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1、The Sad Young Men,Rod W. Horton and Herbert W. Edwards,The Sad Young Men Rod W. Ho,About the Author:Horton and Edwards are joint authors of the book,Background of American Literary Thought(1967),from which this piece is taken .,Rod W. Horton (1910-?)Born in White Plains N.Y.Instructor, New York Univ

2、ersity,(1937-45)Assistant professor (1945-49)Associate professor (1949-57)Cultural affairs officer (1957-64)Professor, Colorado University (1964-)Visiting professor, University of Brazil, Coimbra (1961-64).,About the Author:Horton and E,The Background,In 1914 , World War I broke out in Europe .In 19

3、17 , the United States entered the war against Germany , which was defeated in 1918 .After the war , the United Statess economy boomed , but prosperity did not last . A stock market crash in 1929 led to the Great Depression , a deep economic slump in the 1930s,The BackgroundIn 1914 , World,American

4、Culture in the 1920s,The decade of the 1920s is often characterized as a period of American prosperity and optimism. It was the Roaring Twenties, the decade of bath tub, gin（杜松子酒）, the model T, the $5 work day, the first transatlantic flight, and the movie. It is often seen as a period of great adva

5、nce as the nation became urban and commercial .,American Culture in the 1920s,The decade is also seen as a period of rising intolerance（偏执） and isolation: chastened（抑制） by the first world war, historians often point out that Americans retreated into a provincialism （偏狭观念）evidenced by the rise of the

6、 Ku Klux Klan(is a secret organization of white Protestant men in the U S ,which promotes violence against black people ,Jews ,and other minorities), the anti radical hysteria of the Palmer raids, restrictive immigration laws, and prohibition(禁酒）.,The decade is also seen a,Overall, the decade is oft

7、en seen as a period of great contradiction: of rising optimism and deadening cynicism（愤世嫉俗）, of increasing and decreasing faith, of great hope and great despair. Put differently, historians usually see the 1920s as a decade of serious cultural conflict.,Overall, the decade is often s,Some terms,The

8、Sad Young MenThe Lost GenerationThe Beat GenerationThe Angry Young Men,Some termsThe Sad Young Men,The Sad Young Men and The Lost Generation,Both refer to the same group of people . The first name was created by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his book All the Sad Young Men . And the second by Gertrude Stein

9、 , The remark of Gertrude Stein you are all a lost generation ,addressed to Hemingway , was used as a preface to the latters novel The Sun Also Rises which brilliantly describes an expatriate group typical of the lost generation.,The Sad Young Men and The Lost,They wre applied to the disillusioned（幻

10、想破灭的） 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(享乐主义) Significant members including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald , Ezra Pound ,Sherwood Anderson , Waldo

11、Peirce , John Dos Passos ,and T.S.Eliot .,They wre applied to the d,The Beat Generation,After World War II appeared the Beat Generation in the United States. This term was applied to certain American artists and writers who were popular during the 1950s. Essentially anarchic（无政府的）, members of the be

12、at generation rejected traditional social and artistic forms. They sought immediate expression in multiple intense experiences and beatific （极乐的） illumination like that of some Eastern religions .,The Beat Generation A,In literature they adopted rhythms of simple American speech and of so-called pro

13、gressive jazz. Among those associated with the movement were the novelists Jack Kerouac and Chandler Brossard, numerous poets (e. g. Kenneth Rexroth, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Gregory Corso), and others, many of whom had worked in and around San Francisco. During the 1960s beat idea

14、s and attitudes were absorbed by other cultural movements, and those who practiced the beat life style were called hippies.,In literature they,Long hairColorful clothesMusicDrugSex,Hippie,Long hairHippie,The Angry Young Men,At this time there appeared in England a group called the angry young men. T

15、his term was applied to a group of English writers of the 1950s whose heroes shared certain rebellious and critical attitudes towards society. This phrase, which was originally taken from the title of Leslie Allen Pauls autobiography, Angry Young Man (1951), became current with the production of Joh

16、n Osbornes play Look Back in Anger (1956).,The Angry Young Men At,The group not only expressed discontent with the staid （不动的）, hypocritical institutions of English society - the so-called Establishment - but betrayed disillusionment with itself and with its own achievements, included among the angr

17、y young men were the playwrights John Osborne and Arnold Wesker and the novelists Kingsley Amis, John Braine, John Wain, and Alan Sillitoe. In the 1960s these writers turned to more individualized themes and were no longer considered a group.,The group not only ex,The main idea of the lesson,The two

18、 American writers explain a certain period in American literary and social history. It focuses especially on the attitudes and revolt of the young people who returned from World War 1, disappointed and disillusioned. In this revolt the young intellectuals, writers and artists, stood in the van and w

19、as the most vocal group.,The main idea of the lesson,Many of these intellectuals lived abroad, especially in Paris, as expatriates, but most of them later returned to the United States voluntarily. These intellectuals were called Sad Young Men, or The lost Generation, because they were critical and rebellious. However, they were never lost because they were also very creative and productive and as this essay says: gave the nation the liveliest, freshest, most stimulating writing in its literary experience.,Many of these intel,Thank you !,Thank you !,18,以上有不当之处，请大家给与批评指正，谢谢大家！,18,