海明威生平英文简介
Green Hills of Africa 《非洲的青山》1935 A Moveable Feast 《流动的盛宴》1964 The Dangerous Summer 《危险的夏天》1985
3 Collections of Short Stories
Three Stories and Ten Poems《三个故事和十首诗》1923 Cat in the Rain 《雨中的猫》1925 In Our Time 《在我们的时代里》1924 Men without Women 《没有女人的男人》1927 The Snows of Kilimanjaro 《乞力马扎罗的雪》1932 Winner Take Nothing 《胜利者一无所获》1933 The Fifth Column 《第五纵队》1938
Image of Cold Hero
Cold hero is the a row of images appared in Haimingwei's masterpiece,including Boxers、 Bullfighters、Soldiers、Hunters and Fishermen.They all have the unyeild character,and in face of violence 、death and unchangeable fate, They always stay calm and leisureliy and confident to show the dignity and courage of human.
During World War I ,he served as an ambulance driver on Italian front and wounded Employed by The Toronto Star《多伦多星报》 as a foreign reporter In 1921,Marrage Join in Modernism Movement in Paris In 1928,settled in Key West ,Florida In 1933, Travel to Africa for hunting
Islands in the Stream 《岛在湾流中》1970 The Garden of Eden 《伊甸园》1985 True At First Light 《曙光示真》 1999 Under Kilimanjaro 《乞力马扎罗山下》2005
2 non-fiction
Death in the Afternoon《死在午后》1932
Writing Style
Hemingway's style is characterized by crispness ,clearness and terseness. Short sentences, delightful dialogues and a painstaking hunt for an apt word or phrase to express the exact truth.
Why they are lost
World War I seemed to have destroyed the idea that if you acted virtuously, good things would happen. Many good, young men went to war and died, or returned home either physically or mentally wounded (for most, both), and their faith in the moral guideposts that had earlier given them hope, were no longer valid...they were "Lost."
Creative Narrative Ability of Modern Prose 1、Iceberg Theory 2、Telegraphic language 3 literary theme :Lost 4、Image of Cold Hero
Iceberg Theory
The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it is above the water. 冰山在海里移动很是 庄严宏伟,这是因为它只 有八分之一露在水面上。
Literary theme :Lost
1、Emotion of Anti-war 2、Feelings of lost and depressed 3、Care about the destiny of youth afetr the war 4、Break through the tradition and pursue creativity on art.
Telegraphic language
1、Simple structure, less character, sir . 2、short sentences, refined and accurate choice of words. 3、vivid description of action and concise dialogue. 4、 focus on the pursuit of an implicit and concise mood.
A man can be destroyed but not defeated
The lost Generation
Generally speaking, it refers to the people who live through the world war 1.In literature ,it refers to the Amerian writer who grow up in the war and established their fame in 1920s, include Gertrude Stein、Ernest Hemingway、F. Scott Fitzgerald、 D.H. Lawrence、T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
Masterpiece
1 long story The Torrents of Spring 《春潮》1925 The Sun Also Rises 《太阳照常升起》1926 A Farewell to Arms 《永别了,武器》1929 To Have and Have Not《有钱人与没钱人》1937 For Whom the Bell Tolls《丧钟为谁而鸣》1940 Across the River and Into the Trees《过河入林》 1950 The Old Man and the Sea《老人与海》1952
Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特· 海明威
1899 -1961
Topics for discussion
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Life Masterpiece Writing Style The Lost Generation Influence
Life
born in a small town called Oak Park in Illinois near Chicago father: a successful physician, love fishing and hunting; mother: music teacher Attended the local public schools and published his earliest stories and poems in his school newspaper Started his career as a reporter for the Kansas City Star《堪城星报》
During the Spanish Civil War, served as a correspondent fought in World War II and joined in liberation movement in Paris In 1945,Settled in Cuba In 1961,suicide
Influence
Hemingway is known as the spirit of the American nation, and the founder of "journalistic" novels, his image is called "the literary cold hero" . Hemingway's life and literary career is controversial from the very beginning. Whether as a legendary figure, or as a writer, who, with his unique artistic style and superb writing skills to create a simple 、smooth、fresh and concise style,clean up the traditional style , and hade a huge impate on the literature in Europe and America.