美国文学史海明威PPT学习教案.pptx

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美国文学史海明威
The Iceberg Theory
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The Hemingway Code Hero
The Lost Generation
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Lecture Keywords
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The Lost Generation <term>
The Lost Generation refers to, in general, the post-WWI generation, but specifically a group of expatriate (移居国外的) disillusioned intellectuals and artists, who experimented on new modes of thought and expression by rebelling against former ideals and values and replacing them only by despair or a cynical hedonism(享乐主义).
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The Lost Generation <term>
Representatives:
Francis Scott Fitzgerald 菲茨杰拉德
Ezra Pound 庞德
William Faulkner 福克纳
Ernest Hemingway 海明威
Sherwood Anderson 舍伍德·安德森
John Dos Passos 约翰·多斯·帕索斯
Gertrude Stein 格特鲁·德斯泰因
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The Hemingway Code Hero
It refers to some protagonists in Hemingway's works.
Life: full of tension and battles
The world: in chaos
Man: always fighting desperately a losing battle.
“The Hemingway code“: a set of principles such as honor, courage, endurance, wisdom, discipline and dignity.
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Motto
DP: “Exactly what do you mean by ‘guts’?”
EH: “I mean, grace under pressure.”
--Ernest Hemingway
(an interview with Dorothy Parker,
New Yorker,
30 November,1929)
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Traits
He does not talk about what he believes in. He expresses himself not in words, but in actions. 
No matter how tragic the ending is, they will never be defeated.
Finally, they will prevail because of their indestructible spirit and courage.
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The Iceberg Theory <term>
“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about ,he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them.
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The Lost Generation <term>
The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow