英美文学常识【6】
As hemingway put it, "courage is grace under pressure ".译作临危不惧。
the sound and fury 喧哗与躁动 by faulkner
background：南方的迅速崩溃、第一次世界大战的冲击和战后美国社会“迷惘”思潮的蔓延，促使他对传统作出反思，面对现实作出新的思考，揭去南方精神遗产的美丽外衣，看到了南方奴隶制的罪恶，种植园主的腐败、残酷和非人性的一面
a story of： “lost innocence”
A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto -- of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized -- is one of the greatest moments in literary history.
chaucer is depicted as the new bourgeois women asserting her independence which named the wife of birth.
Emily dickinson' poem are short,rarely more than 20 lines.
the last two decade of theodore dreiser 25-45
9. In 1925 Dreiser's greatest work [[An American Tragedy]] appeared. But it was banned in Boston in 1927.
2. During the last two decades of his life Dreiser turned away from fiction and involved himself in political activities and debating writing.
3. In 1927 he accepted an invitation to visit Russia and wrote Dreiser Looks at Russia the following year.
4. He joined the Communist Party shortly before his death in 1945.
This Side of Paradise wirten by fitzgerald 基于他和他妻子的经历写就的
What is Point of View? POV 视角
The narrative style, or point of view (sometimes called the PoV), is the direction from which the story is being told, and the way you’re choosing to communicate that with the reader. In other words, the point of view is what determines “who” is telling the story. Some stories are told from only one character’s point of view, while others are told from many different ones, or even points of view of a narrator who is outside of the story being told.
One of henry james‘ literary techniques 【innovated （to cater for（有利于） this for psychological emphasis）（心理侧重点？）】 is his narrative point of view.
