霍桑及作品介绍.pptx

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,#,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Writings,Literary style and themes,Criticism,Selected works,Novels,Short story collections,Selected short stories,【18041864】,Contradictions in his thoughts,Conservative Aesthetic theory,His writing mainly focuses on the dark side of the society and human nature,Revealing the characters psychological states,Writings,Literary style and themes,Hawthornes works belong to,romanticism,or,more specifically,dark romanticism,cautionary tales that suggest that guilt,sin,and evil are the most inherent natural qualities of humanity.Many of his works are inspired by,Puritan New England,combining historical romance loaded with symbolism and deep psychological themes,bordering on surrealism.His depictions of the past are a version of historical fiction used only as a vehicle to express common themes of ancestral sin,guilt and retribution.His later writings also reflect his negative view of the Transcendentalism movement.,Hawthorne was predominantly a short story writer in his early career.Upon publishing,Twice-Told Tales,however,he noted,I do not think much of them,and he expected little response from the public.,Hawthorne also wrote nonfiction.In 2008,The Library of America selected Hawthornes A Collection of Wax Figures for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime.,Criticism,Edgar Allan Poe wrote important and somewhat unflattering reviews of both,Twice-Told Tales,and,Mosses from an Old Manse,.Poes negative assessment was partly due to his own contempt of allegory and moral tales,and his chronic accusations of plagiarism,though he admitted,“,The style of Hawthorne is purity itself.His tone is singularly effectivewild,plaintive,thoughtful,and in full accordance with his themes.We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth.,Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that Nathaniel Hawthornes reputation as a writer is a very pleasing fact,because his writing is not good for anything,and this is a tribute to the man.Henry James praised Hawthorne,saying,The fine thing in Hawthorne is that he cared for the deeper psychology,and that,in his way,he tried to become familiar with it.Poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote that he admired the weird and subtle beauty in Hawthornes tales.,Evert Augustus Duyckinck said of Hawthorne,Of the American writers destined to live,he is the most original,the one least indebted to foreign models or literary precedents of any kind.,Contemporary response to Hawthornes work praised his sentimentality and moral purity while more modern evaluations focus on the dark psychological complexity.Beginning in the 1950s,critics have focused on symbolism and didacticism.,Novels,The Scarlet Letter,红字,(1850),The House of the Seven Gables,带七个尖角阁的房子,(1851),The Blithedale Romance,福谷传奇,(1852),The Marble Faun:Or,The Romance of Monte Beni,玉石雕像,(1860)(as,Transformation:Or,The Romance of Monte Beni,UK publication,same year),The Dolliver Romance,(1863)(unfinished),Septimius Felton;or,the Elixir of Life,(Published in the Atlantic Monthly,1872),Doctor Grimshawes Secret:A romance,(unfinished),with Preface and Notes by Julian Hawthorne(1882),Selected works,Short story collections,Twice-Told Tales,故事重述,(1837),Grandfathers Chair,祖父的椅子,(1840),Mosses from an Old Manse,古屋青苔,(1846),The Snow-Image,雪影,(1852),A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys,(1852),Tanglewood Tales,探戈林故事,(1853),The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces,(1876),The Great Stone Face,人面巨石,(1889),The Celestial Railroad and Other Short Stories,Selected short stories,Roger Malvins Burial“,罗杰,麦尔文的葬礼,(1832),“My Kinsman,Major Molineux”,我亲戚莫里纽克斯上校,(1832),“Young Goodman Brown“,好小伙子布朗,(1835),“Wakefield”,维克菲尔德,(1835),“The Ambitious Guest”,有抱负的来客,(1835),“The Ministers Black Veil”,教教长的黑面纱,(1836),“The Maypole of Merry Mount“,欢乐山的五月柱,(1837),“The Great Carbuncle“,大红宝石,(1837),“Dr.Heideggers Experiment”,海德格大夫的实验,(1837),A Virtuosos Collection(May 1842),“The Birth-Mark”,胎记,(March 1843),“Egotism or The Bosom-Serpent“,利己主义或胸中的蛇,(1843),“Rappaccinis Daughter”,拉普尼奇的女儿,(1844),Thanks for your attention,