I. The purpose and requirements of this chapter
Through the study of this chapter, we can understand the historical and cultural background of the emergence of modern American literature from the early to the middle of the 20th century, the basic characteristics and ideas of literary creation in this period, and the influence on the development of contemporary American literature. Understand the literary career, creative intention, artistic characteristics, theme structure, characterization and language style of the main writers in this period; At the same time, combined with annotations, we can understand the selected works, their ideological content and writing characteristics, and cultivate the ability to understand and appreciate literary works.
The emphases and difficulties of this chapter
1. Features of Modern American Literature
2. The main writers' creative ideas, artistic features and the theme structure, characterization and language style of their representative works.
3. Explanation of terms: "the lost generation", imagist poetry, symbolism, expressionism and stream of consciousness.
4. The theme structure, artistic features, characterization and language style of the selected works.
Ⅲ. Examination knowledge points and requirements
(A) an overview of modern American literature
1. Memory:
A. the historical and cultural background of American literature during the two world wars
(1) Two World Wars
(2) Americans who have emigrated.
(3) Marxist theory and Freudian theory
(4) European modernist art
B. the historical and cultural background of postwar American literature
2. Understand:
A. American literature during the two world wars
(1) Poetry: Imagist poet; symbolism
(2) novels; "The Generation of Fans and Bullies"
(3) Drama: Expressionism
B. postwar American literature
(1) Poetry: The Beat Generation, etc.
(2) Novels: black novels, comic novels, experimental novels (absurd novels), etc.
(3) Diversification of modern American literature.
C. the innovation of writing skills in modern American literature
3. Application
A noun explanation: "lost generation", imagist poetry, symbolism, expressionism, stream of consciousness.
B. the embodiment of "wasteland" consciousness in American literature in the 20th century
Analyze the theme structure, artistic features, characterization and language style of the selected works.
(B) the major writers of modern America
A. Ezra pound
1. Common sense: Pound's life and creative career
2. Recite: Pound's poems
(1) short poem: a glimpse of the subway station
(2) Long Poems: "Chapters of Poetry"
Understand:
(1) Pound and Imagism
(2) Pound and China culture.
(3) Pound's poetic theory and artistic features.
4. Application: A glimpse of the subway station, Covenant and the wife of a river merchant: theme, image and language.
B. Robert frost
1. Common sense: Frost's life and creative career
2. Reciting: Frost's Poetry: Pastoral Poetry; Natural poetry
Understand:
(1) The Artistic Features of Frost's Poetry
(2) Frost's poetics
4. Application:
(1) Frost's Nature Poetry
(2) Picking Apples, The Road Not Taken and Stopping in the Forest on a Snowy Night: Theme, Symbol and Metaphor, Language.
C. Eugene O 'Neill
1. Common sense: O 'Neill's life and creative career
2. Recite: O 'Neill's plays
(1) Early works: one-act drama; Full-length drama Beyond the Sky
(2) Mid-term works: emperor jones, Brown, Hairy Ape-the representative works of expressionism and symbolism.
(3) Later works: Long Night, an autobiographical drama.
Understand:
(1) pessimism and mysticism in O 'Neill's plays.
(2) The artistic features of O 'Neill's plays.
4. Application: Selected Reading of Hairy Ape Scene 8: Theme Structure, Expressionism and Symbolism
Characteristics of law and language
D. Scott Fitzgerald
1. Common sense: Fitzgerald's life and creative career
2. Memory:
(1) Fitzgerald and "Jazz Age"
(2) Main works: collection of short stories: The Story of Jazz Age.
Novellas: Paradise on Earth, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, The Last Giant.
Understand:
(1) The Great Gatsby and the American Dream
② Fitzgerald's novel art.
4. Application: Chapter III of The Great Gatsby: Theme structure, characterization and language style.
E. Ernest Hemingway
1. Common sense: Hemingway's life and creative career
2. Memory: Hemingway's main works
(1) Collection of Short Stories: In Our Time-A Necker Story
(2) Novels: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea.
3. Understanding: Hemingway and the Lost Generation
4. Application:
(1) The artistic features of For whom the bell tolls are: the image of a tough guy, the wind under heavy pressure and the principle of an iceberg.
(2) Selected Works of In Our Time: theme structure, characterization and language style.
F. william faulkner
1. Common sense: Faulkner's life and creative career
2. Memory:
Faulkner's main works: novellas and short stories: A Rose for Miss Emily, The Old Man, The Bear Restaurant, etc. Novels: The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom! 》
(2) Faulkner's "Yoknapatafa" myth kingdom.
Understand:
(1) The artistic features of Faulkner's novels: stream of consciousness, inner monologue, time sequence inversion, counterpoint structure, symbolic metaphor, etc.
② Faulkner's style
(3) Faulkner and American Southern Literature.
4. Application: A rose for Miss Emily: theme structure, characterization and language style.