《美国文学》课件.ppt
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《美国文学》课件一
• IV. Requirements • 1. Previewing without exception • 2. Regular attendance (exception permitted only with convincing reasons) • 3. Class participation (Be active) and oral presentation
V. The Survey of Selected Readings in American Literature
• 3. In content these early writings served either God or colonial expansion or both. In form, English literary traditions were faithfully imitated and transplanted. • 4. The major representatives in this period were John Smith (1588-1649), William Bradford (1590-1657), John Winthrop (1588-1649), and Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672).
V. The Survey of Selected Readings in American Literature
Mark Twain 马克吐温 -美国文学课件
(1876) The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn (1884) Life on the Mississippi (1883)
Characteristics of Mark Twain’s works:
1. His works sum up the tradition of Western humor and frontier realism. 2. He writes about his people and his own life. 3. His greatest achievement on literature is his use of the dialect and his portrayal of the locale.
➢ “The Gilded Age”: “an age of extremes”— “of decline and progress, of poverty and dazzling wealth, of gloom and buoyant hope”.
➢ the railroad: It changed the way in which people lived and worked.
Bret Harte,“The Outcasts of Poker Flat”, “Tennessee’s Partner”
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Mary E. W. Freeman, “A New England Nun” Kate Chopin, The Awakening Mark Twain
Finn (1884) Life on the Mississippi (1883)
Characteristics of Mark Twain’s works:
1. His works sum up the tradition of Western humor and frontier realism. 2. He writes about his people and his own life. 3. His greatest achievement on literature is his use of the dialect and his portrayal of the locale.
➢ “The Gilded Age”: “an age of extremes”— “of decline and progress, of poverty and dazzling wealth, of gloom and buoyant hope”.
➢ the railroad: It changed the way in which people lived and worked.
Bret Harte,“The Outcasts of Poker Flat”, “Tennessee’s Partner”
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Mary E. W. Freeman, “A New England Nun” Kate Chopin, The Awakening Mark Twain
美国文学 课件1-puritanism清教主义
Historical background
❖ Frenchmen settled in the Northern Colonies and along the St. Lawrence River, Swedes along the Delaware, Dutch along the Hudson, Germans and Scotch-Irish in New York and Pennsylvania, and the Spanish in Florida. There were Negroes in New England, the Middle Colonies, and throughout the south; and American Indians were everywhere.
6. American Literature(Yang)
❖ 1. Putitanism (Enlightenment) ❖ 2. Romanticism(transcendatalism) ❖ 3. Realism(local colorism, naturalism) ❖ 4. Modernism(stream of consciousness, black humor…)
6. American Literature(Wu)
❖ Part I. The Literature of Colonial America ❖ Part II. The Literature of Reason and Revolution ❖ Part III. The Literature of Romanticism ❖ Part IV. The Literature of Realism ❖ Part V. Twentieth-Century Literature
《美国文学》课件song of myself 1
Beat! Beat! Drums!
• Beat! Beat! Drums! Blow! Bugles! Blow! Over the traffic of cities---over the rumble of wheels in the streets: Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the Houses? No sleepers must sleep in those beds, No bargainers' bargains by day---no brokers or speculators---would they continue? Would the talkers be talking? Would the singer attempt to sing? Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge? Then rattle quicker, heavier drums---you bugles wilder blow.
Beat! Beat! Drums!
敲吧！敲吧！鼓！--吹吧！号角，吹吧！ 没有商量的余地--用不着停下来规劝， 别在乎胆怯的--别在乎哭泣的或祷告的， 别在乎老年人向年青人求情， 别去听孩子的声音，别去听母亲的哀求， 要敲得等待入殓的死人的棺木都震颤起来， 就这样猛烈地敲，哦，可怕的鼓--就这样嘹亮 地吹，号角！
《美国文学》课件.ppt
• He was “a simple, good-natured man; he was, moreover, a kind neighbor and an obedient henpecked husband.”
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• Yet Rip was lazy and this kept him in constant trouble with his wife. His two favorite pastimes were sitting in front of the inn, talking about life with his friends, and wandering through the mountain with his dog, Wolf. On one of these trips he met a strange dwarf of a man who invited him to join him and some other strange companions in a drinking party and a game something like bowling—in a remote valley. Rip drank too much and fell asleep.
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• When he woke up, he noticed that his joints were stiff and that his beard had grown a foot long. Returning to his village, he found it changed almost beyond recognition.
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• Yet Rip was lazy and this kept him in constant trouble with his wife. His two favorite pastimes were sitting in front of the inn, talking about life with his friends, and wandering through the mountain with his dog, Wolf. On one of these trips he met a strange dwarf of a man who invited him to join him and some other strange companions in a drinking party and a game something like bowling—in a remote valley. Rip drank too much and fell asleep.
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• When he woke up, he noticed that his joints were stiff and that his beard had grown a foot long. Returning to his village, he found it changed almost beyond recognition.
美国文学ppt课件
helped create a new genre for American literature. ▪ The most famous stories of this book are Rip Van Winkle and
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
An Introduction to British and American Culture
Transcendentalists placed emphasis on oversoul as the most important thing in the universe.
An Introduction to British and American Culture
Transcendentalists
Chapter 7 Literature
Part Two American Literature
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
▪ Washington Irving was the father of American literature. ▪ His The Sketch Book is a collection of essays and tales, which
An Introduction to British and American Culture
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
An Introduction to British and American Culture
Transcendentalists placed emphasis on oversoul as the most important thing in the universe.
An Introduction to British and American Culture
Transcendentalists
Chapter 7 Literature
Part Two American Literature
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
▪ Washington Irving was the father of American literature. ▪ His The Sketch Book is a collection of essays and tales, which
An Introduction to British and American Culture
美国文学第二章浪漫主义PPT课件
times “His manner seems more important than
the matter.”
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3 The relationship between the historical & social backgrounds and his writing
>> His life:
which evoked
A bursting cry for literary expression
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• Literary Introduction 文学背景介绍
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1) The origins of American Romanticism
>> First in Germany, France, England from the middle of 18th C. against neoclassicism against rationalism
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4 Masterpieces:
Rip Van Winkle
>> The story line:
Rip Van Winkle’s extraordinary 20-yearlong sleep and his lives before and after that.
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Maste百度文库pieces:
the matter.”
•22
3 The relationship between the historical & social backgrounds and his writing
>> His life:
which evoked
A bursting cry for literary expression
•4
• Literary Introduction 文学背景介绍
•5
1) The origins of American Romanticism
>> First in Germany, France, England from the middle of 18th C. against neoclassicism against rationalism
•24
4 Masterpieces:
Rip Van Winkle
>> The story line:
Rip Van Winkle’s extraordinary 20-yearlong sleep and his lives before and after that.
•25
Maste百度文库pieces:
r.w.emerson 3美国文学爱默生课件
Thematic Concerns
• Nonconformity • Individualism 不循规蹈矩，不随波逐流 See quotes in the book…
Styles
• 1. Epigrammatic in expression of ideas • My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. • To be great is to be misunderstood.
To be great is to be misunderstood? • His reputation declines somewhat in recent years because of the cheerful optimism impregnated in his works.
• Remind readers of Longfellow
• 2) Nature is the garment of the Oversoul. “The lover of nature is he…who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood” His words remind you of whom? (Wordsworth) 儿童是成人之父
Life
• • • • Born in Boston to a clerical tradition (1803) Harvard (1817) A Unitarian minister (1826, 1829-1832) Travel around Europe (1832-1833) Wordsworth, Coleridge, Carlyle • Write essays and deliver speeches • Death (1882)
美国文学课件(Emerson and Thoreau)PPT教学课件
• He married in 1829, but his wife died in 1831.
• A year later came the great turning point in his life; he resigned his pastorate of the Second Church of Boston where he had been an effective and popular preacher, because he could not conscientiously administer the Lord’s Supper.
• Other influences on Emerson’s later thinking included
– his own Unitarian-Yankee background
– his admiration for Plato and the neo-Platonism
– his study of the sacred bocks of the East
• His addresses, presented in such series as “The Philosophy of History,” “Human Culture,” “Human Life,” and “The Present Age,” in turn furnished the basis for his later essays, which are bound together, without formal unity, into sentences that contain the quintessence of his philosophy. Among these are “Self-Reliance”, “the Over Soul,” “Compensation,” “Spiritual Laws,” “Love,” and “Friendship.”
• A year later came the great turning point in his life; he resigned his pastorate of the Second Church of Boston where he had been an effective and popular preacher, because he could not conscientiously administer the Lord’s Supper.
• Other influences on Emerson’s later thinking included
– his own Unitarian-Yankee background
– his admiration for Plato and the neo-Platonism
– his study of the sacred bocks of the East
• His addresses, presented in such series as “The Philosophy of History,” “Human Culture,” “Human Life,” and “The Present Age,” in turn furnished the basis for his later essays, which are bound together, without formal unity, into sentences that contain the quintessence of his philosophy. Among these are “Self-Reliance”, “the Over Soul,” “Compensation,” “Spiritual Laws,” “Love,” and “Friendship.”
美国文学F·Scott Fitzgerald ppt课件
Indication?
a well-crafted appearance.
美国文学Fຫໍສະໝຸດ BaiduScott Fitzgerald
• Part of Fitzgerald's strength as a writer comes from his imagistic style. His writing is very sensory感观 -oriented. What examples of sensory-oriented imagery (sight, taste, touch, smell, sound) can you find in chapter 3? What kind of atmosphere do these details help create? How do they affect you as a reader?
美国文学F·Scott Fitzgerald
Jay Gatsby— rags-to-riches success story makes him an
embodiment of the American dream, idealistic, naïve,
Daisy Buchannan Tom Buchannan Nick Carraway
美国文学F·Scott Fitzgerald
• A period of U.S. history in the 1920s noted for general prosperity, financial speculation金融投机, Prohibition, the emergence of organized crime, the popularity of jazz and the open pursuit pleasures.
a well-crafted appearance.
美国文学Fຫໍສະໝຸດ BaiduScott Fitzgerald
• Part of Fitzgerald's strength as a writer comes from his imagistic style. His writing is very sensory感观 -oriented. What examples of sensory-oriented imagery (sight, taste, touch, smell, sound) can you find in chapter 3? What kind of atmosphere do these details help create? How do they affect you as a reader?
美国文学F·Scott Fitzgerald
Jay Gatsby— rags-to-riches success story makes him an
embodiment of the American dream, idealistic, naïve,
Daisy Buchannan Tom Buchannan Nick Carraway
美国文学F·Scott Fitzgerald
• A period of U.S. history in the 1920s noted for general prosperity, financial speculation金融投机, Prohibition, the emergence of organized crime, the popularity of jazz and the open pursuit pleasures.
modernism美国文学课件
Imagism e. e. cummings Langston Hughes
Edward Arlington Robinson （1869-1935）
“one of the hinges upon which American
poetry was able to turn from the sentimentality of the 90s toward modern veracity and psychological truth.‖ --- Louise Bogan
Modernism
Poetry Fiction Drama
When?
1890 to the beginning of World War II
Where?
AN INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON
Cities: London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, New York, Chicago
This Is Just To Say
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast
Forgive me they were delicious so sweet
美国文学-惠特曼PPT课件
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O Captain! My Captain! • Background
At the end of the Civil War in 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the symbol of democracy and progress, was assassinated by the obstinate slave owners of the south. Lincoln’s death shocked the whole country. The democratic poet Whitman wrote the poetry collection Elegy Collect (including O Captain! My Captain!) to eulogize the beloved president, to confide his own sorrow at the death of the president.
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• He was “a simple, good-natured man; he was, moreover, a kind neighbor and an obedient henpecked husband.”
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• Yet Rip was lazy and this kept him in constant trouble with his wife. His two favorite pastimes were sitting in front of the inn, talking about life with his friends, and wandering through the mountain with his dog, Wolf. On one of these trips he met a strange dwarf of a man who invited him to join him and some other strange companions in a drinking party and a game something like bowling—in a remote valley. Rip drank too much and fell asleep.
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• Rip adjusted to his altered world where, “instead of being subject of his Majesty George the Third, he was now a free citizen of the United States,” who contentedly assumed the role of the village patriarch.
• Familiar landmarks were gone, his house were deserted and in ruin, and strangers were everywhere. Gradually, it was revealed to him that he had slept for twenty years. He was reunited with a married daughter, who took him to live with her.
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II. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
• 1) Where is “Sleepy Hollow” located? • (Para.1) • 2) Why is the valley called “Sleepy Hollow”?
What are the predominant characteristics of the Hollow? • (Para.1-3)
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6) How many major characters are mentioned in the “legend”? Who are they? And what’s the relationship between them? Who is the protagonist? And who is the antagonist?
work—the puritan attitude as opposed to the American desire for leisure; • 3) the theme of escape from one’s responsibilities and even one’s history; • 4) the loss of identity. Each of these themes is woven together throughout the tale.
Lecture Six “Rip Van Winkle” and“The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow”
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• I. Summary and Analysis of “Rip Van Winkle”
• Rip lived in an old Dutch village at the foot of the Catskill Mountains, within view of the Hudson River, in the period when “the country was yet a province of Great Britain.”
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• Approaches to Rip and the story’s theme: • 1) the story of man who has difficulties facing his
advancing age; • 2) the contradictory impulses in America toward
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3) What does “this legendary superstition” refer to? (Para. 2) 4) What is “the general purport of this legendary superstition”? (Para. 3—Para. 4)
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5) Is the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” the story of the Headless Horseman? If not, what does the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” deal with?
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• When he woke up, he noticed that his joints were stiff and that his beard had grown a foot long. Returning to his village, he found it changed almost beyond recognition.
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• Yet Rip was lazy and this kept him in constant trouble with his wife. His two favorite pastimes were sitting in front of the inn, talking about life with his friends, and wandering through the mountain with his dog, Wolf. On one of these trips he met a strange dwarf of a man who invited him to join him and some other strange companions in a drinking party and a game something like bowling—in a remote valley. Rip drank too much and fell asleep.
4
• Rip adjusted to his altered world where, “instead of being subject of his Majesty George the Third, he was now a free citizen of the United States,” who contentedly assumed the role of the village patriarch.
• Familiar landmarks were gone, his house were deserted and in ruin, and strangers were everywhere. Gradually, it was revealed to him that he had slept for twenty years. He was reunited with a married daughter, who took him to live with her.
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II. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
• 1) Where is “Sleepy Hollow” located? • (Para.1) • 2) Why is the valley called “Sleepy Hollow”?
What are the predominant characteristics of the Hollow? • (Para.1-3)
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6) How many major characters are mentioned in the “legend”? Who are they? And what’s the relationship between them? Who is the protagonist? And who is the antagonist?
work—the puritan attitude as opposed to the American desire for leisure; • 3) the theme of escape from one’s responsibilities and even one’s history; • 4) the loss of identity. Each of these themes is woven together throughout the tale.
Lecture Six “Rip Van Winkle” and“The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow”
1
• I. Summary and Analysis of “Rip Van Winkle”
• Rip lived in an old Dutch village at the foot of the Catskill Mountains, within view of the Hudson River, in the period when “the country was yet a province of Great Britain.”
5
• Approaches to Rip and the story’s theme: • 1) the story of man who has difficulties facing his
advancing age; • 2) the contradictory impulses in America toward
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3) What does “this legendary superstition” refer to? (Para. 2) 4) What is “the general purport of this legendary superstition”? (Para. 3—Para. 4)
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5) Is the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” the story of the Headless Horseman? If not, what does the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” deal with?
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• When he woke up, he noticed that his joints were stiff and that his beard had grown a foot long. Returning to his village, he found it changed almost beyond recognition.