英美文学研读复习提要
About authors: 第1页F. Scott Fitzgerald; Robert Burns; 第7页Emily Dickinson; 第2,3页 Eugene O'Neill; 第3页Shakespeare. (life、career and major works)----第4页Literary Items:Fiction has 4 genres 5页What is Criticism? NOVEL Symbol and symbolism Figurative language 6页蜂蜜核桃仁
* Leaves of Grass:Cavalry Crossing a Ford is a famous poem by Walt Whitman (1819-1892). A poem in Leaves of Grass. 1900. 扫尘
* Robert Burns Jan. 25th, 1759~ July. 21st, 1796,Scotland.选择
耳朵的形状Poet, Lyricist, Farmer, Exciman----Never went to school, learned by himlf-----a pioneer of the Romantic movement
a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism.----He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is
also in English and a "light" Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. "Auld Lang Syne" is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and according a traditional folk song . The song's Scots title may be translated into English literally as "old long since", or more idiomatically(惯用地), "long long ago", "days gone by" or "old times". Conquently "For auld lang syne", as it appears in the first line of the chorus, might be looly translated as "for (the sake of) old times".
* The famous novels F. Scott Fitzgeral are: 1.The Great Gatsby 2.This Side of Paradi 3. Tender Is the Night .选择
怎么都快乐The Jazz Age was a term coined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and was a feature of the 1920s (ending with The Great Depression) when jazz music and dance became popular.----This occurred particularly in the United States, but also in Britain, France and el where. ----Jazz played a significant part in wider cultural changes during the period, and its influence on pop culture continued long afterwards.
* Eugene O'Neill was America's greatest playwright and was also known as American Sh
akespeare.Eugene O'Neill was the first American dramatist to ever receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1936). -----Life and Career -----A great playwright, a tragic life---Son of a traveling actor---One year at Princeton---Life as a aman---1912, TB, start of career as a playwright---1920, first full-length play put on Broadway---1936, Nobel Prize, ---4 Pulitzer Prizes (1920，1922，1928，1957)Eugene O'Neill: The early period (1913-1919)Period of apprenticeship ---Bound East for Cardiff （1916）《东航卡迪夫》his first play, marking the beginning of O'Neil's long and successful dramatic career and ushered(引导，进入) in the modern era of the American theatre. Eugene O'Neill: The early period (1913-1919):Features: a life, one-act plays,romanticism, naturalism, realism, 模糊
性病的前兆Comment on Eugene O'Neill大题
O'Neill was a tireless experimentalist in dramatic art. He took drama away from the old traditions of the last century and rooted it deeply in life.2.He was the first playwright to explore rious themes in the theatre and to carry out his continual, vigorous, courageou
s experiments with theatrical conventions. His plays have been translated and staged all over the world.3 He won Pulitzer Prize four times (1920, 1922, 1928, 1956) and the Nobel Prize in 1936 for his achievements in plays. 4 As the nation's first playwright with 47 published plays, he did a great deal to establish the modes of the modern theatre in the country. 5.O'Neill's cealess experimentation enriched American drama and influenced later playwrights as Tenne Williams and Edward Albee.
Themes of Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neil
Human Regression by Industrialization
The resounding theme of The Hairy Ape is the effect of industrialization and technological progress on the worker. Industrialization has reduced the human worker into a machine. As a whole, the play is a clo investigation of this regressive pattern through the character Yank-the play marks his regression from a Neanderthal on the ship to an actual ape at the zoo.
The Frustration of Class
Mildred and Yank are reprentative of the highest and lowest societal class-as Long would term it, the bourgeois and the proletariat. However, while Mildred and Yank's lifestyles are extremely different, they share similar complaints about class. Class limits and determines both Mildred and Yank's financial resources, educational opportunities, outlook on life, and culture. The Hairy Ape reveals how deeply and rigidly class is inscribed into American Culture and the cultural and financial boundaries it erects.
* Main features of Shakespeare:
迟到大王绘本故事a. one of the founders of realism in world literature as well as in English literature;b. the great success in character creations in vividness and intensity in emotional and psychological depth;c. the psychological probing of the characters inner conflict;d. the adroit plot construction conflict;e. skilled in many poetic forms;f. a great master of English language;g. the summit of the English Renaissance and one of the great writers the world over
Shakespearean SonnetThe sonnet is the requirement of every experienced poet. You m
ust write one! Shakespearean Sonnet,or English Sonnet,It is fourteen lines of rhymed iambic pentameter. It is divided into three quantrains and a couplet,rhyming abab/ cdcd /efef/ gg.
The first 12 lines po a problem, ask a question, or t up a situation.The couplet at the end solves the problem, answers the question or ttles the situation.
