美国文学简史常耀信版讲义1
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❖ (3) Total depravity
❖ (4) Limited atonement: Only the “elect” can be saved.
❖ 2. Influence
❖ (1) A group of good qualities – hard work, thrift, piety, sobriety (serious and thoughtful) influenced American literature.
❖ (2) It led to the everlasting myth. All literature is based on a myth – garden of Eden.
❖ (3) Symbolism: the American puritan’s metaphorical mode of perception was chiefly instrumental in calling into being a literary symbolism which is distinctly American.
American Drama Black American Literature
Colonial Period
❖ Background information ❖ Writers and works
New England
❖ New England 's composed of six states, including from north to south : Maine缅因州, New Hampshire新罕布什尔州, Vermont佛蒙 特州, Massachusetts马萨诸塞州, Rhode Island罗德岛州, Connecticut康涅狄格州.
❖ The Indian’s contribution to America
Indian words in everyday American English today such as
“canoe”, “tobacco”, “potato”,
“moccasin” 软鞋，鹿皮鞋,
“raccoon” 浣熊
❖ In the 17th century many Puritans emigrated to the New World, where they sought to found a holy Commonwealth in New England.
❖ Puritanism remained the dominant cultural force in that area into the 19th century.
“persimmon” 柿子
“moose”
麋鹿
“tomahawk” 战斧
“totem”
图腾
❖ the famous voyage of an Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus in 1492.
❖ European settlers came to American continent.
Hale Waihona Puke ❖ Historical Background
❖ American literature begins with the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales, and lyrics (always songs) of Indian cultures. ---- no written literature
❖ Overview of the literature ❖ 1. types of writing ❖ diaries, histories, journals, letters, travel books,
autobiographies/biographies, sermons ❖ 2. writers of colonial period ❖ (1) Anne Bradstreet ❖ (2) Edward Taylor ❖ (3) Roger Williams ❖ (4) John Woolman ❖ (5) Benjamin Franklin ❖ (6) Thomas Paine ❖ (7) Thomas Jefferson ❖ (8) Philip Freneau
American Literature
Outline of American Literature
Colonial Period American Romanticism The Age of Realism American Naturalism The Modern Period The Post-War Period: 50s & 60s
❖ (4) With regard to their writing, the style is fresh, simple and direct; the rhetoric is plain and honest, not without a touch of nobility often traceable to the direct influence of the Bible.
❖ The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607.
Puritanism
❖ Puritans was the name given in the 16th century to the more extreme Protestants（新 教徒，基督教徒） who thought the English Reformation （英国宗教改革）had not gone far enough. They wanted to purify their national church.
❖ 1. Features of Puritanism
❖ (1) Predestination: God decided everything before things occurred.
❖ (2) Original sin: Human beings were born to be evil, and this original sin can be passed down from generation to generation.
❖ (4) Limited atonement: Only the “elect” can be saved.
❖ 2. Influence
❖ (1) A group of good qualities – hard work, thrift, piety, sobriety (serious and thoughtful) influenced American literature.
❖ (2) It led to the everlasting myth. All literature is based on a myth – garden of Eden.
❖ (3) Symbolism: the American puritan’s metaphorical mode of perception was chiefly instrumental in calling into being a literary symbolism which is distinctly American.
American Drama Black American Literature
Colonial Period
❖ Background information ❖ Writers and works
New England
❖ New England 's composed of six states, including from north to south : Maine缅因州, New Hampshire新罕布什尔州, Vermont佛蒙 特州, Massachusetts马萨诸塞州, Rhode Island罗德岛州, Connecticut康涅狄格州.
❖ The Indian’s contribution to America
Indian words in everyday American English today such as
“canoe”, “tobacco”, “potato”,
“moccasin” 软鞋，鹿皮鞋,
“raccoon” 浣熊
❖ In the 17th century many Puritans emigrated to the New World, where they sought to found a holy Commonwealth in New England.
❖ Puritanism remained the dominant cultural force in that area into the 19th century.
“persimmon” 柿子
“moose”
麋鹿
“tomahawk” 战斧
“totem”
图腾
❖ the famous voyage of an Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus in 1492.
❖ European settlers came to American continent.
Hale Waihona Puke ❖ Historical Background
❖ American literature begins with the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales, and lyrics (always songs) of Indian cultures. ---- no written literature
❖ Overview of the literature ❖ 1. types of writing ❖ diaries, histories, journals, letters, travel books,
autobiographies/biographies, sermons ❖ 2. writers of colonial period ❖ (1) Anne Bradstreet ❖ (2) Edward Taylor ❖ (3) Roger Williams ❖ (4) John Woolman ❖ (5) Benjamin Franklin ❖ (6) Thomas Paine ❖ (7) Thomas Jefferson ❖ (8) Philip Freneau
American Literature
Outline of American Literature
Colonial Period American Romanticism The Age of Realism American Naturalism The Modern Period The Post-War Period: 50s & 60s
❖ (4) With regard to their writing, the style is fresh, simple and direct; the rhetoric is plain and honest, not without a touch of nobility often traceable to the direct influence of the Bible.
❖ The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607.
Puritanism
❖ Puritans was the name given in the 16th century to the more extreme Protestants（新 教徒，基督教徒） who thought the English Reformation （英国宗教改革）had not gone far enough. They wanted to purify their national church.
❖ 1. Features of Puritanism
❖ (1) Predestination: God decided everything before things occurred.
❖ (2) Original sin: Human beings were born to be evil, and this original sin can be passed down from generation to generation.