Hemingway - Kerouac - Steinbeck

Materie:	Appunti
Categoria:	Lingue
Voto:	2 (2)
Download:	79
Data:	18.01.2001
Numero di pagine:	1
Formato di file:	.doc (Microsoft Word)

HEMINGWAY
Style
• Essential language
• Informal syntax
• Abolition of adjectives to rely on nouns to create the effect of concrete
Philosophy
• Manhood
• Prominence of action
• No abstraction and psychological analysis
• Characters are defined by their actions (they usually say little)
Themes
• Man’s reaction to extreme situations of danger
• The moment when man is defacing death
• His characters must depend upon themselves to assert their manhood
• A personal code replaces values and religion (these were dead)
• Nature is cruel, indifferent, unjust
• Man has to fight to assert his identity

STEINBECK
Style
• Large use of symbolism (certain natural images are emblems of particular themes)
Characters
• Miserable outcasts, rejects of American society
Themes
• Social realism (detail of life of outcasts)
• The poor (urban proletariat, deviates from the human conduct)
• Interest in human beings
• Men are equal and all are parts of the whole humanity where they have to integrate (socialism, no social classes)

KEROUCAC
On the road
• Road crossing the great American continent
• America as a dimension of existence that need to be explored
• Detailed description of American life

BEAT GENERATION
They’re against all the conservative values basis of social institutions, business, politics, militarism