The Modernists and the Lost generation
Writers Ezra Pound (埃兹·拉庞德1885-1972) T.S. Eliot (托·斯·艾略特1888－1965) F. Scott Fitzgerald(弗·司各特·菲兹杰拉德) Ernest Hemingway Poem: The Waste Land ?荒原? The Great Gatsby ?了不起的盖茨比? Achievements brief introduction “Imagism”意象主义 It revealed a pessimistic vision of post-World War I society. The Sun Also Rises?太阳照样 (厄内斯特·海明威1899-1961) 升起? A Farewell to Arms?永别了，武器? For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)?丧钟为谁而鸣? William Faulkner(威廉·福克The Sound and the Fury?喧哗1.His effective use of the stream of 纳1897-1962) (the stream of 与骚动? consciousness) As I Lay Dying《我弥留之际》 consciousness,multiple points of view,symbolism and 1950年获诺贝尔文学奖 Light in August?八月之光? Absalom, Absalom imagery place him among the rank of the greatest modern 《押沙龙，押沙龙》 A Rose for Emily writers along with James Joyce and Virginia woolf. 《献给艾米丽的玫瑰花》
Harlem Renaissance (1920s)
The 1920s saw the rise of an artistic black community centered in Harlem, a black neighborhood in New York City. Magazines and newspapers dedicated to the black writing sprang up in Harlem. Black poets such Langston Hughs and Countee Cullen wrote about what it meant to be black. The Harlem Renaissance gave African-American culture prominence and an impetus to grow. Writers Poets: Langston Hughes Countee Cullen Achievements Prominence and an impetus of African-American culture “spirituals”: jazz, blues and the folk hymns(圣歌)
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New Drama (1920s)
Writers Eugene O’Neil (尤金·奥尼尔1888-1953 Achievements Desire Under the Elms ?榆树下的欲望? (1924) Mourning Becomes Electra?悲悼? (1931), The Iceman Cometh ?卖冰的人来了? Long Day’s Journey into Night ?长夜漫漫路迢迢? (1956)
brief introduction borrowed ideas from European playwrights. He used symbolism, adapted stories from classical mythology(神话) and the Bible and drew upon (利用)he new science of psychology to explore his character’s inner lives. Depression，Postwar Voices and the “BeatGeneration”(垮掉的一代)
Writers John Steinbeck (约翰·斯坦贝克1902-1968 Margaret Mitchell (玛格丽特·米歇尔) Black writers Achievements The Grapes of Wrath?愤怒的葡萄? Gone with the Wind Richard Wright (理查德·赖特1908－1960) Ralph Ellison(拉尔夫·埃利森1914－1994) James Baldwin (詹母斯·鲍德温1924－1987) brief introduction Native Son?土生子? Invisible Man ?看不到的人?( Go Tell It on the Mountain?向苍天呼吁? essay The Fire Next Time?下一次将是烈火? The Adventures of Augie March ?奥吉·玛琪历险记? The Glass Menagerie ?玻璃动物园? Howl ?嚎叫? Jewish writers Saul Bellow(索尔·贝娄1915- Both of them won the Nobel Prize for literature Isaac Bashevis Singer(艾萨克·巴 什维斯·辛格1904- ) Playwright Tennessee Williams(田纳西·威 廉斯1911－1983) The “Beat Generation” Alan Ginsburg’s (艾伦·金斯堡)
New American voices
Writers 非裔美国女作家 华裔美国女作家 Toni Morrison托妮.莫里森 Alice Walker艾莉斯。沃克 Maxine Hong Kingston 汤亭亭 Amy Tan,谭恩美 Achievements Song of Solomon & Beloved The Woman Warrior and China Men The Woman Warrior 女勇士 China Men 中国佬 The Joy Luck Club ?喜福会? Saving Fish from Drowning 《抢救落水的鱼》
