2023年专八必备的美国文学简史 (4)

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  Chapter 4 American Naturalism

  I.Background

  1.Darwin's theory: "natural selection"

  2.Spenser's 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

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