高英Lesson10Book2TheSadYoungMen精.ppt

Unit 10 The Sad Young Men by Rod W. Horton Herbert W. Edwards Teaching Points I. Background knowledge II. Introduction to the passage III. Text Analysis IV. Rhetorical devices V. Questions I. Background Knowledge A. The Author ----Rod W.Horton (1910-) Born in White Plains N.Y. Instructor, New York University,(1937-45) Assistant professor (1945-49) Associate professor (1949-57) Cultural affairs officer (1957-64) Professor, Colorado University (1964-) Visiting professor, University of Brazil (1954-56) Visiting professor, University of Coimbra (1961-64) Publications: Backgrounds of American Literary Thought (1952) Backgrounds of European Literature (1954) I. Background Knowledge B.??Some terms: --The Sad Young Men --The Lost Generation --The Beat Generation --The Angry Young Men The Sad Young Men and The Lost Generation refer to the same group of people. The former was created by F. Scott Fitzgerald; the latter, by Gertrude Stein. They were applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following the First World War, who rebelled against former ideals and values, but could replace them only by despair or cynical hedonism. After WWII appeared The Beat Generation in US. It wasapplied to certain American artists and writeres who were popular during the 1950s. During the 1960s “beat” ideas and attitudes were absorbed by other cultural movements, and those who practiced the “beat” life style were called “hippies”. At this time there appeared in England a group called The Angry Young Men. This term was applied to a group of English writers of the 1950s whose heroes shared certain rebellious and critical attitudes towards society. I. Background Knowledge C.??Other literary figures: --Gertrude Stein --E. Hemingway -- Puritan Morality 1.