狄更斯英文课件演讲英美文学讲课讲稿.ppt

狄更斯英文课件演讲英美文学Life（1812-1870）In 1812-born at Portsmouth,where his father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office.He is the second of the eight children.In 1816-his family moved to Chatham,and the five years he spent there were the happiest of all his boyhood.In 1821-the Dickens family moved to a poor quarter in London.MR.Dickens was heavily in debt and did not know which way to turn for money.Finally,Mr.Dickens was taken to the Marshalsea Prison,London,for debt.Shortly afterwards Mrs.Dickens and the younger children went to the prison too.In 1824-Meanwhile the 12 years old Charles ,weak and sensitive,was sent to work in an warehouse(仓库)at a blacking factory in the East End of London.Work there began at eight in the morning until eight at night.Then his fortune took a turn for the better.He left the blacking factory and studied at school again.vAfter work,he learned shorthand and visited the British Museum Library,filling up his gaps in his education by reading.Then he became a Parliamentary reporter for newspapers.Thus Dickens gained a first-hand knowledge of the parliamentary government under capitalism and he never wavered in his understanding of it as an instrument for wielding and disguising the power of the upper classes.In 1830,he met his first love,Maria Beadnell.This courtship ended with Marias parents disapproval.vIn1834 he was taken on the staff of a newspaper and went all over the country getting news,writing stories,meeting people and learning about life in general.In 1836,he married Catherine Thomson Hogarth,and had 10 children.In 1858,he divorced Catherine and then lived secretly with an actress Ellen TernenCharles Dickens dies by stroke on June 9,1870 and he was buried at Westminster Abbey in the Poets Corner.Dickens was honored by the Queen of England three months before his death.vThe words of his grave read as follows“by his death one of Englands greatest writers is lost to the world.”The Pickwick Papers(1836)-匹克威克外传 Oliver Twist(1837-1839)-雾都孤儿 Dombey and Son(1846-1848）-董贝父子David Copperfield(1849-1850)-大卫科波菲尔Bleak House(1852-1853)-荒凉山庄 Little Dorrit(1855-1857）-小杜丽A Tale of Two Cities(1859)-双城记Great Expectations(1861)-远大前程Our Mutual Friend(1864-1865)-我们共同的朋友 Edwin Drood(1870)-埃德温德鲁德 Major WorksvA Tale of Two CitesDavid CopperfieldGreat ExpectationsHard TimesThe Pickwick PapersOliver TwistWriting StylevHis writing style is marked by a profuse linguistic creativity.Satire,flourishing in his gift for caricature(夸张的描述)is his forte.His literary style is also a mixture of fantasy and realism.v His satires of British aristocratic snobberyhe calls one character the“Noble Refrigerator”are often popular.Comparing orphans to stocks and shares,people to tug boats,or dinner-party guests to furniture are just some of Dickenss acclaimed flights of fancy（异想天开）.vHe is humorous and witty.Character-portrayal is the most distinguishing feature of his works.Authors frequently draw their portraits of characters from people they have known in real life.Among a vast range of various characters,marked out by some peculiarity in physical traits,speech or manner,are both types and individuals.vHis art with fun humor,nuanced psychological analysis,and descriptive realism,romantic atmosphere.vDickens expose and criticize in his works all the poverty,injustice,hypocrisy and corruptness he sees all around him.vDickenss novels offer a most complete and realistic picture of the English bourgeois society of his age.vHis novels tell much of the experiences of his childhood.And almost all his novels have happy endings.vThe best he can do seems to try to retain an optimism with wishful thinking,as in his early works,or to express a helpless indignant protest.At the same time,he hopes to call peoples attention to the existing social problems,thus affecting some reform.CommentsvMarx and his reputation as the UK and other Thackeray,a group of distinguished novelist,His work has been praised for its mastery(精通)of prose（散文）and unique personalities by writers such as George Gissing,Leo Tolstoy and G.K.Chesterton.However,Henry James and Virginia Woolf criticised his work for sentimentality and implausibility（难以置信）.Karl Marx asserted that Dickens.“Outstanding novelist,issued to the world more political and social truths than have been uttered by all the professional politicians,publicists and moralists put together.George Bernard Shaw even remarked that Great Expectations was more seditious than Marxs own Das Kapital Thank you此课件下载可自行编辑修改，仅供参考！此课件下载可自行编辑修改，仅供参考！感谢您的支持，我们努力做得更好！谢谢感谢您的支持，我们努力做得更好！谢谢