Lecture 5 American Literature Definition of literature Literature

























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Lecture 5 American Literature Definition of literature --Literature encompasses poetry, fiction (novels, short stories) , drama, prose 诗歌 小说 戏剧 散文 --14 th c. -18 th c. literature was a synonym for literacy( 文化知识)

Lecture 5 American Literature --18 th c. –the term’s meaning changed: it referred to books and other printed texts – the scope of literature was broad, encompassing all public writing -- 19 th c. imaginative, creative writing

Lecture 5 American Literature 1. Early fiction (post Revolutionary period)早期 小说 mythmaker, myth-hero (1)Washington Irving (华盛顿. 欧文) History of New York 《纽约外史》 Rip Van Winkle 《瑞普凡. 温克尔》 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 《睡谷的传说》 Tour on Prairies 《草原漫游记》

Lecture 5 American Literature (2) James Fenimore Cooper 费尼莫. 库珀 Leather-stocking Tales 《皮袜子故事集》 The Spy 《间谍》

Lecture 5 American Literature § 2. Transcendentalists 超验主义者 19 th c. (1) Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫. 沃尔多. 爱 默生 Nature 《 论自然》 (2) Henry David Thoreau 亨利. 大卫. 梭罗 Walden 《瓦尔登湖》

Lecture 5 American Literature

Lecture 5 American Literature

Lecture 5 American Literature 3. Power of imagination 想象力 (1) Edgar Allen Poe 爱德加. 艾伦. 破 The Masque of Red Death《 红死病的假 面舞会》 The Fall of the House of Usher《厄舍尔 厦的倒塌 》

Lecture 5 American Literature § I had taken but few turns in this manner, when a light step on the next staircase attracted my attention. I presently recognized it as that of Usher. In an instant afterwards he knocked gently at my door, and entered, carrying a lamp. His face, as usual, was wan—but there was a look of madness in his eyes. Although his appearance appalled me, anything was preferable to the loneliness which I had so long endured, and I even welcomed his p r e s e n c e a s a r e l i e f.

Lecture 5 American Literature § ( 2) Nathaniel Hawthorne 纳撒尼尔. 霍桑 § The Scarlet Letter 《红字》 (3) Herman Melville 赫尔曼. 梅尔维尔 Moby Dick 《白鲸》 American masterpiece

Lecture 5 American Literature § 4. New Vision of America 美国新构想 Walt Whitman 惠特曼 poet Leaves of Grass 《草叶集》poetry

Lecture 5 American Literature § Daffodils by William Wordsworth 《水仙》威廉. 华兹华斯(英) I wander’d lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.


Lecture 5 American Literature § 5. Reform and liberation 改革和自由 Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》 --antislavery novel

Lecture 5 American Literature § Regionalism 地方主义 (1)Mark Twain 马克.土温 satire/ humor The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn 《哈克贝利. 费恩历险记》


Lecture 5 American Literature § (2)Emily Dickinson (poet) § gaiety / gloom 6. A new wave 新浪潮 Henry James The American 《一个美国人》 Portrait of a Lady《女士的画像》 The Wings of the Dove 《鸽翼》 The Ambassadors《专使》 The Golden Bowl 《金碗》

Lecture 5 American Literature § 7. Rebellious spirit 反叛精神 20 th c. § (1) Sherwood Anderson舍伍德. 安德森 § Winesburg, Ohio 《俄亥俄州的瓦恩斯堡》 (2) Sinclair Lewis --first American winner of Nobel Prize for Literature Main Street 《大街》

Lecture 5 American Literature § 7. The modernists 现代主义作家 § T. S. Eliot (T. S 艾略特) § The Waste Land《荒原》 § 8. Lost Generation 迷惘的一代 (1) F. Scott Fitzgerald 弗. 斯科特. 菲兹杰拉德 The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比》


Lecture 5 American Literature § (2) Ernest Hemingway 厄内斯特. 海明威 § The Sun Also Rises 《太阳照样升起》 § A Farewell to Arms《告别了,武器》 § For Who the Bell Tolls《丧钟为谁而鸣》 simple language

Lecture 5 American Literature § In Another Country “ What will you do when the war is over if it is over? ”he asked me. “Speak grammatically!” “I will go to the States. ” “ Are you married? ” “No, but I hope to be. ” “ The more of a fool you are, ” he said. He seemed very angry. “ A man must not marry. ” “ Why must not a man marry? ”

Lecture 5 American Literature “ He can’t marry. He cannot marry, ” he said angrily. “If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lost that. He should find things he cannot lose. ” He spoke very angrily and bitterly, and looked straight ahead while he talked.

Lecture 5 American Literature § 9. Depression , realism and Escapism § 10. Postwar voice and the “Beat Generation”垮掉 的一代 § 11. New American Voices § Black women writers Toni Morrison –Nobel Prize winner Alice Walker Chinese-American – Maxine Kong Kingston

Lecture 5 American Literature § Question : What do you know about American literature?
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