"for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity"
Toni Morrison
1993 "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"
John
1962 "for his realistic and imaginative writings,
Steinbeck
combining as they do sympathetic humour
and keen social perception"
Saul Bellow
1976 "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work"
“The Cask of Amontillado”
1. Warming-up Exercises:
Read the following passages and answer the questions.
Example:
1. …And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to
(5) Modern American Literature (19181945)
(6) Contemporary American Literature (1945- )
2. Three Major Themes of American Literature
(1) Sense of place or frontier (地域意识或边 疆意 识)
Ernest
1954
Miller
Hemingway
"for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces"
"for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"
"for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style"
2012年10月11日，瑞 典文学院诺贝尔奖评审委 员会宣布，中国作家莫言 获诺贝尔文学奖。评委会 的理由是“莫言的幻觉现 实主义作品融合了民间故 事、历史和当代性”，莫 言成为首个获奖的中国籍 作家。

Chinese author Mo Yan has been awarded the 2012
Questions:
1.According to the Bible, how was human created?
2. How was the first woman created?
3. From this description, what is the relationship between Adam and Eve /man and woman?
4. Have you noticed any problem concerning the relationship between man and woman?
5. What is your opinion on the relationship between man and woman?
6.When created, Adam and Eve were both naked, but why not ashamed?
★ Generally, we can interpret a literary work from the following three aspects:
(1) theme (2) writing features (3) character portrayal
Part II. Case Study: Appreciation of
Major Works by Mo Yan
《红高粱》 Red Sorghum
《檀香刑》 Sandalwood Death
《丰乳肥臀》 Big Breasts and Wide Hips
《酒国》
The Republic of Wine
《生死疲劳》 Life and Death Are Wearing
(2) Individualism or individual freedom (个 性自由)
(3) The American Dream
3. Nobel Prize Winners in American Literary History
(1) Sinclair Lewis, (6) Ernest Hemingw4. Learning Method sources of work and genre contents of the work (plot, theme, position in literary history) author’s attitude style
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
…And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
tales, history and the contemporary.”
The 57-year-old is the first Chinese resident to win
the prize. Chinese-born Gao Xingjian was honoured in
2000, but is a French citizen.
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
WHEN
WHY
1930 "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters"
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Joseph Brodsky
1978 1987
"for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life"
Hallucination: False or distorted perception of objects or events with a compelling sense of their reality, usually resulting from a mental disorder or as a response to a drug. 幻觉：对于事物或事件错误的或扭曲的看法，同时坚信 这些看法的真实性 ，它主要产生于精神错乱或药物反 应.
Nobel Prize for literature.
A prolific author, Mo has published dozens of short
stories, with his first work published in 1981.
The Swedish Academy praised his work which “with hallucinatory realism （谵妄现实主义） merges folk
7. Had Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden eternally? Why?
8. What does the “Garden of Eden” symbolize?
9. What is your comment on the eating of he forbidden apple, thus the “original sin” of human beings?
fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
(5) William Faulkner, (10) Toni Morrison, 1993 1950
Sinclair Lewis, 1930
Eugene O’Neill, 1936
Pearl Buck, 1938