红色英勇勋章 斯蒂芬·克莱恩.ppt

红色英勇勋章 斯蒂芬·克莱恩
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1. Biography
Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American novelchool magazine, the Vidette.
—— Crane entered Lafayette College as a mining engineering student, but he did not regularly attend class.
1891 —— Crane transferred to Syracuse University and became a Syracuse correspondent for the New York Tribune. He also began to writing “Maggie: A Girl of the Street”. In June he
quit college.
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1892 —— Five of Crane’s Sullivan County Sketches appeared in the New York Tribune in July, and his first New York city sketch titled “The Broken-Down Van” was published. However, the Tribune fired Crane for writing a bitterly sarcastic article on the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
1893 —— Although Maggie: A Girl of the Streets was rejected by several publisher; Crane published himself under the pseudonym Johnston Smith. He began writing The Red Badge of Courage.
1894 —— Crane sold an abridged version of The Red Badge of Courage to Bachelor-Johnson Syndicate for ninety dollars, and it first appeared in the Philadelphia Press. Crane’s other short stories and social sketches appeared in the Arena and New York Press.
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1895——Crane embarked on an American West and Mexico trip while writing special articles for the Bachelor-Johnson Syndicate. He published a free verse volume titled The Black Riders and Other Lines.
Appleton published the complete version of The Red Badge of Courage; it became a best seller and won a large following in England.
1896——Crane’s George’s Mother, a revised version of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, and his first short story collection titled The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War were published.
1897——Attempting to carry contraband to Cuban rebels, Crane and the vessel the Commodore were shipwrecked off the Florida coast; these experiences caused him to write The Open Boat.
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1898——Crane reported during th