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Arms 永別了,武器;For Whom the Bell Tolls 喪鐘為誰而鳴;The Old Man and the Sea 老人與海Hemingway’ styleHemingway’s style is noted for its simplicity. In diction, he focus on nouns and verbs and reduces the use of adjectives, especially plicated adjectives. In sentence structure, he uses coordinated clauses to avoid subordinated clauses that would imply vague judgments. This was especially obvious in his writings in the 1920s.Some other writersSherwood AndersonWinesburg, Ohio 小鎮(zhèn)畸人Willa CatherMy Antonia我的安東尼亞Sinclair LewisThe first American writer to win the Nobel Prize. Main street 大街;Babbitt巴比特John Steinbeckhe Grapes of Wrath憤怒的葡萄Margaret MitchellGone With the Wind飄 美國南方文學(xué)Southern American literatureThe American SouthThe American South includes the southeastern states and the southern states along the Gulf of Mexico.This is a unique region where people speak with strong southern accent. The southerners have their distinctive culture, viewpoint, and history. In the southern history, the South was guilty of slavery which began in 1621, the South failed in the Civil War, and the South is relatively poor in a nation of wealth even today. Guilt, failure, and poverty make the South dark side of American conscience. Southern Renaissance Here are six myths that southerner have cherished. They are not objectively true, but they are part of the culture and they make the South apart from other regions.Chevalier The southerners held that their ancestors were not Puritans but noble chevaliers who came from England to settle down in the New World. This myth created a pride in the region.Agrarian virtue. 農(nóng)業(yè)美德Plantation Lost cause. 失去的事業(yè)White supremacy. 白人至上Purity of Southern womanhood. Representative Southern writers 216。 伊登美國現(xiàn)代詩歌Modern American Poetrythe second flowering(19141945)Featuresmon theme:fragmentationstreamofconsciousnessIt also fostered a belief in art and literature as an avenue to was characterized by a conscious rejection of established rules, traditions and conventions. The essence of modernism was a break with the pastIt strove to reflect 20th century’s social and political changesBackgroundthe consequence of the transformation of society brought about by industrialism and technology in the course of the 19th century. Imagist movement (19081917)Imagism意象派Ezra PoundLeader of the Imagist Movement.Two modernist poetshe Waste Land 荒原Robert Frost“The Road Not Taken” “沒有走過的路”美國現(xiàn)代小說Modern American FictionSocial backgrounds in the 1920sImpact of World War IThe 1920s: the Roaring 20s(咆哮二十年)Jazz Age(爵士時(shí)代)Dollar AgeThe Red Scare 恐共浪潮 The Prohibition (19191933) 禁酒令 Lost of faith216。An American Tragedy美國悲劇 Jack LondonThe Call of the Wild野性的呼喚。費(fèi)恩歷險(xiǎn)記Style:Vernacular language。Life on Mississippi密西西比河上。索亞歷險(xiǎn)記。 Mark TwainThe Gilded Age 鍍金時(shí)代。拉帕姆發(fā)跡記Henry JamesThe Portrait of a Lady貴婦畫像Literary Theory Art and life:Art must be related to life。 Emily Dickinson Features of Dickinson’s poemsDickinson’s style is characteristic of frequent use of dashes, sporadic capitalization of nouns,convoluted and ungrammatical phrasing, offrhymes, broken meters, bold and unconventional and often startling metaphors, and aphoristic wit. Her poetry prepares for modern poetry in the 20th century. lyric. Her poems are remarkable for their variety, subtlety, and richness. brevity and intensity. unorthodox syntax and punctuation.innovation in rhyme. One the whole, her poetry is irregular