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1) Modern poetry: experiments in form (Imagism) Ezra Pound T.S.Eliot Robert Frost Carlos Williams
Wallace Stevens
2) Prose Writing: modern realism (the Lost Generation) William Faulkner F.Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway 3) Novels of Social Awareness Richard Wright Dos Passos Sinclair Lewis John Steinbeck
7. How to Improve Reading Skills
1) Form a habit of intelligent guessing at the meaning of new words with the clues provided by the context. But for the key words in the sentence, you need not check each new word in the dictionary. 2) Learn how to notice details, how to get the main idea, and how to skim to locate the most meaningful passages in a literary work. 3) Cherish a strong desire to extract greater meaning from a literary work by relating ideas found in your reading with your own experience.
4. How to define the American literature?
American literature mainly refers to literature produced in American English by the people living in the United States.
3) "New England Poets" or "Schoolroom Poets"
Bryant Lowell Longfellow Holmes Whittier
4) The Reformers and Abolitionists
Beecher Stowe Frederick Douglass
4. The realistic period (1865 - 1914)
1) Midwestern Realism William Dean Howells 2) Cosmopolitan Novelist Henry James 3) Local Colorism Mark Twain 4) Naturalism Stephen Crane Jack London Theodore Dreiser
5) The "Chicago School" of Poetry
Masters
Sandburg
Lindsay
Robinson
6) The Rise of Black American Literature
Washington
Du Bois
Chestnutt
5. The period of modernism (1914 - 1945)
2. Why is it necessary for you to study literature?
1) It improves your language proficiency. 2) It enriches your knowledge about the English culture. 3) It helps you explore the nature of human beings. It gives you spiritual and psychological relief.
Part II. The periods of American literature
1. The colonial period (约1607 - 1765) 约 The main features Puritanism 2. The period of enlightenment and the Independence War (1765 -1800) Benjamin Franklin 3. The romantic period (1800 - 1865) 1) The early romanticism
4) Robert Frost's definition: performance in words 5) Modern definition: We can define literature as language artistically used to achieve identifiable literary qualities and to convey meaningful messages. Literature is characterized by beauty of expression and form and by universality intellectual and emotional appeal.
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
2) "New England Transcendentalism" or "American Renaissance (1836 - 1855)" Emerson Thoreau Whitman Dickinson Hawthorne Melville Allan Poe
4) Reading to Confront Experience Literature is appealing mainly because of its relationship to human experience. It sheds light on the complexity and ambiguity of human experiences and thus broadens readers' awareness of the possibilities of the experience. 5) Reading for Artistic Appreciation Good craftsmanship and the beauty of expression and form; It can be analyzed according to literary theories and criteria; literary criticism, to clarify, explain and evaluate literature from an aesthetic point of view.
4) The Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Zora Neals Hurston
5) The Fugitives and New Criticism
6) The 20th Century American Drama
Eugene O' Neil
6.
The Contemporary Literature (1945 2000) I. American Poetry Since 1945: the Antitradition II. American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation.
1. What is literature?
1) The definition of 14th century: It means polite learning through reading. A man of literature or a man of letters = a man of wide reading, "literacy" 2) The definition of 18th century: practice and profession of writing 3) The definition of 19th century: the high skills of writing in the special context of high imagination
5.Basic Qualities of American Writers
1) Independent 2) Individualistic 3) Critical 4) Innovative 5) Humorous
6. How to study literature
1) Analytical Approach Be familiar with the elements of a literary work, eg: plot, character, setting, point of view, etc; answer some basic questions about the text itself. 2) Thematic Approach "What is the story, the poem, 来自百度文库he play or the essay about?" 3) Historical Approach Aims at illustrating the historical development of literature.
American Literature
Lecture One
030533/4/5, 12th Sep. 2006
Part I. Introduction
Part I: answer the questions
1. What is literature? 2. Why do people read literature? 3. Why is it necessary for you to study literature? 4. How to define American Literature? 5. Basic qualities of American writers? 6. How to study literature? 7. How to improve reading skills?
3.why do people read literature?
1) Reading for Pleasure Howells think that "the study of literature should begin and end in pleasure". Apart from its role of protest, education, cognition and aesthetic appreciation, literature is primarily give pleasure. 2) Reading for Relaxation Get readers away to an imaginary world, thus forget their problems and obligations of everyday life. 3) Reading to Acquire Knowledge It gives readers an insight into the tradition , custom, belief, attitudes, folklore, values of the age in which it is written.
Wallace Stevens
2) Prose Writing: modern realism (the Lost Generation) William Faulkner F.Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway 3) Novels of Social Awareness Richard Wright Dos Passos Sinclair Lewis John Steinbeck
7. How to Improve Reading Skills
1) Form a habit of intelligent guessing at the meaning of new words with the clues provided by the context. But for the key words in the sentence, you need not check each new word in the dictionary. 2) Learn how to notice details, how to get the main idea, and how to skim to locate the most meaningful passages in a literary work. 3) Cherish a strong desire to extract greater meaning from a literary work by relating ideas found in your reading with your own experience.
4. How to define the American literature?
American literature mainly refers to literature produced in American English by the people living in the United States.
3) "New England Poets" or "Schoolroom Poets"
Bryant Lowell Longfellow Holmes Whittier
4) The Reformers and Abolitionists
Beecher Stowe Frederick Douglass
4. The realistic period (1865 - 1914)
1) Midwestern Realism William Dean Howells 2) Cosmopolitan Novelist Henry James 3) Local Colorism Mark Twain 4) Naturalism Stephen Crane Jack London Theodore Dreiser
5) The "Chicago School" of Poetry
Masters
Sandburg
Lindsay
Robinson
6) The Rise of Black American Literature
Washington
Du Bois
Chestnutt
5. The period of modernism (1914 - 1945)
2. Why is it necessary for you to study literature?
1) It improves your language proficiency. 2) It enriches your knowledge about the English culture. 3) It helps you explore the nature of human beings. It gives you spiritual and psychological relief.
Part II. The periods of American literature
1. The colonial period (约1607 - 1765) 约 The main features Puritanism 2. The period of enlightenment and the Independence War (1765 -1800) Benjamin Franklin 3. The romantic period (1800 - 1865) 1) The early romanticism
4) Robert Frost's definition: performance in words 5) Modern definition: We can define literature as language artistically used to achieve identifiable literary qualities and to convey meaningful messages. Literature is characterized by beauty of expression and form and by universality intellectual and emotional appeal.
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
2) "New England Transcendentalism" or "American Renaissance (1836 - 1855)" Emerson Thoreau Whitman Dickinson Hawthorne Melville Allan Poe
4) Reading to Confront Experience Literature is appealing mainly because of its relationship to human experience. It sheds light on the complexity and ambiguity of human experiences and thus broadens readers' awareness of the possibilities of the experience. 5) Reading for Artistic Appreciation Good craftsmanship and the beauty of expression and form; It can be analyzed according to literary theories and criteria; literary criticism, to clarify, explain and evaluate literature from an aesthetic point of view.
4) The Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Zora Neals Hurston
5) The Fugitives and New Criticism
6) The 20th Century American Drama
Eugene O' Neil
6.
The Contemporary Literature (1945 2000) I. American Poetry Since 1945: the Antitradition II. American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation.
1. What is literature?
1) The definition of 14th century: It means polite learning through reading. A man of literature or a man of letters = a man of wide reading, "literacy" 2) The definition of 18th century: practice and profession of writing 3) The definition of 19th century: the high skills of writing in the special context of high imagination
5.Basic Qualities of American Writers
1) Independent 2) Individualistic 3) Critical 4) Innovative 5) Humorous
6. How to study literature
1) Analytical Approach Be familiar with the elements of a literary work, eg: plot, character, setting, point of view, etc; answer some basic questions about the text itself. 2) Thematic Approach "What is the story, the poem, 来自百度文库he play or the essay about?" 3) Historical Approach Aims at illustrating the historical development of literature.
American Literature
Lecture One
030533/4/5, 12th Sep. 2006
Part I. Introduction
Part I: answer the questions
1. What is literature? 2. Why do people read literature? 3. Why is it necessary for you to study literature? 4. How to define American Literature? 5. Basic qualities of American writers? 6. How to study literature? 7. How to improve reading skills?
3.why do people read literature?
1) Reading for Pleasure Howells think that "the study of literature should begin and end in pleasure". Apart from its role of protest, education, cognition and aesthetic appreciation, literature is primarily give pleasure. 2) Reading for Relaxation Get readers away to an imaginary world, thus forget their problems and obligations of everyday life. 3) Reading to Acquire Knowledge It gives readers an insight into the tradition , custom, belief, attitudes, folklore, values of the age in which it is written.