1/What are major features of Hemingway’s writing style?
(1) he may be classified to the school of Naturalism——scientific obrvation of life, without idealism.
(2) 装饰装修管理办法Iceberg theory of writing: lean/economical style:
(3) Colloquial style: influences by Mark Twain
(4) Symbolism/ stream of consciousness
(5) Theme: grace under pressure; war and its effect upon people耳聋耳鸣咋治
(6) Code hero: Henry Jack Barn, Satiago
(7) 室内有氧运动Simple ntence, nature, direct, fresh, clear
【His ntences are short and simple; language is vigorous and positive in colloquial style; gorgeous adjectives are avoided; words are concrete, specific and more commonly found, c
asual and conversational. Apparently natural as his style ems to be, his style is deliberate and polished. Its simplicity can be disastrously deceptive, as it is highly suggestive and connotative and capable of offering layers of undercurrent of meaning. Iceberg theory: one eighth is above the water; all of the rest is underneath the water. Hemingway’s strength lies in his short ntences and very specific details in his restraint and understatement. In his opinion, a writer has got to catch “the whiteness of the bone”, to catch the one specific thing and bring it to life and make it vivid for the readers and leave everything el out.】
2/discuss Faulkner’s theme, style and point of view.
point of view水蜜桃公主
He generally shows a grim picture of human society where violence and cruelty are frequently included, but his later works showed more optimism. His intention was to show the evil, harsh events in contrast to such eternal virtues as love, honour, pity, compassion, lf-sacrifice, and thereby expo the faults of society. He felt that it was a
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writer’s duty to remind his readers constantly of true values and virtues.
themes
(1) history and race
He explains the prent by examining the past, by telling the stories of veral generations of family to show how history changes life. He was interested in the relationship between blacks and whites, especially concerned about the problems of the people who were of the mixed race of black and white, unacceptable to both races.
(2) Deterioration
(3) Conflicts between generations, class, races, man and environment
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(4) Horror, violence and the abnormal
Style / features of his works
(1) complex plot
(2) he ud the device of stream of consciousness
曹禺的作品(3) he ud multiple point of view and a circular form instead of a linear structure.
(4) The violation of chronology in the narrative structure is matched by a violation of everyday language habits in Faulkner’s pro style.
(5) courtroom rhetoric: formal language
(6) He stresd authorial transcendence to avoid authorial intrusion in narration and characterization
(7) “anti-hero”: weak, fable, vulnerable (true people in modern society)
(8)His pro varies from colloquial, regional, to formal diction and cadences(声调)of American speech.
(9) “despair” and “doom” are the frequent motifs in a world of racial exploitation and violence, civil wars, macabre murders, suicides, labor pains, etc.
(10 ) Faulkner not only provided the reader with more than external events and details, he also probed the inner lives of tho who are living in the South and trying to cope with the problems of a society in decline and transition.
He has a group of women writers following him, including O’Connor and Eudora Welty
3/what’s the difference between Henry James’ realism and Mark Twain’s realism?
Although James and Twain both worked for realism, there were obvious differences between them. In thematic terms, James wrote mostly of the upper reaches of American society, whereas Mark Twain dealt largely with the lower strata of society. Technically, James pursued the Psychological realism, but Mark Twain's contribution to the development of realism and to American literature as a whole was partly through his theories of Local Colorism in American fiction, and partly through his colloquial style.
Henry James believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator, and not in any facts of which the spectator is unaware, such realism is therefore merely t
he obligation that the artist assumes to reprent life as he es it, which may not be the same life as it "really" is. James shifted the ground of realistic art from the outer to the inner world.
Mark Twain preferred to reprent social life through portraits of local places which he knew best. He drew heavily from his own rich fund of knowledge of people and places. He confined himlf to the life with which he was familiar. By quoting from his own experience, Mark Twain managed to transform into art the freedom and humor, in short, the finest elements of western culture.龙遇
4/in connection with American Romanticism, how do you understand the “newness” of the American as a nation?
