英文小说作品赏析

英语文学作品赏析-2019年精选文档英语文学作品赏析《呼啸山庄》,文如其名,充斥着暴风雨怒吼咆哮的声音,这些声音喊出了人物的命运,传递出文章的思想。

英文短篇小说作品赏析

• elements of fiction literary (what is a short story？)
  • the blind man(literature)
    • Defamilirized
    • buried meanings
    • literature is a performance of words
  • elements
    • 1. an artful and creative reworking of words
    • 2.can tied different meanings to different readers
    • 3. another layer of meaning which is of central importance
    • 4.reader produces own idea
  • Early Autumn
    • Langston Hughes (melancholy poetic quality)
    • mordern short story authors often
      • resort to slice of life method of presentation
      • provide an opportunity for the reader to relive an episode of daily life
    • Is there a clear message？
      • a good writer seldom preaches or lecture
    • style&narration
      • the minimalist style& the detached narration
• The author, the narrator and the reader
  • The author
    • the implied author≠the real author
  • the reader
    • both receiver and contributor
  • the narrator
    • the naive narrator
      • doesn′t fully understand the significance of the story he is tellin
        • creates a special literary effect between his limited understanding and the reader's better understanding
    • the unreliability due to
      • bias
      • deceitfulness
      • intentional withholding
    • the first person&the second person&the omniscient narrator&the limited omniscient narrator
  • a piece of yellow soap
    • features of Sargeson's style of writing
      • the working-class language
      • the minimalistic narration
      • the use of a naive first-person narrator
    • a symbol of poverty and despair
      • 30s great depression
• character and characterization
  • intro
    • hero&anti-hero
    • protagonist&anti-protagonist
    • round&flat character
    • foil:a supporting character(comparison/contrast)
    • direct characterization&indirect
      • direct: gives a summary of the character′s traits and qualities
      • indirect: inaction with little explicit comment/from within a character'mind
  • Miss Brill
    • Mansfield
      • high modernism : less well-structured, rich in psychological observation
      • the stream of consciousness
• Symbol
  • Intro: is characteristically arbitrary and multi-layered
  • conventional symbol(reinforce)
  • private symbol(enrich and add depth and subtlety）
  • Araby
    • James Joyce
    • epiphany
    • Darkness:the boy′ world/make the love more intenst/love is blind
      • the boy in need of and craving for illumination and enlightenment/he is incapable of distinguishing fantasy and reality
    • Araby
      • enchantment
      • the girl
      • dream world
      • but a simple market
      • a vanity fair
• romanticism
  • the lady or the tiger
    • Frank Stockton
    • romantic characteristics
      • bold imagination
      • mythical setting
      • exotic character
      • archaic language
      • bizzare plotting
      • suspended ending
  • intro: take nature and individual emotion as essential source of intuition
  • glorify the common as a revolutionary artistic perception
• irony
  • Setting and Theme
    • the setting
      • influence the character
      • affect or reflect their emotional state
      • create a mood for the story
      • reinforce the central ideas
    • theme
      • the author's implication
      • some comments on values in human nature and conduct
    • The Discus Thrower
      • Richard Selzer
        • writing of medical professionals，who share humanity in their professional experience
      • theme of the story
        • the tension between the limited span of life and the dignity of life
  • irony
    • a useful device for giving stories many unexpected twists and turns
    • function
      • create humor
      • add an element of surprise to a story
      • develop a story's theme
    • type
      • verbal irony
        • occurs when a speaker's intention is the opposite of what he or she is saying
      • dramatic irony
        • occurs when the reader or the audience knows a key piece of information that a character in the story does not
      • situational irony
        • occurs when the actual result of a situation is totally different from what one would expect the result to be
  • The Story of an Hour
    • Kate Chopin
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• story and plot
  • story&plot
    • story: what then？（ordering)
    • plot: why so? (causality)
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  • A White Heron
    • Jewett
      • regional writer
      • nature writer
      • Bird conservation movement
      • precursor of the Women's movement
    • theme: human interest vs. heart to heart with nature
      • Were the birds better friends than their hunter might have been, who can tell?