A_2Farewell_to_Arms(教案)概要1.ppt

A Farewell to Arms----Ernest Hemingway Contents Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms Conclusion Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist、 writer and journalist. the Lost Generation” He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Life journey a reporter for the Kansas City Star after graduating from high school in 1917 ; an ambulance driver in France and in the Italian infantry a correspondent during the Spanish Civil War awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. committed suicide by shooting himself. Writing features characterized by economy and understatement; His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an idea described as “grace under pressure”; literary style, influenced by Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein , is direct, terse, and often monotonous; Hemingway referred to his style as the iceberg theory Iceberg Theory If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. --Ernest Hemingway in Death in the Afternoon . 2. In his writing the facts float above water; the supporting structure and symbolism operate out-of-sight .By presenting a very ordered surface for the reader, the reader is able to examine the chaos and complexity with a fairly clear head. Main Works The Sun Also Rises (1926): 《太阳照常升起》 A Farewell to Arms (1929): 《永别了，武器》 For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940): 《丧钟为谁而明》 The Old Man and the Sea (1952): 《老人与海》 A Farewell to Arms a semi-autobiographical novel a first-person account of American Frederic Henry The title is taken from a poem by 16th-century English dramatist George Peele. its publication cemented his stature as a modern American writer. 100 best E