美国文学的介绍.ppt

SelectedReadingsinAmericanLiteratureGuiyangCollegeInstructor:CaiFengmingITOPIC:GeneralIntroductiontoAmericanLiteratureIIOBJECTIVES:A)TheColonialperiod(1607-1775)B)PeriodofIndependentwar(1775-1783)C)Romanticperiod(1815-1865)D)Realismperiod(1865-1914)E)Modernismperiod(1914-1945)(Modernliteraturestartswithpoets)F)Contemporaryperiod(1945-the21stcentury)G)theNobelPrizewinnersinliteratureTheColonialperiod(1607-1775)◆Jamestown:firstpermanentsettlementinAmerica,Mayflowerin1620;SeparatistsandPuritans.◆CaptainJohnSmith(thefirstAmericanwriter).NewEnglandTrialsandTheGeneralHistoryofVirginiaPuritanclergymenandgovernors,thetwoessentialcharacteristicsoftheearlyAmericanliterature:(1775-1783)BenjaminFranklin(1706-1790)﹙thefirstpersontopickoutAmericandreamandthe1stwritertowriteautobiography﹚:Autobiography(1771-1790)ThomasPaine(1737-1809):CommonSense(常识)(1776):“ThecauseofAmericaisinagreatmeasurethecauseofallmankind.”ThomasJefferson(1743-1826):DeclarationofIndependence(1776)Notes:Thetriumphofthehard-foughtAmerimanindependence(1775-1783):Thetriumphofthehard-foughtAmericanindependence(1775-1783)(1815-1865)WashingtonIrving(1783-1859)(FatherofAmericanliterature):TheSketchBook(《随笔集》或《见闻札记》—1819-1820,RipVanWinklefromit)Irvingdiscoveredandhelpedsatisfythenewnation’(1789-1851):TheLeather-stockingTales(皮袜子故事集):(1803-1882)(thefounderoftranscendentalism):NatureSelf-RelianceTheAmericanScholarTheOversoulHetriedtoavoidbuildingalogicalintellectualsystem,(11804-1864):TheScarletLetter:Then