美国文学笔记
美国文学史及选读复习笔记（1-2册）
美国文学史及选读复习笔记（1-2册）History And Anthology of American Literature (V olumeⅠⅡ)美国文学史及选读1、2PartⅠThe Literature of Colonial America殖民主义时期的文学1. 17世纪早期English and European explorers开始登陆美洲。
在他们之前100多年Caribbean Islands, Mexico and other Parts of South America已被the Spanish占领。
2. 17th早期English settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts(弗吉尼亚和马萨诸塞)开始了美国历史3. 美国最早殖民者(earliest settlers)included Dutch ,Swedes ,Germans ,French ,Spaniards ,Italians and Portuguese (荷兰人，瑞典人，德国人，法国人，西班牙人，意大利人及葡萄牙人等)。
4. 美国早期文学主要为the narratives and journals of these settlements采用in diaries and in journals(日记和日志)，他们写关于the land with dense forests and deep-blue lakes and rich soil.5. 第一批美国永久居民：the first permanent English settlement in North America was established at Jamestown,Virginia in 1607(北美弗吉尼亚詹姆斯顿)。
6. 船长约翰?史密斯Captain John Smith他的作品(reports of exploration)17th 早期出版，被认为是美国第一部真正意义上的文学作品in the early 1600s,have been described as the first distinctly American literature written in English.他讲述了filled with themes, myths, images, scenes, character and events,吸引了朝圣者和清教徒前往lure the Pilgrims and the Puritans.7. 美国第一位作家：1608年Captain John Smith写了封信《自殖民地第一次在弗吉尼亚垦荒以来发生的各种事件的真实介绍》“A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia Since the First Planting of That Colony”.8. 他的第二本书1612年《弗吉尼亚地图，附：一个乡村的描述》“A Map of Virginia: with a Description of the Country”.9. 他一共出版了八本书，其中有关于新英格兰的历史及描述。
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New England Poets
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 亨 利·沃兹沃思·朗费罗 1807-1882
The Song of Hiawatha 海华沙之歌----美国人写的第一部印第安人史诗;Voices of the Night 夜吟;Ballads and Other Poems 民谣及其他诗;Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems 布鲁茨的钟楼及其他诗;Tales of a Wayside Inn 路边客栈的故事--诗集：An April Day 四月的一天;A Psalm of Life 生命礼赞/Paul Revere‟s Ride 保罗· 里维尔的夜奔;Evangeline 伊凡吉琳;The Courtship of Miles Standish 迈尔 斯·斯坦迪什的求婚----叙事长诗；Poems on Slavery 奴役篇---反蓄奴组 诗 Twice-told Tales; Mosses from an Old Manse 古屋青苔: The Scarlet Letter 红 字 ;The House of the Seven Gables 有 七 个 尖 角 阁 的 房 子 ;The Blithedale Romance 福谷传奇;The Marble Faun 玉石雕像; “Young Goodman Brown” “The Minister‟s Black Veil”; “ The Birthmark”,”Rappaccini‟s Daughter”; “The Maypole of Merry Mount” Typee 泰比 ;Omoo 奥穆 ;Mardi 玛地 ;Redburn 雷得本 ;White Jacket 白外 衣 ;Pierre 皮 尔 埃 ; Moby Dick;The Confidence Man; Billy Budd; Clarel( long poem) Leaves of Grass 草叶集 :Song of the Broad-Axe 阔斧之歌 ;I Hear America Singing 我 听 见 美 洲 在 歌 唱 ;When Lilacs Lost in the Dooryard Bloom‟d;Democratic Vistas 民主的前景;The Tramp and Strike Question 流浪汉 和罢工问题;Song of Myself 自我之歌 “My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close”; “Because I could not stop for death”;” Wild Nights-Wild Nights” Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque 怪诞奇异故事集; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym(one full-length novel); Review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales “MS.Found in a Bottle”; “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”; “The Fall of the House of Usher”/”The Cask of Amontillado”/ “Ligeia”/ “The Purloined Letter”/”Black Cat”/ “The Imp of the Perverse”/”The Gold Bug”/ ◆ ”The Philosophy of Composition”/”The Poetic Principle”,”Annabel Lee”/”The Raven”/”To Helen” Part 4. The age of Realism(1865-1914) Little Women 小妇人; Little Men 小绅士; Good Wives 好妻子; Jo‟s Boys 乔的孩 子 The Rise of Silas Lapham 赛拉斯·拉帕姆的发迹;Their Wedding Journey 他们 的蜜月之旅; A Modern Instance 现代婚姻; A Chance Acquaintance; A Hazard of Now Fortunes 时来运转;A Traveller from Altruia 从利他国来的旅客; Criticism and Fiction; A World of Chance; Annie Kilburn;
美国文学大三版笔记
Chapter 1. The literature of colonial America (1590-1750)(1) Cultural background:<1> Early in 17th cen., most of the settlers in North America were the puritans who wanted to avoid the religious persecution of the Church of England and seek religious freedom in the new land.☆Puritans -- a ―would-be purifier‖, a radical sect of the Protestant reformers who wanted to purify the religious beliefs and practices of the Church of England, that is, restore simplicity to church services and restore the authority of the Bible to theology净化宗教观念，简化仪式Thus they suffered fierce persecution and attack from the Church of England. In orderto avoid such persecution, they fled to the American Continente.g. the Mayflower 1620 in PlymouthThe founding myth 美国的建国神话They regarded themselves as the chosen people and were sent to the America by Godin order to create a New world (a new Garden of Eden) in the America. By doing so,they can get the chance of salvation. (optimism/ idealism)in the grim struggle for survival that followed immediately after their arrival in America, they became more and more practical.They were noted for a spirit of moral and religious earnestness that determinate their whole way of life. The Puritans in New England practiced theocracy神权政治Their way of life were based on their somber religion and stressed hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety（节制）They opposed arts and pleasure. They suspect joy and laughter as symptoms of sin. In people’s daily life, religious activities were a matter of first importance and all others should serve the religion.<4>Their practices and beliefs (American Puritanism)greatly influenced the literature of this period (e.g. practical matter-of-fact accounts of life in the new world; highly theoretical discussions of religious questions)(2) Major works and writers:<1> The first writings in American literature were the narratives and journals of the early colonial settlements, which helped to lure more Europeans, especially the Puritans to seek fortune or religious freedom in the new continent<2> John Smith wrote about the exploration in A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia Since the First Planting of That Colony《关于弗吉尼亚的真实描述》and became the first American Writer.<3> Poetry:Anne Bradstreet ’s The Tenth Muse Recently Sprung Up in America----the first poetess in AmericaChapter 2. The literature of Reason and Revolution (1750-1810)While theology dominated the writings of the colonial times, politics政治论辩permeated the writing of the Revolution period.<1>Background:{1} political backgroundIndustrial Revolution: spurred the economy in American colonies.Independence War: Around the war, many political writings were written to support and defendAmerican independence and democracy.{2} Cultural backgroundThe Enlightenment启蒙运动a literary movement which flourished in France & swept through the whole Western Europe in 18th century. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modem philosophical & artistic ideas. The enlighteners celebrated reason or rationality, equality & science &human beings’ability to perfect themselves and their society. What’s more, they believed that man is basically good and free by nature, endowed by God with certain inalienable rights of liberty and the pursuit of happiness.While in America the humanistic ideas of the movement dealt a heavy blow to Puritanism in advocating science, knowledge and the power and ability of man. It brought to life secular education and literature. The Enlightenment had also influenced the literature of that period(1) form a style of clarity and precision.(2) its secular ideals (the possibilities of human progress, man has the rights to pursue equality, liberty, and the happiness) are reflected in the writingsE.g. Franklin. (P16 )<2> Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)(1) Life achievement:He was born into a poor candle-maker’s family. He had very little education. He learned in school only for two years, but by self-improvement and self-reliance, he made a great fortune and did lots of contribution to the society.The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in his life and career. (2)Important works:Poor Richard’s Almanac穷查理历书:An annual collection of proverbs. Franklin’s pragmatism （实用主义, how to make fortune by efforts & sense of humor are fully demonstrated in this work.E.g. God help them that help themselves. No man was glorious, who was not laborious.The Autobiography自传:(1) It not only narr ates Franklin’s early life, but his life principles and philosophy.(2) sets autobiography as a literary genre in American literature.(3) Through telling a success story of self-reliance, the book celebrates, in fact, the fulfillment ofthe American dream which inspired generations of Americans.Recording his story form rags to riches by self-reliance and self-improvement (for example, Franklin’s 13 virtues), the book demonstrated F’s belief that the new world of America was a land of opportunities where people can gain success through hard work and wise management (American Dream--- one important theme in American literature)He was the first positive representation of the values of the American Dream.<3> Philip FreneauHe anticipated the American literary independence, so he is widely acclaimed as“Father of American Poetry”美国诗歌之父(P44)(2)Writing style:Subject: treat the indigenous本土的wild life and other native American subjects(e.g. The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地The Wild Honeysuckle 野忍冬花) Diction: natural, simple and concrete(3) The Wild Honey Suckle 野忍冬花[1]By celebrating the beauty of the frail forest flower{1}the poet expresses his keen awareness of the liveliness and transience of nature, thus showing his deep love for natural beauty, which was the characteristic of romantic poets.{2} And also his own understanding about mortality/ death ( life and death are inevitable law of nature. )[2]The tone of the poem is both sentimental and optimistic. First, he showed his pity and sorrow, for extending the fate of the flower to the fate of all the creatures in the nature, including our human beings. However, at the end of the poem, F was sensible enough to realize the truth underlying the nature, ie. Death and life are inevitable law, therefore, we need accept the death peacefully and bravely.Chapter 3 American Romanticism (1810-1860 civil war)<1> Time Range: (the 1st half of 19th century)From the end of the 18th century (after the War for Independence) through the outbreak of the Civil War.<2> Literary characteristics of this period : (p 57)American literature in this period was not a servant of religious and politics. Novels,short stories, and poems replaced the sermons and manifestos as American’s principalliterary forms. In a word, the literature at this age flourished and developed its ownnative features & gained literary independence in the real sense.II. Pre-Romanticism1. Washington Irving 欧文(1783--1859)<1> the first American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fame.<2> The Sketch Book《见闻札记》became the first work by an American writer to win financial and critical success on both sides of the Atlantic。
美国文学笔记
1. What dominated the writings of the revolution ?Joel Barlow Hasty PuddingBartram’s TravelsBenjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack The Autobiography Thomas Paine The American Crisis The Federalist Common SenseThomas Jefferson Note on the State of VirginiaThe Declaration of IndependencePhilip Freneau The Wild Honey-SuckleThe Indian Burying GroundTo a Gaty-Did2. What’s the reason for Franklin’s success?Why do people regard Franklin as one who best exemplifies the American Enlightenment? Franklin is the only good American author before the Revolutionary War.1) He wrote and worked for American independence hardly and had made so many great efforts to America that he has been called "The First American." a world-renowned scientist, diplomat, philosopher, and writer. He perfected the smooth, clear, short sentences of the Puritan plain style.2)His contribution to AmericanA. Found the Junto, a club for informal discussion of scientific, economic and political ideas.⏹B. Established America’s first circulating library, founded thecollege — University of Pennsylvania.⏹C. first applied the terms “positive” and “negative” toelectrical charges.⏹D. As a representative of the Colonies, he tried in vain tocounsel the British toward policies that would let America grow and flourish in association with England. He conducted the difficult negotiations with France that brought financial and military support for America in the war.⏹E. As an author he had power of expression, simplicity, a subtlehumor, sarcastic.3. Why is Freneau considered as “Father of American Poetry ”?Philip Freneau is perhaps the most outstanding writer of the post-revolutionary period. He is a poet and also a political journalist in the transitional age of the revolution. He was neoclassical by training and taste yet romantic in essential spirit. He was also at once a satirist and a sentimentalist, a humanitarian but also a bitter polemicist.His major themes are death, nature, transition, and the human innature. All of these themes become important in 19th century writing.4. What’s the author’s attitude toward death?we consider death as soul’s eternal sleep, just as the poem saying “the posture, that we give the dead, points out the soul’s eternal sleep.”Death is not the end., it “can only mean that life is spent, and not the old ideas gone”.Each person’s existence will have different evidences to prove it, whether this or that. Once appeared in the earth, people’s thinking, activities or even words were existed. They won’t disappear forever.。
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美国文学笔记整理完整版1607-1776北美殖民时期Colonial Settlements约翰·史密斯美国文学史上第一个作家John Smith A Ture Relation of Virginia《关于费吉尼亚的真实叙述》（美国文学第一本书）乔纳森·爱德华兹清教徒主义作家（Puritanism）Jonathan Edwards1776-1783独立革命时期Revolution of Independence （启蒙运动）本杰明·富兰克林Poor Richard’s Almana c穷查理历书；Benjamin Franklin The Way to Wealth致富之道；1706-1790 The Autobiography自传(记录作者从穷到成功的经历，“美国梦”反映，体现启蒙倡导的理性主义和有序、教育的观点)托马斯·潘恩美国独立之父the father of American revolutionThomas Paine Common Sense常识（独立战争宣传册revolutionary pamphlets）1737-1809American Crisis美国危机（鼓励人民抵抗英军，共16小册）Rights of Man人的权利（支持法国革命）The Age of Reason理性时代（基督给他名誉带来的影响）菲利普·弗伦诺独立诗人a poet of the American Revolution，美国诗歌之父Philip Freneau The Rising Glory of America蒸蒸日上的美洲1752-1832 The British Prison Ship英国囚船The Wild Honey suckle野生的金银花The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地To the Memory of the Brave Americans纪念美国勇士--同类诗中最佳托马斯·杰斐逊独立宣言Declaration of IndependenceThomas Jefferson18世纪末-19世纪中后浪漫主义时期Romanticism1. 早期浪漫主义华盛顿·欧文美国文学之父father of American Literature(为美国文学第一次赢得世界声誉) Washington Irving 以笔记小说和历史传厅闻名，humor1783-1859 The Sketch Book见闻札记（标志浪漫主义开始）A History of New York纽约史---美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作；----The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说---成为美国第1个获国际声誉作家-----Rip Van Winkle里普·万·温克尔(李伯大梦)The Alhambra阿尔罕伯拉詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀frontier novel边疆传奇小说sea novelJames Fenimore Cooper The Spy间谍（独立战争间谍对抗英国）1789-1851 The Pilot领航者（sea novel）Leatherstocking Tales皮袜子五步曲（frontier novel）The Pioneer拓荒者（the first true romance of the frontier in American literatureThe Last of Mohicans最后的莫希干人（主角：Natty Bumppo纳蒂班波）The Prairie大草原The Pathfinder探路者The Deerslayer杀鹿者2. 超验主义New England Transcendentalism拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生Nature论自然-----新英格兰超验主义者的宣言书manifestoRalf Waldo Emerson The American Scholar论美国学者;1803-1882 Self-reliance论自立The Transcendentalist超验主义者Representative Men代表人物School Address神学院演说Days日子-首开自由诗之先河free verse亨利·大卫·梭罗Walden瓦尔登湖Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers在康科德河和梅里麦克河上的一周1817-1862 Civil Disobedience论公民之不服从纳撒尼尔·霍桑subject: human soul first great American writer of fiction 象征主义大师Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter红字1804-1864 Twice-told Tales尽人皆知的故事Mosses from an Old Manse古屋青苔The House of the Seven Gables有七个尖角阁的房子The Marble Faun玉石雕像The Blithedale Romance福谷传奇Young Goodman Brown年轻的布朗The Birthmark胎记赫尔曼·迈尔维尔擅长航海奇遇和异域风情Herman Melville Moby Dick/The White Whale白鲸（first American prose epic史诗）1819-1891 Typee泰比Omoo奥穆Mardi玛地White Jacket白外衣Pierre皮尔埃; Billy Budd比利·巴德沃尔特·惠特曼Father of free verse自由诗之父Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass草叶集（the birth of truly American poetry and the end ofromanticism）(共和圣经Democratic Bible美国史诗American Epic)1819-1892 Song of Myself自我之歌Democratic Vistas民主的前景埃米莉·迪金森她的诗大量破折号dash,主题love, nature, death, immortality; 语言plain, brevity, directEmily Dickinson This is My Letter to the World这是我给世界的一封信1830-1886I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died我死时听到一只苍蝇叫Because I could not Stop for Death因为我不能等待死神I’m Nobody. Who Are You?我是无名小卒。
美国文学笔记
美文学美国部分——浪漫主义时期Part two: American LiteratureChapter 1 The Romantic Period浪漫主义时期1. From the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of he Civil War. It started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Le aves of Grass. It is also called “the American Renaissance”.浪漫主义时期开始于十八世纪末，到内战爆发为止，华盛顿.欧文出版的《见闻札记》标志着美国文学的开端，惠特曼的《草叶集》是浪漫主义时期文学的压卷之作。
（也可称为“美国德文艺复兴”）2. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature.对逃离社会，回归自然的渴求成为美国文学的一个永恒的话题。
3. The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values.美国清教作为一种文化遗产，对美国人的道德观念产生了很大的影响。
4.Besides, a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers. 在霍桑，麦尔维尔以及其他一些小作家的作品种加尔文主义的原罪思想和罪恶的神秘性都得到了充分的表现。
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美国文学笔记整理完整版1607-1776北美殖民时期Colonial Settlements约翰·史密斯美国文学史上第一个作家John Smith A Ture Relation of Virginia《关于费吉尼亚的真实叙述》（美国文学第一本书）乔纳森·爱德华兹清教徒主义作家（Puritanism ）Jonathan Edwards1776-1783独立革命时期Revolution of Independence（启蒙运动）本杰明·富兰克林Poor Richard ’s Almana c 穷查理历书；Benjamin Franklin The Way to Wealth致富之道；1706-1790The Autobiography自传(记录作者从穷到成功的经历，“美国梦”反映，体现启蒙倡导的理性主义和有序、教育的观点 )托马斯·潘恩美国独立之父the father of American revolutionThomas Paine Common Sense常识（独立战争宣传册revolutionary pamphlets ）1737-1809American Crisis美国危机（鼓励人民抵抗英军，共16小册）Rights of Man人的权利（支持法国革命）The Age of Reason理性时代（基督给他名誉带来的影响）菲利普·弗伦诺独立诗人 a poet of the American Revolution，美国诗歌之父Philip Freneau The Rising Glory of America蒸蒸日上的美洲1752-1832The British Prison Ship英国囚船The Wild Honey suckle野生的金银花The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地To the Memory of the Brave Americans纪念美国勇士--同类诗中最佳托马斯·杰斐逊独立宣言 Declaration of IndependenceThomas Jefferson18 世纪末 -19 世纪中后浪漫主义时期Romanticism1.早期浪漫主义华盛顿·欧文美国文学之父father of American Literature(为美国文学第一次赢得世界声誉)Washington Irving以笔记小说和历史传厅闻名，humor1783-1859The Sketch Book见闻札记（标志浪漫主义开始）A History of New York纽约史---美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作；----The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说---成为美国第 1 个获国际声誉作家-----Rip Van Winkle里普·万·温克尔( 李伯大梦 )The Alhambra 阿尔罕伯拉詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀frontier novel边疆传奇小说sea novelJames Fenimore Cooper The Spy间谍（独立战争间谍对抗英国）1789-1851The Pilot领航者（sea novel）Leatherstocking Tales皮袜子五步曲（frontier novel ）The Pioneer 拓荒者（ the first true romance of the frontier in American literatureThe Last of Mohicans 最后的莫希干人（主角： Natty Bumppo纳蒂班波）The Prairie大草原The Pathfinder探路者The Deerslayer杀鹿者2.超验主义New England Transcendentalism拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生Nature论自然-----新英格兰超验主义者的宣言书 manifestoRalf Waldo Emerson The American Scholar论美国学者;1803-1882Self-reliance论自立The Transcendentalist超验主义者Representative Men代表人物School Address神学院演说Days 日子 - 首开自由诗之先河free verse亨利·大卫·梭罗Walden 瓦尔登湖Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers在康科德河和梅里麦克河上的一周1817-1862Civil Disobedience论公民之不服从纳撒尼尔·霍桑subject: human soul first great Americanwriter of fiction象征主义大师Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter红字1804-1864Twice-told Tales尽人皆知的故事Mosses from an Old Manse古屋青苔The House of the Seven Gables有七个尖角阁的房子The Marble Faun玉石雕像The Blithedale Romance福谷传奇Young Goodman Brown年轻的布朗The Birthmark胎记赫尔曼·迈尔维尔擅长航海奇遇和异域风情Herman Melville Moby Dick/The White Whale白鲸（first American proseepic 史诗）1819-1891Typee泰比Omoo 奥穆Mardi玛地White Jacket白外衣Pierre皮尔埃;Billy Budd比利·巴德沃尔特·惠特曼Father of free verse自由诗之父Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass 草叶集（the birth of truly American poetryand the end of romanticism）(共和圣经 Democratic Bible美国史诗American Epic)1819-1892Song of Myself自我之歌Democratic Vistas民主的前景埃米莉·迪金森她的诗大量破折号dash, 主题love, nature, death, immortality;语言 plain, brevity, directEmily Dickinson This is My Letter to the World这是我给世界的一封信1830-1886I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died我死时听到一只苍蝇叫Because I could not Stop for Death因为我不能等待死神I ’ m Nobody. Who Are You? 我是无名小卒。
美国文学笔记整理完整版-专八人文知识
美国文学笔记整理完整版1607-1776北美殖民时期Colonial Settlements约翰·史密斯美国文学史上第一个作家John Smith A Ture Relation of Virginia《关于费吉尼亚的真实叙述》（美国文学第一本书）乔纳森·爱德华兹清教徒主义作家（Puritanism）Jonathan Edwards1776-1783独立革命时期Revolution of Independence （启蒙运动）本杰明·富兰克林Poor Richard’s Almanac穷查理历书；Benjamin Franklin The Way to Wealth致富之道；1706-1790 The Autobiography自传(记录作者从穷到成功的经历，“美国梦”反映，体现启蒙倡导的理性主义和有序、教育的观点)托马斯·潘恩美国独立之父the father of American revolutionThomas Paine Common Sense常识（独立战争宣传册revolutionary pamphlets）1737-1809American Crisis美国危机（鼓励人民抵抗英军，共16小册）Rights of Man人的权利（支持法国革命）The Age of Reason理性时代（基督给他名誉带来的影响）菲利普·弗伦诺独立诗人a poet of the American Revolution，美国诗歌之父Philip Freneau The Rising Glory of America蒸蒸日上的美洲1752-1832 The British Prison Ship英国囚船The Wild Honey suckle野生的金银花The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地To the Memory of the Brave Americans纪念美国勇士--同类诗中最佳托马斯·杰斐逊独立宣言Declaration of IndependenceThomas Jefferson18世纪末-19世纪中后浪漫主义时期Romanticism1. 早期浪漫主义华盛顿·欧文美国文学之父father of American Literature(为美国文学第一次赢得世界声誉)Washington Irving 以笔记小说和历史传厅闻名，humor1783-1859 The Sketch Book见闻札记（标志浪漫主义开始）A History of New York纽约史---美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作；----The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说---成为美国第1个获国际声誉作家-----Rip Van Winkle里普·万·温克尔(李伯大梦)The Alhambra阿尔罕伯拉詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀frontier novel边疆传奇小说sea novelJames Fenimore Cooper The Spy间谍（独立战争间谍对抗英国）1789-1851 The Pilot领航者（sea novel）Leatherstocking Tales皮袜子五步曲（frontier novel）The Pioneer拓荒者（the first true romance of the frontier in American literatureThe Last of Mohicans最后的莫希干人（主角：Natty Bumppo 纳蒂班波）The Prairie大草原The Pathfinder探路者The Deerslayer杀鹿者2. 超验主义New England Transcendentalism拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生Nature论自然-----新英格兰超验主义者的宣言书manifesto Ralf Waldo Emerson The American Scholar论美国学者;1803-1882 Self-reliance论自立The Transcendentalist超验主义者Representative Men代表人物School Address神学院演说Days日子-首开自由诗之先河free verse亨利·大卫·梭罗Walden瓦尔登湖Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers在康科德河和梅里麦克河上的一周1817-1862 Civil Disobedience论公民之不服从纳撒尼尔·霍桑subject: human soul first great American writer of fiction 象征主义大师Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter红字1804-1864 Twice-told Tales尽人皆知的故事Mosses from an Old Manse古屋青苔The House of the Seven Gables有七个尖角阁的房子The Marble Faun玉石雕像The Blithedale Romance福谷传奇Young Goodman Brown年轻的布朗The Birthmark胎记赫尔曼·迈尔维尔擅长航海奇遇和异域风情Herman Melville Moby Dick/The White Whale白鲸（first American prose epic史诗）1819-1891 Typee泰比Omoo奥穆Mardi玛地White Jacket白外衣Pierre皮尔埃; Billy Budd比利·巴德沃尔特·惠特曼Father of free verse自由诗之父Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass草叶集（the birth of truly American poetry and the endof romanticism）(共和圣经Democratic Bible美国史诗American Epic)1819-1892 Song of Myself自我之歌Democratic Vistas民主的前景埃米莉·迪金森她的诗大量破折号dash,主题love, nature, death, immortality; 语言plain, brevity, directEmily Dickinson This is My Letter to the World这是我给世界的一封信1830-1886I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died我死时听到一只苍蝇叫Because I could not Stop for Death因为我不能等待死神I’m Nobody. Who Are You?我是无名小卒。
美国文学笔记
Chapter 1-2 American Puritanism•Restored to the “purity”•John Calvin, French theologian•Predestination•Original sin & total depravity•Limited atonement (salvation of a few)•As chosen people, they enjoy His blessings.The change of American character•Tougher life in the West•More practical and preoccupied with profits•“A doctrinaire opportunist”空论机会主义：a movement of people, following the same religion, same reverence forthe same God, and striving toward the goal of societal perfection (thus, "idealism").•OptimismThe literary scene•The Biblical myth of the Garden of Eden•Perfect order & courage & confident hope•Style：Diaries, histories, journals, letters, commonplace books, travel books, personal literature •Content: Serving God or colonial expansion or both•Form: English literary traditionsCalvinism 加尔文主义•Man was evil since the Fall and enslaved by sin.•God was all and would love work for man’s salvation.•All man could do was to worship the Almighty and hope.•The “Great Awakening” (1730s-40s) is religious revivals.Jonathan EdwardsThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin•Content: a man rising to wealth and fame from poverty and obscurity, America’s 1st self-made man•A Puritan document: self-examination, self-improvement & self-analysis•God help those who help themselves and every calling is a service to God•13 virtues as Protestant principles: temperance节制, silence, order, resolution决心, frugality节俭, industry勤奋, sincerity, moderation适度, cleanliness, tranquility安静, chastity贞节and humility谦逊Autobiography•Spokesman for the new order of 18th-century enlightenment: man is good and free with rights of liberty and the pursuit of happiness•America was a land of opportunities. A success story of self-reliance is fulfillment of the American dream. •Foible小缺点: man is capable of becoming better, and corruptive institutions might be improved. Autobiography•Language: Puritan simplicity, directness and concision•Techniques: the plainness of its style, the homeliness of imagery, the simplicity of diction措辞, syntax句法and expression•American dream & Franklin’s sense of optimismHector St. John de Crevecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer•He also saw the illusory nature of American dream.•The existence of slavery, avarice贪婪, violence, famine饥荒and disease and all other forms of evil •Disillusionment幻灭感and despair gains the upper hand in his major works.Chapter 3 American Romanticism•A rising America: political, economic and cultural independence•Democracy and political equality•Industrialism, immigration, the westward pioneers•An economic boom, optimism & hopeAmerican Romanticism•Foreign influences: The Romantic movement in England and Europe•American works are modeled on English and European works.•An amalgam 合金with indigenous 本土American elementsNewness of American Romanticism•American moral value: Puritanism•Individualism•Political independence & equality•The American dream of climbing the social ladders•Building a new Garden of Eden for manImitative Romanticism•Theme: ignore American life but cast a nostalgic 怀旧glance across European life•Technique: traditional meters韵律and stanza forms•Language: British styleIrving’s works•A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (1809) was written by his penname, Diedrich Knickerbocker.•The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819) won international fame for Irving.•The History of the Life and V oyages of Christopher Columbus (1828)•A Chronicle编年史of the Conquest of Granada (1829) The Alhambra (1832)•Life of Goldsmith Life of Washington•“Rip Van Winkle” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”Irving’s contribution•International fame: imaginative short stories of American independent literature•American imagination and tradition•It marked the beginning of American Romanticism.•Various style and genreIrving’s style•His purpose of writing: to amuse & entertain, avoid moralizing•Arrangement: develop his stories in a rich atmosphere, but with the slimness 薄弱of plot •Characters: vivid & true characters•Style: humor•Language: finished精致的& musical English“Rip Van Winkle”•Origin: German source•Character: a good-natured, hen-pecked man•Content: He sleeps for 20 years and finds everything changing.•Historic setting: from the War of Independence to the Union•Theme: Irving argument of revolution, its upset of the natural order, his refusal of a modern America“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”•Content: a triangular love story•Folklore: an headless horseman throws his head at his rival in love•Characters: an educated, shrewd, effete衰弱的, bad-natured schoolteacher vs. a rough, vigorous, good-natured farmer for a daughter of a rich farmer•Theme: the good humor and nature of country peopleCooper’s works•The Spy (1821) is about American Revolution.•The “Leatherstocking Tales”: Natty Bump po•The Deerslayer is about early adventures with the hostile Hurons休伦族(Indians of North America) when Nattyis 23.•The Last of the Mohicans is about an adventure of the French and Indian Wars in the Lake George county at the age of 40.Cooper’s works•The Pathfinder is about continuing the same border warfare in the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario安大略湖country at 40.•The Pioneers is that Natty,70, appears as a seasoned scout侦察员with his Indian friends as the eastern forestfrontier begins to disappear.•The Prairie大草原is about setting in the new frontier where the Leatherstocking dies at the age of 90. Comments on Cooper’s works•He created a myth about the formative period.•Content: the process of American frontier westward.•Theme: the ambivalence—2 forces on the western frontier, the conflicts between the principles of social order andlaw and the idea of nature and freedom in the wilderness•Cooper’s characters become stereotypes固定模式of American culture: tragically noble Indians, the loyal slave, lawless Natty Bumppo.•Cooper romanticized the frontier as a place of wild adventure.•His works taught hard-fought liberty could be sustained if the best qualities of frontiersmen were brought into the mainstream of society.Chapter 4 Features of New England Transcendentalism•1. Spirit or the Oversoul 超灵, the most important thing•2. the importance of the individual—self-culture, self-improvement, the institute will become better as the individual will become better•3. nature as the symbol of the Spirit or GodNew England Transcendentalism•In 1836, Nature impacted on the intellectual life.•Nature pushed American Romanticism to a new phrase, New England Transcendentalism—the summit.•It means idealism against the materialistic-oriented life style.•The Dial 《日冕》made their voice heard.Emerson’s work•Nature is the soul of New England Transcendentalism•“The American Scholar” is regarded as America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence.•“The Poet”•He asserted America’s identity in its formative period.•Nature is a lyrical expression of harmony Emerson felt between himself and nature.•Using your heart to feel the beauty of nature•Choose what you need. Don’t be greedy.•Share our happiness with nature•Major theme: Unity of God, man, and nature•Accessibility 可以得到of universal understanding•Reason and understanding•Matter物质and spiritEmerson’s style•Emphasis on ideas, symbols, and imaginative words•Symbolism•Form is important when fused well with content.Emerson’s limitation•He embodied a new nation’s desire an d struggle to assert its own identity in its formative period.•His cheerful optimism•Force makes the best better and worst good.•Bad is sometimes a better.•Misery and suffering is superficial.•Man can become perfect by self-improvement.Thoreau’s works•“Civil Disobedience” advocates passive resistance to unjust laws of society, which influences Gandhi and Martin Luther King.•A Week on the Concord and Merrimack River records his voyage on the river.•Walden describes his life on Walden and illustrates the pantheistic 泛神论quality of nature.Comments on Walden•Emerson creates the theory of Transcendentalism; Thoreau put it into practice with his own experience.•It is on self-culture and human perfectibility.•He was critical of modern civilization and materialistic life. Modern life has dehumanized man.•Simple life and spiritual richness are real wealth.Chapter 5 Hawthorne’s works•Twice-Told Tales (1837)•Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)•The House of the Seven Gables(1851) is that evil will come out of evil though it may take many generations to happen.•The Blithedale Romance (1852) “Happy Valley”《福谷传奇》•The Marble Faun (1860)Comments on Hawthorne’s works•The “black” vision•The Calvinist doctrine of “original sin” and total depravity•Aloofness远离from Emersonian Transcendental optimism•The decline of his family’s fortunes had to do with the sins o f his ancestors.•One source of evil is overweening自负的intellect.•His negative attitude towards science•Romance is the predestined注定form of American narrative.The Scarlet Letter (1850)•Content:•Adultery between Hester Prynne, a wife of an English scholar and Dimmesdale, a clergyman—a baby as a sin is born.•Her husband Chillingworth finds the adulterer奸夫out and tortures him.•Dimmesdale withers and dies after confessing his sin publicly and is forgiven by God.•Chillingworth dies painfully without God’s fo rgivingness.The Scarlet Letter (1850)•Characters:•Hester is an Oriental东方人的type and her drive is sexual.•Dimmesdale banishes放逐himself from society. He undergoes the tragic disintegration瓦解. He confesses his sin publicly and his soul is saved.•Chillingworth commits the unpardonable sin: the violation of the human heart.The Scarlet Letter (1850)•Theme:•Puritan severity苛刻toward sex and matrimony婚姻and its tendency to suppress love.•American Puritan moralism: the moral, emotional, and psychological effect of the sin.•It doesn’t praise Hester’s sin, but the moral growth of the woman when sinned against.The Scarlet Letter (1850)•Techniques:•Complex psychologies, interior monologues•Ambiguity, the meaning of “A”, different views of the conclusion•Supernatural elements•Symbolism--Hester’s moral development•Adultery/ Able /Angel/Adamic亚当的: original sinMelville’s works•Typee (1846)•Omoo (1847)•Mardi (1849)•Redburn (1849) is an account of his voyage to England.•White Jacket (1850) is his life on a US man-of-man.•Moby Dick (1851)•Pierre (1852)•The Confidence Man (1857) Billy BuddComments on Moby Dick•An encyclopedia百科全书of everything•A Shakespearean tragedy•A man fights against forces in an indifferent universe.•His bleak view of the meaningless world•His negative view of Transcendentalism•The loss of faith and the sense of futility无用and meaninglessnessMoby Dick (1851)•Content:•Ahab, the captain with one leg, fights against Moby Dick, a whale.•On a previous voyage, it sheared off割his leg.•This time, Ahab determines to kill Moby Dick. It pulls the ship to her doom.•Everybody dies, except Ishmael, the teller.Moby Dick (1851)•Theme:•The loss of faith and the sense of futility and meaninglessness•Alienation between man and man, man and society, man and nature•Negative reflection upon TranscendentalismMoby Dick (1851)•1. Symbolism•The Pequod, the ship—the ship of the American soul•Moby Dick, the white whale, is a symbol of evil, goodness, nature. It represents death and corruption as well aspurity, innocence and youth.•2. Paradox and ambiguity: positive and negative meanings of symbols of Moby DickChapter 6 Whitman & Dickinson•Theme: individualism, Americanness, “American Renaissance”•Technique: breaking free of the convention of the iambic pentameter 抑扬格五音步; exhibiting a freedom inform—“free verse”•As pioneers pointing to the Imagists意象派诗人Emerson’s influence on Whitman•They write on the organic principle.•Art: on the basic of nature•Aim: the poet’s work grows out of nature and derives its form from withinLeaves of Grass (1855)•Content: His experience on the Mississippi furnished material and spirit for his epic.•He responds to the expansion of America.•Theme: He extols equality, democracy, dignity, the self-reliant spirit and the joy of the common man. •Traits: It broke with the convention. He wrote “free verse” with new diction and meter.•He brought its sexuality, exotic, and vulgar language to it.Leaves of Grass•Doubtful attitude toward optimism in his later years:•Failure of democracy•Social and moral corruption•Immoral materialistic development•Individualism without brotherhoodConclusion: It shows Whitman was a transitional witness from Romanticism to Realism.Content of Dickinson’s works•Her poetry concerns death, immorality, love and nature.•She sees nature as both benevolent and cruel.•She emphasizes free will and responsibility.•She attacks materialism and commercialism.•She holds beauty, truth and goodness.Comments on Dickinson’s works•Theme: She reaffirms her individuality.•Calvinism Predestination and pessimism colors her work.•Technique: an economy of expression, its brevity, directness, plainest words•Her tone is tragic.•She became the precursor先驱of the Imagist意像派诗movement.Chapter 7 Poe’s works“MS. Found in a Bottle”(1833)《瓶中手稿》The Narrative of Arthur Gordon PymTales of the Grotesque and Arabesque《怪异故事集》“The M urders in the Rue Morgue”《莫尔格街凶杀案》Poem The Raven (1844)《乌鸦》“The Fall of the House of Usher”Content:In a decaying house live a brother and sister.The sister—physical decayThe brother—psychological decayHe may have committed incest with his sister and buries her alive in a coffin.She crawls out of the coffin and dies in his arms. Then, he dies too.The visitor escapes from the house, and the house falls into the water.“The Fall of the House of Usher”Theme: The universe is empty. Every mind is half mad and going to be mad.Techniques:Tone—melancholyStyle—suspenseThe first sentence sets the tone. The last sentence gives finality to the story.Comments on Poe’s worksHe remained controversial争议in American literature and was enjoyed in Europe.He was imaginative and creative.Theme of his works: disintegration of the self in a meaningless worldContent: He studies the unconscious and subconscious normal existence.Style: traditional, rational, and ordinaryHis idea of beauty influenced French symbolists and “art for art’s sake”.Chapter 8 Social setting of realism⏹Industrialized North vs. agrarian South⏹The factory defeated the farm and US headed toward capitalism.⏹Industrialization and mechanization produced extremes of wealth and poverty.⏹The frontier was closing.Influences from the setting⏹The Civil War led to suspicion or even negation to Transcendentalism, natural goodness, optimism, benevolent God.⏹Self-reliance became abnormal into admiration for money and power.⏹With the closing frontier, a reexamination of life began. People doubted American dream, the romantic view of man.⏹Disillusionment幻灭感and frustration prevailed.⏹“Golden Age” turned out to be “Gilded Age”.Howells’s ideas on Realism⏹“Realism is nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material.”⏹Realism is not photographic pictures of externals but includes a central concern with motives and psychological conflicts.⏹He condemns sentimentality and self-sacrifice, and avoids improper love.⏹Authors should minimize plot and artificial sense.Howells’s ideas on Realism⏹Events grows naturally out of characters and conditions.⏹Realism came in the latter half of the 19th century against Romanticism and sentimentalism. 感伤主义以过分的伤感情绪为标志的思想或表达⏹Common feeling of commonplace people⏹It shows a civilization's progress, but not an individual’s.⏹It shouldn’t depict events subjectively, but objectively with scientific description.The Rise of Silas Lapham⏹Content:⏹Silas Lapham is a self-made man to be a millionaire in the paint business.⏹He spends a lot of money to build a house.⏹He refuses to cheat and goes bankruptcy.⏹His house is burned down, but his moral rises.The Rise of Silas Lapham⏹Theme:⏹Ethics: He stresses sympathy and moral integrity.⏹He is against competitive economic individualism.⏹Laissez-faire放任主义competition rapes man.⏹His moral rise begins with his financial fall.The Rise of Silas Lapham⏹Techniques:⏹Symbolism: The house is a symbol of Silas’s success and his aspiration for the polite society.⏹The love subplot is interesting.⏹Smiling aspects was used in an ironic sense.⏹It avoids pessimistic defeatism.⏹It has psychological depth3 periods of James’s creative life⏹1st period (1865-82)⏹“international theme”: American innocence in face of European sophistication⏹The American⏹Daisy Miller⏹The Portrait of a Lady⏹2nd period (1882-95) subtle studies of inter-personal relationships⏹His plays became failure and he returned to novels.⏹3rd period “international theme”⏹1895-1900 writes novellas with childhood and adolescence⏹The Turn of the Screw⏹What Maisie Knew⏹The Ambassadors⏹The Wings of the Dove⏹The Golden BowlJames’s contribution to literary criticism—“The Art of Fiction”⏹His criticism is concerned with form and devoted to human values.⏹Art without life is a poor affair.⏹The aim of the novel is to represent life.⏹Reality is the supreme virtue of a novel.⏹“Point of view”Content of The Ambassadors (1903)⏹Lambert Strether agrees to take on a mission for his wealthy fiancee: to go to Paris and rescue her son Chad Newsome from a presumably wicked woman.⏹Chad introduces Marie, a divorced woman, and her daughter to Strether. Strether is confused as to whether Chad is more attracted to the mother or the daughter.⏹Strether loves Paris and stops Chad from returning to America. Chad's mother enlists new "ambassadors" to bring back Chad.More content⏹Chad's sister Sarah Pocock demands Chad immediately return to the family business in America.⏹Strether realizes the pair's romantic involvement. He counsels Chad not to leave Marie. But Strether finds he is no longer comfortable in Europe.Theme⏹Strether becomes aware of differences between American and Parisian concepts of graceful life.⏹He emphasizes the inner awareness and inward movements in face of external, but not environment.⏹Strether learns to evaluate every situation on its merits, without any prejudices. The final lesson of his European experience is not to trust preconceived notions but rather to rely on his own observation and judgment.Techniques⏹James is the first modern psychological analyst.⏹He made use of modern stream-of-consciousness.⏹The point-of-view is quite limited only from Strether’s view.Chapter 9 Local colorism⏹The social and intellectual climate provided a setting.⏹The Westward movement couldn’t solidify itself into a whole culture. L ower-class poor farmers formed their own culture different from the aristocratic East.⏹The frontier humorists prepared the literary ground.Local colorism⏹It appears in the late 1860s and early 1870s.⏹Bret Harte’s “The Luck of Roaring Camp”《咆哮营的幸运儿》in 1868 marked the beginning of local color fiction.⏹Local colorists present and interpret the local character of their regions.⏹Local colorism belongs to Realism.Mark Twain’s main works⏹The Gilded Age (1873)⏹The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)⏹The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1884)⏹Life on the Mississippi(1883)⏹A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)⏹The Man That Corrupted Hadlebury(1900)⏹The Mysterious Stranger (1916)⏹Autobiography (1924)Differences between realistsTheme:⏹Upper cl ass: Henry James, “International fame”⏹Middle class: William Dean Howells⏹Lower class: Mark TwainTechnique:⏹Henry James— imaginative treatment of reality or psychological realism⏹William Dean Howells— genteel realism⏹Mark Twain— localism and his colloquial styleThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)⏹Setting: before the Civil War⏹Time and place: around 1850 and Mississippi Valley⏹Characters: Jim, an ignorant uneducated Black slave & Huckleberry Finn, a little uneducated 13-year-old white boy ⏹The main p remise is the young boy’s belief in the right thing to do even though the majority of society believes it was wrong.⏹Content:⏹Jim escapes from slavery with the help of Huck.⏹They float down the Mississippi to find a safety for Jim.⏹Huck’s virtues come fr om his good heart and his sense of humanity.⏹Theme: Humanism triumphs⏹Technique: colloquial styleChapter 10 American Naturalism⏹Man was not free in a cold, indifferent and Godless world.⏹Life became a struggle for survival.⏹Darwinian concepts of evolution became the standards of moral reference.⏹Authors produced an attitude of gloom and despair.American Naturalists⏹They destroyed gentility of Realism and wrote about the helplessness and hopelessness of man in a cold world.⏹They painted the life of the lowest class.⏹They could not the deterministic命运注定论attitude of the complete helplessness.Crane’s main works: poem⏹Poems: The Black Riders (1895)⏹He was a pioneer in modern poetry.⏹His poetry is brief, quotable with unrhymed, unorthodox 非正统conciseness简明and imagery.⏹He and Dickinson are recognized as 2 precursors前辈of Imagist poetry.The Red Badge of Courage (1895)⏹Content:⏹A boy-soldier escapes from the war and comes back for the fight.⏹Theme: the animal man in a cold world⏹He studies man’s primitive emoti ons and the truth of life.⏹War and heroism are lies and meaningless.⏹Man is dominated by forces.The Octopus (1901)⏹Content:⏹Railroad dominates output of agriculture.⏹The rise of railroad freight makes farmers bankrupt. Poor farmers commit crimes to make themselves survive and are put into prison sooner or later.⏹Theme:⏹Social and economic forces ruin the lives of powerless people.⏹His determinist view is apparent.Dreiser’s main works⏹Sister Carrie (1900)⏹Jennie Gerhardt (1911)⏹Trilogy三部曲: The Financier (1912) The Titan《泰坦神》(1914) The Stoic (1947)⏹The Genius (1915)⏹An American Tragedy (1925)⏹The Bulwark (1946)Content of Sister Carrie (1900)⏹Carrie, a country girl, comes to Chicago to look for a better life. She works in a shoe factory and loses her job because of her sickness.⏹She becomes a mistress of a salesman and then a mistress of a married manager, Hurstwood.⏹They elope to NY. Hurstwood falls and she rises as an actress.Sister Carrie (1900)⏹Carrie’s 3 different worlds:⏹Carrie’s sister’s working-class life in Chicago⏹Her life with a salesman in Chicago⏹Her life with Hurstwood in NY⏹Hurstwood’s tragedy:⏹He falls to return to atavistic隔代遗传unreason无理性.⏹As an impotent modern man, he is unfit to survive and commits suicide.Sister Carrie (1900)⏹Theme:⏹Nothing can overcome her biological desire.⏹The world is cold and indifferent to her.⏹As a mechanism driven by desire, she moves from one man to another.⏹She has no free will, but is controlled by social forces.⏹Techniques:⏹Deficient and dull characterization⏹The journalistic method of narration⏹Too detailed and formless descriptionDreiser’s view on naturalism⏹Social Darwinism⏹Man is animal driven by greed and lust for the fittest.⏹Man is a machine reacting to chemic compulsions.难以抗拒冲动⏹Human tragedy comes from conflict between human needs and social manipulation.⏹Man has no free will to be controlled by social forces.⏹Everything is determined by internal chemistry and social pressure.Chapter 11 Changes on thought of 1920s⏹Old moral codes broke down.⏹Excitement made way for disillusionment.幻灭感⏹Darwin’s evolution made people lose their faith.⏹Modern science intensified the loss of faith.⏹People found themselves living in a spiritual wasteland.精神荒原⏹The universe was purposeless and God was not beneficent.仁慈People were helpless.Imagism意像派⏹Imagism belongs to the sense of fragmentation破碎and dislocation 混乱of modern spirit.⏹T. E. Hulme, 1st Imagist, suggests that modern art deal with expression and communication of momentary瞬间phases.⏹He has the claim to have been the original Imagist poet and to have formulated构想出with clarity the manifesto.宣言3 phases of Imagism⏹1st phase: (1908-09)⏹It began in London.⏹T. E. Hulme founded a Poets’ Club.⏹More talk, less writing.⏹2nd phase: (1912-14)⏹Ezra Pound established Imagist manifesto.⏹3rd phase: (1914-17)⏹Amy Lowell pushed the movement into “Amygism”.Imagist manifesto in 1912⏹Direct treatment of things⏹Words only for presentation⏹Musical phrases, free verse⏹Purposes:⏹Its presentation is hard and clear.⏹Imagism makes the reader see physical things.⏹The best effect is visual and concrete.Cantos (1915)⏹It contains 117 poems.⏹It is about social history, cultures and languages.⏹He imposes order and meaning upon a meaningless world.⏹He sees Chinese history and Confucius孔子counteract抵消Western gloom and confusion.⏹A chaotic inhuman and non-spiritual world needs saving.Chapter 12 T. S. Eliot’s poetry▪Traits:▪Visual imagery▪Flexible tone▪Expressive rhythm▪Poems：▪The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1911)▪《普鲁弗洛克爱情诗》▪The Waste Land (1921)《荒原》▪Ash Wednesday (1930)《圣灰星期三》▪Four Quartets (1943)《四个四重奏》The Waste Land (1921)▪Content:▪The Fisher King sins against God and is punished to be impotent性无能sexually.▪His disability makes his land infertile荒芜.▪To restore the fertile land, he dispatches people for the Holy Cup.▪Or he keeps impotent forever.The Waste Land (1921)▪Theme:▪It shows futility and fragmentation of modern life and modern society.▪It reveals the spiritual crisis of postwar Europe and is the manifesto of the “Lost Generation”.▪Modern poets experience chaos and dislocation and search order and meaning.The Waste Land (1921)▪Techniques:▪Many images and symbols seem disconnected.▪Quotations and allusions暗示are hard to read.▪He combined past literatures and cultures with his own personal and private agonies痛苦.Chapter 14 Fitzgerald’s main works►Novels:►The Side of Paradise (1920)《尘世乐园》shows his sense of failure with his academic performance and the frustration of his dreams at Princeton.►The Beautiful and Damned (1922)《美丽与毁灭》►The Great Gatsby(1925) 《大亨小传》►Tender is the Night (1934) 《夜未央》Content of The Great Gatsby (1925)►Gatsby rises from a poor youth by bootlegging 卖私酒.►He falls in love with Daisy but is too poor to marry her. She marries Tom, a rich man.►To gain his lo st love, he holds parties to allure them to come. But he can’t find his ideal love back.►Daisy kills Tom’s mistress in Gatsby’s car by accident and they shift the blame on Gatsby.►He is shot by the mistress’s husband but they escape from any punishment.Theme of The Great Gatsby (1925)►It is the whole process of the American experience.。
美国文学史笔记
美国文学史笔记Part 1. Colonial AmericaAnne Bradstreet Upon the burning of our house; To my dear and loving husband; The flesh and the spirit; Contemplations 沉思Edward Taylor Huswifery; Upon a Spider Catching a FlyThomas Paine托马斯·潘恩1737-1809The Case of the Officers of Excise税务员问题；Common Sense常识；American Crisis美国危机；Rights of Man人的权利：Downfall of Despotism专制体制的崩溃；The Age of Reason理性时代Philip Freneau菲利普·弗伦诺1752-1832The 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 Honey Suckle野生的金银花；The Indian Burying Ground 印第安人殡葬地Jonathan Edwards The Freedom of the Will ; The Great Doctrine of Original Sin defended The Nature of True VirtueBenjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林1706-1790A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Money;Poor Richard’s Almanack穷查理历书；The Way to Wealth致富之道；The Autobiography自传Part 2. American RomanticismWashington Irving 华盛顿·欧文1783-1859A History of New York纽约的历史-----美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作；The Sketch Book见闻札记The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说-----使之成为美国第一个获得国际声誉的作家；Bracebridge Hall布雷斯布里奇田庄；Talks of Travellers旅客谈；The Alhambra阿尔罕伯拉James Fenimore Cooper詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀1789-1851The Spy间谍;The Pilot领航者;The Littlepage Manuscripts利特佩奇的手稿;Leatherstocking Tales皮裹腿故事集:The Pioneer拓荒者；The Last of Mohicans最后的莫希干人;The Prairie大草原;The Pathfinder探路者;The Deerslayer杀鹿者Part 3.New England TranscendentalismRalf Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生1803-1882Essays散文集:Nature论自然-----新英格兰超验主义者的宣言书;The American Scholar论美国学者;Divinity;The Oversoul论超灵;Self-reliance论自立;The Transcendentalist 超验主义者;Representative Men代表人物;English Traits英国人的特征;School Address神学院演说Concord Hymn康考德颂;The Rhodo杜鹃花;The Humble Bee野蜂;Days日子-首开自由诗之先河Henry David Threau 亨利·大卫·梭罗1817-1862Walden,or Life in the Woods华腾湖或林中生活;Resistance to Civil Government/Civil Disobedience抵制公民政府;A Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversHenry Wadsworth Longfellow亨利·沃兹沃思·朗The Song of Hiawatha海华沙之歌----美国人写的第一部印第安人史诗;Voices of the Night夜吟;Ballads and Other Poens民谣及其他诗;Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems布鲁费罗1807-1882茨的钟楼及其他诗;Tales of a Wayside Inn路边客栈的故事---诗集：An April Day四月的一天/A Psalm of Life人生礼物/Paul Revere’s Ride保罗·里维尔的夜奔;Evangeline伊凡吉琳;The Courtship of Miles Standish迈尔斯·斯坦迪什的求婚----叙事长诗；Poems on Slavery奴役篇---反蓄奴组诗Nathaniel Hawthorne纳撒尼尔·霍桑1804-1864Twice-told Tales尽人皆知的故事;Mosses from an Old Manse 古屋青苔:Young Goodman Brown年轻的古德曼·布朗;The Scarlet Letter红字;The House of the Seven Gables有七个尖角阁的房子--------心理若们罗曼史;The Blithedale Romance 福谷传奇;The Marble Faun玉石雕像Herman Melville赫尔曼·梅尔维尔1819-1891Moby Dick/The White Whale莫比·迪克/白鲸；Typee泰比;Omoo奥穆;Mardi玛地;Redburn雷得本;White Jacket 白外衣;Pierre皮尔埃;Piazza广场故事;Billy Budd比利·巴德Walt Whitman沃尔特·惠特曼1819-1892Leaves of Grass草叶集:Song of the Broad-Axe阔斧之歌;I hear America Singing我听见美洲在歌唱;When Lilacs Lost in the Dooryard Bloom’d小院丁香花开时;Democratic Vistas 民主的前景;The Tramp and Strike Question流浪汉和罢工问题;Song of Myself自我之歌Emily Dickinson埃米莉·迪金森1830-1886The Poems of Emily Dichenson埃米莉·迪金森诗集-----“Tell all the truth and tell it slant”迂回曲折的，玄学的Edgar Allan Poe埃德加·爱伦·坡1809-1849（以诗为诗；永为世人共赏的伟大抒情诗人-----叶芝）Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque怪诞奇异故事集;Tales 故事集;The Fall of the House of Usher厄舍古屋的倒塌;Ligeia莱琪儿;Annabel Lee安娜贝尔·李-----歌特风格；首开近代侦探小说先河，又是法国象征主义运动的源头Tamerlane and Other Poems帖木儿和其他诗;AlAraaf,Tamerlane and Minor Poems艾尔·阿拉夫，帖木儿和其他诗;The Raven and Other Poems乌鸦及其他诗:The Raven乌鸦;The City in the Sea海城;Israfel 伊斯拉菲尔;To Hellen致海伦Harriet Beecher Stowe哈丽特·比彻·斯托1811-1896Uncle Tom’s Cabin汤姆叔叔的小屋;A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp德雷德阴暗大沼地的故事片;The Minister’s Wooing牧师的求婚;The Pearl of Orr’s Island奥尔岛的珍珠;Oldtown Folks老城的人们Part 4. The age of RealismWilliam Dean Howells 威廉·狄恩·豪威尔斯1837-1920The Rise of Silas Lapham赛拉斯·拉帕姆的发迹;A Modern Instance现代婚姻; A Hazard of Now Fortunes时来运转;A Traveller from Altruia从利他国来的旅客;Through the Eye of the Needle透过针眼----乌托邦小说;Criticism and Fiction;Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading小说创作与小说阅读23、Henry James享利·詹姆斯1843-1916小说：Daisy Miller苔瑟·米乐；The Portrait of a Lady 贵妇人画像；The Bostonians波士顿人；The Real Thing and Other Tales真货色及其他故事；The Wings of the Dove 鸽翼；The Ambassadors大使；The Golden Bowl金碗评论集：French Poets and Novelists法国诗人和小说家;Hawthorne霍桑;Partial Portraits不完全的画像;Notes and Reviews札记与评论;Art of Fiction and Other Essays小说艺术Part 5. Local ColorismMark Twain马克·吐温（Samuel Longhorne Clemens）---美国文学的一大里程碑The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County加拉维拉县有名的跳蛙;The Innoc ent’s Abroad傻瓜出国记;The Gilded Age镀金时代;The Adventures of Tom Sawyer汤姆·索耶历险记;The Prince and the Pauper王子与贫儿;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn哈克贝利·费恩历险记;A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court亚瑟王宫中的美国佬;The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson傻瓜威尔逊;Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc冉·达克;The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg败坏哈德莱堡的人How to Tell a Story怎样讲故事---对美国早期幽默文学的总结Part 6. American NaturalismStephen Crane斯蒂芬·克莱恩1871-1900Magic:A Girl of the Streets街头女郎梅姬（美国文学史上首次站在同情立场上描写受辱妇女的悲惨命运）；The Red Badge of Courage红色英勇勋章；The Open Boat小划子;The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky新娘来到黄天镇Frank Norris弗兰克·诺里斯1870-1902Moran of the Lady Letty茱蒂夫人号上的莫兰（romantic）;Mc-Teague麦克提格（naturalistic）;The Epic of the Wheat(realistic)小麦诗史(The Octopus章鱼,The Pit小麦交易所);A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the Old and New West小麦交易所及其他新老西部故事Theodore Dreiser西奥多·德莱塞1871-1945Sister Carrie嘉莉姐妹;Jennie Gerhardt珍妮姑娘;Trilogy of Desire欲望三部曲(Financer金融家,The Titan巨人,The Stoic);An American Tragedy美国的悲剧（被称为美国最伟大的小说）;Nigger Jeff黑人杰弗Edwin Arlington Robinson鲁宾逊1869-1935Captain Craig克雷格上尉---诗体小说；The Town Down the River河上的城镇;The Man Against the Sky衬托着天空的人;Avon’s Harvest沃冯的收成;Collected Poems诗集40、Jack London杰克·伦敦1876-1916The Son of the Wolf狼之子,The Call of the Wild野性的呼唤;The Sea-wolf海狼;White Fang白獠牙;The People of the Abyss深渊中的人们;The Iron Heel铁蹄;Marti Eden马丁·伊登;How I become a Socialist我怎样成为社会党人;The War of the Classes阶级之间的战争;What Life Means to Me生命对我意味着什么;Revolution革命;Love of Life热爱生命;The Mexican墨西哥人;Under the Deck Awings在甲板的天蓬下Upton Sinclair厄普顿·辛克莱尔1878-1968Spring and Harvest春天与收获;The Jungle屠场（揭发黑幕运动的代表作家）;King Coal煤炭大王;Oil石油;Boston波士顿;Dragon’s Teeth龙齿Part 7. The 1920sImagism Ezra Pound艾兹拉·庞德1885-1972The Spirit of Romance罗曼司精神;The Anthology Des Imagistes意像派诗选;Cathay华夏（英译中国诗）;Literary Essays文学论;Hugh Swlwyn Maube rley;A Few Don’ts by Imagiste意像派戒条;Personage面具;Polite Essays文雅集;The Cantos of Ezra Pound庞德诗章（109首及8首未完成稿）Thomas Stearns Eliot托马斯·艾略特1888-1965Prufrock and Other Observations普罗夫洛克（荒原意识）;The Waste Land荒原(The Burial of the Dead死者的葬礼;A Game of Chess弈棋;The Fire Sermon火诫;Death by Water水边之死;What the Thunder Said雷电之言);名诗：Ash Wednesday圣灰星期三;Four Quarters四个四重奏诗剧：Murder in the Cathedral大教堂谋杀案;Family Reunion 大团圆;Cocktail Party鸡尾酒会Wallace Stevens华莱士·史蒂文斯1879-1955Harmonium风琴;The Man With the Blue Guitar弹蓝吉他的人;Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction关于最高虚构的札记(Peter Quince at the Clavier彼得·昆斯弹风琴;Sunday Morning礼拜天早晨);The Auroras of Autumn秋天的晨曦;Collected Poems诗集William Carlos Williams威廉·卡罗斯·威廉斯1883-1963收入Des Imagistes意像派（意像派的第一部诗选）诗集：Sour Grapes;Spring and All春;The Desert Music;The Journey of Love爱的历程;Collected Poems;Complete Poems;Collected Later Poems;Pictures from Brueghel布留盖尔的肖像;Paterson佩特森（5卷长诗）;Asphodal,That Green Flower常青花日光兰（长诗）名诗：Red Wheelbarrow红色手推车;The Widow’s Lament in Spring寡妇的春怨;The Dead Baby;The Sparrow ,to My Father麻雀—致父亲;Proletarian Portrait无产阶级画像（from An Early Martyr先驱）;The Great American Novels伟大的美国小说;In the American Grain美国性格;Autobiography自传Robert Frest罗伯特·弗罗斯特1874-1963A Boy’s Wish少年心愿；North of Boston波士顿之北(Mending Wall修墙,After Apple-picking摘苹果之后);Mountain Interval山间（成熟阶段）(The Road Not taken 没有选择的道路);West-running Brook西流的溪涧;A Further Range又一片牧场;A Witness Tree一株作证的树Carl Sandburg卡尔·桑德堡1878-1967Always the Young Stranger永远是陌生的年轻人s;In Reckless Ecstasy肆无忌惮的狂热;The Prairie Years草原的年代一、二;The War Years战争的年代（林肯传记）;The American Songbag美国歌袋;The People,Yes人民，好;Honey and Salt蜜与盐;Corn-huskers辗米机（Fog雾）;Smoke and Steel烟与钢E Cumings肯明斯1894-1962Tulips anddd Chimneys郁金香与烟囱;The Enormous Room 大房间;XLI Poems诗41首;Viva万岁;No， Thanks不，谢谢;Collected Poems诗集;Eimi爱米（访苏游记）F Scott Fitzgerald弗朗西斯·菲茨杰拉德1896-1940(迷惘的一代)The Side of Paradise人间天堂;The Beautiful and the Damned 美丽的和倒霉;The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比;Tender in the Night夜色温柔;The Last Tycoon最后的巨头短篇小说：Flappers and Philosophers姑娘们和哲学家们;Tales of the Jazz爵士时代的故事;Taps at Reveille早晨的起床号→The Ice Palace冰宫;May Days五一节;The Diamond as Big as the Ritz像里茨饭店那样大的钻石;Winter Dreams冬天的梦;The Rich Boy富家子弟;Babylon Revisted 重访巴比伦敦The Crack-up崩溃（自传体文集）Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威1899-1961（“迷惘的一代”的代表人物）In Our Time在我们的年代里;The Torrents of Spring春潮;The Sun Also Rises太阳照样升起;Farewell to Arms永别了，武器;For Whom the Bell Tolls丧钟为谁而鸣短篇小说：Men Without Women没有女人的男人;The Winners Take Notheing胜者无所获;The Fifth Column and First Forty-nine Stories第五纵队与首次发表的四十九个短篇政论：To Have and Have Not贫与富回忆录：A Moveable Feast到处逍遥William Faulkner威廉·福克纳1897-1962The Marble Faun云石林神（诗集）;Soldiers’ Pay兵饷（小说）短篇小说：Dry September干燥的九月;The Sound and the Fury愤怒与喧嚣;As I lay dying当我垂死的时候;Light in August八月之光;Absalom,Absolam押沙龙，押沙龙（家世小说）Sherwood Anderson 舍伍德·安德森1876-1941Windy McPherson’s Son饶舌的麦克斐逊的儿子;Marching Men前进中的人们;Mid-American Chants美国中部之歌;Winesburg,Ohio/The Book of the Grotesque俄亥俄州的温斯堡/畸人志;Poor White穷苦的白人;Many Marriages多种婚姻;Dark Laughter阴沉的笑声The Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories鸡蛋的胜利和其他故事;Death in the Woods and Other Stories林中之死及其他故事;I Want to Know Why我想知道为什么Sinclair Lewis辛克莱·刘易斯1885-1951(美国第Dur Mr Wrenn我们的雷恩先生;The Job求职;The Main Street大先进;Babbitt巴比特;Arrowsmith艾罗史密斯;Elmer Gantry艾尔默·甘特里;Dodsworth多兹沃斯;It can’t Happen一个获诺贝尔奖)Here事情不会发生在这里;Kingsblood Royal王孙梦Villa Sibert Cather 维拉·凯塞1873-1947O,Pioneers啊，先驱们;My Antonia我的安东尼亚;The Professor’s House教授之家;Death Comes for the Archibishop 大主教之死Thomas Wolfe托马斯·沃尔夫1900-1938Look Homeward,Angel天使，望乡→（续）Of Time and the River时间与河流;The Web and the Rock蛛网与岩石;You Can’t Go Home Again有家归不得;The Hills Beyond远山（未完成）短篇小说：From Death to Morning从死亡到早晨Part 8. The 1930sJohn Dos Passos帕索斯1896-1970The Three Soldiers;Manhattan Transfer;U.S.A(TheForty-second Parallel;1919;The Big Money);District of Columbia哥伦比亚大区(The Adventures of a Young Man一个年轻人的冒险;Number One第一号;The Grand Design伟大的计划);Orient Express东方特别快车（游记）John Steinbeck约翰·斯坦贝克1902-1966Cup of Gold金杯;Tortilla Flat煎饼房;In Dubious Battle胜负未定;Of Mice and Men鼠和人;The Grapes of Wrath愤怒的葡萄;The Moon is Down月亮下去了;Cannery Row罐头厂街;The Pearl珍珠短篇小说：The Red Pony小红马(The Gift,The Great Mountains大山;The Promise许诺,The Leader of the People 人们的领袖)Part 9. Black American LiteratureFrederick Douglass 弗莱德里克·道格拉斯1817-1895Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave 弗莱德里克·道格拉斯，一个美国黑人的自述/My Bondage and My Freedom我的枷锁与我的自由/The life and Time of Frederick Douglass弗莱德里克·道格拉斯的生平与时代Booker T. WashingtonWilliam E·B Dubois威廉·艾伯·杜波依斯1868-1963Souls of Black Folk黑人的灵魂(Of Booker T Washington and Others);The Suppression of the African Slave Trade into the USA制止非洲奴隶贸易进入美国;The Philadephia Negro;John Brown;The Black Flame黑色的火焰（三部曲）James Langston Hughes詹姆斯·兰斯顿·休斯1902-1969Mulatto混血儿（剧本）;The Weary Blues疲倦的歌声;Dear Lovely Death亲爱的死神;Shakespear in Harlem哈莱姆的莎士比亚;I Wonder as I Wander我漂泊我思考;The Best of Simple辛普尔精选Ralph Ellison拉尔夫·埃利林1914-长篇小说：Invisible Man看不见的人散文集：Shadow and Act影子与行动;Going to the Territory 步入文学界James Baldwin詹姆斯·鲍德温1924-1987散文集：Note of a Native Son土生子的笔记;Nobody Knows My Name;Fire Next Time下一次烈火;No Name in the Street 他的名字被遗忘;The Devil Finds Work魔鬼找到工作小说：Go Tell it on the Mountain向苍天呼吁;Giovanni’sRoom乔万尼的房间;Another Country另一个国度;Tell MeHow Long the Train’s Been Gone告诉我火车已开多久;IfBeale Street Could Talk假如比尔能说话;Just Above MyHead就在我头上短篇小说集：Going to Meet the Man去见这个人剧本：The Amen Corner阿门角;Blues for Mister Charley为查理先生唱布鲁斯/黑人怨;One Day When I was Lost有一天当我迷失的时候/迷路前后Gwendolyn BrooksPart 10. American DramaEugene Oneil尤金·奥尼尔1888-1953独幕剧：Bound East to Cardiff东航卡迪夫;The Long Voyage Home归途迢迢;The Moon of the Carribbeans加勒比人之月多幕剧：Beyond the Horizon天边外（其成名作）;Anna Christie安娜·克里斯蒂;The Emperor Jones琼斯皇;The Hairy Ape毛猿;All the God’s Children Got Wings上帝的儿女都有翅膀The Great God Brown大神布朗;The Strange Interlude奇异的插曲;Mourning Becomes Electr素娥怨/悲悼a;The Iceman Cometh送冰的人来了;The Long Days Journey Into Night进入黑夜的漫长旅程/日长路远夜常深沉Clifford OdetsJ D Salinger杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格1919-短篇小说：The Young Folks年轻人短篇小说集：Nine Stories故事九篇中篇小说：Franny弗兰尼;Zooey卓埃;Raise High the Roof Beam,Carpenters木匠们，把屋梁升高;Seymour:An Introduction西摩其人长篇小说：The Cather in the Rye麦田守望者Tennessee William 田纳西·威廉斯1911-1983American Blues美国的布鲁斯;Battle of Angels天使的战斗;The Glass Menagerie玻璃动物园;The Streetcar Named Desire欲望号街车;Cat on a Hot Tin Roof热铁皮屋顶上的猫;The Night of The Iguana鬣蜥之夜;Summer and Smoke夏与烟;The Rose Tattoo玫瑰纹;Sweet Bird of Yout可爱的青春鸟Arthur Miller阿瑟·米勒1915-Situation Normal情况正常;The Man Who Had All the Luck 吉星高照的人;All My Sons都是我的儿子;The Death of a Salesman推销员;The Crucible严峻的考验/萨姆勒的女巫;A View from the Bridge桥头眺望;A Memory of Two Mondays 两个星期一的回忆;After the Fall堕落之后;Incident at Vichy 维希事件;The Price代价;The Creation of the World and Other Business创世及其他;The Archbishop’s Ceiling大主教的天花板;The American Clock美国时钟Edward Albee爱德华·阿尔比1928-The Zoo Story动物园的故事;The Death of Bessie Smith贝西·史密斯之死;The Sandbox沙箱;The American Dream美国梦;Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?谁害怕弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫;Tiny Alice小爱丽丝;A Delicate Balance脆弱的羊群;Seascape海景;The Lady from Dubuque来自杜布克的女人;The Man With Three Arms在臂人Part 11. The Post-War Scene: The Novel . PoetrySaul Bellow索尔·贝娄1915-长篇小说：Dangling Man晃来晃去/挂起来的人;The Victim 受害者;The Adventure of Augie March奥基·马奇历险记;Henderson the Rain King雨王汉德逊;Herzog赫索格;Mr Summlar’s Planet塞姆勒先生的行星;Humboldt’s Gift洪堡的礼物中篇小说：Seize the Day且乐今朝Norman Mailer诺曼·米勒1923- (垮掉的一代；文学恐怖主义者/亡命之徒)裸者与死者；Barbary Shore巴巴里海滨;The Deer Park廘苑;An American Dream一场美国梦;The White Negro白色黑人;Advertisement for Myself为自己做广告;Why Are We in Vietnam?我们为什么要去越南;The Executioner’s Song刽子手之歌;The Armies of the Night夜色幕下的大军(History as a Novel/The Novel as History)—非虚构小说;New Journalism 新新闻报道Joseph Heller约瑟夫·海勒1923-长篇小说：Catch-22第二十二条军规;Something Happened 出了毛病;As Good as Gold像高尔德一样好剧本：We Bombed in New Haven我们轰炸纽黑文;Catch-22;Clevinger’s Trial克莱文杰受审（据Catch-22第八章）John Barth约翰·巴思1930-长篇小说：The Floating Opera漂浮的歌剧;The End of the Road穷途末路;The Sot-weed Factor烟草代理商;Letters书信集;Giles Goat-boy山羊孩子贾尔斯;Lost in the Funhouse迷失在开心馆里（Title题目）;Chimera客迈拉；Sabbatical 学院的轮休假;The Friday Book:Essays and Other Nonfictions星期五的书：论文及其他非小说Thomas Pynchon托马斯·品钦1937- (后现代主义)Geography of a Horse Dreamer马塞梦测者的地理;Angel City天使城;The Tooth of Crime罪恶的牙齿;Family家庭(Curse of the Starving Class饥饿阶级的诅咒;Buried Child被埋葬的孩子;True West真正的西部);Fool for Love情痴;A Lie of the Mind心灵的谎言;Paris/Texas德州的巴黎。
美国文学期末复习笔记 (1)
美国文学笔记III. The Romantic period （浪漫主义时期）: （1800-1865）American Transcendentalism(美国超验主义）（1830s- Civil War）Summit of Romanticism/ American Renaissance1. Appearance1836, ―Nature‖ by Emerson2. Features of Transcendentalism(1). Spirit(思想）/Oversoul（超灵）(2). importance of individualism(3). nature – symbol of spirit/God；garment of the oversoul(4). focus in intuition (irrationalism and subconsciousness)IV. The American Realism 现实主义时期(1865-1918)1. Three Giants in Realistic PeriodWilliam Dean Howells –―Dean of American Realism‖Henry JamesMark Twain2. Comparison:Theme:Howells –middle classJames –upper classTwain –lower classTechnique:Howells –smiling/genteel realismJames –psychological realismTwain –local colourism and colloquialismMark Twain (1835-1910):1. Summary:American writer, short story writer/Humorist2. Major works:The Celebrated jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865)《卡拉维拉县弛名的跳蛙》Innocents Abroad (1869) 《傻子国外旅行记》The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) 《汤姆.索亚历险记》Life on the Mississippi (1883) 《密西西比河上》The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1886)《哈克贝里.费恩历险记》: All modern American literature comes from his masterpiece ―The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.‖——Ernest Hemingway3. Style:(1). colloquial language（口语）, vernacular (本土的）language, dialects(2). local colour(3). syntactic feature: sentences are simple, brief, and sometimes ungrammatical(4). humour(5). tall tales (highly exaggerated) （荒诞不经的故事）(6). social criticism (satire on the different ugly things in society)4. ContributionOne of Mark Twain’s significant contributions to American literature lies in the fact that he made colloquial speech an accepted, respectable literary medium in the literary history of the country.Henry James (1843-1916)1. Summary:An American and British novelist, literary criticFounder of psychological realismFirst of the modern psychological novelistInitiator of the international theme: American innocence in face of European sophistication2. Major works:Daisy Miller （1878）《戴茜·米勒》The Portrait of a Lady (1881) 《贵妇的肖像》The Wings of the Dove (1902)《鸽翼》The Ambassadors (1903)《专使》The Golden Bowl (1904)《金碗》The Art of Fiction(1884)《小说的艺术》3. His Point of view(1). Psychological analysis, forefather of stream of consciousness(2).Psychological realism(3). Highly-refined language4. Style –“stylist”(1). Language: highly-refined, polished, insightful, and accurate(2).V ocabulary: large(3). Construction: complicated, intricateNaturalism（自然主义）1. Background:(1). Dar win’s theory: ―natural selection‖(2).Spenser’s idea: ―social Darwinism‖(3). French Naturalism: Zora2. Features(1). environment and heredity(2). scientific accuracy and a lot of details(3). general tone: ironic and pessimistic, hopelessness, despair, gloom, ugly side of the societySt ephen Crane (1881-1900)1. Summary:Novelist, poetPioneer in the naturalistic traditionPrecursors（先驱）of Imagist poetry2. Major Works:Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 《街头女郎麦姬》: the first naturalistic novel in AmericaThe Red Badge of Courage 《红色英勇勋章》The Open Boat《海上扁舟》V. AMERICAN MODERNISM (1918-1945)（美国现代主义）F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)1. Summary:Famous American novelist, short story writer, and essayistthe representative of the 1920sthe spokesman for the Jazz Ageone of the“lost generation”writers2. Major WorksThis Side of Paradise (1920) 《人间天堂》Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) 《爵士乐时代的故事》Tender Is the Night (1934) 《夜色温柔》The Great Gatsby (1925) 《了不起的盖茨比》:Narrative point of view – Nick CarrawayTheme: The decline of the American Dream3. His Point of view(1). He expressed what the young people believed in the 1920s, the so-called ―American Dream‖ is false innature.(2). He had always been critical of the rich and tried to show the integrating effects of money on theemotional make-up of his character. He found that wealth altered people’s characters, making them mean and distrusted. He thinks money brought only tragedy and remorse.(3). His novels follow a pattern: dream – lack of attraction – failure and despair.4. His ideas of “American Dream”It is false to most young people. Only those who were dishonest could become rich.William Faulkner (1897-1962)1. Sumary:An American novelist and poetInitiator of American Southern RenaissanceOne of the most influential modern novelists of 20th centuryNobel Prize winner for literature in 19492. Major Works:The Sound and the Fury 《喧哗与骚动》As I Lay Dying 《在我弥留之际》Light in August 《八月之光》Absalom, Absalom 《押沙龙，押沙龙！》Go Down, Moses 《去吧，摩西》Barn Burning 《烧牲口棚》Yoknapatawpha County（约克纳帕塔法县）:--- A fictional county in northern Mississippi, the setting for most of William Faulkner’s novels and short stories, and patterned upon Faulkner’s actual home in Lafayette County, Mississippi.3. Major Themes of his Works(1). history and race(2). Deterioration(3). Conflicts between generations, classes, races, man and environment(4). Horror, violence and the abnormal4. Faulkner's narrative technique(1).Withdrawal of the author as a controlling narrator(2). Dislocation of the narrative time: The most characteristic way of structuring his stories is to fragment thechronological time.(3). the modern stream-of-consciousness（意识流）technique and the interior monologue（内心独白）：(4). Multiple points of view（多重视角）(5). symbolism and mythological and biblical（圣经的）allusionsErnest Hemingway (1899—1961)1. Summary:Novelist and short-story writerOne of the great American writers of the 20th centuryThe Spokesman of the ―Lost Generation‖Nobel Prize winner for literature in 19542. Major worksThe Sun Also Rises 《太阳照常升起》A Farewell to Arms《永别了，武器》For Whom the Bell Tolls 《丧钟为谁而鸣》/ 《战地钟声》The Old Man and the Sea 《老人与海》A Clean, Well-lighted Place 《一个干净，明亮的地方》3. Major Themes(1).The ―Nada‖(虚无) Concept(2).Grace under pressure(压力下的优雅）―Man is not made for defeats. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.‖------The Old Man and the Sea(3). Code Hero（准则英雄/ 硬汉）a. The Hemingway hero is not a thinker; he is a man of action.b.―Grace under pressure is their motto.c.The Hemingway code heroes are best remembered for their indestructible(不可毁灭的）spirit.4. Artistic features(1) .The iceberg（冰山）techniqueThe dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.(2). Language stylea. simple and naturalb.direct, clear and freshc. lean and economicald.simple, conversational, common found, fundamental wordse. simple sentencesf. Iceberg principle: understatement, implied thingsg.SymbolismEzra Pound (1885—1972)1. Summary:A leading spokesman of the ―Imagist Movement‖(意象主义运动）One of the most influential American poets and critic2. Major works:Cathay:《华夏集》《神州集》《中国诗章》Hugh Selwyn Mauberley《休·赛尔温·毛伯利》Cantos /《诗章》3. Imagism (1909-1917)(1) .Background:Imagism was influenced by French symbolism, ancient Chinese poetry and Japaneseliterature ―haiku‖(2). Defintion : The imagists, with Ezra Pound leading the way, hold that the most effective means to expressthe these momentary impressions is through the use of one dominant image.(3): Manifesto of Imagism:•Direct treatment•Economy of expression•New rhythmIn a station of the Metro《在一个地铁站》: a quintessential（典型的）imagist textRobert Frost（1847-1963）1. Summary:the most popular American poetWon Pulitzer Prize four timesReceived honorary degrees from forty-four colleges and universitiesRead ― The Gift Outright‖ at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 19612. Famous Poems:F ire and Ice《火与冰》The Road Not Taken 《未选择的路》Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 《雪夜伫立林边有感》Mending Wall《补墙》After Apple-Picking《摘罢苹果》3. Frost’s writing featureHis combination of the traditional verse pattern and a colloquial distinctive language (New England Speech)Eugene O’Neil (1888-1953)1. Summary:America's greatest playwrightWon the Pulitzer Prize four timesWon Nobel Prize in 1936Founder of the American drama2. Major WorksBeyond the Horizon (1920) 《天边外》The Emperor Jones(1920) 《琼斯皇帝》The Hairy Ape (1922)《毛猿》Desire under the Elms (1924) 《榆树下的欲望》美国文学笔记整理完整版18世纪末-19世纪中后浪漫主义时期Romanticism1. 早期浪漫主义华盛顿·欧文美国文学之父father of American Literature(为美国文学第一次赢得世界声誉)Washington Irving 以笔记小说和历史传厅闻名，humor1783-1859 The Sketch Book见闻札记（标志浪漫主义开始）A History of New York纽约史---美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作；----The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说---成为美国第1个获国际声誉作家-----Rip Van Winkle里普·万·温克尔(李伯大梦)The Alhambra阿尔罕伯拉2.超验主义New England Transcendentalism埃德加·爱伦·坡侦探小说之父Father of western detective stories and psychoanalytic criticism精神批Edgar Allan Poe 评，首开近代侦探小说先河，又是法国象征主义运动的源头1809-1849 Novelist小说家, poet, critic批评家good at writing Gothic(哥特式）and detective fictionPoetryThe Raven《乌鸦》To Helen《献给海伦》Short storiesHorror ( suspense, terror, Insanity, death，Revenge and rebirth）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 Black Cat《黑猫》The Cask of Amontillado《一桶白葡萄酒》Ligeia《丽姬娅》Detective /ratiocinative(推理的）(originator)The Purloined Letter 《窃信案》The Muder in the Rue Morgue 《莫格街谋杀案》The Mystery of Marie Rog《玛丽.罗热疑案》The Gold Bug 《金甲虫》拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生Nature论自然-----新英格兰超验主义者的宣言书manifestoRalf Waldo Emerson The American Scholar论美国学者;American essayist,lecturer, poetThe Founder of Transcendentalism1803-1882 Self-reliance论自立The Transcendentalist超验主义者Representative Men代表人物School Address神学院演说Days日子-首开自由诗之先河free verseRalph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism个人主义.纳撒尼尔·霍桑subject: human soul first great American writer of fiction 虚构Nathaniel Hawthorne 象征主义大师American novelist and short story writer1804-1864 The Scarlet Letter红字Twice-told Tales尽人皆知的故事Mosses from an Old Manse古屋青苔The House of the Seven Gables有七个尖角阁的房子The Marble Faun玉石雕像The Blithedale Romance福谷传奇Young Goodman Brown年轻的布朗The Birthmark胎记His point of view : Hawthorne is influenced by Puritanism（清教主义）deeply.(1). Evil is at the core of human life 邪恶是人类生活的中心(2).whenever there is sin 罪恶, there is punishment 惩罚. Sin or evil can be passed from generation to generation 代代相传(3). Evil educates. 邪恶的教育(4). He has disgust in science科学. One source of evil is overweening (自负的) (too proud of oneself) intellect . His intellectual characters聪明的特征are villains反派角色, dreadful可怕的and cold-blooded冷血的赫尔曼·迈尔维尔擅长航海奇遇和异域风情Herman Melville Moby Dick/The White Whale白鲸（first American prose epic史诗）1819-1891 Main characters: Ishmael(以实玛利）: the narrator 叙述者Ahab（埃哈伯）: the protagonist 主要人物Moby DickTypee泰比Omoo奥穆Mardi玛地White Jacket白外衣Pierre皮尔埃; Billy Budd比利·巴德沃尔特·惠特曼Father of free verse自由诗之父Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass草叶集（the birth of truly American poetry and the1819-1892 end of romanticism）共和圣经Democratic Bible 美国史诗American EpicAmerican poet, essayist散文家, journalist新闻工作者, and humanist人道主义学家The father of free verse（自由诗）Song of Myself自我之歌Democratic Vistas 民主的前景One’s Self I Sing 《我歌唱一个人的自己》O Captain! My Captain! 《噢，我的船长！我的船长！》3.Writing themes (almost everything):equality of things and beings 平等的事情和人divinity 神学of everythingImmanence（无所不在）of GodDemocracy 民主evolution of cosmos（宇宙的演化）multiplicity 多样性of natureself-reliant spirit 自力更生的精神death, beauty of deathexpansion of America 美国的扩张brotherhood 手足情谊and social solidarity（社会团结）(unity of nations in the world世界统一的国家) pursuit 追求of love and happiness4.S tyle: “free verse（自由诗）: the verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern固定的韵律模式, the verse without a fixed beat 固定的节拍or regular rhyme scheme规律的格律.(1).Parallelism（排比）(2).phonetic recurrence（同字起句法）（the repetition重复of words or phrases at the beginning of the line, inthe middle or at the end)(3).the use of a certain pronoun ―I‖ (the first person narrator)(4).strong tendency to use oral English使用英语口语的强烈倾向(5).the habit of using snapshots 生活小照(6).a looser and more open-ended syntactic structure语法结构(7).use of conventional image 传统的想象(8).vocabulary – powerful, colourful, rarely used words of foreign origins, some even wrong(9). sentences – catalogue目录technique: long list of names, long poem lines5. Significance of Leaves of GrassLeaves of Gras s, either in content or in form, is an epoch-making work in American literature:无论是在内容还是在形式上,是一个划时代的作品在美国文学→Its democratic content marked the shift from Romanticism to Realism. 其民主内容标志着从浪漫主义到现实主义的转变→Its free-verse form broke from old poetic conventions to open a new way for American poetry.其生发的形式从旧的诗意的约定了打开新的思路对美国诗歌。
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William Cullen Bryant威廉卡伦布莱恩特(1794-1878); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow朗费罗(1807-1882); James Russell Lowell罗威尔(1819-1891); Oliver Wendell Holmes霍尔姆斯(1809-1894); John Greenleaf Whittier惠蒂尔(1807-1892)
Edward Taylor(1642-1729)爱德华泰勒
“Huswifery”, “Upon a Spider Catching a Fly”
Roger Williams(1603-1683)罗杰威廉斯
The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience
James Fennimore Cooper詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀1789-1851
The Spy间谍;The Pilot领航者;Leatherstocking Tales皮裹腿故事集:The Pioneer拓荒者；The Last of the Mohicans最后地莫希干人;The Prairie大草原;The Pathfinder探路者;The Deerslayer杀鹿者
John Woolman(1720-1772)
“Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes”, A Plea for the Poor”
Thomas Paine(1737-1809)
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Edgar Allan Poe埃德加·爱伦·坡1809-1849<以诗为诗；永为世人共赏地伟大抒情诗人-----叶芝）
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(完整word版)美国文学笔记
美国文学笔记I。
Colonial Period（殖民地时期)(约1607—1765）II。
The Revolutionary period（革命时期) ：（1765—18世纪末）Benjamin Franklin（1706-1790）III.The Romantic period （浪漫主义时期)：（1800—1865) Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849）Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)Henry Daivd Thoreau （1817-1862)Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864)Herman Melville （1819—1891)Walt Whitman （1819~1892)Emily Dickinson （1830-1886）IV。
The Realism and Naturalism（现实主义和自然主义）: （1865—1918）Mark Twain (1835—1910）Henry James (1843-1916)Stephen Crane (1881—1900)V。
The Modern period （现代主义时期）：1918-1945F。
Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940）William Faulkner (1897-1962）Ernest Hemingway (1899—1961）Ezra Pound （1885—1972)Robert Frost（1847-1963）Eugene O’ Neil (1888—1953)VI。
Contemporary literature（当代文学)：（1945- ）I。
Colonial Period（殖民地时期）（约1607-1765）II。
The Revolutionary period（革命时期）：（1765—18世纪末）Benjamin Franklin（1706-1790)：1。
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Henry David Thoreau 亨利· 大卫· 梭 罗 1817-1862
Amos Bronson Alcott(1799-1888) Margaret Fuller(1810-1850) ： 《 1843 年的湖光夏日》 （ Summer on the Lakes in 1843 ） （ 1844 ）和《论 文学与艺术》 （ Papers on Literature and Art ） （ 1846 ） 。 《国内和海外记》 （ At Home and Abroad ） （ 1856 ）和《内外生活》 （ Life Without and Life Within ） （ 1859 ） William Cullen Bryant 威 廉 卡 伦 布 莱 恩 特 (1794-1878); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 朗 费 罗 (1807-1882); James Russell Lowell 罗 威 尔 (1819-1891); Oliver Wendell Holmes 霍尔姆斯(1809-1894); John Greenleaf Whittier 惠蒂尔 (1807-1892)
Part 1. Colonial America(1607-1800) John Smith(158-1631)约翰斯密斯 William Bradford(1590-1657)威廉布 莱德福 John Winthrop(1588-1649)约翰温斯 洛普 Anne Bradstreet(1612-1672) The General History of Virginia 弗吉尼亚通史, A Description of New England 新 英格兰概览 Of Plymouth Plantation 普利茅斯拓荒记 A Model of Christian Charity 基督徒慈善的典范 “Contemplations”, “Upon the Burning of Our House”,” To My Dear and Loving Husband”, In Reference to Her Children”,” The Flesh and The Spirit” As Weary Pilgrim” “Huswifery”, “Upon a Spider Catching a Fly” The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience “Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes”, A Plea for the Poor” The Case of the Officers of Excise 税务员问题；Common Sense 常识；American Crisis 美国危机；Rights of Man 人的权利：Downfall of Despotism 专制体制的 崩溃；The Age of Reason 理性时代 The Rising Glory of America；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; The Dying Indian: Tomo Chequi Wieland; Edgar Huntly; Ormond; Arthur Mervyn The Freedom of the Will《意志的自由》 The Great Doctrine of Original Sin defended《原罪说辩》 The Nature of True Virtue 真美德的性质; Images or Shadows of Divine Things《神灵的形影》;” Personal Narrative”; “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”愤怒的上帝手中之罪人 Poor Richard‟s Almanac 穷查理历书； The Way to Wealth 致富之道； The Autobiography 自传 Letters form an American Farmer 来自美国农夫的信 Part 2. American Romanticism(1800-1860) Washington Irving 华 盛 顿 · 欧 文 1783-1859 A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Danasty;纽约外史 ；The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent 见闻札记; The History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus 哥伦布传; A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada 格拉纳达征服编年史; The Alhambra 阿尔 罕布拉; Life of Goldsmith 戈尔德斯密传; Life of Washington 华盛顿传; “Rip Van Winkle”; “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”;”The Authors Account of Himself” The Spy 间谍;The Pilot 领航者; Leatherstocking Tales 皮裹腿故事集 :The Pioneer 拓荒者；The Last of the Mohicans 最后的莫希干人;The Prairie 大草 原;The Pathfinder 探路者;The Deerslayer 杀鹿者 Essays 散文集 :Nature(1836) -----the Manifesto( Bible) of the New England Transcendentalism;” The American Scholar-----America‟s Declaration of Intellectual Independence; “The Poet”; Representative Men 代表人物;English Traits 英国人的特征; Walden, or Life in the Woods; 瓦尔登湖“ Civil Disobedience”; “A Plea for John Brown”; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers;
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简要介绍十九世纪以前——突出介绍清教文学及其代表人物，乔纳森·爱德华兹和本杰明·富兰克林十九世纪以后——①浪漫主义时期19世纪上半叶-在40年代达到高潮：欧文首创；艾德加·爱伦·坡丰富理论和技巧；霍桑寓教诲于故事中；詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀②第二次世界大战后：南方文学和犹太文学③五十年代后期到六十年代前期：黑人文学和垮掉派作家介绍——早期殖民时期到20世纪70年代的整个美国文学史殖民时期大致从17世纪初到18世纪末美国文学本身是从19世纪才开始英国清教徒建立北美殖民地宗教信仰非常重要执着于人的生活、思想及行为应分享上帝的荣光；接受命运、原罪、人完全堕落的教义相信只有通过有限的赎罪才能救赎卡尔文与自然界艰苦斗争坚韧、不屈不挠、乐观、时刻准备面对将会出现的不幸遇挫折、使命感教条主义的机会主义者因为通常幸福快走到尽头时就是迎来悲伤象征主义对于虔诚的清教徒来说，所感知的世界仅仅只是上帝的一个象征写作方式简洁风格是清新的、简单的、直接的；修饰手法是直白的、诚实的、也无不高贵约翰·史密斯《A Description of New England》威廉·布拉德福德五月花移民运动《Of Plymouth Plantation》约翰·温思普特安妮·布拉德斯特里特《Contemplations》沉思录《Upon the Burning of Our House》家居被焚之后爱德华·泰勒喜爱冥想的诗人《Huswifery》家务《Upon a spider Catching a Fly》蜘蛛捕捉苍蝇之遐想罗杰·威廉斯最著名异教徒之一《The Bloody of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience》血腥的迫害教义约翰·伍尔曼《Journal》日记托马斯·潘恩《The Rights of Man》人权论菲利普·弗瑞诺《The Wild Honey Suckle》野地里的忍冬查尔斯·布鲁克登·布朗《Wieland》威兰德乔纳森·爱德华兹代表美国的上层牧师《Personal Narrative》《Freedom of the Will》论意志自由《The Great Christian Doctrine of Original Sin》论原罪《The Nature of True Virtue》论真实德行的本原超验论本杰明·富兰克林代表美国的底层《Poor Richard’s Almanac》穷理查德历书《Autobiography》自传Periods of American Literature①Colonial Period（1650-1800）War of Independence②Romanticism Period（1800-1865）The Civil War③The Modernism（1914-1950）WWⅠ④Post-Modernism（1950-至今）WWⅡAmerican Puritanism——Doctrinaire opportunist/Realistic idealists From a doctrinal point of view, the Puritans were self-disciplined and abandoned all recreational activities. Their daily life was boring dull and monotonousFrom the perspective of opportunism, they treat things to achieve their goals as the highest pursuit, and do not pay attention to the process.American Dream——the persuit of idealFrom a historical point of view, the American dream symbolizes the early Puritans' expectations of the new world and new life in the American mainland, and also represents the good qualities of the Puritans' perseverance and diligenceIn a broad sense, the American dream is endowed with many different meanings: equality, freedom and democracy.美国的第一次文艺复兴发生在浪漫主义时期大题浪漫主义时期的清教主义是怎么体现的Imagination/emotional/subjective/rebellious in spirit/Rip van winkleTranscendentalism.①A literary and a philosophical movement are rising in 19th century New England, associated with a Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller and asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends empirical and scientific reality, and is knowable through institution.②Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual over the empirical and material③The man features of new England transcendentalism can be summarized as follows:Emphasize on spirit, or the Oversoul;The importance of the individual;Nature is the symbolic spirit of God.Relationships among American Romanticism, American Transcendentalism & American PuritanismTranscendentalism is the summit ofromanticism·Time: after 1830·Milestone: Nature by Emerson.·Reason: not happy about thematerialistic-oriented life- Activities:·Transcendentalist Club,The Dial《日暑》Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)the reward of a thingis to have done it.--R.W.EmersonMajor works“Nature”《论自然》“The American Scholar”《美国学者》“The Divinity School Address”《神学院演说》“Self-Reliance”《论自助》“Over-soul”《论超灵》Other essays:·Representative Men代表性人物·English Traits英国人的特性.·The Conduct of Life论为人处世Emerson’s influence·Emerson’ s importance in the intellectual history of America lies in the fact that he embodied a new nation’ s desire and struggle to assert its own identity in its formative period.·His aesthetics brought about a revolution in American literature. It marked the birth of true American poetry.·He called for an independent culture，which represented the desire of the whole nation to develop a culture of its own.·During his lifetime he was considered one of the two or three best writers in America, and certainly the most influential among his contemporaries.·Thoreau，Whitman，Dickinson，Hawthorne, Melville, and Wallace Stevens and many others were indebted to him in varying degrees.Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, sage writer and philosopher.He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay ,Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.Career·he was born in Concord in 1817·he was educated at Harvard and graduated in 1837·he lived for more than a year in Emerson S house to absorb Emerson's ideas.·he began a two-year residence at Walden Pond in July,4th, 1845·he was arrested for failure to pay a trifling sum in taxes.·he was only 45 when he diedWorks (Selected)·A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,1849 (1st book)·Resistance to Civil Government / Civil·Disobedience / On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,1849<论公民之不服从·Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854. Excursions, 1863·The Maine Woods, 1864·Slavery in Massachusetts, 1854."nullifier of civilization"Masterpiece——Walden, another name,Life in the Woods·a collection of nature essays·a great Transcendentalist work .·a book about man, what he is, and what he should be and must be.·Full of ideas expressed to persuade·His neighbors out of their complacency·Walden——regard as a classic American book that explores natural simplicity, harmony, and beauty as models for just social and cultural conditions.·A reproduction of Thoreau's cabin with a statue of Thoreau.·Background information about WaldenThe book details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor RalphWaldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.Thoreau did not intend to live as a hermit, for he received visitors, and returned their visits. Instead, he hoped to isolate himself from society in order to gain a more objective understanding of it.Nature-worshippingSimple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau 's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, which was one of the key. ideas of the American Romantic Period. As Thoreau made clear in his book, his cabin was not in wilderness but at the edge of town, not far from his family home.·ThemesWalden emphasizes the importance of self-reliance, solitude, contemplation, and closeness to nature in transcending the ”desperate" existence that, he argues, is the lot of most humans.·Writing style梭罗的文章具有散文诗的精炼和激情, 兼具政论文的雄辩，说理透彻，思想新颖深邃，不乏精辟隽永的警句。
美国文学笔记
[table=98%][tr][td=2,1,655]美国文学[/td][/tr][tr][td=2,1,655]Part 1. Colonial America[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Thomas Paine托马斯·潘恩1737-1809[/td][td=1,1,504]The Case of the Officers of Excise税务员问题；Common Sense常识；American Crisis美国危机；Rights of Man人的权利：Downfall of Despotism专制体制的崩溃；The Age of Reason理性时代[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Philip Freneau菲利普·弗伦诺1752-1832[/td][td=1,1,504]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[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Jonathan Edwards[/td][td=1,1,504]The Freedom of the Will The Great Doctrine of Original Sin defended The Nature of True Virtue[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Benjamin Franklin本杰明·富兰克林1706-1790[/td][td=1,1,504]A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a PaperMoney;Poor Richard’s Almanack穷查理历书；The Way to Wealth致富之道；The Autobiography自传[/td][/tr][tr][td=2,1,655]Part 2. American Romanticism[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Washington Irving华盛顿·欧文1783-1859[/td][td=1,1,504]A History of New York纽约的历史-----美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作；The Sketch Book见闻札记The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说-----使之成为美国第一个获得国际声誉的作家；Bracebridge Hall布雷斯布里奇田庄；Talks of Travellers旅客谈；The Alhambra阿尔罕伯拉[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]James Fenimore Cooper詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀1789-1851 [/td][td=1,1,504]The Spy间谍;The Pilot领航者;The Littlepage Manuscripts利特佩奇的手稿;Leatherstocking Tales皮裹腿故事集:The Pioneer拓荒者；The Last of Mohicans最后的莫希干人;The Prairie大草原;The Pathfinder探路者;The Deerslayer杀鹿者[/td][/tr][tr][td=2,1,655]Part 3.New England Transcendentalism[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Ralf Waldo Emerson拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生1803-1882 [/td][td=1,1,504]Essays散文集:Nature论自然-----新英格兰超验主义者的宣言书;The American Scholar论美国学者;Divinity;The Oversoul论超灵;Self-reliance论自立;The Transcendentalist超验主义者;Representative Men代表人物;English Traits英国人的特征;School Address神学院演说Concord Hymn康考德颂;The Rhodo杜鹃花;The Humble Bee野蜂;Days日子-首开自由诗之先河[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Henry David Threau亨利·大卫·梭罗1817-1862[/td][td=1,1,504]Wadden,or Life in the Woods华腾湖或林中生活;Resistance to Civil Government/Civil Disobedience抵制公民政府;A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow亨利·沃兹沃思·朗费罗1807-1882[/td][td=1,1,504]The Song of Hiawatha海华沙之歌----美国人写的第一部印第安人史诗;Voices of the Night夜吟;Ballads and Other Poens民谣及其他诗;Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems布鲁茨的钟楼及其他诗;Tales of a Wayside Inn路边客栈的故事---诗集：An April Day四月的一天/A Psalm of Life人生礼物/Paul Revere’s Ride保罗·里维尔的夜奔;Evangeline伊凡吉琳;The Courtship of Miles Standish迈尔斯·斯坦迪什的求婚----叙事长诗；Poems on Slavery奴役篇---反蓄奴组诗[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Nathaniel Hawthorne纳撒尼尔·霍桑1804-1864[/td][td=1,1,504]Twice-told Tales尽人皆知的故事;Mosses from an Old Manse古屋青苔:Young Goodman Brown年轻的古德曼·布朗;The Scarlet Letter红字;The House of the Seven Gables有七个尖角阁的房子--------心理若们罗曼史;The Blithedale Romance福谷传奇;The Marble Faun玉石雕像[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Herman Melville赫尔曼·梅尔维尔1819-1891[/td][td=1,1,504]Moby Dick/The White Whale莫比·迪克/白鲸；Typee泰比;Omoo 奥穆;Mardi玛地;Redburn雷得本;White Jacket白外衣;Pierre皮尔埃;Piazza 广场故事;Billy Budd比利·巴德[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Walt Whitman沃尔特·惠特曼1819-1892[/td][td=1,1,504]Leaves of Grass草叶集:Song of the Broad-Axe阔斧之歌;I hear America Singing我听见美洲在歌唱;When Lilacs Lost in the Dooryard Bloom’d小院丁香花开时;Democratic Vistas民主的前景;The Tramp and Strike Question流浪汉和罢工问题;Song of Myself自我之歌[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Emily Dickinson埃米莉·迪金森1830-1886[/td][td=1,1,504]The Poems of Emily Dichenson埃米莉·迪金森诗集-----“Tell all the truth and tell it slant”迂回曲折的，玄学的[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Edgar Allan Poe埃德加·爱伦·坡1809-1849（以诗为诗；永为世人共赏的伟大抒情诗人-----叶芝）[/td][td=1,1,504]Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque怪诞奇异故事集;Tales故事集;The Fall of the House of Usher厄舍古屋的倒塌;Ligeia莱琪儿;Annabel Lee安娜贝尔·李-----歌特风格；首开近代侦探小说先河，又是法国象征主义运动的源头Tamerlane and Other Poems帖木儿和其他诗;Al Araaf,Tamerlane and Minor Poems 艾尔·阿拉夫，帖木儿和其他诗;The Raven and Other Poems乌鸦及其他诗:The Raven乌鸦;The City in the Sea海城;Israfel 伊斯拉菲尔;To Hellen致海伦[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Harriet Beecher Stowe哈丽特·比彻·斯托1811-1896[/td][td=1,1,504]Uncle Tom’s Cabin汤姆叔叔的小屋;A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp德雷德阴暗大沼地的故事片;The Minister’s Wooing牧师的求婚;The Pearl of Orr’s Island奥尔岛的珍珠;Oldtown Folks老城的人们[/td][/tr][tr][td=2,1,655]Part 4. The age of Realism[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]William Dean Howells 威廉·狄恩·豪威尔斯1837-1920 [/td][td=1,1,504]The Rise of Silas Lapham赛拉斯·拉帕姆的发迹;A Modern Instance 现代婚姻; A Hazard of Now Fortunes时来运转;A Traveller from Altruia从利他国来的旅客;Through the Eye of the Needle透过针眼----乌托邦小说;Criticism and Fiction;Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading小说创作与小说阅读[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]23、Henry James享利·詹姆斯1843-1916[/td][td=1,1,504]小说：Daisy Miller苔瑟·米乐；The Portrait of a Lady贵妇人画像；The Bostonians波士顿人；The Real Thing and Other Tales真货色及其他故事；The Wings of the Dove鸽翼；The Ambassadors大使；The Golden Bowl 金碗评论集：French Poets and Novelists法国诗人和小说家;Hawthorne霍桑;Partial Portraits不完全的画像;Notes and Reviews札记与评论;Art of Fiction and Other Essays小说艺术[/td][/tr][tr][td=2,1,655]Part 5. Local Colorism[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Mark Twain马克·吐温（Samuel Longhorne Clemens）---美国文学的一大里程碑[/td][td=1,1,504]The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County加拉维拉县有名的跳蛙;The Innocent’s Abroad傻瓜出国记;The Gilded Age镀金时代;The Adventures of Tom Sawyer汤姆·索耶历险记;The Prince and the Pauper王子与贫儿;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn哈克贝利·费恩历险记;A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court亚瑟王宫中的美国佬;The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson傻瓜威尔逊;Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc冉·达克;The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg败坏哈德莱堡的人How to Tell a Story怎样讲故事---对美国早期幽默文学的总结[/td][/tr][tr][td=2,1,655]Part 6. American Naturalism[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Stephen Crane斯蒂芬·克莱恩1871-1900[/td][td=1,1,504]Magic:A Girl of the Streets街头女郎梅姬（美国文学史上首次站在同情立场上描写受辱妇女的悲惨命运）；The Red Badge of Courage红色英勇勋章；The Open Boat小划子;The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky新娘来到黄天镇[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Frank Norris弗兰克·诺里斯1870-1902[/td][td=1,1,504]Moran of the Lady Letty茱蒂夫人号上的莫兰（romantic）;Mc-Teague 麦克提格（naturalistic）;The Epic of the Wheat(realistic)小麦诗史(The Octopus章鱼,The Pit小麦交易所);A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the Old and New West 小麦交易所及其他新老西部故事[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Theodore Dreiser西奥多·德莱塞1871-1945[/td][td=1,1,504]Sister Carrie嘉莉姐妹;Jennie Gerhardt珍妮姑娘;Trilogy of Desire欲望三部曲(Financer金融家,The Titan巨人,The Stoic);An American Tragedy美国的悲剧（被称为美国最伟大的小说）;Nigger Jeff黑人杰弗[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Edwin Arlington Robinson鲁宾逊1869-1935[/td][td=1,1,504]Captain Craig克雷格上尉---诗体小说；The Town Down the River河上的城镇;The Man Against the Sky衬托着天空的人;Avon’s Harvest沃冯的收成;Collected Poems诗集[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]40、Jack London杰克·伦敦1876-1916[/td][td=1,1,504]The Son of the Wolf狼之子,The Call of the Wild野性的呼唤;The Sea-wolf海狼;White Fang白獠牙;The People of the Abyss深渊中的人们;The IronHeel铁蹄;Marti Eden马丁·伊登;How I become a Socialist我怎样成为社会党人;The War of the Classes阶级之间的战争;What Life Means to Me生命对我意味着什么;Revolution革命;Love of Life热爱生命;The Mexican墨西哥人;Under the Deck Awings在甲板的天蓬下[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Upton Sinclair厄普顿·辛克莱尔1878-1968[/td][td=1,1,504]Spring and Harvest春天与收获;The Jungle屠场（揭发黑幕运动的代表作家）;King Coal煤炭大王;Oil石油;Boston波士顿;Dragon’s Teeth龙齿[/td][/tr][tr][td=2,1,655]Part 7. The 1920s[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Imagism Ezra Pound艾兹拉·庞德1885-1972[/td][td=1,1,504]The Spirit of Romance罗曼司精神;The Anthology Des Imagistes意像派诗选;Cathay华夏（英译中国诗）;Literary Essays文学论;Hugh Swlwyn Mauberley;A Few Don’ts by Imagiste意像派戒条;Personage面具;Polite Essays文雅集;The Cantos of Ezra Pound庞德诗章（109首及8首未完成稿）[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Thomas Stearns Eliot托马斯·艾略特1888-1965[/td][td=1,1,504]Prufrock and Other Observations普罗夫洛克（荒原意识）;The Waste Land荒原(The Burial of the Dead死者的葬礼;A Game of Chess弈棋;The Fire Sermon火诫;Death by Water水边之死;What the Thunder Said雷电之言);名诗：Ash Wednesday圣灰星期三;Four Quarters四个四重奏诗剧：Murder in the Cathedral大教堂谋杀案;Family Reunion大团圆;Cocktail Party 鸡尾酒会[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Wallace Stevens华莱士·史蒂文斯1879-1955[/td][td=1,1,504]Harmonium风琴;The Man With the Blue Guitar弹蓝吉他的人;Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction关于最高虚构的札记(Peter Quince at the Clavier彼得·昆斯弹风琴;Sunday Morning礼拜天早晨);The Auroras of Autumn秋天的晨曦;Collected Poems诗集[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]William Carlos Williams威廉·卡罗斯·威廉斯1883-1963 [/td][td=1,1,504]收入Des Imagistes意像派（意像派的第一部诗选）诗集：Sour Grapes;Spring and All春;The Desert Music;The Journey of Love爱的历程;Collected Poems;Complete Poems;Collected Later Poems;Pictures from Brueghel 布留盖尔的肖像;Paterson佩特森（5卷长诗）;Asphodal,That Green Flower常青花日光兰（长诗）名诗：Red Wheelbarrow红色手推车;The Widow’s Lament in Spring寡妇的春怨;The Dead Baby;The Sparrow ,to My Father麻雀—致父亲;Proletarian Portrait无产阶级画像（from An Early Martyr先驱）;The Great American Novels伟大的美国小说;In the American Grain美国性格;Autobiography自传[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Robert Frest罗伯特·弗罗斯特1874-1963[/td][td=1,1,504]A Boy’s Wish少年心愿；North of Boston波士顿之北(Mending Wall 修墙,After Apple-picking摘苹果之后);Mountain Interval山间（成熟阶段）(The Road Not taken没有选择的道路);West-running Brook西流的溪涧;A Further Range又一片牧场;A Witness Tree一株作证的树[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Carl Sandburg卡尔·桑德堡1878-1967[/td][td=1,1,504]Always the Young Stranger永远是陌生的年轻人s;In Reckless Ecstasy肆无忌惮的狂热;The Prairie Years草原的年代一、二;The War Years战争的年代（林肯传记）;The American Songbag美国歌袋;The People,Yes人民，好;Honey and Salt蜜与盐;Corn-huskers辗米机（Fog雾）;Smoke and Steel烟与钢[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]E Cumings肯明斯1894-1962[/td][td=1,1,504]Tulips anddd Chimneys郁金香与烟囱;The Enormous Room大房间;XLI Poems诗41首;Viva万岁;No， Thanks不，谢谢;Collected Poems诗集;Eimi爱米（访苏游记）[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]F Scott Fitzgerald弗朗西斯·菲茨杰拉德1896-1940(迷惘的一代)[/td][td=1,1,504]The Side of Paradise人间天堂;The Beautiful and the Damned美丽的和倒霉;The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比;Tender in the Night夜色温柔;The Last Tycoon最后的巨头短篇小说：Flappers and Philosophers姑娘们和哲学家们;Tales of the Jazz爵士时代的故事;Taps at Reveille早晨的起床号→The Ice Palace冰宫;May Days五一节;The Diamond as Big as the Ritz像里茨饭店那样大的钻石;Winter Dreams冬天的梦;The Rich Boy富家子弟;Babylon Revisted重访巴比伦敦The Crack-up崩溃（自传体文集）[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Ernest Hemingway欧内斯特·海明威1899-1961（“迷惘的一代”的代表人物）[/td][td=1,1,504]In Our Time在我们的年代里;The Torrents of Spring春潮;The Sun Also Rises太阳照样升起;Farewell to Arms永别了，武器;For Whom the Bell Tolls 丧钟为谁而鸣短篇小说：Men Without Women没有女人的男人;The Winners Take Notheing胜者无所获;The Fifth Column and First Forty-nine Stories第五纵队与首次发表的四十九个短篇政论：To Have and Have Not贫与富回忆录：A Moveable Feast到处逍遥[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]William Faulkner威廉·福克纳1897-1962[/td][td=1,1,504]The Marble Faun云石林神（诗集）;Soldiers’ Pay兵饷（小说）短篇小说：Dry September干燥的九月;The Sound and the Fury愤怒与喧嚣;As I lay dying当我垂死的时候;Light in August八月之光;Absalom,Absolam押沙龙，押沙龙（家世小说）[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Sherwood Anderson舍伍德·安德森1876-1941[/td][td=1,1,504]Windy McPherson’s Son饶舌的麦克斐逊的儿子;Marching Men前进中的人们;Mid-American Chants美国中部之歌;Winesburg,Ohio/The Book of the Grotesque俄亥俄州的温斯堡/畸人志;Poor White穷苦的白人;Many Marriages多种婚姻;Dark Laughter阴沉的笑声The Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories鸡蛋的胜利和其他故事;Death in the Woods and Other Stories林中之死及其他故事;I Want to Know Why我想知道为什么[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Sinclair Lewis辛克莱·刘易斯1885-1951(美国第一个获诺贝尔奖)[/td][td=1,1,504]Dur Mr Wrenn我们的雷恩先生;The Job求职;The Main Street大先进;Babbitt巴比特;Arrowsmith艾罗史密斯;Elmer Gantry艾尔默·甘特里;Dodsworth多兹沃斯;It can’t Happen Here事情不会发生在这里;Kingsblood Royal王孙梦[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Villa Sibert Cather维拉·凯塞1873-1947[/td][td=1,1,504]O,Pioneers啊，先驱们;My Antonia我的安东尼亚;The Professor’s House教授之家;Death Comes for the Archibishop大主教之死[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Thomas Wolfe托马斯·沃尔夫1900-1938[/td][td=1,1,504]Look Homeward,Angel天使，望乡→（续）Of Time and the River时间与河流;The Web and the Rock蛛网与岩石;You Can’t Go Home Again有家归不得;The Hills Beyond远山（未完成）短篇小说：From Death to Morning从死亡到早晨[/td][/tr][tr][td=2,1,655]Part 8. The 1930s[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]John Dos Passos帕索斯1896-1970[/td][td=1,1,504]The Three Soldiers;Manhattan Transfer;U.S.A(The Forty-second Parallel;1919;The Big Money);District of Columbia哥伦比亚大区(The Adventures of a Young Man一个年轻人的冒险;Number One第一号;The Grand Design伟大的计划);Orient Express东方特别快车（游记）[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]John Steinbeck约翰·斯坦贝克1902-1966[/td][td=1,1,504]Cup of Gold金杯;Tortilla Flat煎饼房;In Dubious Battle胜负未定;Of Mice and Men鼠和人;The Grapes of Wrath愤怒的葡萄;The Moon is Down月亮下去了;Cannery Row罐头厂街;The Pearl珍珠短篇小说：The Red Pony小红马(The Gift,The Great Mountains大山;The Promise 许诺,The Leader of the People人们的领袖)[/td][/tr][tr][td=2,1,655]Part 9. Black American Literature[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Frederick Douglass弗莱德里克·道格拉斯1817-1895[/td][td=1,1,504]Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave弗莱德里克·道格拉斯，一个美国黑人的自述/My Bondage and My Freedom我的枷锁与我的自由/The life and Time of Frederick Douglass弗莱德里克·道格拉斯的生平与时代[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Booker T. Washington[/td][td=1,1,504][/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]William E·B Dubois威廉·艾伯·杜波依斯1868-1963 [/td][td=1,1,504]Souls of Black Folk黑人的灵魂(Of Booker T Washington and Others);The Suppression of the African Slave Trade into the USA制止非洲奴隶贸易进入美国;The Philadephia Negro;John Brown;The Black Flame黑色的火焰（三部曲）[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]James Langston Hughes詹姆斯·兰斯顿·休斯1902-1969 [/td][td=1,1,504]Mulatto混血儿（剧本）;The Weary Blues疲倦的歌声;Dear Lovely Death亲爱的死神;Shakespear in Harlem哈莱姆的莎士比亚;I Wonder as I Wander 我漂泊我思考;The Best of Simple辛普尔精选[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Ralph Ellison拉尔夫·埃利林1914-[/td][td=1,1,504]长篇小说：Invisible Man看不见的人散文集：Shadow and Act影子与行动;Going to the Territory步入文学界[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]James Baldwin詹姆斯·鲍德温1924-1987[/td][td=1,1,504]散文集：Note of a Native Son土生子的笔记;Nobody Knows My Name;Fire Next Time下一次烈火;No Name in the Street他的名字被遗忘;The Devil Finds Work魔鬼找到工作小说：Go Tell it on the Mountain向苍天呼吁;Giovanni’s Room乔万尼的房间;Another Country另一个国度;Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone告诉我火车已开多久;If Beale Street Could Talk假如比尔能说话;Just Above My Head就在我头上短篇小说集：Going to Meet the Man去见这个人剧本：The Amen Corner阿门角;Blues for Mister Charley为查理先生唱布鲁斯/黑人怨;One Day When I was Lost有一天当我迷失的时候/迷路前后[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Gwendolyn Brooks[/td][td=1,1,504][/td][/tr][tr][td=2,1,655]Part 10. American Drama[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Eugene Oneil尤金·奥尼尔1888-1953[/td][td=1,1,504]独幕剧：Bound East to Cardiff东航卡迪夫;The Long Voyage Home 归途迢迢;The Moon of the Carribbeans加勒比人之月多幕剧：Beyond the Horizon天边外（其成名作）;Anna Christie安娜·克里斯蒂;The Emperor Jones琼斯皇;The Hairy Ape毛猿;All the God’s Children Got Wings上帝的儿女都有翅膀The Great God Brown大神布朗;The Strange Interlude奇异的插曲;Mourning Becomes Electr素娥怨/悲悼a;The Iceman Cometh送冰的人来了;The Long Days Journey Into Night进入黑夜的漫长旅程/日长路远夜常深沉[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Clifford Odets[/td][td=1,1,504][/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]J D Salinger杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格1919-[/td][td=1,1,504]短篇小说：The Young Folks年轻人短篇小说集：Nine Stories故事九篇中篇小说：Franny弗兰尼;Zooey卓埃;Raise High the Roof Beam,Carpenters木匠们，把屋梁升高;Seymour:An Introduction西摩其人长篇小说：The Cather in the Rye麦田守望者[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Tennessee William田纳西·威廉斯1911-1983[/td][td=1,1,504]American Blues美国的布鲁斯;Battle of Angels天使的战斗;The Glass Menagerie玻璃动物园;The Streetcar Named Desire欲望号街车;Cat on a Hot Tin Roof热铁皮屋顶上的猫;The Night of The Iguana鬣蜥之夜;Summer and Smoke 夏与烟;The Rose Tattoo玫瑰纹;Sweet Bird of Yout可爱的青春鸟[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Arthur Miller阿瑟·米勒1915-[/td][td=1,1,504]Situation Normal情况正常;The Man Who Had All the Luck吉星高照的人;All My Sons都是我的儿子;The Death of a Salesman推销员;The Crucible严峻的考验/萨姆勒的女巫;A View from the Bridge桥头眺望;A Memory of Two Mondays两个星期一的回忆;After the Fall堕落之后;Incident at Vichy维希事件;The Price代价;The Creation of the World and Other Business创世及其他;The Archbishop’s Ceiling大主教的天花板;The American Clock美国时钟[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Edward Albee爱德华·阿尔比1928-[/td][td=1,1,504]The Zoo Story动物园的故事;The Death of Bessie Smith贝西·史密斯之死;The Sandbox沙箱;The American Dream美国梦;Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?谁害怕弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫;Tiny Alice小爱丽丝;A Delicate Balance脆弱的羊群;Seascape海景;The Lady from Dubuque来自杜布克的女人;The Man With Three Arms在臂人[/td][/tr][tr][td=2,1,655]Part 11. The Post-War Scene: The Novel . Poetry[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Saul Bellow索尔·贝娄1915-[/td][td=1,1,504]长篇小说：Dangling Man晃来晃去/挂起来的人;The Victim受害者;The Adventure of Augie March奥基·马奇历险记;Henderson the Rain King雨王汉德逊;Herzog赫索格;Mr Summlar’s Planet塞姆勒先生的行星;Humboldt’s Gift 洪堡的礼物中篇小说：Seize the Day且乐今朝[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Norman Mailer诺曼·米勒1923- (垮掉的一代；文学恐怖主义者/亡命之徒)[/td][td=1,1,504]裸者与死者；Barbary Shore巴巴里海滨;The Deer Park廘苑;An American Dream一场美国梦;The White Negro白色黑人;Advertisement for Myself 为自己做广告;Why Are We in Vietnam?我们为什么要去越南;The Executioner’s Song刽子手之歌;The Armies of the Night夜色幕下的大军(History as a Novel/The Novel as History)—非虚构小说;New Journalism新新闻报道[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Joseph Heller约瑟夫·海勒1923-[/td][td=1,1,504]长篇小说：Catch-22第二十二条军规;Something Happened出了毛病;As Good as Gold像高尔德一样好剧本：We Bombed in New Haven 我们轰炸纽黑文;Catch-22;Clevinger’s Tr ial克莱文杰受审（据Catch-22第八章）[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]John Barth约翰·巴思1930-[/td][td=1,1,504]长篇小说：The Floating Opera漂浮的歌剧;The End of the Road穷途末路;The Sot-weed Factor烟草代理商;Letters书信集;Giles Goat-boy山羊孩子贾尔斯;Lost in the Funhouse迷失在开心馆里（Title题目）;Chimera客迈拉；Sabbatical 学院的轮休假;The Friday Book:Essays and Other Nonfictions星期五的书：论文及其他非小说[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Thomas Pynchon托马斯·品钦1937- (后现代主义)[/td][td=1,1,504]Geography of a Horse Dreamer马塞梦测者的地理;Angel City天使城;The Tooth of Crime罪恶的牙齿;Family家庭(Curse of the Starving Class饥饿阶级的诅咒;Buried Child被埋葬的孩子;True West真正的西部);Fool for Love情痴;A Lie of the Mind心灵的谎言;Paris/Texas德州的巴黎[/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Poetry: Stanley Kunitz[/td][td=1,1,504][/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Richard Wilbur[/td][td=1,1,504][/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Elizabeth Bishop[/td][td=1,1,504][/td][/tr][tr][td=1,1,151]Howard Nemerov[/td][td=1,1,504][/td][/tr][/table]。
美国文学期末复习笔记
美文学美国部分——浪漫主义时期Part two: American LiteratureChapter 1 The Romantic Period浪漫主义时期1. From the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of he Civil War. It started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. It is also called “the American Renaissance”.浪漫主义时期开始于十八世纪末，到内战爆发为止，华盛顿.欧文出版的《见闻札记》标志着美国文学的开端，惠特曼的《草叶集》是浪漫主义时期文学的压卷之作。
（也可称为“美国德文艺复兴”）2. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature.对逃离社会，回归自然的渴求成为美国文学的一个永恒的话题。
3. The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values.美国清教作为一种文化遗产，对美国人的道德观念产生了很大的影响。
4. Besides, a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers. 在霍桑，麦尔维尔以及其他一些小作家的作品种加尔文主义的原罪思想和罪恶的神秘性都得到了充分的表现。
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美国文学第一章浪慢主义时期一、学习目的和要求通过本章的学习，了解19世纪初期至中叶美国文学产生的历史、文化背景，认识该时期文学创作的基本特征、基本主张，及其对同时代和后时期美国文学的影响；了解该时期主要作家的的文学创作生涯、创作思想、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题思想、人物刻画、语言风格等；同时结合注释，读懂所选作品并了解其思想内容和艺术特色，培养理解和欣赏文学作品的能力。
二、课程内容（一）美国浪慢主义时期概述 1.美国浪慢主义时期概述（1）清教主义思想（2）新英格兰超验主义2.美国浪慢主义在文学上的表现（1）欧洲浪慢主义文学的影响（2）美国本士文学的崛起及其特征（二）美国浪慢主义时期的主要作家A.华盛顿欧文1.欧文的生平2.欧文的创作生涯（1）《纽约外史》（2）《见闻札记》3.欧文的创作领域、创作思想，及其作品的艺术风格4.选读《瑞普凡温可尔》的主题及其艺术特色B.拉尔夫华尔多爱默生1.爱默生的生平及创作生涯2.爱默生的超验主义思想3.爱默生的散文：《论自然》《论自助》《论美国学者》等4.爱默生与梭罗：梭罗的超验主义思想和他的《沃尔登》5.选读《论自然》节选：爱默生的基本哲学思想及自然观C.纳撒尼尔霍桑1.霍桑的生平及创作生涯2.霍桑的长篇小说3.霍桑的短篇小说4.《红字》（1）主题（2）心理描写(3)象征手法(4)小说结构5.清教主义思想及加尔文教条中的"原罪"对霍桑的影响6.霍桑对浪慢主义小说的贡献7.选读《小伙子布朗》的主题结构、象征手法及语言特色D.华尔特惠特曼1.惠特曼的生平及其创作生涯2.惠特曼的民主思想3.惠特曼的民主思想（1）主创意图（2）思想感情及诗体形式4.惠特曼的个人主义5.选读《草叶集》诗选："一个孩子的成长"、"涉水的骑兵"、"自己之歌"：主题结构、诗歌的艺术特色、语言风格E.赫尔曼麦尔维尔1.麦尔维尔生平及创作生涯2.麦尔维尔的早期作品：《皮埃尔》《骗子的化装表演》《比利伯德》等3.《白鲸》（1）主题：表层及深层意义（2）小说结构：浪慢主义和现实主义的统一（3）象征手法和寓言的运用（4）语言特色4.选读《白鲸》最后一章的节选：主题思想、人物刻画、象征手法、语言特色三、考核知识点（一）美国浪慢主义时期概述（二）美国浪慢主义时期主要作家的生平、文学生涯、创作思想及重要作品的主要思想、人物刻画、语言风格等1.华盛顿欧文2.拉尔夫华尔多爱默生3.纳撒尼尔霍桑4.华尔特惠特曼5.赫尔慢麦尔维尔四、考核要求（一）浪慢主义时期概述1.识记：（1）浪慢主义时期限的界定（2）历史文化背景2.领会：浪慢主义时期美国文学的特点3.应用：清教主义、超验主义、象征主义、自由诗篇名词的解释（二）该时期的主要作家1.一般识记：主要作家的文学生涯2.识记：主要作家的主要作品及内容3.领会：主要作家的创作思想、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格、艺术手法、社会意义等4.应用：（1）爱默生的超验主义思想及他的自然观（2）《小伙子布朗》中的寓言和象征：霍桑的清教思想和他人性本"恶"的观点（3）麦尔维尔长篇小说《白鲸》的象征意义（4）惠特曼《草叶集》的结构、主题、语言特色第二章现实主义时期一、学习目的和要求通过本章的学习，了解美国19世纪中期现实主义文学产生的历史、文化背景，认识该时期文学的基本特征、基本主张，及其对同时代中期美国文学的影响；了解该时期的主要作家的文学创作生涯、人生观及价值观及其代表作品的主题思想、人物刻画、语言风格；同时结合注释，读懂所选作品并了解其思想内容和艺术特色，培养理解和欣赏文学作品的能力。
二、课程内容（一）现实主义时期概述1.美国现实主义文学产生的社会和文化背景（1）美国南北战争（2）威廉迪安豪威尔斯：美国现实主义文学的先驱（3）达尔文主义和法国小说家佐拉影响2.美国现实主义时期的文学（1）占主导地位的美国现实主义小说（2）现实主义文学中的地方色彩小说（3）现实主义文学中的自然主义倾向（4）现实主义文学和自然主义倾向之异（二）美国现实主义时期的主要作家A.马克吐温1.马克吐温的生平及创作生涯2.马克吐温的主要作品《汤姆索亚历险记》《哈克贝里费恩历险记》《亚瑟王朝廷上的康涅狄格州美国人》3.马克吐温的早期和后期作品4.马克吐温作品中的地方色彩5.马克吐温的幽默6.马克吐温的语言特色7.选读《哈克贝里费恩》第三十一章：主题结构、人物刻画、语言特色B.亨利詹姆斯1.詹姆斯的早期作品《黛西米勒》《一个美国人》《贵女妇人的画像》》欧洲人》2.詹姆斯的中期的作品《波士顿人》《螺丝在拧紧》《丛林猛兽》3.詹姆斯的后期作品《专使》《鸽翼》《金碗》4.詹姆斯的小说艺术特色："视角"与心理分析5.詹姆斯的文艺理论著作：《小说的艺术》6.詹姆斯的"现实主义"7.选读《黛西米勒》第一章：主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格C.艾米莉狄金森1.狄金森的生平及创作生涯2.狄金森的诗歌（1)狄金森有关"永恒"主题的诗（2）狄金森的爱情诗（3）狄金森的自然诗3.狄金森诗歌的创新和艺术特色4.狄金森诗歌441、465、585和712首：结构、主题、语言特色2.达尔文主义与德莱塞作品中的自然主义倾向3.德莱塞的主要作品《嘉丽妹妹》《珍妮姑娘》《美国的悲剧》4.德莱塞小说的语言风格5.选读《嘉丽妹妹》的最后一章节选：主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格三、考核知识点（一）美国现实主义时期概述及达尔文主义、法国自然主义作家对美国19世纪文学的影响（二）该时期主要作家的生平、创作生涯，及主要作品的主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格等1.马克吐温2.亨利詹姆斯3.艾米莉狄金森4.西奥多德莱塞四、考核要求（一）现实主义时期的概述1.识记：（1）现实主义时期的界定（2）历史文化背景2.领会：（1）现实主义时期文学的特点（2）达尔文主义、法国自然主义作家的主张以及对现实主义时期美国文学的影响。
（3）现实主义与自然主义的倾向的异同3.应用：现实主义、达尔文主义、自然主义、地方色彩主义等名词解释（二）该时期的主要作家1.一般识记：主要作家的文学生涯2.识记：主要作家的作品及其内容3.领会：主要作家的创作思想、艺术特色、语言风格、艺术手法、社会意义等4.应用：（1）现实主义与自然主义倾向在美国19世纪小说中的反映（2）哈克的性格的分析及其社会意义（3）《黛西米勒》的主题和主要人物的性格分析（4）狄金森诗歌的主题结构及艺术特色第三章现代时期一、学习目的和要求通过本章的学习，了解20世纪初期至中叶美国现代文学产生的历史、文化等背景，认识该时期文学的创作的基本特征、基本主张，及其对当代美国文学发展的影响；了解该时期主要作家的文学生涯、创作意图、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构、人物刻画和语言风格等；同时结合注释，读懂所选作品，了解其思想内容和写作特色。
二、课程内容（一）两次世界大战期间的美国文学1.两次世界大战期间美国文学产生的历史及文化背景（1）两次世界大战（2）移居国外的美国人（3）马克思主义理论和弗洛伊德学说（4）欧洲现代派艺术2.两次世界大战期间的美国文学（1）诗歌：意象派诗人；象征主义（2）小说："迷惘的一代"（3）戏剧：表现主义（二）战后美国文学1.战后美国文学产生的历史及文化背景2.战后美国文学（1）诗歌："垮掉的一代"等（2）小说："黑人小说、犹太人小说、实验小说（荒诞派小说）等（3）美国现代文学多元代的现象（三）美国现代化文学写作手法的创新（四）美国现代时期的主要作家A.埃兹拉庞德1.庞德的生平和创作生涯2.庞德与意象主义3.庞德与中国文化4.庞德的诗歌理论及艺术特色5.庞德的诗歌(1)短诗:《地铁站一瞥》（2）长诗：《诗章》6.选读《地铁一瞥》《盟约》《河南的妻子》：主题、意象、语言B.罗伯特弗洛斯特1.弗洛斯特的生平及创作生涯2.弗洛斯特的诗歌：田园诗；自然诗3.弗洛斯特诗歌的艺术特色4.弗洛斯特的讨论5.选读《摘苹果后》《未选择的路》《雪夜停马在林边》：主题、象征与比喻、语言2.奥尼尔的戏剧（1）早期的作品：独慕剧；多幕剧《天外边》（2）中期作品：《琼斯皇帝》《伟大之神布朗》《毛猿》--表现主义和象征主义的力作（3）后斯作品：《直到夜晚的漫长一天》--自传体戏剧3.奥尼尔戏剧的悲观主义和神秘主义色彩4.奥尼尔戏剧艺术特色5.选读《毛猿》第八场：主题结构、表现主义和象征主义行法、语言特色D.司各特菲兹杰拉德1.菲兹杰拉德的生平及创作生涯2.菲兹杰拉德与"爵士时代"3.主要作品（1）短篇小说：《舞士时代的故事》（2）中、长篇小说：《人间天堂》《了不起的盖茨比》《夜色温柔》《最后一个巨头》4.《了不起的盖茨比》与"美国梦"5.菲兹杰拉德的小说艺术6.选读《了不起的盖茨比》第三章：主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格E.欧内斯特海明威1.海明威的生平与创作生涯2.海明威与"迷惘的一代"3.海明威的主要作品（1）短篇小说集：《在我们的时代里》--涅克的故事（2）长篇小说：《太阳照样升起》《永别了，武器》《丧钟为谁而鸣》《老人与海》4.海明威小说的艺术特色："硬汉"形象、"重压下的风度"、"冰山"原则等5.选读《在我们的时代里》选篇：主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格F.威廉福克纳1.福克纳的生平及创作生涯2.福克纳垢"约克纳怕塔法"神话王国3.福克纳的主要作品（1）中、短篇小说：《给艾米莉小姐的玫瑰》《老人》《熊》等（2）长篇小说：《喧嚣与骚动》《八月之光》《我弥留之际》《押沙龙，押沙龙！》4.福克纳小说的艺术特色："意识流"、"内心独白"、"时序颠倒"、"对位式结构"、"象征陷喻"等5.福克纳的文体6.福克纳与美国南方文学7.选读《给艾米莉小姐的玫瑰》：主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格三、考核知识点（一）美国现代时期概述：两次世界大战期间美国文学和战后美国文学产生的历史及文化背景（二）美国现代文学的主要作家的生平、文学生涯、创作思想及主要作品的主题思想、人物塑造、语言风格等1.庞德2.弗洛斯特3.奥尼尔4.菲兹杰拉德5.海明威6.福克纳四、考核要求（一）现代时期概述1.识记：（1）两次世界大战期间美国文学和战后美国文学的界定（2）历史文化背景2.领会：（1）美国现代文学的特征（2）欧洲现代艺术、马克思主义、弗洛伊德学说等的意义及对美国现代文学产生的影响 3.应用："迷惘的一代"、意象派诗歌、表现主义意识流等名词的解释（二）该时期的主要作家1.一般识记：主要作家的文学生涯2.识记：主要作家的主要作品及主要内容3.领会：主要作家的创作思想、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格、艺术特色、社会意义等4.应用：（1）意象派诗歌的艺术特色（2）弗洛斯特的自然诗（3）《了不起的盖茨比》的主题意义和主要人物的性格分析（4）海明威小说的艺术特色（5）艾米莉的人物性格分析（6）"荒原"意识在美国20世纪文学中的反映。