[教育]英美文學(xué)欣賞資料-海明威

1、Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961)海明威,,life,Ernest Hemingway was born on 21st July 1899 in Oak Park near ChicagoFather: a successful physician, love fishing and hunting.Mo

2、ther:a music teacher A happy childhood: a lover of brutal(野蠻 的) sports. such as boxing and football,,though his father hoped him to be a physician. he refused to enter university, he chosed to

3、 be a reporterduring the world war one, he wanted to join the army . but was refused because of his poor eyesight. Then Hemingway came to Italy to work as an ambulance driver. He was serious

4、ly wounded in the battlefield. The nightmarish(可怕的) war experience changed his life.,,After the war, he still worked as a reporter. He was sent to Paris and knew Stein, Anderson and some other famous writers who en

5、couraged him to write.In 1961, Hemingway shot himself with gun in his home.,main Works,The Sun Also Rises (1926)《太陽照樣升起》A Farewell to Arms (1929) 《永別了，武器》For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) 《喪鐘為誰而鳴》（《戰(zhàn)地鐘聲》）The Old

6、Man and the Sea (1952) 《老人與?！?The Oldman and the Sea,But man is not made for defeat, a man can be destroyed but not defeated.,,A spokesman for the Lost Generation,The Oldman and the Sea,It was published in 1952 after the

7、 breakest ten years in Hemingway’s literary career and was the last novel published in Hemingway’s lifetime. But it was an instant success. This short novel won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and played a significan

8、t role in Hemingway’s selection for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.,Writing Style,The Nobel Prize Committee praised Hemingway had “powerful style forming mastery of the art”.Iceberg principle (冰山原則)Code hero（

9、硬漢形象）Emphasis on Emotion（情感側(cè)重）,Iceberg Principle,His sentences only give one small bit of the meaning. The rest is implied. One must go very deep beneath the surface to understand the full meaning of his writing. Certai

10、nly, there are moments when the reader feels the suggestion of vast meaning beneath Hemingway's few, spare words.,Code hero,According to this code, a man is defined by will, pride, and endurance: the endurance to acc

11、ept pain, even loss-when the loss cannot be avoided; the pride of knowing that one has done one 's best, with the courage to act truly according to one 's own nature; and the will to face defeat or victory withou

12、t whining(抱怨) on one hand or boasting on the other.,Emphasis on Emotion,He was interested in conveying a deep emotional feeling. He did have some realistic techniques, but on the whole he was not like the realistic write

13、rs because he was more interested in conveying his personal emotion. And this is the goal of many modernist writers --- recreate the feelings of the situation or experience in the reader, arouse an involuntary（自然而然的） sub

14、jective response.,Emotional Life,Hemingway had four marriages through his whole life. The unrest and painful emotional life led to his polar attitude to female directly, thus his works of female characters often lack the

15、 reality.,Suicide,Hemingway was a Christian, but suicide in Christianity is a great sin.Why did Hemingway finally chose suicide? Should be say, the despair that could not create any more was the root cause of his suici

16、de. Only the disease never enough to beat the tough man.,,The day before Hemingway‘s death, he wrote a letter to his old friend fishermen“The greatest satisfaction in one’s life is not only the income、love、marriage and f