beat Generation who first used the term。 On the Road★ Allen Ginsberg—the poet laureate of the Beat Generation。 HowlLawrence Ferlinghetti opened the City Lights Bookstore, the headquarters of the Beats.William BurroughsWomen Writers: 1) Before the 20th CAnne Bradstreet—the first lady of colonial literature in AmericaEmily Dickinson—America’s greatest woman poetMargaret Fuller—Women in the Nineteenth Century: America’s first landmark feminist treatiseWomen Writers: 2) Of the 20th CKatherine Anne PorterJoyce Carol OatesSylvia PlathJoanna RussAlice Walker: a black woman writerBlack LiteratureLangston Hughes—the “Poet Laureate of Harlem”/ “O. Henry of Harlem”Richard Wright—protest fiction, Native SonJames Baldwin—race amp。 homosexuality: two themesRalph Ellison—Invisible Man★Toni Morrison (female)—Beloved, Nobel Prize (1993) (the second American woman writer to enjoy the honor) (the first American woman writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature: Pearl Buck)Southern LiteratureThe South is known as the Bible Belt.★William Faulkner—the foremost southern writer of the 20th C。 Nobel Prize (1950)The Sound and the Fury—Stream of ConsciousnessYoknapatawpha CountyWilliam Styron—Sophie’s Choice8
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