General-introduction-美國文學(xué)課件

1、Introduction to American Literature Introduction to American LiteWhat to learn?General introduction to the history of American literature: basic literary concepts, important literary schools and key writers What to learn?General introducHow to learn?Read the materials assignedTake notes carefullyWri

2、te literary reviewsParticipate in discussionsAnswer questions in classPrepare for quizzesHow to learn?Read the materialGeneral-introduction-美國文學(xué)課件General-introduction-美國文學(xué)課件I. The Colonial Period: early 17th century to 18th centuryAmerican Puritanism 清教主義I. The Colonial Period: early II. The Romanti

3、c Period: basically the first half of the 19th centuryWashington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper Around the 1840s: “New England Transcendentalism”超驗(yàn)主義 (American Renaissance 文藝復(fù)興) Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David ThoreauII. The Romantic Period: basicII. The Romantic Period: basically the first ha

4、lf of the 19th centuryNathaniel Hawthorne and Herman MelvilleEdgar Allan Poe“New England poets” (schoolroom poets) William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth LongfellowII. The Romantic Period: basicIII. The Age of Realism: started from the Civil WarWalt Whitman and Emily DickinsonHarriet Beecher Stow

5、eMark TwainHenry JamesO. HenryNaturalism: from the last decade of the 19th century Stephen CraneIII. The Age of Realism: startIV. 20th-century literature (1)RealismModernismPostmodernismIV. 20th-century literature (1Realism, ModernismTheodore Dreiser 德萊賽Jack LondonUpton Sinclair辛克萊Sherwood AndersonS

6、inclair LewisWilla Cather凱瑟Edith Wharton華頓F. Scott Fitzgerald菲茨杰拉德Ernest HemingwayWilliam FaulknerRealism, ModernismTheodore DreRealism, Modernism1930s (Red Decade): Left-oriented writers John Dos Passos多斯帕索斯, James T. FarrellJohn Steinbeck斯坦貝克John Cheever奇弗J. D. Salinger塞林格Norman Mailer梅勒J(rèn)ohn Updik

7、e厄普代克Realism, Modernism1930s (Red DIV. 20th-century literature (2)Southern LiteratureJewish LiteratureBlack LiteratureBeat LiteraturePoetryDramaAvant-popIV. 20th-century literature (2AssignmentWilliam Byrd伯德Jonathan Edwards愛德華茲AssignmentWilliam Byrd伯德PoetryEdwin Arlington Robinson 魯濱遜Robert Frost 弗羅斯特1920s: Imagism意象主義Ezra Pound龐德T.S. Eliot Carl Sandburg 森德堡William Carlos WilliamsWallace StevensE. E.