Презентация, доклад по литературе Англии на тему Жизнь и творчество Роберта Льюса Стивенсона

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Literary trends Stevenson belongs to
Stevenson’s place in English literature

narrative style, a command of bold characterization, and the capacity to envelop adventurous exploits or personal tensions in an atmosphere of moral earnestness, Stevenson is one of Scot’s successors (and it was his pride to be such).

native Scotland. This is partly because he quarreled with his parents, partly because he was a natural wanderer and partly because the Scottish climate was bad for his health.
Stevenson was born a story-teller, he was also an accomplished poet, essayist, playwright and writer of letters and travel books – a literary all-rounder.

(famous lighthouse builders). He was of a very delicate health as a boy, and his schooling was constantly interrupted. He deliberately schooled himself and very early in his life was determined to be a writer.
First, to please his family, he took up engineering (University of Edinburgh), and even wrote articles on the subject.
Then he tried law.

the bar before he gave it up too. By that time, he was a victim of tuberculosis. The rest of his life is the store of a constant fight with the disease.
He traveled to Belgium and France for his health’s sake and in 1896 he met an American, Fanny Osborne, who was 11 years older than himself and separated from her husband.

wishes of his parents, followed her to America, where he awaited for granting of her divorce. His journey to California was a difficult one, and his first months of marriage, being poor and sick, were no less difficult.
The couple returned to Scotland in 1880. Stevenson reconciled with his parents.
On medical advice the Stevensons spent ten years in different Europeans health resorts.

One of the most famous is the Land of Counterpane


And sometimes sent my ships in fleets
All up and down among the sheets;
Or brought my trees and houses out,
And planted cities all about.

I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane.

When I was sick and lay a-bed,
I had two pillows at my head,
And all my toys beside me lay
To keep me happy all the day.

And sometimes for an hour or so
I watched my leaden soldiers go,
With different uniforms and drills,
Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;

most famous story, “Treasure Island” in Scotland and then, completed it in Switzerland. The book was a great delight to his stepson, for whom he wrote it.
“The 100 advance payment that it earned him was the first big sum of money that he had made”
Most of the works Stevenson was famous for were written during 1880s.

significant works were appearing:
Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882)
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
Treasure Island (1883)
The Dynamiter (1885)
Prince Otto(1885)
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekill and Mr Hyde (1886)
Kidnapped(1886)
The Merry Men (1886)
The Black Arrow (1886)

was followed by a collection of his poetry “Underwoods” (1887), and the volume “Memories and Portraits” (1887). , the last containing his popular essay, “A Gossip on Romance” (1887).

at Saranac Lake , after which he regained his forces and felt well to travel again. He decided to travel to Samoa by sailing boat through the South Pacific. He wanted to prolong his life.
He left Europe for ever.
Finding the climate and the people of Samoa suited him well, he settled there and bought an estate. The last five years of his life were happy and productive.

life. His last books are:
Across the Plains (1892)
The Ebb Tide (1894)
Songs of Travel (1896)
The Vailima Letters (1895)
Letters to his Family and Friends (1899)

straining to open a bottle of wine he suddenly felt to the ground and died within a few hours, probable of cerebral hemorrhage, at the age of 44.
The natives insisted on surrounding his body with a watch-guard during the night and on bearing their StoryTeller (as the called him “Tusitala”) to the tops of the cliffs overlooking the sea where he was buried.

as a neo-romanticist. Neo-romanticism was a trend in literature which came into being at the end of the 19th century. The writers of this literary trend turned to the past or described exotic travels and adventures.
Stevenson was attracted to the romance of adventure and freedom, of risky undertakings in lonely seas and exotic countries.

but the rise of modern literature in the early twentieth century pushed him out of favor.
A neo-Romanticist, Robert Louis Stevenson was a prominent Scottish author and poet, who contributed immensely to English literature in his lifetime. Many modernist writers canned his ideas and works and it is only lately that critics have started to gauge his popularity and have allowed him an ineffaceable place in the world of western literature.

the world’ and has served as an inspiration for writers like Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling and Jorge Luis Borges.
He was not just a novelist, but a literary wizard tangled in the productions of his craft, its locale and its depth. An astute spectator of humanity, his work discloses his sagacious mind and always successfully manages to build a rapport with the reader through elegiac flair and expression.

the life events influence on the creative activity of the author?
Speak upon the most significant books of the writer
Why do the critics relate Stevenson to the “School of W. Scoot”?
What are the reasons to consider the writer as one of the worthy figures in English literature?

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