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soaring science and technology, various social problems, like pollution, Feminism, etc.
• Representative works and figures: • Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
• Social: • Literature is all-encompassing. • Literature is a conversation across the ages about our
experience and our nature, a conversation in which… there is a surprising breadth of agreement. Literature amounts… to the accumulated wisdom of the race, the sum of our reflections on our own existence. It begins with observation, with reporting, rendering the facts of our inner and outer reality with acuity sharpened by imagination. –Myron Magnet
• Novel: (flourishing ) • • • • • • The lost generation: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises; The Old Man and the Sea Southern Renaissance: William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Go Down, Moses
• • • • • • •
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self-reliance Henry David Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass Emily Dickinson: (concise diction and syntax, abundant in images) • Nathaniel Hawthorn: The Scarlet Letter • Herman Melville: Moby Dick • Edgar Allen Poe: The Raven
Romanticism (18001865)
• Events: • Literature of America itself setting off; social
industrialization and urbanization; West Expansion; exaltation of the individual; the civil war(1860-1865)
• e.g. John Smith’s A Map of Virginia: With a Description of the Country • Anne Bradstreet: the first American female poet
Literature of Reason and Revolution (1765-late 18th. C.)
What is literature?
• • Etymological: derived from the Latin word “litterae”[pl] which means “letter”. It originally means the art of anything written, not bound to published sources. • man of letters • Illustrative: • “Written compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and analyze and advocate ideas.”
History of American Literature & Selected Readings
Episode 1: Introduction
Outline
What is literature? The spiritual grains of American Literature Brief Timeline of American Literature
• 2. The summit characterized by “New England
Transcendentalism” –American Renaissance • “…the importance of intuition, the exaltation of individual over society, the new and thrilling delight in nature, fascination with the Gothic and the ‘Oriental’, and the desire to build a national literature and culture.”
• • • Toni Morrison: Beloved J.D.Salinger: Catcher in the Rye Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club
Assignment
• Get yourself into a group of 4 or four 5.
• Altogether there will be 10 groups each of which is to present a report on a certain artist. • The artists are as follows: • Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Autobiography • the representative of American spirit: efforts and pioneering spirit • Thomas Jefferson: one of the founding fathers of America • Declaration of Independence : “…unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
• Representative works and figures: • 1. The early period:
• Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip Van Winkle • James Fenimore Cooper: The Leather Stocking Tales •
Harlem Renaissance: (the rise of African-American literature) • Langston Hughes: The Weary Blues
Contemporary literature (1945-)
• Events: • The aftermath of the Second World War; the worry over
Modernism (1918-1945)
• Events:
• The impact of First World War and Second World War; the Great Depression in the 1930’s;
• Representative works and figures:
Events • The victory of War of Independence in 1783; the
downturn of Puritanism and the rising of reason
• Representative works and figures: • Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richards’s Almanac;
Realism (1865-1918) • Events: • First World War; the burgeoning social problems;
influences from French naturalism
• Representative works and gures:
• Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; • Adventures of Tom Sawyer (sarcastic novels, Initiation story) • Henry James: The Portrait of a Young Lady’s (Psychoanalytic novel) • Jack London: The Call of the Wild • Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie; American Tragedy
• Poetry: • Ezra Pound : The Cantos (imagism) • Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken” (full of life, truth and wisdom) • Drama: • Eugene O’Neill: Desire Under the Elm
• Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, • Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, • William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, • Ralph Ellison, Arthur Miller
Spiritual Grains
• Puritanism: disciplined and simple life, confident hope,
rigid rules
• Individualism: freedom, striving for their ideals, selfreliant, introspection, pioneering (American Dream) --Experimental in literary techniques/ traditions
Colonial Period: (about 1607 to 1765)
• Events: • the first permanent settlement at Jamestown, Virginia in
1607; the continuance of Puritanism
• Representative works and figures: • Journals and manuals,
• Multi-cultured: racial and cultural conflicts, especially
the racial issue of the WASP and African Americans
Brief Timeline
•Colonial Period: (about 1607 to 1765) Literature of Reason and Revolution (1765-late 18th. C.) Romanticism (1800-1865) Realism (1865-1918) Modernism (1918-1945) Contemporary literature (1945-)
• Representative works and figures: • Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
• Social: • Literature is all-encompassing. • Literature is a conversation across the ages about our
experience and our nature, a conversation in which… there is a surprising breadth of agreement. Literature amounts… to the accumulated wisdom of the race, the sum of our reflections on our own existence. It begins with observation, with reporting, rendering the facts of our inner and outer reality with acuity sharpened by imagination. –Myron Magnet
• Novel: (flourishing ) • • • • • • The lost generation: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises; The Old Man and the Sea Southern Renaissance: William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Go Down, Moses
• • • • • • •
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self-reliance Henry David Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass Emily Dickinson: (concise diction and syntax, abundant in images) • Nathaniel Hawthorn: The Scarlet Letter • Herman Melville: Moby Dick • Edgar Allen Poe: The Raven
Romanticism (18001865)
• Events: • Literature of America itself setting off; social
industrialization and urbanization; West Expansion; exaltation of the individual; the civil war(1860-1865)
• e.g. John Smith’s A Map of Virginia: With a Description of the Country • Anne Bradstreet: the first American female poet
Literature of Reason and Revolution (1765-late 18th. C.)
What is literature?
• • Etymological: derived from the Latin word “litterae”[pl] which means “letter”. It originally means the art of anything written, not bound to published sources. • man of letters • Illustrative: • “Written compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and analyze and advocate ideas.”
History of American Literature & Selected Readings
Episode 1: Introduction
Outline
What is literature? The spiritual grains of American Literature Brief Timeline of American Literature
• 2. The summit characterized by “New England
Transcendentalism” –American Renaissance • “…the importance of intuition, the exaltation of individual over society, the new and thrilling delight in nature, fascination with the Gothic and the ‘Oriental’, and the desire to build a national literature and culture.”
• • • Toni Morrison: Beloved J.D.Salinger: Catcher in the Rye Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club
Assignment
• Get yourself into a group of 4 or four 5.
• Altogether there will be 10 groups each of which is to present a report on a certain artist. • The artists are as follows: • Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Autobiography • the representative of American spirit: efforts and pioneering spirit • Thomas Jefferson: one of the founding fathers of America • Declaration of Independence : “…unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
• Representative works and figures: • 1. The early period:
• Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip Van Winkle • James Fenimore Cooper: The Leather Stocking Tales •
Harlem Renaissance: (the rise of African-American literature) • Langston Hughes: The Weary Blues
Contemporary literature (1945-)
• Events: • The aftermath of the Second World War; the worry over
Modernism (1918-1945)
• Events:
• The impact of First World War and Second World War; the Great Depression in the 1930’s;
• Representative works and figures:
Events • The victory of War of Independence in 1783; the
downturn of Puritanism and the rising of reason
• Representative works and figures: • Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richards’s Almanac;
Realism (1865-1918) • Events: • First World War; the burgeoning social problems;
influences from French naturalism
• Representative works and gures:
• Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; • Adventures of Tom Sawyer (sarcastic novels, Initiation story) • Henry James: The Portrait of a Young Lady’s (Psychoanalytic novel) • Jack London: The Call of the Wild • Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie; American Tragedy
• Poetry: • Ezra Pound : The Cantos (imagism) • Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken” (full of life, truth and wisdom) • Drama: • Eugene O’Neill: Desire Under the Elm
• Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, • Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, • William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, • Ralph Ellison, Arthur Miller
Spiritual Grains
• Puritanism: disciplined and simple life, confident hope,
rigid rules
• Individualism: freedom, striving for their ideals, selfreliant, introspection, pioneering (American Dream) --Experimental in literary techniques/ traditions
Colonial Period: (about 1607 to 1765)
• Events: • the first permanent settlement at Jamestown, Virginia in
1607; the continuance of Puritanism
• Representative works and figures: • Journals and manuals,
• Multi-cultured: racial and cultural conflicts, especially
the racial issue of the WASP and African Americans
Brief Timeline
•Colonial Period: (about 1607 to 1765) Literature of Reason and Revolution (1765-late 18th. C.) Romanticism (1800-1865) Realism (1865-1918) Modernism (1918-1945) Contemporary literature (1945-)