,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,2020/10/8,#,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,#,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,2020/10/8,#,Unit 16 A,Clean Well-lighted Place,Earnest Hemingway(1899-1961),Unit 16 A Clean Well-lighted,1,Contents,Hemingway:Life,and His Literary Career,Background,The,Lost Generation,Nihilism,and Existential Nihilism,Understanding,the Text,Writing,skills:Showing and Telling,Characterization,Metaphors,and symbols,Theme,and,Motif,Follow-up Assignment,ContentsHemingway:Life and H,2,Hemingway was born on July 21 in,Oak Park,Illinois,one of six children,in the family.His father was a highly,respected doctor who was fond of hunting,cooking,and fishing.His mother was a,singer and music teacher.Both parents,expected their son to excel and he complied.,He was an excellent student at high school,and wrote short stories for the school paper,and literary magazines.,Life,and,Literary,Career,Hemingway was born on July,3,美国文学选读ppt课件Unit-16-Ernest-Hemingway,4,After graduation from Oak Park High school in 1917,he chose not to go to college.Instead he left home and worked briefly for the,Star,as a reporter in Kansas City.The short simple sentences characteristic of his prose style might have come from such experience.When America entered WWI in 1917,he wanted to take part in it.But the American Army rejected him because of his poor vision in one eye.So he volunteered first as an ambulance driver in France,and then as a soldier in the Italian infantry in 1918.Shortly after he arrived at the front,about three weeks,he was wounded on both legs and sent to an Italian hospital.During his six-month stay in the hospital,he fell in love with an English nurse.,After graduation from Oak P,5,美国文学选读ppt课件Unit-16-Ernest-Hemingway,6,In 1919 Hemingway returned home to complete his recovery.He met Hadley Richardson and married her in 1921.as soon as he was fully recovered,they left for Paris where he worked as a correspondent covering wars and fighting for the,Toronto Star,a Canadian newspaper and as an assistant for an American literary magazine.But his real purpose was to write his own stories.,In 1919 Hemingway returned,7,Hemingway met Gertrude Stein,Ezra Pound,and Sherwood Anderson in Paris who encouraged him to pursue literary career.With their help he published his first collection of fifteen short stories,In Our Time,in 1925,portraying the world of adulthood as an arena of danger and violence.In 1926 he published his first novel,The Torrents of Spring,(,春天的激流,),but,The Sun Also Rises,about the disillusionment of the lost generation was an immediate success,partly because it was so sharply attacked by many conservative critics and shocked most other readers.,Life,and,Literary,Career,Hemingway met Gertrude Stein,8,美国文学选读ppt课件Unit-16-Ernest-Hemingway,9,This novel contrasts the empty search for sensation by American expatriates in Paris with the rich Spanish tradition as epitomized in bullfighting.With the success of,A Farewell to Arms,he firmly established his reputation as a great American writer.This novel shows that not only war threatens people,but the very texture of life itself involves violence and death.By then he had surpassed Fitzgerald,even one of his mentors,Gertrude Stein.,This novel contrasts the empty,10,During the 1930s he wrote less because he had a strong desire for adventure.This desires took him to watch bull-fights.He saw in the bull-fight as a brutal physical force,a symbol of what life is all about.,Man versus nature,.,He also loved deep-sea fishing near Cuba,big games hunting in the far east of Africa and other such exotic physical masculine athletic pursuits,always put an emphasis on,athletic power,.He created for himself a sensational public image:,big game hunter,deep sea fisherman,bullfight aficionado,and roistering drinker,.,During the 1930s he wrote less,11,美国文学选读ppt课件Unit-16-Ernest-Hemingway,12,Grace under Pressure,Grace under Pressure,13,In 1936 he took part in the Spanish,Civil War as a journalist,firmly on,the Republican side against Fascist,Franco.He predicted that the Spanish,Civil war would be a prelude to the,Second World War.His experience,there provided material for his novel,For Whom the Bell Tolls,with the theme that the loss of freedom,anywhere is a diminution of it everywhere.,This is a love story of great appeal,and this,is also a war novel containing the message,that all liberals must help each other and act,collectively,if good is to endure.Then he,traveled to China as a journalist and reported,on the Japanese invasion and then returned,to Cuba.,In 1936 he took part in the,14,In 1952 he published,The Old Man and the Sea,a parable of inner strength and courage about a Cuban fishermans struggle to bring home a great marlin he has caught.,This short novel highlights the theme that a man can be destroyed but not defeated.,The,Nobel Prize was awarded to him in October,1954 with the following defensive statement:for his powerful style-forming mastery of th