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《高级汉英笔译教程》教学示范 Content Part IV The Literature of RealismIntroductionChapter 17 Harriet Beecher StoweChapter 18 Walt WhitmanChapter 19 Emily DickinsonChapter 20 Mark Twain Content Chapter 21 Henry JamesChapter 22 Kate ChopinChapter 23 O. HenryChapter 24 Theodore DreiserChapter 25 Jack LondonChapter 26 Sherwood Anderson Chapter 26 Sherwood AndersonLife and Works Brief CommentSelectionsFor Study and Discussion Chapter 3 Life and WorksSherwood Anderson (1876–1941)born in Camden, OhioHis works pay much attention to the psychological and emotional aspect of American small-town life, with emphasis on lower-class people. His works reveal the important transnational period in the American history, that is, from a rural to a predominantly industrial society.Anderson received little formal education.Chapter 26 Sherwood Anderson Chapter 26 Sherwood AndersonLife and Works Encouraged by Theodore Dreiser, Floyd Dell, Carl Sandburg, and Ben Hecht—leaders of the Chicago literary movement—he began publishing short stories in little magazines. Dell and Dreiser arranged the publication of his first two novels, Windy McPherson’s Son (1916) and Marching Men (1917), both written while he was still a manufacturer.In 1919, he published Winesburg, Ohio, his masterpiece, a collection of interrelated short stories of the “grotesque” characters he had known during his youth in Ohio.He died unexpectedly in Panama, on a trip to South America. His body was returned to the United States, where he was buried at Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. Chapter 3 Chapter 26 Sherwood AndersonBrief Comment Anderson strongly influenced American writing between World War I and II, particularly the technique of the short story. In spite of his narrow writing scope, his sensitive depictions of poverty and eccentricity, and his deceptively simple style, with its Midwestern sentences, opened new perspectives for the literature of the 20th century. As Malcolm Cowley put it, Anderson was endowed with “a g