Презентация на тему "American Literature"

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  American Literature

  20th century

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   The Great Gatsby  by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)  An American Tragedy  by TheodoreDresier (1925)  For whom the bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1926)  The Sound and the Fury  by William Faulkner (1929)  The Tropic of Cancer  by Henry Miller (1934)  Gone with the Wind  by Margaret Mitchell (1936)  The Pearl  by John Steinbeck (1939)  All the King’s Men  by Robert Penn Warren (1946)  The Naked and the Dead  by Norman Mailer (1948)  The Catcher in the Rye  by J.D. Salinger (1951)  Herzog  by Saul Bellow (1953)  Fahrenheit 451 byRay Bradbury (1953)  To Kill a Mockingbird  by Harper Lee (1960)   Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov (1958)

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  Depression-eraliterature Depression eraliteraturewasbluntanddirectinitssocialcriticism. John Steinbeck (1902–1968). Hisstylewassimpleandevocative, winninghimthefavorofthereadersbutnotofthecritics. Steinbeckoftenwroteaboutpoor, working-classpeopleandtheirstruggletoleadadecentandhonestlife.  Henry Miller assumedauniqueplaceinAmericanLiteratureinthe 1930s whenhissemi-autobiographicalnovels, writtenandpublishedinParis, werebannedfromthe US. HismajorworkisTropic of Cancer .

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  Post–WorldWarII TheperiodintimefromtheendofWorldWar II upuntilthelate 1960s andearly 1970s sawthepublicationofsomeofthemostpopularworksinAmericanhistorysuchas To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.   ThoughborninCanada, Chicago-raised Saul Bellow wouldbecomeoneofthemostinfluentialnovelistsinAmericainthedecadesdirectlyfollowingWorldWar II. In HerzogBellowpaintedvividportraitsoftheAmericancityandthedistinctivecharacters.  

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  From J.D. Salinger's  The Catcher in the Rye , theperceivedmadnessofthestateofaffairsinAmericawasbroughttotheforefrontofthenation'sliteraryexpression.   Immigrantauthorssuchas Vladimir Nabokov, with Lolita, forgedonwiththethemeand  tookaconcertedstepawayfromtheir Lost Generation predecessors, developingastyleandtoneoftheirown.  

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  NobelPrizeinLiteraturewinners 1930: Sinclair Lewis (novelist) 1936: Eugene O'Neill (playwright) 1938: Pearl S. Buck (biographerandnovelist) 1948: T. S. Eliot (poetandplaywright) 1949: William Faulkner (novelist) 1954: Ernest Hemingway (novelist) 1962: John Steinbeck (novelist) 1976: Saul Bellow (novelist) 1978: Isaac BashevisSinger (novelist, wroteinYiddish) 1980: Czesław Miłosz (poetandessayist, wroteinPolish) 1987: Joseph Brodsky (poetandessayist, wroteinEnglishandRussian) 1993: Toni Morrison (novelist)