专八人文知识美国文学简史

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　　#0000ff>专八人文知识：美国文学简史(五)

　　Chapter 4 American Naturalism

　　I.Background
　　1.Darwins theory: "natural 0selection"
　　2.Spensers idea: "social Darwinism"
　　3.French Naturalism: Zora

　　II.Features
　　1.environment and heredity
　　2.scientific accuracy and a lot of details
　　3.general tone: hopelessness, despair, gloom, ugly side of the society

　　III.significance
　　It prepares the way for the writing of 1920s’
　　“lost generation” and T. S. Eliot.

　　IV.Theodore Dreiser
　　1.life
　　2.works
　　(1)Sister Carrie
　　(2)The trilogy: Financier, The Titan, The Stoic
　　(3)Jennie Gerhardt
　　(4)American Tragedy
　　(5)The Genius

　　3.point of view
　　(1)He embraced social Darwinism – survival of the fittest. He learned to regard man as merely an animal driven by greed and lust in a struggle for existence in which only the "fittest", the most ruthless, survive.
　　(2)Life is predatory, a "game" of the lecherous and heartless, a jungle struggle in which man, being "a waif and an interloper in Nature", a "wisp in the wind of social forces", is a mere pawn in the general scheme of things, with no power whatever to assert his will.
　　(3)No one is ethically free. everything is determined by a complex of internal chemisms and by the forces of social pressure.

　　4.Sister Carrie
　　(1)Plot
　　(2)Analysis

　　5.Style
　　(1)Without good structure
　　(2)Deficient characterization
　　(3)Lack in imagination
　　(4)Journalistic method
　　(5)Techniques in painting