review American__ Literature 美国文学复习提纲.ppt
2023/2/11,1,American literature-a general review,2023/2/11,2,Colonial period(16071765)Period of Independent War(17651800)The Age of Romanticism(18001865)The Age of Realism(18651918)American Modernism(19181945)Contemporary period(1945-),American literary history,2023/2/11,3,Pay attention to 1.the important literary terms of each period2.representatives and masterpieces in each period,2023/2/11,4,.Literature of Colonial Period(1607-1765),Understand:1.Terms:Puritanism:origin,4 doctrines,relationship with American literature2.writers:Anne Bradstreet:the first American woman writer,2023/2/11,5,II Revolutionary Period(17651800),Benjamin Franklin the first person to pick out American dream and the 1st writer to write autobiography,the first self-made American)Thomas Paine:Common sense Thomas Jefferson:Declaration of Independence,2023/2/11,6,Period of Romanticism,Washington Irving(Father of American literature):The Sketch Book,“Rip Van Winkle”,“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”James Fenimore Cooper:The Leather-stocking TalesHenry Wadsworth LongfellowWilliam Cullen BryantRalph Waldo Emerson(the founder of transcendentalism):Nature,“Self Reliance”,The Poet,“The American scholar”Henry David Thoreau:Walden,2023/2/11,7,Walt Whitman(the pioneer of American poem revolution):“Leaves of Grass”,“Song of myself”“O,Captain!My Captain!”Emily Dickinson:“Im Nobody”Edgar Allan Poe:“The Raven”,“Annabel Lee”,“To Helen”Nathaniel Hawthorne:The Scarlet Letter Herman Melville:Moby Dick,2023/2/11,8,Period of Romanticism,Terms:Romanticism Transcendentalism Oversoul Free verse Puritanism Original sin,2023/2/11,9,The Age of Realism(p59),Henry James(p64):Daisy Miller,The Portrait of A LadyMark Twain(p75):The Adventures of Tom Sawyer;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(Hemingway once said that all modern American literature comes from the book written by Mark Twain)Sherwood Anderson(p70):Winesburg,Ohio,2023/2/11,10,Stephen Crane(p88):The Red Badge of Courage.Theodore Dreiser(p92):Sister Carrie An American Tragedy The Trilogy of Desire Frank Norris:The OctopusJack London:The Call of the Wild,The Age of Realism-Naturalism(p85),2023/2/11,11,Terms in this period,RealismLocal ColorismTall TaleNaturalism,2023/2/11,12,Modernism Poetry,Ezra Pound(the founder of imagism movement)(p103):The Cantos In A Station of the MetroT.S.Eliot(Nobel Prize winner)(p106):The Waste Land(William said that the publishment of The Wasted Land like an atom,destroy our world.)The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock“Wallace Stevens(p108):Anecdote of the JarRobert Frost(p113):The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on A Snowy Evening,2023/2/11,13,Modernism Fiction,F.Scott Fitzgerald(spokesman of Jazz Age)(p124):This Side of Paradise:The Great Gatsby Tender Is the Night The Last TycoonErnest Hemingway(p120)(Nobel Prize winner,typical writer of lost generation):The Old Man and the Sea;The Sun Also Rises;A Farewell to Arms;For Whom the Bell TollsShort story:A Clean Well-lighted PlaceWilliam Faulkner(Nobel Prize winner)(p197):(Yoknapatawhpa County)The Sound and the Fury;Light in August;Abslom,Abslom,Go down,Moses John Steinbeck(130):The Grapes of Wrath;Of Mice and Men,2023/2/11,14,Important terms in Modern Period,ModernismImagism The Lost GenerationThe Jazz Age American dream Stream of Consciousness Code heroIceberg theory Black Humor,
