美國(guó)文學(xué)的五個(gè)時(shí)期

1、美國(guó)文學(xué)主要分為五個(gè)時(shí)期The Literature in Colonial PeriodThe Literature Around the Revolution of IndependenceAmerican RomanticismAmerican RealismAmerican ModernismEarly Colonial Literature. 1607-1700The Literature of Colonial AmericaPuritan Thoughts: (The Mayflower voyage 1620) “Puritans”, named after those who

2、 wished to “purify” the church of England.The First American Writer: Captain John SmithAnne Bradstreet: (1612-1672) One of the most important figures in the history of American Literature. She is considered by many to be the first American poet. Her first collection of poems The Tenth Muse Lately Sp

3、rung Up in America The first book written by a woman to be published in the United States. Edward Taylor (1642-1729)?The best of the Puritan poets THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURYThe literature of Reason And RevolutionThe Age of Reason in AmericaThe Age of EnlightenmentThe 18th-century American Enlightenment

4、was a movement marked by an emphasis on rationality rather than tradition, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of monarchy. Enlightenment thinkers and writers were devoted to the ideals of justice, liberty, and equality as the natural r

5、ights of man.Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)Americas first great man of letters,He embodied the Enlightenment ideal of humane rationality.He was the first great self-made man in America.Franklins Poor Richards Almanac, begun in 1732 and published for many years, made Franklin prosperous and well-known

6、 throughout the colonies.God helps them that help themselves. Early to Bed, and early to rise, makes a Man healthy, wealthy, and wise. One To-day is worth two tomorrow.The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is an inspiring account of a poor boys rise to wealth and fame and the fulfillment of the Ame

7、rican dream.It is a book on the art of self-improvement.Thomas Paine (1737-1809)Thomas Paines pamphlet Common Sense (Jan. 10, 1776) sold over 100,000 copies in the first three months of its publication.Common Sense is often regarded as the greatest of the Revolutionary pamphlet.The American Crisis (

8、1776-1783)Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) The Declaration of IndependencePOET OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONPhilip Freneau (1752-1832)“Poet of the American Revolution”“Father of American Poetry”Among his best lyrics are “The Wild Honey Suckle” (1786) on morality and “The India Burying Ground” (1788) on the

9、 imagined afterlife.He became one of the most outstanding representatives of dawning nationalism in American literature.Noah Webster（1758-1843）1786: the independence of politics as well as literatureSamuel Johnson - first combine an English dictionary, last neoclassicist enlightenerA Dictionary of t

10、he English LanguageThe literature of Romanticism 美國(guó)文學(xué)的第一次繁榮Washington Irving (1789-1859)Father of American literatureThe central figure in the American literary world between 1809 and the Civil War, esp. after the publication of his Sketch Book.The first prose stylist of American Romanticism a very

11、good example of an American romantic.He wrote for pleasure and to produce pleasure.He was the first American man of letters to support himself as a professional writer.He was the first American author to win international recognition, and was extreme popular in Europe.The Sketch Book of Geoffrye Cra

12、yon (Irvings pseudonym) contains his two best remembered stories, “Rip Van Winkle（瑞普-凡-溫克爾） and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)Cooper was the first important writer to be critical of the United Sates.The first successful American novelistHe stands rather as the originat

13、or of the novel of adventure in American literature, and is frequently termed the American Scott.“ The Leather-Stocking Talesthe Deerslayer(1841)the Last of the Mohicans(1826),the Pathfinder(1840),the Pioneers(1823)The Prairie(1823)The Leather-Stocking Tales is the life of Natty Bumppo.Natty Bumppo,

14、 Coopers renowned literary character, embodies his vision of the frontiersman as a gentleman, a Jeffersonian natural aristocrat.The essential American soul D. H. LawrenceThe first American hero of this type.Natty is the first famous frontiersman in American literature and the literary forerunner of

15、countless cowboy and backwoods heroes.William Cullen Bryantfirst of our American classic poetsOne of Americas earliest naturalist poetsThe American WordsworthHe writes the poem Thanatopsis in 1811.To a Waterfowl. The vagueness and religious ambiguities of the poem were the major themes.Edgar Allan P

16、oe (1809-1849)The Fall of the House of UsherThe RavenAnnabel LeeTo HellenThe Purloined Letter被竊的信件The first literary critic The Philosophy of CompositionThe Poetic PrincipleGothic styleFather of Detective novelsThemes 1. death predominant theme in Poes writing “Poe is not interested in anything aliv

17、e. Everything in Poes writings is dead.” 2. disintegration (separation) of life 3. horrorRalph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)The towering figure of his era, had a religious sense of mission.He was one of the greatest essayists in the country.Nature (1836) has been called “the manifesto of American transc

18、endentalism”“The American Scholar” (1837) has been called “Americas Declaration of Intellectual Independence” Self-RelianceHenry David Thoreau (1817-1862)Thoreaus masterpiece, Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854), is the result of two years, two months, and two days (from 1845 to 1847) he spent livin

19、g in a cabin he built at Walden Pond on property owned by Emerson.Walden is a spiritual book. Its seen as a classic of American prose, a book of essays put together, exploring subjects concerned with Nature, with the meaning of life, and with morality.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)Many of Hawthorne

20、s stories are set in Puritan New England.Gothic novelsHis greatest novel, The Scarlet Letter (1850), has become the classic portrayal of Puritan America.Hawthornes reputation rests on his other novels and tales as well. In The House of the Seven Gables (1851), he again returns to New Englands histor

21、y.My Kinsman, Major Molineux“Young Goodman Brown Herman Melville (1819-1891)Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, Melvilles masterpiece, is the epic story of the whaling ship Pequod and its ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab, whose obsessive quest for the white whale Moby-Dick leads the ship and its men to des

22、truction.Moby-Dick has been called a natural epic - a magnificent dramatization of the human spirit set in primitive natureBilly BuddHenry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)The most important Boston Brahmin（婆羅門(mén)） poets were Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.Lon

23、gfellow, professor of modern languages at Harvard, was the best-known American poet of his day.He was the only American poet to be honored by having his bust placed in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey.He wrote three long narrative poems popularizing native legends in European metersEvangeline (

24、1847),The Song of Hiawatha (1855), - the first American epic in blank verse about the American IndiansThe Courtship of Miles Standish (1858).Walt Whitman (1819-1892)His Leaves of Grass (1855), which he rewrote and revised throughout his life, contains Song of Myself, the most stunningly original poe

25、m ever written by an American.Leaves of Grass is as vast, energetic, and natural as the American continent; it was the epic generations of American critics had been calling for, although they did not recognize it.O Captain! My Captain!I hear America Singing“free verse” (1) no fixed rhyme or scheme (

26、2) parallelism, a rhythm of thought (3) phonetic recurrence (4) the habit of using snapshots (5) the use of a certain pronoun “I” (6) sentences catalogue technique: long list of names, long poem linesEmily Dickinson (1830-1886)nun of AmherstBecause I Cant Stop for DeathI Heard a Fly Buzz When I died

27、Theme: friendship, love and marriage, life and deathstyle (1) poems without titles (2) severe economy of expression (3) directness, brevity (4) musical device to create cadence (rhythm) (5) capital letters emphasis (6) short poems, mainly two stanzas (7) rhetoric techniques: personification make som

28、e of abstract ideas vividHarriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)Harriet Beecher Stowes novel Uncle Toms Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly was the most popular American book of the 19th century.Reasons for the success of Uncle Toms Cabin are obvious. It reflected the idea that slavery in the United States, t

29、he nation that purportedly embodied democracy and equality for all, was an injustice of colossal proportions.The literature of Realism(1865-1918)The Civil War The First World WarLocal ColoristsNew England:Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)South:Joel Chandler Harris (1848 -1908)Kate Chopin(1851-1904) The

30、AwakeningWest frontiers: Bret Harte - The Luck of Roaring CampRealists1. ThemeHowells middle class /James upper class /Twain lower class2. TechniqueHowells smiling/genteel realism /James psychological realism /Twain local colorism and colloquialismWilliam Dean Howells (1837-1920)Dean of American Rea

31、lismoptimistic realismInterpreting sympathetically the “common feelings of commonplace people” was best suited as a technique to express the spirit of America.The Rise of Silas LaphamHenry James (1843-1916)Novel of manners 世態(tài)小說(shuō)Psychological analysis, forefather of stream of consciousnessPsychologica

32、l realismDaisy MillerThe Portrait of a LadysThe Wings of the DoveThe Golden BowlSAMUEL CLEMENS (MARK TWAIN) (1835-1910)Ernest Hemingways famous statement that all of American literature comes from one great book, Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, indicates this authors towering place in the tra

33、dition.Twain was the first major author to come from the interior of the country, and he captured its distinctive, humorous slang and iconoclasm.The most well-known example is Huck Finn, a poor boy who decides to follow the voice of his conscience and help a Negro slave escape to freedom, even thoug

34、h Huck thinks this means that he will be damned to hell for breaking the law.Twains masterpiece, which appeared in 1884, is set in the Mississippi River village of St. Petersburg.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Adventures of Tom SawyerLife on the MississippiThe Innocents AbroadThe Prince and t

35、he PauperNaturalistsStephen CraneJack LondonFrank NorrisTheodore DreiserUpton Sinclair muckrakers 黑幕揭發(fā)者 The Jungle Chicago 屠場(chǎng)Stephen Crane (1871-1900)Cranes Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) is one of the bestThe Red Badge of CourageJack London (1876-1916)Other of his best-sellers, including The

36、Call of the Wild (1903) and The Sea-Wolf (1904) made him the highest paid writer in the United States of his time.The autobiographical novel Martin Eden (1909) depicts the inner stresses of the American dream as London experienced them during his meteoric rise from obscure poverty to wealth and fame

37、.Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)Sister CarrieThe 1925 work An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser explores the dangers of the American dream. the greatest novel in AmericaAn American Tragedy is a reflection of the dissatisfaction, envy, and despair that afflicted many poor and working people in Americ

38、as competitive, success-driven society.The Literature of Modernism(1918 1945)a flowering period of American literature.the second renaissance of American literature.The Roaring Twenties/Dollar Decade/Jazz AgeThe Great DepressionWorld War IIChicago PoetsCarl Sandburg (1879-1967)American SongbagChicag

39、o PoemsThe People, YesHart Crane(1899-1932) The BridgeImagistsEzra Pound (1885-1972) - father of modern American poetry.The CantosAmy LowellWilliam Carlos Williams (1883-1963)Red Wheelbarrow紅色手推車(chē)Wallace StevensNew England PoetsRobert Frost (1874-1938)A Boys Wish；North of Boston (Mending Wall,After A

40、pple-picking);Mountain Interval（成熟階段）(The Road Not taken);Edward Arlington RobinsonMiniver Cheevy - comicRichard Cory tragicO. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862-1910) O. HENRY O. Henry is the pen name of William Sydney Porter.The master of the surprise endingwas a prolific American short-story wri

41、terwrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. A twist of plot, which turns on an ironic or coincidental circumstance, is typical of O. Henrys stories.The Gift of the MagiWilla Cather (1873-1947)Alexanders BridgeMy AntoniaO Pioneers!The Professors HouseThe Song of the LarkBackground In

42、formation about the period between the two world warsMany historians have characterized the period between the two world wars as the United States traumatic coming of ageDespite outward gaiety, modernity, and unparalleled material prosperity, young Americans of the 1920s were the lost generation - s

43、o named by literary portraitist Gertrude Stein.F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940),His first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), became a best- sellerFitzgeralds secure place in American literature rests primarily on his novel The Great Gatsby (1925), a brilliantly written, economically structured stor

44、y about the American dream of the self-made man. The protagonist, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, discovers the devastating cost of success in terms of personal fulfillment and love.Tender Is the Night (1934)Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)All the Sad Young Men (1926).Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)Hemingway is

45、 arguably the most popular American novelist of this century.Like Fitzgerald, Hemingway became a spokesperson for his generation - the lost generation of cynical survivors.The Sun Also Rises, about the demoralized life of expatriates after World War I; - brought him fameA Farewell to Arms, about the

46、 tragic love affair of an American soldier and an English nurse during the war;For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), set during the Spanish Civil War The Old Man and the Sea (1952), a short poetic novel about a poor, old fisherman who heroically catches a huge fish devoured by sharks, won him the Pulitzer

47、 Prize in 1953; the next year he received the Nobel Prize.code heroes - grace under pressureiceberg principleWilliam Faulkner (1897-1962)The Sound and the FuryAs I Lay DyingA Rose for EmilySherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Winesburg, OhioThe Triumph of the Eggsouthern women writers：Katherine Anne Porter

48、，Eudora Welty，F(xiàn)lannery OConnor.John Steinbeck (1902-1968)He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963 and the international fame it confers.His best known work is the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which follows the travails of a poor Oklahoma family that loses its fa

49、rm during the Depression and travels to California to seek work. Family members suffer conditions of feudal oppression by rich landowners.Of Mice and Men (1937), and East of Eden (1952).Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)Main StreetBabbittEugene ONeill (1888-1953)Beyond the HorizonLong Days Journey Into Nigh

50、tMourning Becomes ElectraThe Iceman ComethDesire Under the ElmsThe Hairy Ape Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)The Glass MenagerieA Streetcar Named DesireCat on a Hot Tin RoofArthur Miller (1915- ) All My SonsDeath of a SalesmanThe CrucibleEdward Albee a. Zoo Story b. Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Black Humor - Joseph Heller (1923- ) Catch-22根據(jù)第二十二條軍規(guī)，既然是瘋子就可以獲準(zhǔn)免于飛行，但必須由本人提出申請(qǐng)；不過(guò)，第二十二條軍規(guī)同時(shí)又規(guī)定，凡能意識(shí)到飛行有危險(xiǎn)而提出免飛申請(qǐng)的，屬頭腦清醒者，應(yīng)繼續(xù)執(zhí)行飛行任務(wù)。第二十二條軍艦還規(guī)定，飛滿(mǎn)三十二駕次的人可以不再執(zhí)行任務(wù)，當(dāng)尤索林滿(mǎn)懷期望地飛滿(mǎn)三十二架次時(shí)，卡思卡特上校又把規(guī)定任務(wù)改為四十次，五十次你還必須服從，否則就不準(zhǔn)回國(guó)。最后，尤索林終于明白了，第二十二條軍規(guī)原來(lái)是一個(gè)永遠(yuǎn)擺脫不掉的圈套，是一個(gè)無(wú)法逾越的障礙。整個(gè)世界都由這個(gè)可以隨意解釋的第二十二條軍規(guī)統(tǒng)治著，就象天羅地網(wǎng)一樣，把你牢牢罩住