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[ 美国⽂文学选读 ]!Ⅰ. Authors and their worksAlice Walker The Color PurpleAllen Ginsberg HowlA Supermarket in CaliforniaArthur Miller All My Sons!Death of a Salesman!A View from the Bridge!The Misﬁts!The Archbishop’s Ceiling!The Crucible!After the Fall!The Price!Situation Normal!The Man Who Had All the Luck!A memory of Two Mondays!The American Clock!Archibald MacLeish The Happy MarriageThe Poet of EarthConquistadorArs PoeticaTowers of IvoryStreets in the MoonNew Found LandThe Fall of The CityAirraidAmbrose Bierce The Fiend’s DelightNuggests and Dust Panned out in California Cobwebs from an Empty SkullTales of Soldiers and CiviliansIn the Midst of LifeCan Such Things Be?The Devil’s DictionaryThe ApplicantBenjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanac !The Autobiography!The Way to Wealth!Bret Harte The Luck of Roaring CampBernard Malamud The FixerThe AssistantThe TenantThe Magic BarrelA New LifeGod’s GraceCarl Sandburg Chicago PoemsThe People, YesAlways the Young StrangerIn Reckless EcstasyThe Prairie YearsThe War YearsThe American SongbagHoney and SaltCorn-HuskerFogSmoke and SteelCharles Waddell Chesnutt The Conjure WomanThe Wife of His Youth and Other Story of the Color Line The Sheriff’s ChildrenThe Pioneer of the Color LineThe Marrow of TraditionClifford Odets Waiting for LeftyAwake and SingTill the Day I DieParadise LostGolden Boy’Clash by NightThe Big KnifeThe Country GirlThe Flowering PeachDu Bois E. B. White Stuart LittleCharlotte’s WebQuo Vadimus or the Case for the BicycleOne Man’s MeatThe Points of My CompassOnce More to the LakeE Cumings Tulips and ChimneysThe Enormous RoomVivaNo, ThanksEimiEdgar Allan Poe The Raven and Other Poems!Tamerlane and Other Poems!Al Araaf!Poems!Ligeia!Annabel Lee!The Fall of the House of Usher !The Masque of the Red Death!The Black Cat!The Cask of Amontillado!Murders in the Rue Morgue!The Purloined Letter!The Gold Bug!William Wilson!The Philosophy of Composition!The Poetic Principle!Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque!Sonnet — To Science!To Hellen !The City in the Sea!Israfel !Edgar Lee Masters A Book of VerseMaximilianSpoon River AnthologyEdward Arlington Robinson The Children of the NightCaptain CraigThe Town Down the RiverThe Man Against the SkyAvon’s HarvestEdward Albee The Zoo StoryThe American DreamWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?The sandboxEdward Bellamy Looking Backward 2000-1887EqualityThe Duck of Stockbridge :A Romance of Shay’s Rebellion The Blindman’s World and Other StoriesEdwin Charles Markham The Man With the HoeEdmund Wilson Travel in Two DemocraciesTo the Finland StationA Piece of My Mind: Reﬂection at SixtyAxel’s CastleThe Triple ThinkersThe Wound and the BowThe Shores of LightThe Fruits of the MLAEdith Wharton The House of MirthThe Age of InnocenceEthan FromeBunner SisterThe Customs of the CountryA Backward GlanceEzra Pound Hugh Selwyn Mauberley !The Cantos!Exultations!Personae!Cathy!The Spirit of Romance!The Anthology Des Imagistes!Literary Essays!A Few Don’ts by Imagiste!Polite Essays!In a Station of the Metro!Emily Dickinson To Make a Prairie!Success Is Counted Sweetest!I’m Nobody!!Because I could not Stop for Death!I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died!This is My Letter to the World!My Life Closed Twice Before its Close! Mine-by the Bight of the White Election! Wild Nights — Wild Nights!A narrow Fellow in the Grass!Apparently with no Surprise!I Died for Beauty — but was Scarce!Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant!I Like to See it Lap the Miles!The Brain is Wider than the Sky !As Imperceptibly as Grief!Elmer Rice The Adding MachineElizabeth Bishop North and SouthGeography ⅢIn the Waiting RoomEllen Glasgow The Barren GroundEugene O’Neill Beyond the Horizon!Emperor Jones!The Hairy Ape !Bound East for Cardiff!In the Zone!The Long Voyage Home!The Moon of the Carribeans!The Great God Brown!Strange Interlude!Desire Under the Elm!Morning Becomes Electra!A Touch of the Poet!Anna Christie!The Emperor Jones!All the God’s Children Got Wings!Long Day’s Journey Into Night!The Moon for the Misbegotten!Hughie!More Stately Mansions!The Iceman Cometh!Eudora Welty The Golden ApplesThe Bride of Innisfallen•Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises!A Farewell to Arms!For Whom the Bell Tolls!The Old Man and the Sea!The Torrents of Spring!Men Without Woman!The Winters Take Nothing!To Have and Have Not!A Movable Feast!In Our Time!A Clean Well-Lighted Place!In Another Country!F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby !Tender In the Night!The Side of Paradise!The Beautiful and the Damned !Flappers and Philosophers!Tales of the Jazz Age!The Last Tycoon!Taps at Reveille !The Ice Palace!May Days!The Diamond as Big as the Ritz! Winter Dreams!The Rich Boy!Babylon Revisited!The Crack-Up!Flannery O’Connor A Good Man Is Hard to FindWise BloodThe ViolentBear it AwayFrancis Bret Harte The Luck of Roaring CampTennessee’s PartnerFrank Norris Moran of the Lady LettyMc-TeagueThe Epic of the WheatThe OctopusThe PitA Deal in Wheat and Other stories of the Old and New West Frederick Douglass My Bondage and My FreedomGeorge Santayana Skepticism and Animal FaithThe Realms BeingThree Philosophical PoetsThe Last PuritanGertrude Stein Tender ButtonThe Autobiography of Alice B ToklasHart Crane The BridgeMy Grandfather’s Love LettersWhite BuildingsPraise for an UrnFor the Marriage of Faustus and HellenVoyageHamlin Garland Crumbling IdolMan Travelled Roads/The Return of a PrivateRose of Ducher’s CoolyA Son of the Middle BorderHenry David Thoreau Walden / Life in the Woods!On the Duty of Civil Disobedience!A Week on the Concord and Merrimack River! Civil Disobedience!Life Without Principle!Henry Louis Mencken Bernard Shaw: His PlaysThe Philosophy of NietzscheThe American LanguageHappy DaysNewspaper DaysHeathe DaysHerman Melville Moby Dick / The White Whale!Typee !Omoo!Mardi!Redburn!White Jacket!The Conﬁdence Man !Battle pieces!Clarel!Piazza!Pierre!John Marr and Other Sailors!Timoleon!Billy Budd!Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin!A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp!The Minister’s Wooing!The Pearl of Orr’s Island!Oldtown Folks!Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Song of Hiawatha!Voices of the Night !Ballads and Other Poems!Evangeline!I Shot an Arrow!A Psalm of Life!The Hymn of the Night!The Secret of the Sea!Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems!Tales of a Wayside Inn!An April Day!Paul Revere’s Ride!The Courtship of Miles Standish! Poems on Slavery!The Slave’s Dream!The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls! Henry James The Portrait of a Lady!The Wings of the Dove!The Ambassadors !The Golden Bowl!A Passionate Pilgrim !Roderick Hudson!The American!Daisy Miller!The BostoniansThe Princess of Casamassima!The Spoils of Poynton!The Turn of the Screw!The Awkward Age!The American Scene!The Jolly Corner !The Real Thing and other Tales!French Poets and Novelists !Hawthorne!Partial Portrait!Notes and Reviews!Art of Fiction and other Essays!Hilda Doolittle Sea GardenPear TreeOrchardThe Walls Do Not FallTribute to the AngelsThe Flowering of the RodTribute to FreudHellen in EgyptIrwin Shaw The Young LionsThe Naked and the DeadBury the DeadSailor Off the BremenThe Troubled AirLucy CrownTwo Weeks in Another TownVoices of A Summer DayRich ManPoor ManBeggarmanNightworkBread upon the WatersJack London The Call of the Wild!White Fang!The Law of Life!Love of Life!The Heathen!To Build a Fire!The Pearls of Parlay!The Son of the Wolf!The Sea-Wolf!The People of the Abyss!The Iron Heel!Marti Eden !How I Become a Socialist!The War of the Classes!What Life Means to Me!Revolution!The Mexican !Under the Deck Awings!Jack Kerouac On the RoadThe Town and the CityThe SubterraneansThe Dharma BumsVisions of Cody Doctor SaxMaggie CassidyMexico City BluesLonesome TravellerJean Toomer CaneJohn Greenleaf Whittier Snow-boundVoice of FreedomThe Tent on the Beach and Other Poems IchabodA Winter IdylJohn Dos Passos The Three SoldiersManhattan TransferU. S. A.(The 42 Parallel;1919;The Big Money) District of ColumbiaThe Adventures of a Young ManNumber OneThe Grand DesignOrient ExpressJohn Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath!In Dubious Battle!Cup of Gold!Tortilla Flat!The Moon is Down!Of Mice and Men!Cannery Row!The Pearl!The Red Pony(The Leader of the People;!The Gift;The Great Mountains;The Promise)! John Updike Rabbit Run, Redux, Is Rich, at RestJoseph Heller Catch-22We Bombed in New HavenSomething HappenedGood as GoldGod KnowsJames Langston Hughes Mulatto !The Weary Blues!Fine Clothes to the Jew!The Dream Keeper and Other Poems! Shakespeare in Harlem!Dreams!Me and the Mule!Boarder Line !Dear Lovely Death!I Wonder as I Wander!The Best of Simple!James Fenimore Cooper The Leather-stocking Tales!The Spy!The Pilot!The Littlepage Manus Cripts!The Pioneer!The Last of Mohicans!The Prairie!The Pathﬁnder !The Deerslayer!James Farrel Studs LoniganJudgement dayDanny O’NeilBernard CarrCalico ShoesGuillotine PartyA Note on Literary CriticismLiterature and MoralityJames Jones From Here to EternityJames Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain!Nobody Knows My Name!The Fire Next Time!Note of a Native Son!J. D. Salinger Catcher in the RyeThe Young FolksFrannyZooeyRaise High the Roof BeamCarpentersSeymour: An IntroductionJoel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings Kate Chopin The Awakening !Katherine Anne Porter The Leaning Tower and Other StoriesA Ship of FoolsThe Flowering JudasPale Horse, Pale RiderThe Old OrderOld MortalityThe Jilting of Granny WeathrallMaria ConceptionThe Never Ending WrongLillian Hellman The Children’s HourThe Little FoxesWatch on the RhineThe Searching WindThe Autumn GardenTos in the AtticThe Days to ComeAnother Part of the ForrestAn Unﬁnished WomanPentimentoScoundrel TimeLorraine Hansberry Raisin in the SunLouise Erdrich Love MedicineThe Beet QueenTracksThe Crown of ColumbusThe Bingo PalaceTales of Burning LoveThe Antelope WifeThe Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Hors The Master Butchers Singing ClubFour SoulsThe Painted DrumThe Plague of DovesShadow TagLulu’s BoysMalcolm Cowley Blue JuniataThe Dry SeasonThe Exile’s ReturnA Second Flowering / The Other War •Mark Twain !The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County !The Innocents Abroad!The Gilded Age!The Adventure of Tom Sawyer!The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn!Life on the Mississippi!A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court! The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson!Following the Equator!The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg!The Mysterious Stranger !The Prince and the Pauper!How to Tell a Story!Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc!Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a DreamStride Toward FreedomStrength To LoveWhy We Can’t WaitWhere Do We Go From HereMaya Angelou Still I RiseMichael Gold 120 MillionChange The WorldThe Hollow ManJew Without MoneyHoboken BluesFiesta Battle Hymn!Nathaniel Hawthorne Twice-told Tales!Mosses from an Old Manse!The Blithedale Romance !The Scarlet Letter!The House of the Seven Gables!The Minister’s Black Veil!Young Goodman Brown!The Birthmark!The Snow-Image!Rappaccini’s Daughter!Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment!The Marble Faun!Nathanael West The Dream Life of Balso SnellThe Day of LocustMiss LoneyheartsNorman Mailer The Armies of the NightBarbary ShoreThe Deer ParkAn American DreamThe White NegroO Henry The Man Higher UpSixes and SevensThe Gift of MagiThe Police and the HymnThe Last LeafPaul Lawrence Dumbar We Wear the MaskPhilip Roth Goodbye, ColumbusPortnoy’s ComplaintThe Ghost WriterZuckerman UnboundThe Anatomy LessonPhilip Freneau Rising Glory of America!The British Prison Ship!To the Memory of the Brave Americans! The Wild Honeysuckle!The Indian Burying Ground !Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay!Nature!Self-reliance!Representative Men!English Traits!The Conduct of Life!May-Day and Other Pieces!The American Scholar!Days !The Humble Bee!The Rhodo!The Transcendentalist !Divinity!The Oversoul!Ralph Waldo Ellison Invisible Man!Shadow and Act!Going to the Territory!Robert Bly The Light Around the BodyThe SixtiesRobert Frost A Boy’s WillWest-Running BrookA Further RangeMending WallAfter Apple-PickingThe BirchesNorth of BostonNew HamphshireMountain IntervalA Witness TreeFire and IceStopping by Woods on a Song EveningThe Road Not Taken!Robert Penn Warren All the King’s MenRobert Lowell Life StudiesLord Weary’s CastleThe DolphinSkunk HourFor SaleWalking in the BlueFor the Union DeadRichard Wright Native SonUncle Tom’s ChildrenBlack Boy: A Record of ChildhoodThe OutsidersThe Long DreamEight MenSarah Orne Jewett Deephaven and Other StoriesThe Country of Pointed FirsSaul Bellow Dangling ManMr. Sammler’s PlanetThe VictimAnderson the Rain KingHerzogSeize the DayThe Adventure of Augie MarchThe Dean’s DecemberMore Die of HeartbreakThe TheftThe ActualRavelsteinThe Last AnalysisLooking for Mr. GreenHumboldt’s GiftStephen Crane Maggie: A Girl of the Streets!The Red Badge of Courage!The Open Boat!The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky!The Blue Hotel!Sinclair Lewis Main StreetBabbittDur Mr WrennThe JobArrowsmithElmer GantryDodsworthIt can’s Happen HereKingsblood RoyalSherwood Anderson Winesburg, OhioWindy McPherson’s SonMarching MenMid-American ChantsThe Book of the GrotesquePoor WhiteThe Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories Horses and MenI Want to Know WhyMany MarriagesDark LaughterDeath in the Woods and Other Stories Sylvia Plath The ColossusArielWinter TreesThe Bell JarPoint ShirleyTennessee Williams A Streetcar Named DesireThe Glass MenagerieCat on a Hot Tin RoofSummer and SmokeThe Rose TattooCamino RealOrpheus DescendingSuddenly Last SummerThe Sweet Bird of Youth The Night of the LguanaT. S. Eliot The Waste Land !Prufrock and Other Observations!The Burial of the Dead!A Game of Chess!The Fire Sermon!Death By Water!What the Thunder Said!Ash Wednesday!Four Quarters!Murder in the Cathedral!Family Reunion!Cocktail Party!Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie!Jannie Gerhardt!An American Tragedy!Trilogy of Desire!Financer / The Titan / The Stoic!Nigger Jeff!Theodore Roethke The Waking PoemsOn the Poet and His Craft: Selected Prose Thomas Paine Common Sense!American Crisis !Rights of Man!The Age of Reason!Thomas Wolfe Look Homeward, AngelOf Time and the RiverThe Web and the RockYou Can’t Go Home AgainThe Hills BeyondFrom Death to MorningThomas Jefferson Declaration of IndependenceTruman Capote In Cold BloodToni Morrison Song of Solomon!Beloved!The Bluest Eye!Sula!Tar Baby!Jazz!Paradise!Love!A Mercy!Recitatif!Upton Sinclair The JungleSpring and HarvestKing CoalOilBostonDragon’s TeethVilla Cather Oh, Pioneers!My AntoniaA Lost LadyThe Professor’s HouseDeath Comes to the ArchbishopMiss JewettWashington Irving The Sketch Book!The Legend of Sleepy Hollow!Rip Van Winkle!History of New York!The Life of George Washington!Bracebridge Hall!Talks of Traveller!The Alhambra!William Cullen Bryant To a Waterfowl!The Fountain!The Yellow Violet!Thanatoppsis!The White Footed Deer!A Forest Hymn!The Flood of Years!William E.B Dubois Souls of Black Folk!The Philadelphia Negro!John Brown!The Black Flame!William Dean Howells Criticism and Fiction!The Rise of Silas Lapham!A Modern Instance!A Hazard of Now Fortunes!A Traveller from Altruia!From the Eye of the Needle!Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading! William Carlos Williams PatersonDes ImagistesCollected Later PoemsCollected Early PoemsThe Red WheelbarrowSpring and AllSour GrapesThe Desert MusicThe Journey of LovePictures from BrueghelAsphodalThat Green FlowerThe Widow’s Lament in Spring The Dead BabyThe Sparrow, to My FatherIn the American GrainThe Great American NovelProletarian PortraitWilliam Faulkner The Sound and the Fury!Light in August! Absalom! Absalom!!Go down, Moses!Soldier’s Pay!As I Lay Dying!Sartoris!The Hamlet!The Town!The Mansion!The Marble Faun!Dry September!Barn Burning!William Inge Come Back, Little ShebaPicnicWalt Whitman Leaves of Grass!One’s Self I Sing!O Captain! My Captain!!Song of Myself!I Hear America Singing!Song of the Broad-Axe!When Lilacs Lost in the Dooryard Bloom’d! Democratic vistas!The Tramp and Strike Question !I Sit and Look Out!Wallace Stevens The Man with the Blue GuitarThe Necessary AngelAnecdote of the JarHarmoniumNotes Toward a Supreme FictionPeter Quince at the ClavierSunday MorningThe Auroras of Autumn!!!Ⅱ解释术语!!Aestheticism 唯美主义：is an intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasis of aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, ﬁne art, music and other arts.!Angry young man 奋⻘青：a group of mostly working and middle class British playwrights and novelists who became prominent in the 1950s. The group's leading members included John Osborne and Kingsley Amis .They showed an equally uninhibited disdain for the drabness of the postwar welfare state, and their writings frequently expressed raw anger and frustration as the postwar re forms failed to meet exalted aspirations for genuine change.!Allegory 寓⾔言:An allegory is a narrative, whether in prose or verse, in which the agents and action, and sometimes the setting as well, are contrived by the author to make coherent sense on the primary level of signiﬁcation, and at the same time to signify a second, correlated order of signiﬁcation.!Criticism 批判主义：is the practice of judging the merits and faults of something. To criticize does not necessarily imply "to ﬁnd fault", but the word is often taken to mean the simple expression of an objection against prejudice, or a disapproval of something. Often criticism involves active disagreement, but it may only mean "taking sides". It could just be an exploration of the different sides of an issue.!Critical realism 批判现实主义:is the theory that some of our sense-data (for example, those of primary qualities) can and do accurately represent external objects, properties, and events, while other of our sense-data (for example, those of secondary qualities and perceptual illusions) do not accurately represent any external objects, properties, and events. In short, critical realism refers to any position that maintains that there exists an objectively knowable, mind-independent reality, whilst acknowledging the roles of perception and cognition.!Classicism古典主义：the ideas and styles that are common in the literature, art, and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome; a traditional style of art, literature, music, architecture, etc., that is usually graceful and simple with parts that are organized in a pleasing way!Dadaism 达达主义: a form of artistic anarchy born out of disgust for the social, political and cultural values of the time. It embraced elements of art, music, poetry, theatre, dance and politics. Dada was not so much a style of art like Cubism or Fauvism; it was more a protest movement with an anti-establishment manifesto.!Determinism 决定论:is the philosophical position that for every event, including human interactions, there exist conditions that could cause no other event. "There are many determinisms, depending on what pre-conditions are considered to be determinative of an event or action.” Deterministic theories throughout the history of philosophy have sprung from diverse and sometimes overlapping motives and considerations.!Existentialism 存在主义:is a term that has been applied to the work of a number of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, took the human subject — not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual and his or her conditions of existence — as a starting point for philosophical thought.!Free verse ⾃自由体诗:Free verse, or “open form” verse, is printed like traditional verse in short lines instead of with the continuity of prose, but it differs from traditional verse by the fact that its rhythmic pattern is not organized into a regular metrical form. Most free verse also has irregular lengths, and either lacks rhyme or uses it only sporadically.!golden age ⻩黄⾦金时代：the most ﬂourishing period in the history of a nation, literature, people, etc.!Gilded age 镀⾦金时代：the age of wealth and poverty, of progress and decline, and the age of gaudy excesses.!Hippie 嬉⽪皮⼠士：a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that started in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world.!Imagism 意象主义:Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. Imagism has been described as the most inﬂuential movement in English poetry since the activity of the Pre-Raphaelites. As a poetic style it gave Modernism its start in the early 20th century, and is considered to be the ﬁrst organized Modernist literary movement in the English language. Imagism is sometimes viewed as 'a succession of creative moments' rather than any continuous or sustained period of development.!Idealism 理想主义:In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically, idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing. In a sociological sense, idealism emphasizes how human ideas—especially beliefs and values—shape society.!Industrialism 产业主义:An economic and social system based on the development of large-scale industries and marked by the production of large quantities of inexpensive manufactured goods and the concentration of employment in urban factories.! Individualism 个⼈人主义:is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, or social outlook that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual. Individualists promote the exercise of one's goals and desires and so value independence and self-reliance and advocate that interests of the individual should achieve precedence over the state or a social group, while opposing external interference upon one's own interests by society or institutions such as the government.!Local colorism 乡⼟土特⾊色(主义）：literary works that emphasizes the characteristics of their own region, deeply rooted in America, in local soil and culture. For the first time, the rich variety of American life and American people are fully presented in literary works.Local colorist is mostly concerned with the characteristics of people and life of their own regions. As a result, local colorists in different regions together presented a most colorful and comprehensive picture of America and American life, best presented not only the history of the country but the development of the nation and its culture.Literature ⽂文学：language artistically used to achieve identiﬁable literary qualities and to convey meaningful messages.! Modernism 现代主义:It is the term referring to the literary, artistic and general culture of the first half of the twentieth century. Modernism is distinguished by its general rejection of previous literary traditions, particularly those of the late nineteenth century and of bourgeois society.!Materialism 唯物主义:Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all phenomena, including mental phenomena and consciousness, are identical with material interactions.!Magic realism 魔幻现实主义： is an artistic genre in which magical elements or illogical scenarios appear in an otherwise realistic or even “normal” setting, which has been widely used in relation to literature, art and ﬁlm. The magical realists aim to highlight reality as opposed to traditional way of presenting or reﬂecting reality, to express the irony in everyday events that we tend to ignore and to blur the boundary between real and unreal.!Naturalism ⾃自然主义: Naturalism is a growth of realism, a prominent literacy movement that seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as romanticism or surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic or even supernatural treatment. !New criticism 新批判主义:was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century. It emphasized close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work of literature functioned as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object.!Primitivism 原始主义:Primitivism is a preference for the supposedly free and contented existence found in a “primitive” way of life as opposed to the artiﬁcialities of urban civilization. It had a particular prominence in the 18th century Europe and 19th century America, contributing to the values of Romanticism.!Predestination 宿命论:in theology, is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul. Explanations of predestination often seek to address the "paradox of free will", whereby God's omniscience seems incompatible with human free will. In this usage, predestination can be regarded as a form of religious determinism; and usually predeterminism.!Psychological realism ⼼心理现实主义:refers to works of prose ﬁction which places more than the usual amount of emphasis on interior characterization, and on the motives, circumstances, and internal action which springs from, and develops, external action. The psychological realism is not content to state what happens but goes on to explain the motivation of this action. In this type of writing character and characterization are more important than usual, and they often delve deeper into the mind of a character than novels of other genres.!Post-romanticism 后浪漫主义:refers to a range of cultural endeavors and attitudes emerging in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, after the period of Romanticism. Herman Melville and Thomas Carlyle are post-Romantic writers. Flaubert's Madame Bovary is a post-Romantic novel. The period of post-romanticism in poetry is deﬁned as the late nineteenth century, and includes the poetry of Tennyson.!Post-modernism 后现代主义:is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism. Postmodernism includes skeptical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, economics, architecture, ﬁction, and literary criticism. It is often associated with deconstruction and post-structuralism because its usage as a term gained signiﬁcant popularity at the same time as twentieth-century post-structural thought.!Postmodernism is a blanket term covering a wide range of diverse experimentation that has been going on since the end of World War II. It is applied to a cultural condition prevailing in the advanced capitalist societies since the 1960s, characterized by a superabundance of disconnected images and styles — most noticeably in television, advertising, commercial design, and pop video.!。

英美文学选读复习资料

英美文学选读复习资料英美文学选读复习资料一、英国文学1、文艺复兴时期：莎士比亚的戏剧《哈姆雷特》、《李尔王》、《麦克白》等，以及弥尔顿的《失乐园》。

2、17世纪：约翰·多恩的玄学派诗歌，以及约翰·班扬的《天路历程》。

3、18世纪：启蒙时期，亨利·菲尔丁和理查逊的小说，以及亚历山大·蒲柏的讽刺诗歌。

4、19世纪：浪漫主义时期，包括拜伦、雪莱、济慈等人的诗歌，以及简·奥斯汀、爱米莉·勃朗特等的小说。

5、维多利亚时期：查尔斯·狄更斯、乔治·艾略特、托马斯·哈代等作家的小说，以及马修·阿诺德、约翰·罗斯金等人的诗歌。

二、美国文学1、浪漫主义时期：包括华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷传说》、爱伦·坡的短篇小说、以及纳撒尼尔·霍桑的《红字》。

2、现实主义时期：包括马克·吐温的《汤姆·索亚历险记》、亨利·詹姆斯的小说、以及艾米莉·狄金森的诗歌。

3、20世纪：包括F.斯科特·菲茨杰拉德的《了不起的盖茨比》、欧内斯特·海明威的《老人与海》、杰克·凯鲁亚克的《在路上》等文学作品。

三、文学术语和概念1、象征主义：通过象征性的符号或形象来表达某种思想或情感。

2、叙事视角：从特定的角度来描述故事，常见的有第一人称、第二人称、第三人称等。

3、意象主义：通过形象和比喻来表达情感和思想。

4、文艺复兴：欧洲历史上的一次文化运动，强调人文主义和古希腊罗马文化。

5、玄学派：17世纪英国的一种文学流派，强调诗歌中的哲学思考和神秘主义。

6、悲剧：一种戏剧类型，通常表现英雄人物的悲惨命运。

7、喜剧：一种戏剧类型，通常表现幽默、讽刺等轻松愉快的主题。

8、自然主义：一种文学流派，强调对自然和社会现实的客观描写。

9、超验主义：一种哲学思想，强调个人经验和直觉，反对传统权威。

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American Puritanism 殖民地时期( roughly from the settlement of America in the early 17th century through the end of the 18th)一、Benjamin Franklin 本杰明•富兰克林作品：1、Poor Richard's Almanac 《格言历书》--- A Collection of maxims, or proverbs, on the value of work and savings for success.2、The Autobiography 《自传》---“美国梦”的根源3、参与起草《独立宣言》浪漫主义American RomanticismThe Romantic Period stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War. It is a period of the great flowering of American literature.The social and cultural background of RomanticismThe young Republic was flourishing into a politically, economically and culturally independent country.The Romantic writings revealed unique characteristics of their own in their works and they grew on the native lands.The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature.The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values.Romantics frequently shared certain general characteristics: moral enthusiasm, faith in va lue of individualism and intuitive perception, and a presumption that the natural world was a sourc e of goodness and man’s societies as a source of corruption.二、Edgar Allan Poe 埃德加·爱伦·坡---poet, short story writer and literary critic (48 poems,70 short stories)He greatly influenced the devotees of “Art for art’s sake.”He was father of psychoanalytic criticism (心理分析批评), and the detective story. 诗歌的精髓就是追求美小说的主题常常是恐怖和死亡，其中还运用了象征手法。

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美国⽂学复习资料The Review Information of Final Examination⼀、Match ( the writer and their works)1、Anne Bradstreet：《Some verses on the Burning of Our House》；《The Spirit and the Flesh》；《The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America》2、Michael Wigglesworth：《The Day of Doom》3、Edward Taylor：《Preparatory Meditation》4、Thomas Jefferson：《The Declaration of Independence》5、Thomas Paine: 《Common Sense》6、Benjamin Franklin: 《Poor Richard’s Almanac格⾔历书》；《Autobiography⾃传》7、Philip Freneau：《The Rising Glory of America美洲光辉的兴起》；《The House of Night夜之屋》；《The British Prison Ship英国囚船》；《To the Memory of the Brave Americans纪念美国勇⼠》；《The Wild Honey Suckle 野⾦银花》；《The Indian Burying Ground印第安⼈墓地》；《The Dying Indian: Tomo Chequi奄奄⼀息的印第安⼈：托姆·察吉》8、Washington Irving：《A History of New York纽约外史》（under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker）；《The Sketch Book见闻札记/札记集》（《Rip Van Winkle瑞普·凡·温克尔》&《The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡⾕的传说》）；《Bracebridge Hall布雷斯布⾥奇庄园》；《Tales of a Traveler》；《Oliver Goldsmith哥尔德斯密斯》；《Life of George Washington华盛顿传》；9、James Fenimore Cooper：《Precaution》；《The Spy》；《The Pioneers》；《The Pilot》；《Lionel Lincoln》;《The Last of the Mohicans》；《The RedRover》；《The Prairie》；《The Red Rover》1828；《The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish》；《The Water Witch》1830；《The Pathfinder》；《The Deerslayer》；10、William Cullen Bryant：《To a Waterfowl致⽔鸟》；《Thanatopsis死亡随想》；《The Yellow Violet黄⾊堇⾹花》；《Poems诗选》；《The Fountain 泉》；《The White-Footed Deer⽩蹄⿅》；《A Forest Hymn森林赋》；《The Flood of Years似⽔流年》；11、Edgar Allan Poe：《Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque奇异怪诞故事集》；《MS. Found in a Bottle瓶⼦⾥发现的⼿稿》；《The Murders in the Rue Morgue⽑格街杀⼈案》；《The Fall of the House of Usher厄舍古屋的倒塌》；《The Masque of the Red Death红⾊死亡的化妆舞会》；《The Cask of Amontillado⼀桶酒的故事》；《The Raven乌鸦》；《Israfel伊斯拉菲尔》；《Annabel Lee安娜贝尔?李》；《To Helen致海伦》；《The Poetic Principle诗歌原理》；《The Philosophy of Composition创作哲学》12、Nathaniel Howthorne：《Twice-Told Tales故事重述》；《Mosses from an Old Manse古宅青苔》；《The Scarlet Letter红字》；《The House of the Seven Gables七个尖⾓阁的房⼦》；《The Blithedale Romance福⾕传奇》；《The Marble Faun⼤理⽯雕像》；《Young Goodman Brown好⼩伙⼉布朗》；《The Minister’s Black Veil教长的⿊⾯纱》；《Dr. Rappacini’s Daughter拉普齐尼博⼠的⼥⼉13、William Whitman：《Leaves of Grass》14、Ralph Waldo Emerson：《Nature》；《The American Scholar》, regarded as 《Declaration of Intellectual Independence》；《The Poet》；《Self-Reliance》；《Each and All》15、Henry David Thoreau：《A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers》；《Walden》；《Life in the Woods》；《The Maine Woods》；《Civil Disobedience》；《A Plea for Captain John Brown》；16、William Dean Howells：《The Rise of Silas Lapham》；《A Chance Acquaintance》；《A Modern Instance》17、Regional literature （similar, but larger in the world）Garland, Harte – the westBret Harte: The Luck of Roaring Camp《咆哮营的幸运⼉》Hamlin Garland: Main-travelled Roads《⼤路条条》Eggleston – Indiana：The Hoosier Schoolmaster《⼭区校长》Mrs. Stowe Old Town Folks《⽼城的⼈们》Jewett – Maine Deephaven《深深拥有》Kate Chopin – Louisiana：Bayou Folk《路易斯安娜移民》, A Night inAcadie《爱克迪之夜》, The Awakening《觉醒》Woolson: Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches《处处城堡：乡村湖景札记》18、Bret Harte：《Tennessee’s Partener》；《The Luck of Roaring Camp》19、Hannibal Hamlin Garland：《Main-travelled Roads》；《Mrs Ripley’s Trip》20、Mark Twain：《The Gilded Age镀⾦时代》；《the two advantages》；《Life on the Mississippi》；《A Connecticut Yankee in King》，《Arthur’s Court》；《The Man That Corrupted Hardleybug》；《Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn哈克贝利·费恩历险记》；《The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 汤姆·索亚历险记》；《The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County》；《The Innocents Abroad》(non-fiction travel)；《Roughing It艰苦岁⽉》(non-fiction)；《The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County卡城名蛙》；The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (fiction)The Innocents Abroad傻⼦出国记(non-fiction travel)Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First RomanceSketches New and Old (fictional stories)Old Times on the Mississippi (non-fiction)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (fiction)A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage (fiction);A Tramp Abroad (travel)1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time ofthe Tudors (fiction)The Prince and the Pauper 王⼦与贫⼉(fiction)Life on the Mississippi密西西⽐河上(non-fiction (mainly))Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (fiction)A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (fiction)The American Claimant (fiction)The ￡1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories (fictional)Tom Sawyer Abroad (fiction)The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (fiction)Tom Sawyer, Detective (fiction)Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (fiction)How to Tell a Story and other Essays (non-fictional essays)Following the Equator (non-fiction travel)Is He Dead (play)The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (fiction)The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated (satire)Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany (political satire)To the Person Sitting in Darkness (essay)A Dog's Tale (fiction)King Leopold's Soliloquy (political satire)The War Prayer (fiction)What Is Man (essay)Eve's Diary (fiction)Christian Science (non-fiction)Is Shakespeare Dead (non-fiction)Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (fiction)Letters from the Earth (fiction, published posthumously)The Mysterious Stranger (fiction, possibly not by Twain, publishedposthumously)The United States of Lyncherdom (essay, published posthumously)Mark Twain's Autobiography (non-fiction, publishedposthumously)Letters from the Earth (posthumous, edited by Bernard DeV oto)No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger (fiction, published posthumously)21、Henry James：《Watch and Ward》；《Roderick Hudson》；《The American》；《The Europeans》；《Confidence》；《Washington Square》；《The Portrait of a Lady》；《The Bostonians》；《The Princess Casamassima》；《The Reverberator》；《The Tragic Muse》；《The Other House》；《The Spoils of Poynton》；《What Maisie Knew》；《The Awkward Age》；《The Sacred Fount》；《The Wings of the Dove》；《The Ambassadors》；《The Golden Bowl》；《The Whole Family》；《The Outcry》；《The Ivory Tower》；《The Sense of the Past》；《The Other House》；《The Spoils of Poynton》；《The Ivory Tower》；《The Sense of the Past》22、Harriet Beecher Stowe：《Uncle Tom's Cabin》；《A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin》；《Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp》；《The Minister's Wooing》；《Old Town Folks》；23、Edith Wharton：《The House of Mirth》；《The Age of Innocence》24、Stephen Crane：《A Girl of the Streets街头⼥郎麦琪》；《The Black Riders⿊骑⼿》；《The Red Badge of Courage 红⾊英勇勋章》；《The Open Boat 海上扁⾈》；《The Blue Hotel蓝⾊旅馆》；《An Experiment in Misery不幸的试验》；《A Man Said to the Universe⼀个⼈对上帝说》；《A Man Adrift on aSlim Spar这个⼈漂泊在细细的梁上》25、Theodore Dreiser：《Sister Carrie嘉莉妹妹》1900；《Old Rogaum and His Theresa》(1901)；《Jennie Gerhardt珍妮姑娘》1911；《The Financier ⾦融家》1912；《The Titan巨头》1914；《The "Genius"天才》1915；《An American Tragedy美国悲剧》1925；《Chains: Lesser Novels and Stories》1927；《The Bulwark》1946；《The Stoic》194726、Frank Norris：《McTeague麦克提格》；《The Octopus章鱼》；《The Pit 深渊、粮⾷交易反》；《The Responsibilities of the Novelist⼩说家的责任》；《The Wolf狼》1902. unfinished27、Jack London：《A Daughter of the Snows》1902；《The Call of the Wild野性的呼唤》1903；《The Kempton-WaceLetters》1903；《The Sea-Wolf 海狼》1904；《The Game》1905；《White Fang⽩⽛》1906；《The Iron Heel》1908；《Martin Eden马丁·伊登》1909；《The Scarlet Plague》1912；《The Valley of the Moon》1913；《The StarRover》1915；《The Little Lady of the Big House》1916；《The Assassination Bureau, Ltd》1963；《Son of the Wolf狼的⼉⼦》1900；28、T.S. Eliot：《The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock》1917；《The Waste Land》1922；《The Hollow Men》1925；《Ash Wednesday》1930；《Four Quartets》1943；《Murder in The Cathedral》1935；《Cocktail Party》1950；29、Ernest Hemingway (Lost Generation)：《The Sun Also Rises太阳依照升起》1926；《A Farewell To Arms永别了，武器》1929；《Death In The Afternoon午后之死》1932；《The Green Hills Of Africa⾮洲的青⼭》1935；。

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1、Benjamin Franklin（1706-1790）本杰明·富兰克林He is the representative of the Enlightenment in America in 18th century. Humanist, statesman, writer, scientist, inventor.The Autobiography《自传》♂简析：The book is about the course of Franklin's struggle for success. It tells us the importance of being diligent. The book had a great influence on American people,and changed the destinies of many youth.It is the first America successful biographical work（传记文学）, has an important position in the history of American Literaturel.Poor Richard’s Almanac 《格言历书》♂简析：A collection of maxims （格言），or proverbs, on the value of work and savings for success.2、Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849) 埃德加·爱伦·坡 Novelist,poet,critic.Good at writing Gothic（哥特式）and detective fiction.Father of western detective stories and psychoanalytic criticism.（扩展：文学理论建树不容忽视，影响深远。

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1)Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·华尔多·艾默生
• 《Self-reliance 论自立》选自《Essays论文集》 • “不论在何处，社会总是阴谋反对每一个社会成员的阳刚之气，...要想做一
个男子汉，首先就要做一个拒绝随波逐流的人。” • 惧怕舆论和强迫自己始终如一就只会使自己的创造力和独创精神丧失殆尽。
5)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow亨利·沃兹沃斯·朗费罗--Romanticism
I shot an arrow 我射出一支箭&A psalm of life人生颂 • 主题：Life is not a dream,seize the day but hold on your patience--
超验主义哲学Transcendentalism；人文主义Humanism 作品： • ①论自然Nature • ②论美国学者 The American scholar • ③神学院致辞 The Divinity school address • ④论文集Essays：Frist Series&.....Second • ⑤人类代表 Representative men • ⑥英国特征 Enct of life • ⑧诗集Poems • ⑨五月节 May-Day and other pieces
2）Nathaniel Hawthorne 纳撒尼尔·霍桑
红字：The severity of the Puritanic code of law • A--Adultery→angle able • 为什么女主把胸前的A绣得那么精美？ 1、love for A 2、She knows that she was guilty,it means sin. • 人物：女主：Hester Prynne 丈夫：Arthur Chillingworth 情人：Rodger Dimmesdale 女儿：Pearl • “The kingdom of heaven is like merchants in search of fine pearls;on fingding

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美国⽂学-复习资料+答案1.The American Transcendentalists formed a club called _________ .the Transcendental Club2.______ was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism. WashingtonIrving3.At nineteen___________ published in his brother’s newspaper, his "Jonathan Oldstyle"satires of New York life.4.In Washington Irving’s work___________ appeared the first modern short stories and thefirst great American juvenile literature. The Sketch Book5.The first important American novelist was____________. James Fenimore Cooper6.James Fenimore Cooper’s novel ___________ was a rousing tale about espionage againstthe British during the Revolutionary War.The Spy7.The best of James Fenimore Cooper's sea romances was_____________.The Pilot8."To a Waterfowl" is perhaps the peak of_______________’s work; it has been called by aneminent English critic “the most perfect brief poem in the language.”William Cullen Bryant9.__________ was the first American to gain the stature of a major poet in the worldliterature.10.Edgar Allan Poe’s poem____________ is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in theEnglish language.The Bells11.Edgar Allan Poe's poem____________ was published in 1845 as the title poem of acollection. The Raven12.From Henry David Thoreau’s Concord jail experience, came his famous essay ______.Civil DisobedienceBy the 1830s Washington Irving was judged the nation' s greatest writer, a lofty position he later shared with James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant.In the early nineteenth century, the attitude of American writers was shaped by their New World environment and an array of ideas inherited from the romantic tradition of Europe.As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.The foundation of American national literature was laid by the early American romanticists.At mid-19th century, a cultural reawakening brought a "flowering of New England". Romantic writers in the 19th century placed increasing value on the free expression of emotion and displayed increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters.With a vast group of supporting characters, virtuous or villainous, James Fenimore Cooper made the America conscious of his past, and made the European conscious of America.No other American poet ever surpassed Edgar Allan Poe’s ability in the use of English as a medium of pure musical and rhythmic beauty.The Fall of the House of Usher is one of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories.Ralph Waldo Emerson was recognized as the leader of transcendentalist movement, but he never applied the term "Transcendentalist" to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson published his first book, Nature, which met with a mild reception.Ralph Waldo Emerson's prose style was sometimes as highly individual as his poetry.The harsh rhythms and striking images of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poetry appeal to many modern readers as artful techniques.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s writings belong to the milder aspects of the Romantic Movement.American romanticism was in a way derivative: American romantic writing was some of them modeled on English and European works.Ralph Waldo Emerson’s aesthetics brought about a revolution in American literature in general and in American poetry in particular.Henry David Thoreau was an active Transcendentalist. He was by no means an "escapist" or a recluse, but was intensely involved in the life of his day.The Scarlet Letter is set in the seventeenth century. It is an elaboration of a fact which the author took out of the life of the Puritan past.2. Transcendentalism took their ideas from___________ .A. the romantic literature in EuropeB. neo-PlatonismC. German idealistic philosophyD. the revelations of oriental mysticismABCD8. Transcendentalists recognized__________ as the "highest power of the soul.”A. intuition10. Transcendentalism appealed to those who disdained the harsh God of the Puritan ancestors, and it appealed to those who scorned the pale deity of New EnglandA. TranscendentalismB. HumanismC. NaturalismD. UnitarianismD13. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature, evident in _________ .A. James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking TalesB. Henry David Thoreau’s WaldenC. Mark Twain’s Huckleberry FinnD. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet LetterABC14. A preoccupation with the demonic and the mystery of evil marked the works of_________ , and a host of lesser writers.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Edgar Allan PoeC. Herman MelvilleD. Mark TwainABC16. In the nineteenth century America, Romantics often shared certain general characteristics. Choose such characteristics from the following.A. moral enthusiasmB. faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perceptionC. adoration for the natural worldD. presumption about the corrosive effect of human societyABCD17. Choose Washington Irving' s works from the following.A. The Sketch BookB. Bracebridge HallC. Tales of a TravellerD. A History of New YorkABCD18. In James Fenimore Cooper's novels, close after Natty Bumppo in romantic appeal , come the two noble red men. Choose them from the following.A. the Mohican Chief ChingachgookB. UncasC. Tom JonesD. Kubla KhanABIn 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced the best poet___________ to appear in America up to that time.A. Edward TaylorB. Philip FreneauC. William Cullen BryantD. Edgar Allan PoeC To a Waterfowl Thanatopsis21. From the following, choose the poems written by Edgar Allan Poe.A. To HelenB. The RavenC. Annabel LeeD. The BellsABCD23. Edgar Allan Poe's first collection of short stories is___________ .D. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque24. From the following, choose the characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson's poetry.A. being highly individualB. harsh rhythmsC. lack of form and polishD. striking imagesABCD25. Which book is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. Representative MenB. English TraitsC. NatureD. The RhodoraD26. Which essay is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. Of StudiesB. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Divinity School AddressA30. Nathaniel Hawthorne's ability to create vivid and symbolic images that embody great moral questions also appears strongly in his short stories. Choose his short stories from the following.A. Young Goodman BrownB. The Great Stone FaceC. The Ambitious Guest ABCDD. Ethan BrandE. The Pearl32. Herman Melville called his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne_____________ in American literature.A. the largest brain with the largest heart34. __________ was a romanticized account of Herman Melville's stay among the Polynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville well known as the " man who lived among cannibals". Typee37. In the early nineteenth century American moral values were essentially Puritan. Nothing has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did__________ .A. Puritanism"The universe is composed of Nature and the soul... Spirit is present everywhere". This is the voice of the book Nature written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England______ Transcendentalism43. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. Nature45. _________ is an appalling fictional version of Nathaniel Hawthorne' s belief that "the wrong doing of one generation lives into the successive ones" and that evil will come out of evil though it may take many generations to happen.A. The Marble FaunB. The House of Seven GablesC. The Blithedale RomanceD. Young Goodman BrownBOnce upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door—Only this, and nothing more. "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; —vainly I had tried to borrowFrom my books surcease of sorrow-sorrow for the lost.Edgar Allan PoeThe RavenDescribe the mood of this poem: A sense of melancholy over the death of a beloved beautiful young woman pervades the whole poem, the portrayal of a young man grieving for his lost Leno-re, his grief turned to madness under the steady one-word repetition of the talking bird. Work 3: Nuture1.As the leading New England Transcendentalist, Emerson effected a most articulatesynthesis of the Transcendentalist views. One major element of his philosophy if hisfirm belief in the transcendence of the "Oversoul". His emphasis on the spirit runsthrough virtually all his writings. " Philosophically considered," he states in Nature,which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism, "theuniverse is composed of Nature and the Soul. " He sees the world as phenomenal, and emphasizes the need for idealism, for idealism sees the world in God. "It beholds thewhole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion, as one vast picture which God paints on the eternity for the contemplation of the soul. " Heregards nature as the purest, and the most sanctifying moral influence on man, andadvocated a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature. In thisconnection, Emerson' s emotional experiences are exemplary in more ways than one.Alone in the woods one day, for instance, he experienced a moment of "ecstasy" which he records thus in his Nature:2.Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinitespace, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.3.Now this is a moment of "conversion" when one feels completely merged with theoutside world, when one has completely sunk into nature and become one with it, and when the soul has gone beyond the physical limits of the body to share the omniscienceof the Oversoul. In a word, the soul has completely transcended the limits ofindividuality and beome part of the Oversoul. Emerson sees spirit pervadingeverywhere, not only in the soul of man, but behind nature, throughout nature. Theworld proceeds, as he observes, from the same source as the body of man. "TheUniversal Being" is in point of fact the Oversoul that he never stopped talking about for the rest of his life. Emerson' s doctrine of the Oversoul is graphically illustrated in such famous statements; "Each mind lives in the Grand mind," "There in one mind common to all individual men," and "Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life. " In his opinion, man is made in the image of God and is just a little less than Him. This is as much as to say that the spiritual and immanent God is operative in the soul of man, and that man is divine. The divinity of man became, incidentally, a favorite subject in his lectures and essays.4.This naturally led to another, equally significant, Transcendentalist thesis, that theindividual, not the crowd, is the most important of all. If man depends upon himself, cultivates himself, and brings out the divine in himself, he can hop to become better and even perfect. This is what Emerson means by the "infinitude of the privates man. " He tried to convince people that the possibilities for man to develop and improve himself are infinite. Men should and could be self-reliant. Each man should feel the world as his, and the world exists for him alone. He should determine his own existence. Everyone should understand that he makes himself by making his world, and that he makes the world by making himself. " Know then that the world exists for you " he says. "Build therefore your own world. " "Trust thy self!" and "Make thyself!" Trust your owndiscretion and the world is yours. Thus, as Henry Nash Smith ventures to suggest,"Emerson' s message was eventually (to use a telegraphic abbreviation) self-reliance. "Emerson' s eye was on man as he could be or could become; he was in the mainoptimistic about human perfectibility. The regeneration of the individual leads to the regeneration of society. Hence his famous remark, "I ask for the individuals, not the nation. " Emerson ' s self-reliance was an expression, on a very high level, of thebuoyant spirit of his time, the hope that man can become the best person he could hope to be. Emerson ' s Transcendentalism, with its emphasis on the democraticindividualism, may have provided an ideal explanation for the conduct and activities of an expanding capitalist society. His essays such as "Power", "Wealth", and "Napoleon"(in his The Representative Men) reveal his ambivalence toward aggressiveness andself-seeking.5.To Emerson's Transcendentalist eyes, the physical world was vitalistic and evolutionary.Nature was, to him as to his Puritan forebears, emblematic of God. It mediates between man and God, and its voice leads to higher truth. " Nature is the vehicle of thought,"and " particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts. " Thus Emerson' s world was one of multiple significance; everything bears a second sense and an ulterior sense. In a word, " Nature is the symbol of spirit." That is probably why he called his first philosophical work Nature rather ihan anything else. The sensual man, Emerson feels, conforms thoughts to things, and man' s power to connect his thought with its proper symbol depends upon the simplicity and purity of his character; "The lover of nature is he who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. " To him nature is a wholesome moral influence on man and his character. A natural implication of Emerson' s view on nature isthat the world around is symbolic. A lowing river indicates the ceaseless motion of the universe. The seasons correspond to the life span of man. The ant, the little drudge, with a small body and a mighty heart, is the sublime image of man himself.爱⼈者，⼈恒爱之；敬⼈者，⼈恒敬之；宽以济猛，猛以济宽，政是以和。

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美国文学史American Literature in the colonical and Revolutionary:Franklin(本杰明.富兰克林)Freneau 菲利普·费瑞诺Benjamin Franklin(本杰明.富兰克林)1)"Poor Richard's Almanac" 穷人查理德的年鉴(以笔名Richard Sunders)2)“annual collection of proverbs “流行谚语集 (It soon became the mostpopular book of its kind, largely because of Franklin's shrewd humor, and first spread his reputation)3)The Way to Wealth (Father Abraham’s Sermon)致富之道(as the “perface to PoorRichard Improved)4)The Autobiography自传 (18世纪美国唯一流传至今的自传)5)Founded the Junto, a club for informal discussion of scientific, economic andpolitical ideas. 建立了一个秘密俱乐部，讨论的主题是政治、经济和科学等时事方面的问题.6)established America's first circulating library, founded thecollege--University of Pennsylvania. 建立了美国第一个可租借的图书馆，还创办了一所大学——就是现在的宾夕法尼亚大学.7)first applied the terms "positive" and "negative" to electrical charges.8)Writer,printer,publisher,scientist,philanthropist,and diplomat,he was themost famous and respected private figure of his time.The Rising Glory of America蒸蒸日上的美洲；The British Prison Ship英国囚船；To the Memory of the Brave Americans纪念美国勇士-----同类诗中最佳；The Wild Honeysuckle野生的金银花；The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地(1)poet and political journalist 诗人和政治方面的新闻记者(2)perhaps the most outstanding writer of the post-revolutionary period.(3)has been called the "Father of American Poetry" 美国诗歌之父(4)Imaginative and melancholy treatment of nature and human life,and sharp satire against the British tyranny19th Century American LiteratureWashington Irving(华盛顿.欧文)1．James Fenimore Cooper(詹姆斯.芬尼莫.库珀)2．Nathaniel Hawthorne(纳萨尼尔.霍桑)3．Edgar Allan Poe （埃德加.阿伦.坡）4．Henry Daived Thoreau(亨利.戴维.梭罗)5．Herman Melville(赫尔曼.麦尔维尔)6．Walt Whiteman(沃尔特.惠特曼)The Rise of American RomanticismOne of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War(1861-65).It started with the publication of Washington Irving's e The h Sketch Book(1820) and ended with Whitman's s Leaves f of Grass(1855)..Romanticism的特点：frequently shared certain general characteristics, moralenthusiam, faith in the value of individualism andintuitive perception, and a presumption that he naturalworld was a source of corruption.浪漫主义之间大多是相通的，都注重道德，强调个人主义价值观和直觉感受，并且认为自然是美的源头，人类社会是腐败之源。

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美国文学史American Literature in the colonical and Revolutionary:1.Benjamin Franklin(本杰明.富兰克林)2.hilip Freneau 菲利普·费瑞诺Benjamin Franklin(本杰明.富兰克林)1)"Poor Richard's Almanac" 穷人查理德的年鉴(以笔名Richard Sunders)2)“annual collection of proverbs “流行谚语集(It soon became the most popular bookof its kind, largely because of Franklin's shrewd humor, and first spread his reputation) 3)The Way to Wealth (Father Abraham’s Sermon)致富之道(as the “perface to Poor RichardImproved)4)The Autobiography自传(18世纪美国唯一流传至今的自传)5)Founded the Junto, a club for informal discussion of scientific, economic and politicalideas. 建立了一个秘密俱乐部，讨论的主题是政治、经济和科学等时事方面的问题.6)established America's first circulating library, founded the college--University ofPennsylvania. 建立了美国第一个可租借的图书馆，还创办了一所大学——就是现在的宾夕法尼亚大学.7)first applied the terms "positive" and "negative" to electrical charges.8)Writer,printer,publisher,scientist,philanthropist,and diplomat,he was the most famousand respected private figure of his time.The Rising Glory of America蒸蒸日上的美洲；The British Prison Ship英国囚船；To the Memory of the Brave Americans纪念美国勇士-----同类诗中最佳；The Wild Honeysuckle野生的金银花；The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地(1)poet and political journalist 诗人和政治方面的新闻记者(2)perhaps the most outstanding writer of the post-revolutionary period.(3)has been called the "Father of American Poetry" 美国诗歌之父(4)Imaginative and melancholy treatment of nature and human life,and sharp satire against the British tyranny19th Century American LiteratureWashington Irving(华盛顿.欧文)1．James Fenimore Cooper(詹姆斯.芬尼莫.库珀)2．Nathaniel Hawthorne(纳萨尼尔.霍桑)3．Edgar Allan Poe （埃德加.阿伦.坡）4．Henry Daived Thoreau(亨利.戴维.梭罗)5．Herman Melville(赫尔曼.麦尔维尔)6．Walt Whiteman(沃尔特.惠特曼)The Rise of American Romanticism• One of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War(1861-65).• It started with the publication of Washington Irving's e The h Sketch Book(1820) and ended with Whitman's s Leaves f of Grass(1855)..Romanticism的特点：frequently shared certain general characteristics, moral enthusiam,faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perception, and apresumption that he natural world was a source of corruption.浪漫主义之间大多是相通的，都注重道德，强调个人主义价值观和直觉感受，并且认为自然是美的源头，人类社会是腐败之源。

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美国文学选读复习资料美国文学选读复习资料美国文学是世界文学宝库中的一颗璀璨明珠，承载着美国历史、文化和社会的精华。

作为文学爱好者和学生，对于美国文学的了解和掌握是必不可少的。

本文将为大家提供一份美国文学选读的复习资料，帮助大家更好地理解和欣赏美国文学的经典之作。

一、美国文学的起源与发展美国文学的起源可以追溯到十七世纪的殖民地时期。

最早的美国文学作品是早期殖民者的日记、教会纪实和历史记录，如《普利茅斯纪事》和《马萨诸塞纪事》。

随着殖民地的发展和美国独立战争的爆发，美国文学逐渐形成了自己的独特风格和主题，如《飘》、《红字》和《汤姆·索亚历险记》等。

二、美国文学的主题与特点美国文学的主题广泛而多样，涵盖了对自由、平等、个人主义和社会正义的探索。

美国文学作品常常关注社会问题和人类命运，如种族歧视、性别平等、战争和社会阶级等。

同时，美国文学也以其写实主义和现实主义的风格著称，力求真实地描绘社会生活和人物形象。

三、美国文学的代表作品1.《钢铁是怎样炼成的》这是美国作家海明威的代表作之一，通过描写一战期间的士兵们的生活和战争的残酷性，展现了人性的脆弱和战争的荒谬。

2.《了不起的盖茨比》这是美国作家菲茨杰拉德的代表作之一，以20世纪20年代的纽约社交圈为背景，描绘了财富、爱情和欲望的交织，对美国梦的追求和破灭进行了深刻的探讨。

3.《杀死一只知更鸟》这是美国作家哈珀·李的代表作之一，通过一个小女孩的视角，揭示了种族歧视和社会不公的问题，以及人性的复杂性和善恶的边界。

4.《老人与海》这是美国作家海明威的另一部代表作品，通过一个老渔夫与大海的搏斗，探讨了生命的意义和人与自然的关系。

5.《傲慢与偏见》这是英国作家简·奥斯汀的作品，虽然不是美国文学，但对美国文学的影响深远。

通过描写女主角伊丽莎白·班纳特的成长和婚姻观念的转变，探讨了社会等级、婚姻和爱情的主题。

四、美国文学的影响与意义美国文学不仅仅是一种艺术形式，更是美国文化和民族精神的重要组成部分。

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1、The Colonial Period（1607-1765）American Puritanism ( in the early 17th century through the end of the 18th)北美第一位女诗人Anne Bradstreet(宗教气息，夫妻恩爱)Edward Taylor 都受英国玄学派影响（metaphysical）2、The Enlightenment and Revolution PeriodBenjamin Franklin:Poor Richard's Almanac The Autobiography---“美国梦”的根源3、American Romanticism（end of 18th to the civil war）American writers emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature.早期浪漫主义Washington Irving father of American Literature <The Sketch Book>短篇小说James Fenimore Cooper 历史，冒险，边疆小说《The Leather-stocking Tales>文明发展对大自然的摧残与破坏William Cullen Bryant 美国第一个浪漫主义诗人《To a Waterfowl><The Yellow Violet>美国山水，讴歌大自然，歌颂美国生活现实Edgar Allan Poe ---(48 poems,70 short stories)He greatly influenced the devotees of “Art for art’s sake.”He was father of psychoanalytic criticism , and the detective story.Ralph Waldo Emerson---The chief spokesman of New England TranscendentalismAmerican Transcendentalism (also known as “American Renaissance”) It is the high tide of American romanticism Transcendentalists spoke for the cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society. 《Nature》---the Bible of Transcendentalism by Emerson 《Self-Reliance》表达他的超验主义观点Henry David Thoreau------ Waldenhe regarded nature as a symbol of spirit.Thoreau was very critical of modern civilization.小说家：Hawthorne-赞成超验He is a master of symbolism The Scarlet Letter《红字》Melville 怀疑，悲观，sailing experiences Moby Dick百科全书式性质/海洋作品/动物史诗诗人Longfellow《I Shot an Arrow...》《A Psalm of Life》第一首被完整地介绍到中国的美国诗歌Whitman （Free Verse---without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme ）《Leaves of Grass》《One's Self I Sing》《O Captain! My Captain!》songDickinson inner life of the individual ---died for beauty4、The Age of RealismJames upper reaches of American society. <一位女士的肖像》inner world of manHowells, concerned himself chiefly with middle class life.<The Rise of Silas Lapman>Twain the lower strata of society. humor and local colorism<Life on the Mississippi> <The Adventures of Tom Sawyer> <The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn >American Naturalism 自然主义（新型现实）Stephen Crane；《Maggie: A Girl of the Streets》《The Red Badge of Courage》pessimisticTheodore Dreiser；Sister Carrie；Jennie Gerhardt；An American Tragedy(Trilogy of Desire)O.Henry (William Sydney Porter)：The Gift of the Magi；The Cop and the anthemJack London：The Call of the Wild；Martin Eden5、The Modern Period The 1920s-1930s ( the second renaissance of American literature)The Roaring Twenties ，The Jazz Age ，“lost”(Gertrude Stein) and “waste land”(T.S.Eliot)现代主义小说家F. Scott Fitzgerald：《The Great Gatsby》被视为美国文学“爵士时代”的象征，以美国梦American Dream为主线。

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美国文学选读复习提要3Mark Twain 马克·吐温1835-19101.原名Samuel Langhorne Clemens 塞缪尔·朗赫恩·克莱门斯。

1847年父亲去世后开始到一家出版社当学徒工，从1853年开始全国旅行，期间做过印刷排字临时工，结识了船长霍勒斯·比克斯比，从那以后便开始水上生活his formal education ended soon after his father’s death in 1847, when he became a printer’s apprentice. From 1853, he traveled widely, as a journeyman printer, in the eastern states and in the west, he met Horace Bixby, the captain of the boat, and turned to a career on the river.国内战争爆发以后，他离开密西西比河，先后在军队当过志愿者，到内华达州掏过金，他还做过木材投机生意，当过新闻记者he left the Mississippi at the outbreak of the Civil War, and became, in swift succession, and army volunteer, a gold-prospector in Nevada, a timber speculator and a journalist.2.在弗吉尼亚《企业》杂志任职期间，他开始使用笔名“马克·吐温”，意为口寻，也就是十二尺深whileworking for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, he adopted the pseudonym “Mark Twain”, the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two fathoms, i.e. twelve feet.3.1865年，他第一本书《跳蛙》出版”Jumping Frog”;1869年，《傻子国外旅行记》“Innocents Abroad”;1872年，《艰苦岁月》“Roughing It”;1873年，《镀金时代》“The Gilded Age”1876年，《汤姆·索亚历险记》“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”;1883年，《密西西比河上的生活》“Life on the Mississippi”;1884年，《哈克贝里·费恩历险记》”Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”;1894年，《傻瓜威尔逊》“Pudd’n head Wilson”;1900年，《败坏了哈德莱堡的人》“The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg”;1906年，《什么是人？》“What is Man”;1916年，《神秘来客》“The Mysterious Stranger”4.晚年悲观与失望，对十九世纪美国社会价值观不能接受，后一直是一个坚定的怀疑论者，有时他通过时事恶毒的评论来疏缓自己的压力，晚景凄凉，亲人相继离去he pointed towards his uneasy acceptance of the values of nineteenth-century American society, he wrote three works expressing his acute pessimism.From that time until his death, he maintained a bitter skepticism, relieved at times by outraged commentary on world affairs. His last years were saddened by personal bereavement.Ezra Pound埃兹拉·庞德1885-19721.埃兹拉·卢米斯·庞德Ezra Loomis Pound。

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Proses:Natha n Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter-Chapter 2Hawthorne:心理分析小说，以宗教罪恶观sin评价社会。

-Why are women especially the elder ones so harsh and intolerant to Hester?1. Startled or astonished by the beauty, elegant and dignity of Hester.2. The patriarchal society let women have eternalized patriarchal ideas, unfavorable for women adulterers.-How does the author portray Hester Prynne?1. Core impressive image: the artistically and fantastically made letter A .2. Appeara nee-What does the scarlet letter with gold thread and elaborate embroidery( 朿9绣)suggests?1. Clue of Hester ' s attitsh e makes a mockery of her punishment by making this plain symbol of adultery into a gorgeousdecorati on.2. To n egate the awful meaning of the letter.3. as punishment, 血红色的A 字象征这人们反对human nature ,lush, 有devilish 意味，而Hester wants to changeher huma n reality, to make it prettier tha n it really is.-What does “ A” sta nd for?Adultery/A ngel (appeari ng in the sky whe n gover nor dies)/Able (Hester gains in flue nee)-What kind of pers on is Chilli ngworth?1. Devil or devil ' s emissary or SataicDld intellect and old age , without hominine feelings from heart and soul.2. In Hester ' s recalling, he is "…pale. ”Herman Melville: Moby Dick-Ch apter 41 Character Capta in AhabImage of America n: an idealist and an egoni st.Willa Cather: Miss JewettSarah Orne Jewett' s poetic principlesJewett both as a writer and a pers onCather ' s poetic principlesAs a writer, Jewett has her own writing style.She focuses on the places where she lives and loves, and makes them subject-matters of her stories. (Wherever she might be, She carried the Maine shore-country with her. She loved it by instinet, and in the light of wide experienee, from near and from afar. Every day, in every seas on of the year, she enjoyed the beautiful country in which she had the good fortune to be born. Her love of the Maine country was the supreme happ in ess of her life. Her stories were but reflect ions, quite incidental, of that peculiar and intensely personal pleasure. Take ,for instanee, that dear, daybreak paragraph which begins By the Morning Boat ”：On the coast of Maine …'P127 paragraph 3)She writes with delightful humor that comes from her delicate and tactful han dli ng of her n ative Ian guage.(Her pers onal opinions she voiced lightly, half-humorously; any expression was spontaneous, the outgrowth of the immediate con versati on.) And, the dist inctive thi ng about Miss Jewett is that she has her own in dividual voice.(her comme nt on the story of a mule) Sherwood An ders on: The Triumph of the EggF. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great GatsbyEast and West Egg represent, respectively, the split among upper class society of old-monied, aristocratic families and the 'nouveau riche" families whose fortunes were recently made. In the time setting for this novel, this division was distinct and very relevant "Old money" was considered morE respe匚lablE than Tl new money" and this is evident in the social depiction of life in East Egg and life in West Egg. Consider, for example, how Daisy (who lives in East Egg) considers Gatsby's (a West Egg resident) parties to be decadent and jnliike the(:ivilized gathering£ she is a匚customed to atteriding.Nick ultimately returns west because he has become disillusioned with east coast society. He left the west r like many people of his era, in search of a richer, broader, cultural experience. After his experiences with Gatsby r Nick finds the east 白ndit£ attendant lifestyle to be contemptible and lacking in authenticity.East Egg and West Egg together represent the ongoing divisions in society. East Egg is where the M real" aristocrats live: those with older money and established credentials. West Egg is where the new money lives, and is not considered as classy.Nick retums to West Egg because, while he has some social credenti^h that might allow him to live in East Egg； he is trying to make something of himself, ina way like Gatsby, his neighbor, and the western community is for those stillconstructing their identities*Ernest Hemi ngway: A Clea n, Well-Lighted PlaceExistential ism and the “ LostGeneration "Although Hemingway was writing years before existentialism became a prominent culture idea, his questioning of life and his experiences as a searching member of the lost generation gave his work existe ntialist overt on es.Noth ingn ess: (nada) an existe ntial an gst about his place in the uni verse and an un certa inty about the meaning of life . The struggle to deal with despair : the older waiter cannot actually stave off despair: in effective methods in cludi ng: money(bar)/mocki ng prayers (religio n)The Older Waiter: Lonely, recognizes himself in the old man and sees his own future.The Youn ger Waiter: n a^Ve and insen sitive, immature, dem on strates a dismissive attitude toward huma n life in gen eral. Symbols: The caf - t h e opposite of nothingnessDeceptive pacing: 写作风格从简，导致故事节奏忽快忽慢。

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美国⽂学选读知识点整理1．Benjamin Franklin(1706~1790)Poor Richard’s AlmanacThe Autobiography2．Edgar Allan Poe(1809~1849)Tamerlane and Other PoemsMurders in the Rue MorguePoemsThe Purloined LetterThe Raven and other PoemsThe Gold BugTales of the Grotesque and ArabesqueThe Philosophy of CompositionTalesThe Poetic PrincipleThe Fall of the House of UsesAl AraafThe Red Masque of the Red Death LigeiaThe Black CatThe Cask of AmontilladoAnnabel LeeSonnet--To ScienceTo Helen3．Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803~1882） NatureSelf-RelianceThe American ScholarThe Divinity School AddressEssays:First SeriesEssays：Second SeriesRepresentative menEnglish TraitsThe Conduct of LifePoemsMay-Day and Other PiecesNathaniel Hawthorne(1804~1864)FanshaweTwice-told TalesMosses from an Old ManseScarlet LetterThe House of the Seven GablesThe Blithedale RomanceThe Marble Faun4．Herman Melville(1819~1891)TypeeOmooMardiRedburnWhite JacketMoby DickThe Confidence ManBattle PiecesClarelTimoleonBilly Budd5．Henry David Thoreau(1817~1862)On the Duty of Civil DisobedienceA Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiverWalden6．Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807~11882) V oices of the Night Ballads and Other PoemsEvangelineThe Song of HiawathaI shot an ArrowA Psalm of Life7．Walt Whitman(1819~1892)Leaves of GrassOne’s Self I SingO Captain!My Captain8．Emily Dickinson(1830~1886)To Make a PrairieSuccess Is Counted SweetestI’m Nobody!9．Mark Twain (1835~1910)The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountryThe Innocents AbroadThe Gilded AgeThe Adventures of Tom SawyerLife on the MississippiThe Adventures of Hucklebeerry finnA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg10．Henry James(1843~1916)A Passionate PilgrimRoderick HudsonThe Novels and Tales of Henry JamesThe AmericanDaisy MillerThe Portrait of a LadyThe BostoniansThe Princess of CasamassimaThe Spoils of PoyntonThe Turn of the ScrewThe Awkward AgeThe Wings of the DoveThe AmbassadorsThe Golden BowlThe Art of FictionThe American SceneThe Jolly Corner11．Stephen Crane(1871~1900)Maggie:A Girl of the StreetsThe Red Badge of CourageThe Open BoatThe Bride Comes to Y ellow SkyThe Blue Hotel12．Willa Cather(1873~1947)Miss Jewett13．Sherwood Anderson（176~1941） Windy McPherson’s Son Winesburg,OhioMarching MenPoor WhiteThe triumph of the Egg and Other StoriesHorses and MenMany MarriagesDark LaughterBeyond DesireDeath in the Woods and Other Stories14．Katherine Anne Porter（1890~1980） The Flowering Judas Pale Horse,Pale RiderThe Leaning TowerThe Old OrderOld MortalityA Ship of FoolsThe Jilting of Granny Weatherall15．F.Scott Fitzgerald（1896~1940）This Side of ParadiseThe Beautiful and the DamnedFlappers and PhilosophersTales of the Jazz AgeThe Great GatsbyTender is the NightThe Crack-Up16．William Faulkner(1897~1962)The Marble FaunSoldier’s PayThe Sound and the FuryMosquitoesAs I Lay DyingLight in AugustAbsalom,AbsalomThe HamletSartorisThe TownThe MansionBarn Burning17．Ernest Hemingway(1899~1961)In Our TimeThe Sun Also RisesA Farewell to ArmsFor Whom the Bell TollsThe Old Man and the SeaA Clean,Well-Lighted Place18．Ezra Pound(1885~1972)ExultationsPersonaeCathayCantosDes ImagistesIn a Station of the Metro19．Wallace Stevens(1879~1955)The Necessary AngelAnecdote of the Jar20．William Carlos Williams(1883~1963) Collected Later Poems Collected Early PoemsPatersonThe Red WheelbarrowSpring and All21．Robert Frost(1874~1963)A Boy’s WillNorth of BostonNew HamphshireCollected PoemsA Further RangeA Witness TreeFire and IceStopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningThe Road Not Taken22．Langston Hughes(1902~1967)The Weary BluesFine Clothes to the JewThe Dream Keeper and Other PoemsShakespeare in HarlemDreamsMe and the MuleBorder Line23．Archibald MacLeish(1892~1982)The Happy MarriageThe Poet of EarthConquistadorCollected PoemsJ.B.Ars Poetica24．Eugene Glastone O’Neill(1888~1953) Bound East for Cardiff In The ZoneThe Long V oyage HomeThe Moon of the CaribeesEmperor JonesThe Hairy ApeThe Great God BrownStrange InterludeDesire Under the ElmsMourning Becomes ElectraThe Iceman ComethA Touch of the PoetLong Day’s Journey Into NightThe Moon for the MisbegottenHughieMore Stately Mansions25．Eiwyn Brooks White(1899~1985)Talk of the TownIs Sex NecessaryElements of StyleStuart LittleCharlotte’s WebQuo V adimus or The Case for the Bicycle One Man’s MeatThe Points of My CompassLetters of E.B,whiteEssays of E.B,whitePoems and Sketches of E.B.White Writings from The New Y orkerOnce More to the Lake 26．Tennessee Williams(1911~1983) The Glass MenagerieA Streetcar Named DesireCat On a Hot Tin RoofSummer and SmokeThe Rose TattooCamino RealOrpheus DescendingSuddenly Last SummerThe Sweet Bird of Y outhThe Night of the Lguana27．Ralph Waldo Ellison(1914~1994) Invisible ManShadow and ActGoing to the Territory28．Robert Lowell(1917~1977)Lord Weary’s CastleLife StudiesThe DolphinSkunk Hour29．Elizabeth Bishop(1911~1979) North and SouthCollected PoemsGeography IIIIn the Waiting Room30．Theodore Roethke(1908~1963）The Waking PoemsThe Collected PoemsOn the Poet and His Craft：Selected Prose 31．Allen Ginsberg（1926~1997）HowlA Supermarket in California32．Sylvia Plath（1932~1963）The ColossusArielWinter TreesThe Bell JarLetters HomePoint Shirley33．Robert Hayden （1913~1980）Frederick Douglass34．Robert Bly（1926~）The Light Around the BodyThe SixtiesDriving Through Minnesota During the Hanoi Bombing 35．Maya Angelou（1928~）Still I Rise36．Arthur Miller（1915~2005） All My Sonse Death of a SalesmanThe CrucibleA View from the BridgeAfter the FallThe Archbishop’s CellingThe Misfits37．Saul Bellow（1915~2005） Dangling manThe VictimThe Adventures of Augie MarchHenderson the Rain KingHerzogSeize the DayMr.Sammler’s PlanetHumbolt’s GiftThe Dean’s DecemberMore Die of HeartbreakThe TheftThe ActualRavelsteinMosby’s Memories and Other StoriesThe Last AnalysisLooking for Mr.Green38．Joseph Heller（1923~1999） We Bombed in New Haven Something HappenedGood as GoldGod KnowsCatch-2239．Toni Morrison（1931~）The Bluest EyeSulaSong of SolomonTar BabyBelovedJazzParadiseLoveA MercyRecitatif40．Louise Erdrich（1954~）Love MedicineThe Beet QueenTracksThe Crown of ColumbusThe Bingo PalaceTales of Burning LoveThe Antelope WifeThe Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse The Master Butchers Singing Club Four SoulsThe Painted DrumThe Plague of DovesShadow TagLulu’s Boys。

英语-《美国文学史及作品选读》复习资料

一卷I. Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.1.The first American writer is ___________.a. John Cottonb. John Winthropc. John Smithd. Anne Bradstreet2.In the direct line of Metaphysical Poets, _________ is considered the best ofPuritan poets and his works were hailed as the finest 17th century American verse.a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellowb. Edgar Allen Poec. William Cullen Bryantd. Edward Taylor3.“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are cr eated equal, …” is aquotation from __________ drafted by ______________.a. The American Crisis, Thomas Jeffersonb. The American Crisis, Thomas Painec. The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Pained. The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson4.______________ was called the “Father of American Poetry”.a. Edward Taylorb. William Cullen Bryantc. Edgar Allen Poed. Philip Freneau5.____________ was the first great prose stylist of American romanticism.a. Nathaniel Hawthorneb. Edgar Allen Poec. Washington Irvingd. James Fennimore Cooper6.In the five novels that comprise the Leatherstocking Tales, the central figure,________, goes the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder, and Hawkeye.a. Chingakgookb. David Gamutc. Natty Bumppod. Uncas7.The publication of ___________ written by _________introduced the mosteloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism to American literature.a. Nature, Henry David Thoreaub. Nature, Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walden, Henry David Thoreaud. Walden, Ralph Waldo Emerson8._____________ was written to show that the consequences of a sin cannot beescaped and that many different lives are influenced by one wrong deed.a. Nathaniel Hawthorneb. Herman Mellvillec. James Fennimore Cooperd. Washington Irving9.__________ was the first American writer to have a bust to be placed in the Poets’Corner at Westminster Abbey.a. William Wordsworthb. Edgar Allen Poec. William Cullen Bryantd. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow10.In a sense, we can say that Romanticism designates a literary and philosophicaltheory, which tends to see the ___________ as the very center of all life and all experience.a. societyb. individualc. familyd. country life11.“He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs,hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.” The description is about __________.a. Brom Van Bruntb. Rip Van Winklec. Ichabod Craned. Katrina Van Tassel12.Herman Melville was very much influenced by _________, who he called “thelargest brain with the largest heart” in America Litera ture.a. Nathaniel Hawthorneb. Edgar Allen Poec. Washington Irvingd. James Fennimore Cooper13.In The Last of the Mohicans, the last of the Mohicans refers to _____________.a. David Gamutb. Chigachgookc. Maguad. Uncas14. ___________ consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.a. Iambb. Trocheec. Dactyld. Spondee15.Among the following short stories, which one is NOT written by NathanielHawthorne?a. Ethan Brandb. The Great Stone Facec. Rapaccini's Daughterd. Bartleby the ScrivenerII. Explain the following terms briefly in English.1.Refrain2.American Puritanism3.New England Transcendentalism4.Familiar essay5.AllegoryIII. Arrange in pairs.Directions: Column A consists of ten writers, please find their corresponding works in Column B and write the answer on the Anwer Sheet.IV. Try to decide whether the following statements are true or false. Please write “T” for “true” and “F” for “false ”.1.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a story about a man who falls into a sleep of 20years while out hunting during which the Revolutionary War takes place.2.Bartleby the Scrivener is one of Herman Melville’s short stories.3.The Song of Hiawatha is the first American epic about the American Indians.4.The Birthmark uses the background of witchcraft to explore uncertainties of beliefthat trouble a man’s heart and mind.5.Edgar Allen Poe has often been regarded as the father of modern short story.V. Read the following passages and complete the tasks according to the specific requirements1.Standing on the bareground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted intoinfinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.a.Identify the author and the work from which the quotation is selected.b.What does “the Universal Being” refer to? What is the relation between theindividual and the Universal Being? Explain with regard to the author’s philosophical ideas.2.Another peculiar torture was felt in the gaze of a new eye. When strangers lookedcuriously at the scarlet letter, - and none ever failed to do so, - they branded it afresh into Hester’s soul; so that, oftentimes, she could scarcely refrain, yet always did refrain, from covering the symbol with her hand.a.Identify the author and the work from which the quotation is selected.b.What is the character’s full name? What does “the symbol” refer to? Does itchange its meaning for him/ her through out the whole story?3.Let us then be up and doing,With a heart for any fate;Still achieving, still pursuing,Learn to labor and to wait.a.Identify the author and the work from which the quotation is selected.b.Analyze the poem from at least three of the following aspects: structure,rhyme scheme, tone, theme and figures of speech used with regard to thestanza selected.VI. Answer the following questions1.Discuss the symbolism in Moby Dick.2.What are Edgar Allen Poe’s criteria for writing short stories?一卷答案I.Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.1-5：cdddc 6-10：cbadb 11-15：cadadII.Explain the following terms briefly in English.1.Refrain: one or more words repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at theend of a stanza. The most regular is the use of the same line at the close of each stanza.2.American Puritanism stressed predestination, original sin, total depravity,and limited atonement from God’s grace. It was influenced heavily by Calvinism. With such doctrines in their mind Puritans left Europe for America in order to prove that they were God’s chosen people who would enjoy God’s blessings on earth and in Heaven. Over the years in the new homeland, they built a way of life that stressed hard work, thrift, piety, and sobriety.3.New England Transcendentalism was the first American intellectualmovement. Transcendental club became the movement’s center with its magazine The Dial. It was a system of thought that originated from manysources, mainly Idealistic philosophy. It stressed the power of intuition, spirit and the individual. It envisioned religion as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal “oversoul”. It was represented by two major writers of the country, Emerson and Thoreau whose writings had great impact in the country.4.Familiar essay is the more personal, intimate type of informal essay. It dealslightly, often humorously, with personal experiences, opinions, and prejudices, stressing especially the unusual or novel, and having to do with the varied aspects of everyday life.5. Allegory is a story or image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning.III.Arrange in pairs.1-5：C J H G I 6-10：F D A E BIV.Try to decide whether the following statements are true or false. Please write “T” for “true” and “F” for “false ”1-5: F T T F TV.Read the following passages and complete the tasks according to the specific requirements1. a. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Relianceb. One of Emerson’s philosophy is the importance of the individual. In the passage, he is affirmative about man’s intuitive knowledge, with which a man can trust himself to decide what is right and to act accordingly. There is an emotional communication between an individual and the all-pervading power from which all things come from and of which all are a part. He means to convince people that the possibilities for man to develop and improve himself are infinite.2. a. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letterb. Hester Prynne; The symbol refers to the scarlet letter A which refers to hersin of adultery; at the very beginning of the romance, the letter “A” symbolizes the act of adultery to Dimmesdale , but towards the end of the story, it symbolizes Angel to the other people in the community.3. a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Lifeb. The poem is written in quatrains, with a rhyme scheme of abab and each line in iambic tetrameter. The tone is optimistic. Figures of speech used are alliteration, parallel structure and repetition. It stresses the importance of a full and sincere activity in making the most of life’s brief span, rather than succumbing to moods of vain regret or dejection.VI.Answer the following questions1.①Herman Melville is a master of symbols, that is, objects or persons whorepresent something else.②Different people on board the ship are representations of different ideas anddifferent social and ethnic groups; facts become symbols and incidents acquire universal meanings.③Ishmael , the narrator of the story, is symbolic of a wanderer or displacedperson who is wandering in the world and fails to find out the real meaning of the world.④Ahab, symbolic of the Jewish king who started worship of Pagan gods,suffers both psychological and physical damage inflicted by life in a harsh world that eventually destroys him.⑤The Pequod is the microcosm of human society and the voyage becomes asearch for truth.⑥Queequeg’s Coffin alternately symbolizes life and death. Queequeg has itbuilt when he is seriously ill, but when he recovers, it becomes a chest to hold his belongings and an emblem of his will to live. The coffin furthercomes to symbolize life, in a morbid way, when it replaces the Pequod’s li fe buoy. When the Pequod sinks, the coffin becomes Ishmael’s buoy, saving not only his life but the life of the narrative that he will pass on.⑦The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville, for it iscomplex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well. For the character Ahab, however, the whale represents only evil. Moby Dick is like a wall, hiding some unknown, mysterious things behind. Ahab wills the whole crew on the Pequod to join him in the pursuit of the big whale so as to pierce the wall, to root out the evil, but only to be destroyed by evil, in this case, by his consuming desire, his madness. For the author, as well as for the reader and Ishmael, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe, inscrutable and ambivalent, and the voyage of the mind will forever remaina search not a discovery of the truth.2.① A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashionedhis thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents,--he then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition there should be no word written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design."②Although beauty is the aim of poems, truth is the aim of tales.③Tales can deal with terror, passion, horror, humor, sarcasm, wit, andratiocination.④The merit of a work of art should be judged by its psychological effect uponthe reader.二卷I. Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.1.Written by William Cullen Bryant, __________, is called by the eminent Englishcritic and poet, Mathew Arnold, the “most perfect brief poem in the language”.a. To a Waterfowlb. To Helenc. Thanatopsisd. The Wild Honey Suckle2.The first American writer is ___________.a. John Cottonb. John Winthropc. John Smithd. Anne Bradstreet3.According to ______________, the most poetical topic is the death of a beautifulwoman.a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellowb. Edgar Allen Poec. William Cullen Bryantd. Edward Taylor4.“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, …” is aquotation from __________ drafted by ___________.a. The American Crisis, Thomas Jeffersonb. The American Crisis, Thomas Painec. The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Pained. The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson5.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle are the two most famous shortstories from Washington Irving’s ____________.a. Bracebridge Hallb. The Sketch Bookc. A History of New Yorkd. Twice-Told Tales6.______________ was called the “Father of American Poetry”.a. Edward Taylorb. William Cullen Bryantc. Edgar Allen Poed. Philip Freneau7._____________ is called by Oliver Wendell Holmes “our intellectual Declarationof Independence”.a. The American Scholarb. Self-Reliancec. The Divinity School Addressd. Nature8._______, New England’s Utopia, is the record of ____________’s experiment inendeavoring to live an ideal life in the forest.a. Nature, Henry David Thoreaub. Nature, Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walden, Henry David Thoreaud. Walden, Ralph Waldo Emerson9.____________ is a movement supported by all progressive forces of the countrywhich opposed themselves to the old colonial order and religious obscurantism.a. American Romanticismb. New England Transcendentalismc. American Puritanismd. American Enlightenment10.Among the writers in the Literature of Reason and Revolution, ________ shapedhis writing after the Spectator Papers of the English essayists Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.a. Thomas Jeffersonb. Benjamin Franklinc. Joel Barlowd. William Bartram11.“He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs,hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.” The description is about __________.a. Brom Van Bruntb. Rip Van Winklec. Ichabod Craned. Katrina Van Tassel12.Herman Melville was very much influenced by _________, who he called "thelargest brain with the largest heart" in America Literature.a. Nathaniel Hawthorneb. Edgar Allen Poec. Washington Irvingd. James Fennimore Cooper13.In The Last of the Mohicans, the last of the Mohicans refers to _____________.a. David Gamutb. Chigachgookc. Maguad. Uncas14.___________ consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.a. Iambb. Trocheec. Dactyld. Spondee15.Among the following short stories, which one is NOT written by NathanielHawthorne?a. Ethan Brandb. The Great Stone Facec. Rapaccini's Daughterd. Bartleby the ScrivenerII. Explain the following terms briefly in English.1.Refrain2.American Puritanism3.New England Transcendentalism4.Iambic pentameter5.Familiar essayIII. Arrange in pairs.Directions: Column A consists of ten writers, please find their corresponding works inIV. Try to decide whether the following statements are true or false. Please write “T” for “true” and “F” for “false ”1.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a story about a man who falls into a sleep of 20years while out hunting during which the Revolutionary War takes place.2.Bartleby the Scrivener is one of Herman M elville’s short stories.3.The Song of Hiawatha is the first American epic about the American Indians.4.The Birthmark uses the background of witchcraft to explore uncertainties ofbelief that trouble a man’s heart and mind.5.Edgar Allen Poe has often been regarded as the father of modern short story.V. Read the following passages and complete the tasks according to the specific requirements1.I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleerin the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.a.Identify the author and the work from which the quotation is selected.b.Explain the purpose(s ) of the author with regard to the passage.2.Another peculiar torture was felt in the gaze of a new eye. When strangers lookedcuriously at the scarlet letter, - and none ever failed to do so, - they branded it afresh into Hester’s soul; so that, oftentimes, she could scarcely refrain, yet always did refrain, from covering the symbol with her hand.a.Identify the author and the work from which the quotation is selected.b.What is the character’s full name? What does “the symbol” refer to? Does itchange its meaning for him/ her through out the whole story?3.Let us then be up and doing,With a heart for any fate;Still achieving, still pursuing,Learn to labor and to wait.a.Identify the author and the work from which the quotation is selected.b.Analyze the poem from at least three of the following aspects: structure,rhyme scheme, tone, theme and figures of speech used with regard to thestanza selected.VI. Answer the following questions1. Analyze the symbolism appeared in The Scarlet Letter.2. Analyze the character Ahab in Moby Dick.二卷答案I. Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.1-5 acbdb 6-10 dacdb 11-15 cadadII. Explain the following terms briefly in English.1. Refrain: one or more words repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza. The most regular is the use of the same line at the close of each stanza. A variety is the use of language that, by its mere repetition at the close of each stanza presenting different ideas and moods, seems to take on a different significance on each appearance.2. American Puritanism stressed predestination, original sin, total depravity, and li mited atonement from God’s grace. It was influenced heavily by Calvinism. With such doctrines in their mind they left Europe for America in order to prove that they were God’s chosen people who would enjoy God’s blessings on earth and in Heaven. They felt that they were exiles under the special grace of God to establish a theocracy in the New England. Over the years in the new homeland, they built a way of life that stressed hard work, thrift, piety, and sobriety.3. New England Transcendentalism was the first American intellectual movement which exerted a tremendous influence on the consciousness of American people. Transcendental club became the movement’s center with its magazine The Dial. It was a system of thought that originated from four sources: Unitarianism, Neoplatonism, Idealistic philosophy and Oriental mysticism. It stressed the power of intuition, spirit and the individual. It envisioned religion as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal “oversoul”. It was represented by two major writers of the country, Emerson and Thoreau whose writings had great impact in the country and a new group of writers of the period under the influence began to apply transcendental ideas in their works, e.g.Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman.4. Iambic pentameter a metrical verse line having five feet, with each one having one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.5. Familiar essay the more personal, intimate type of informal essay. It deals lightly, often humorously, with personal experiences, opinions, and prejudices, stressing especially the unusual or novel, and having to do with the varied aspects of everyday life.III.Arrange in pairs.1-5：C J H G I 6-10：F D A E BIV.Try to decide whether the following statements are true or false. Please write “T” for “true” and “F” for “false ”.FTTFTV. Read the following passages and complete the tasks according to the specific requirements1. a. Henry David Thoreau, Waldenb. He had three purposes in writing the book: To make the readers evaluate the way he lived and thought, to reveal the hidden spiritual possibilities in everyone’s life, and to condemn the weaknesses and errors of society, such as the pursuit of materialism.2. a. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letterb. Hester Prynne; The Scarlet Letter A which refers to her sin of adultery; at the very beginning of the romance, the letter “A” symbolizes the act of adultery to Dimmesdale , but towards the end of the story, it symbolizes Angel to the other people in the community.3. a. Henry Walworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Lifeb. The poem is written in quatrains, with a rhyme scheme of abab and each line in iambic tetrameter. The tone is optimistic. Figures of speech used are alliteration,parallel structure and repetition. It stresses the importance of a full and sincere activity in making the most of life’s brief span, rather than succumbing to moods of vain regret or dejection.VI. Answer the following questions1. ①Hawthorn is a master of symbolism.②For example, in The Scarlet Letter, the prison door at the beginning may well symbolize the restrictive laws and forces that are typical of the puritan society, as well as a remainder of the presence of evil or sin.③The wild rosebush, on the other hand, will surely associate themselves with the freedom of natural spirit or sympathy of nature for the human beings.④Forest is usually used to refer to moral wilderness where witches wander about and human beings tend to get morally lost.⑤The letter “A” symbolizes the act of adultery to Dimmesdale , but Angel to the other people in the community.2. ①Ahab is basically a noble and intelligent man whose balance has been disturbed by the blind and purposeless fury of the whale that eventually destroys him. As Ishmael wants to understand the meaning of life, he wants to remake the world to his own way. Ishmael avoids the “woe that is madness”, but Ahab is entrapped in that woe.②Ahab represents both an ancient and a modern type of hero. Like the heroes of Greek or Shakespearean tragedy, Ahab suffers from a single fatal flaw, one he shares with such legendary characters as Oedipus and Faust. His tremendous overconfidence leads him to defy common sense and believe that, like a god, he can enact his will and remain immune to the forces of nature.③He considers Moby Dick the embodiment of evil in the world, and he pursues the White Whale monomaniacally because he believes it his inescapable fate to destroy this evil.④According to the critic M. H. Abrams, such a tragic hero “moves us to pit y because, since he is not an evil man, his misfortune is greater than he deserves; but he moves us also to fear, because we recognize similar possibilities of error in our own lesser and fallible selves.”⑤Unlike the heroes of older tragic works, however, Ahab suffers from a fatal flaw that is not necessarily inborn but instead stems from damage, in his case both psychological and physical, inflicted by life in a harsh world. He is as much a victim as he is an aggressor, and the symbolic opposition that he constructs between himself and Moby Dick propels him toward what he considers a destined end.三卷I. Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.1. In Shakespeare＇s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ________________.A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industryB. his enterprise went bankruptC. Bassanio was able to pay his own debtD. his ships had all been lost2. Which of the following is not written by Robert Frost?A. To AutumnB. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningC. Mending WallD. A Boy＇s Will3. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks."(Samuel Johnson, "To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield")The speaker here is ( ).A. cheerfulB. ironicC. mysteriousD. nonchalant4. Charles Dicken＇s early years were________A. happyB. difficultC. richD. sunny5. Robert Frost described ________________as “a book of people,”which shows a brilliant insight into New England character and the background that formed it.A. North of BostonB. A Boy’s WillC. A Witness TreeD. A Further Range6. The lines, "Two roads diverged in a wood. and l/l took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference. " are found in _________________________.A. Robert Frost’s The Road Not taken"B. William Wordsworth’s "Lines Written in Early Spring"C. John Keats’s "Ode to Autumn"D. Percy Bysshe Shelly’s "ode to the West Wind"7. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _________________ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.A. SouthernB. WesternC. New HampshireD. New England8. Mark Twain created ，in ________________________________ ，a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A. Huckleberry FinnB. Tom SowyerC. The Gilded AgeD. The Mysterious Stranger9. "So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! /Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"/In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _________________ .A. HeathcliffB. CatherineC. ghostD. one's spiritual lift10. American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from the civilization were commonly called "________________."A. sons of libertyB. fatherless childrenC. a beat generationD. a lost generation11. All the following poets belong to lake poets EXCEPTA. WordsworthB. ColeridgeC. Robert SoutheyD. Shelley12. Here are some lines from a literary work:I shall be telling this with asigh,/Somewhere ages and ages hence:/Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—/I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference.The work is ________.A. Robert Frost'sThe Road Not TakenB. John Milton's Paradise LostC. Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD. Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream13. What＇s the name of Hester and Dimmesdale ＇s daughter?A. AmyB. PearlC. NinaD. Berry14. Which of the following is NOT written by Jane Austen?A. Sense and SensibilityB. Pride and PrejudiceC. Jane EyreD. Emma15. The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that theyA. speak local dialectsB. are polite and elegant gentlemenC. are simple and crude farmersD. are noble savages(red and white) untainted by societyI. Choose the best answer to each of the following questions. II. Choose the best answers(at least 2 answers) to each of the following questions.1. What are the things that Robinson Crusoe brings with him when he decidesto travel on the other side of the island?Robinson Crusoe brings withhimA. gunB. hatchetC. dogD. raisins2. All of the following works are written by Jane Austen?A. Northanger AbbeyB. Mansfield ParkC. PersuasionD. Emma3. The works Shakespeare wrote in 1594 are________________.A. Timon of AthensB. The Two Gentlemen of VeronaC. Love’s Labour’s LostD. Romeo and Juliet4. The features of style of Robinson Crusoe includeA. the first person singularB. short and plain sentencesC. nothing artificial in his languageD. smooth,easy,colloquial5. What are the insults of this world mentioned by HamletA. the tyrant's crueltiesB. the proud man's attempts to humiliate thosebeneath himC. the heartbreak of being in loveD. the slowness of the law's working6. The works Shakespeare wrote in his second period (1601-1608)are________________.A. HamletB. King LearC. OthelloD. Cymbline。

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美国文学选读（陶洁版）复习资料ADAM整理William Faulkner(1897-1962 1949 Nobel price“Stream of Consciousness”意识流or “interior monologue”,内心独白is one of the modern literary techniques. It is the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images as the character experiences them. It was first used in 1922 by the Irish novelist James Joyce.The Sound and the Fury (1929) 人物??As I Lay Dying (1930)Light in the August ( 1932)Absalom, Absalom (1936)Go Down Moses (1942)Ernest HemingwayIceberg Principle (Theory):冰山法则The dignity of movement of the iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A good writer does not need to reveal every detail of a character or action.Code heroa noble but tragic hero; fighting with the overwhelming force; though he knows that he will be defeated at last, he decides to act like a hero. In one sense Hemingway wrote all his life about one theme, which is neatly summed up in the famous phrase “grace under pressure”Major Works:The Sun Also Rises 1926 (Jake Barnes)A Farewell to Arms 1928 (a tragic story about war and love) (Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley) For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940 (Spanish civil war) (Robert Jordan)The Old Man and the Sea 1952 (Santiago)Herman Melville代表作：白鲸Moby Dick Other Works are: Billy Budd,Typee, Omoo, Mardi.Symbolism in Moby Dick：It is regarded as the first American prose epic. 散文史诗？It turns out to be a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth 寻找真理and knowledge of the universe, a spiritual exploration into man’s deep reality and psychology.Different people on board the ship are representations of different ideas and different social and ethnic groups; facts become symbols and incidents acquire universal meanings; the Pequod is the microcosm of human society and the voyage becomes a search for truth. The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable难以理解的, malignant恶性的, and beautiful as well.Realism 浪漫主义之后，现代主义之前As a literary movement, the Age of Realism came into existence after Romanticism with the Civil War It was a reaction against “the lie” of Romanticism and sentimentalism, and paved the wayto Modernism.This literary interest in the so-called “reality”of life started a new period in the American literary writing known as The Age of Realism.Psychological RealismIt is the realistic writing that probes deeply into the complexities of characters’thoughts and motivations. And Henry James is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator, and not in any facts of which the spectator is unaware. Such realism is therefore merely the obligation that the artist assumes to represent life as he sees it.The three dominant figures of the period are William Dean Howells豪威尔斯, Mark Twain, and Henry James. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Americans, and Henry James had apparently laid greater emphasis on the “inner world”of man.William Dean Howells：The Rise of Silas LaphamHenry James：The Portrait of a Lady (Isabel Archer; Madam Merle; Gilbert Osmond)Daisy Miller (Daisy; Mr. Winterbourne; Mr. Giovanelli)Mark Twain = Samuel Langhorne Clemens Missouri Writing: humor and local colorism 地方特色The characteristics of local colorismTwain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism,”a unique variation of American literary realism.“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,”brought him recognition from a wider public. His best works were produced when he was in the prime of his life：Life on the Mississippi & The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.Mark Twain’s most representative work：The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnHis humor, a kind of artistic style used to criticize the social injustice and satirize the decayed romanticism, is remarkable.Nathaniel Hawthorne effected by 超验主义One of the most ambivalent writers in the American literary history.The Scarlet Letter:红字Other works: Mosses from an Old Manse; Twice-Told Tales; The Marble Faun; The House of the Seven GablesHe is a master of symbolism, which he took from the Puritan tradition 清教徒传统and bequeathed to American literature in a revivified form.In his masterpiece, by using Pearl as a thematic symbol, Hawthorne emphasizes the consequence the sin of adultery has brought to the community and people living in that community. With the scarlet A as the biggest symbol of all, which is ambiguous, he proves himself to be one of the best symbolists.American Naturalism 自然主义The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory达尔文进化论on the American thought and the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to another school of realism: American naturalism.The naturalists emphasized that the world was amoral与道德无关的, that men and women had no free will, that lives were controlled by heredity遗传and environment, that the destiny of humanity was misery in life and oblivion湮没in death. America’s literary naturalists dismissed the validity of comforting moral truths. They attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness, presenting characters of low social and economic classes who were determined by their environment and heredity.代表作家Stephen Crane；Frank Norris；Theodore Dreiser；Edwin Arlington Robinson；Upton Sinclair；Jack London；O’ HenryStephen Crane：Maggie: A Girl of the Streets；The Red Badge of Courage；The Open Boat；The Black Riders and Other Lines；War Is KindEdwin Arlington Robinson：Richard CoryJack London：The Call of the Wild；The White Fang；The Sea Wolf；Martin EdenUpton Sinclair：The JungleO.Henry (William Sydney Porter)：The Gift of the Magi；The Cop and the anthemTheodore Dreiser：Trilogy of Desire:1.The Financier2. The Titan3. The Stoic；Sister Carrie；Jennie Gerhardt；An American TragedyThe 20th Century American Poets：Two characteristic strains：introspection自省&social criticismT.S.Eliot：The Waste LandImagism 意象派A poetic movement of England and the U.S. that flourished from 1909 to 1917. The movement insists on the creation of images in poetry by “the direct treatment of the thing”and the economy of wording. “poetic techniques to record exactly the momentary impressions”Three main principles of the Imagist Movement (1912) :[1] direct treatment of poetic subjects[2] elimination of merely ornamental or superfluous words, to use no word that does not contribute to the presentation.[3] rhythmical composition in the sequence of the musical phrase rather than in the sequence of a metronome.Ezra Pound：Idaho爱达荷洲worked for the Italian government in WW II, engaged in some radio broadcasts of anti-Semitism and pro-Fascism.代表作:Cantos; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley; In a Station of the Metro; CathayWilliam Carlos Williams:The Red WheelbarrowE.E.Cummings: L(a; r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-rWallace Stevens:Anecdote of the JarThe 20th Century American Poets:Major Features1. The relationship of art and life; reality and imagination; fact and miracle; chaos and order.2. References to painting, music, and color.3. Abstract, philosophical, and difficult. He saw poetry as a personal transaction between self and reality.4. Meticulous language, though frequently exotic; coined words, and some are employed simply for sound effects.Robert Frost: Fire and Ice; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; The Road Not Taken Major Features:1. His verse was terrifying at first, showing the dark side of human life and society. Later, filledwith sunshine.2.New England as the setting; The subjects come from daily life of ordinary life;Rural poetry inpastoral tradition. ( Wordsworth; Emerson)3.His themes include landscape and people of New England, loneliness and poverty of isolatedfarmers, beauty, terror and tragedy in nature.Simple language, a graceful style and traditional forms of poetry.诗歌鉴赏：In both "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "The Road Not Taken," the speaker hesitates on route. Compare the hesitations. Do they derive from thesame impulse and misgiving or are they distinct?Langston Hughes: The first prominent black writer in American literary history.Poet Laureate of Harlem & O’ Henry of HarlemA poet, playwright, novelist, song writer, biographer, editor, newspaper columnist, translator,lecturer.主要作品：The Weary Blues, The Dream keeper and Other Poems, Fine Clothes to the Jew Harlem RenaissanceIn the 1920s in America, there was an upsurge of Black literature, popularly known as the “Harlem Renaissance”, out of which such eminent literary figures as Langston Hughes grew. So, “Harlem Renaissance” is a burst of literary achievement in the 1920s by Negro playwrights, poets and novelists who presented new insights into the American experience and prepared the way for the emergence of numerous Black writers after mid-twentieth century.The Harlem Renaissance began with a work entitled: New Negro: An Interpretation(by Alain Locke).Dialect, folklore, and Jazz.The Modern PeriodPart I The 1920s-1930s ( the second renaissance of American literature)l The Roaring Twenties (economically)l The Jazz Age (socially)l“lost” and “waste land” (spiritually)There had been a big flush of new theories and new ideas in both social and natural sciences.Darwinism(Darwin), Socialism (Karl Marx), Psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud)The Lost GenerationThe term “Lost Generation” came from Gertrude Stein, who had a salon in her house for English and American expatriates in Paris. The Phrase was a remark she made to a mechanic in Hemingway’s presence that “Y ou are all a lost generation.”The Jazz AgeThe Jazz Age describes the period of the 1920s and 1930s, the years between World War Ⅰand World War Ⅱ, particularly in North America.With the rise of the Great Depression, the values of this age saw much decline.The most representative literary work of the age is American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, highlighting what some describe as the decadence and hedonism, as well as the growth of individualism.Fitzgerald is largely credited with coining the term “The Jazz Age”.Gertrude Stein used the term to describe the post-World War I generation of American writers: men and women haunted by a sense of betrayal and emptiness brought about by the destructiveness of the war. The term is commonly applied to Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings and some others.Winners of Nobel Prize for Literature during this periodSinclair Lewis (1930); Eugene O’Neill (1936); Pearl S. Buck (1938); T.S. Eliot (1948); William Faulkner (1949); Ernest Hemingway (1954); John Steinbeck (1962)Sinclair Lewisl Main Street (masterpiece) (a bitter satire on the life style of American small towns) Carol Milford // Will Kennicottl BabbittSome other famous writers and poets:Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio;Hands; Paper PillsF. Scott. Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby; This Side of Paradise; T ender is the Night; The Beautifuland the DamnedThe Last Tycoon ( unfinished)John Dos PassosEzra PoundRobert FrostAmerican DreamThe is the idea held by many in the United States that through hard work, courage and determination one could achieve prosperity繁荣. These were values held by many early European settlers, and have been passed on to subsequent generations.The term was first used by James Truslow Adams in his book The Epic of America. He states: "The American Dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. ….It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."In the United States’Declaration of Independence独立宣言, our founding fathers: "…held certain truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." …….The Post-War Period 战后Literature：This period is the rising period of post-modern literature. Many forms of post-modern fiction appeared. The same mood in this period is despair, but continuing to search absurdity荒谬of modern life; lonely, but searching for the meaning of existence; identity.The Beat Generation 行为怪癖的一代The Beat Generation is a group of American young writers and artists popular in the 1950s and early 1960s,known especially for their use of non-traditional forms and their rejection of conventional social values.The term "Beat" was reportedly coined by Jack Kerouac in the late 1940s, quickly becoming a slang term in America after World War II, meaning "exhausted" or "beat down" and provided this generation with a definitive label for their personal and social positions and perspectives.The core group consisted of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and William S. Burroughs。

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在理论、实践、手法、风格等方面都有独到之处。

）The Cask of Amontillado《阿芒提拉多的酒桶》Is the famous horror short story.The typical Gothic theme of the novel is terror and death. And tells the story of the character’s revenge.The writer uses irony (反讽)to reveal the Gothic theme.（扩展：《阿芒提拉多的酒桶》体现了其小说创作艺术的基本特征。

主题，人物塑造。

情节、气氛渲染。

叙事手法和风格、以及语言修辞等艺术特征都颇具特色。

堪谓这一创作实践成功地图解了其创作理论，产生了强烈的艺术效果。

）To Helen《致海伦》Sonnet—To Science《致科学》3、Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-0882)拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生American essayist, lecturer,poet. The founder of American Transcendentalism(美国超验主义).（扩展：深受英国浪漫主义影响，宣扬超验主义哲学，鼓吹个人应摆脱人为的束缚。

表现出业已成熟的人文主义思想，反应了他对人类局限的认知。

）American Transcendentalism was the first American intellectual movement, The key point of it is that people can transcend(超越) the feeling and reason and learn the truth directly.Self-Reliance《论自助》♂简析：Self-Reliance is an important and influential work which encourages a man to be confident andind ependent. Four main ideas in the work including “The Confidence” , “The Independence” , “The Personality” ,“Showing no Sympathy to the Poor”, of which “The Confidence” is the core point in this thesis.《论自助》是表达爱默生的超验主义观点最重要的作品之一。

4、Nathaniel Hawthorne（1804-1864）纳撒尼尔·霍桑American novelist and short story writer.A sighificant romantic writer and master of psychological insight.The Scarlet Letter《红字》♂简析：Describe the Puritan(清教徒) society life style in 17th century New England in Northern American.Reveal the darkness of the American society in 19th century .The heroine(女主人公) has lofty moral,and helps the bad people to change,devoting to creating a harmony society.Is an important Romantic novel.5、Herman Melville（1819-1891）赫尔曼·梅尔维尔Novelist,poet.Moby Dick《白鲸》♂简析：Mainly tells the long ocean story of hunting an imaginary mysterious Moby Dick.The book reveals the basic pattern(模式) of 19th century American life: loneliness and suicidal individualism in a self-styled democracy（民主）. It is the typical work of Symbolism.6、Henry David Thoreau亨利·大卫·梭罗American Essayist, poet, philosopherWalden《沃尔登》♂简析：Walden is a record of Thoreau’s two year experiment of living alone at Walden pond in a self-built house at the edge of the woods.It is not only fully demonstrates Emersonian ideas of self-reliance(自力更生) ,but also develops and tests Thoreau’s own transcendental philosophy（先验哲学）.Civil Disobedience《论公民之不服从》（认为人民应该拒绝服从自己认为是不正当的法律。

）◎Franklin & ThoreauThrough his writing thoreau wanted to illustrate thet the pursuit of material things had no value. He desired a life of contemplation, of being in harmony with nature, and of acting on his own principles. Both Franklin and Thoreau advocated thrift and hard work, but while Franklin expected the frugal to get richer and richer, Thoreau thought physical labor and a minimum of material goods made men more sensitive and kept them closer to nature.7、Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)朗费罗One of the greatest American Romantic poet in the 19th century.I Shot an A rrow…《我射出一支箭……》♂简析：A famous short lyric.This lyric praises the great friendship with the images of shotting an arrow and singing the es tiaditional four iambic pentameter and four lines of verse.译文：我射出一支箭…我把一支箭射向空中不知它落在何方飞得那么快眼睛难以追寻它的方向我对着天空轻轻唱歌不知它消逝在何方谁的眼光能如此敏锐犀利能跟上歌声的翅膀很久很久以后，在一棵橡树上我找到了那支箭，仍未折断也发现了那支歌，自始自终在朋友的心中欢唱A Psalm of Life《人生礼赞》8、Walt Whitman惠特曼American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. The father of free verse. One's Self I Sing《我歌唱自我》♂简析：Admire modern people who have complete personality.我歌唱“自己”，一个单一的、脱离的人，然而也说出“民主”这个词，“全体”这个词。

我从头到脚歌唱生理学，值得献给诗神的不只是相貌或头脑，我是说整个结构的价值要大得多，女性和男性我同样歌唱。

歌唱饱含热情、脉搏和力量的广阔“生活”，心情愉快，支持那些神圣法则指导下形成的、最自由的行动，我歌唱“现代人”。

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