the love,care and happiness that comes from family life are all the most important to her indeed.
《致亲爱的丈夫》
《灵与肉》
《最近在北美出现的第十位缪斯》
Edward Taylor
a puritan poet
masterpiece
Huswifery
Upon a spider catching a fly
Thomas Paine
fight for the rights of man, a major influence in the American Revolution
masterpiece
attack British monarchy
《美国危机》
16 pamphlets
the first pamphlet"the times that try men's soul"
Jonathan Edwards爱德华兹
born in a religious New England family graduate from Yale work as minister
preach
masterpiece
论意志自由
论原罪
论真实德行的本原
“personal narrative"自述
"sinners in the hands of an angry god"愤怒上帝手中的罪人
Benjamin Franklin
life3
contributions3
evaluation
masterpiece
自传
穷理查德历书
American Romanticism
概述
international influence2
national influence3
characteristics3
writer
poets
Henry Wordsworth Long Fellow
Edgar Ellen Poe
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
fictions
Washington Irving--comic fables喜剧寓言
《the sketch book》见闻札记
”rip van winkle"瑞普·凡·温克尔
before and after the American Revolutionary War
the conservative attitude peace and harmony change and revolution--upset the natural order of things a modern democratic American
“the legend of sleepy hollow"睡谷的传说
the creation of archetypes we can see in Ichabod Crane a new Englander Brom Bones is a type of country bumpkin(乡巴佬) two ethical groups locked in a kind of historic contest
James Fenimore Cooper--frontier adventures边境探险
间谍
皮袜子故事集
five tales about the frontier life the protagonist is a mythic figure主人公是一个神话般的人物 a presentation of a nation struggling to be born, progressing from old age to rebirth and youth go backwards, from old age to golden youth the true myth of America
"the pioneers"
it's the first of leatherstocking tales the first true romance(传奇) of the frontier in Amercan literature leatherstocking insists on man's old forest freedom , judge temple remains savage without law and order
Nathaniel Hawthorne--psychological romances心理浪漫
Edgar Allen Poe--Gothic tales哥特式故事
Transcendentalism
New England transcendentalism(1836-1855)
origination
nature's voice pushed American Romanticism into a new phase it is the summit of American romanticism
essence
"transcendentalism is idealism"in essence
background
new Englanders were not happy about the materialistic-oriented life dial
time
1830s to the civil war
it's the combination of foreign influences and the American Puritan tradition
major features3
Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生
father of Amercan essay
leader and spokesman of New England Transcendentalism
masterpiece
< nature>论自然
the Bible of New England Transcendentalism oversoul(超灵)----a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature the spiritual God is operative in the soul of man,and that man is divine(神圣的) nature is the emblematic(象征) of God.it mediates(介于中间) between man and God.
论自立
"the American Scholar"
America's intellectual Declaration of independence
Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗
He is a renowned New England Transcendentalist
masterpiece
论公民的不服从权利
瓦尔登湖
IT seems like casual but he condensed his two and a half years in the woods into one year
is a great Transcendentalist work
self-culture and human perfectibility
he is critical of modern civilization
express to jostle(迫使) his neighbors out of their smug complacency(自视得意). holds that the spiritual richness is real wealth.
regeneration became a major thematic concern
Nathanial Hawthorne纳撒尼尔·霍桑
Black vision黑色视觉:evil seems to be man's birthmark one source of evil in Hawthorne is overwhelming intellect ambiguity and symbolism multiple view
《红字》
symbolism of the Scarlet letter "A"
adultery and adamic
alone and alienation
able,admirable and angel
symbolism of names
pearl
symbolism of the objects described in the novel
light and darkness
the prison
the rose bush
the forest
the meteor流星
themes
Herman Melville赫尔曼·麦尔维尔
泰比
奥穆
白鲸
概述
features5
encyclopedia百科全书8
Bleak view of the world悲凉的世界观
high symbolic and metaphorical nature
ambiguity
colorful language
themes
Walt Whitman沃尔特·惠特曼
草叶集
3+4
自我之歌
form
free verse
language
style of writing
theme
概说
当紫丁香最近在庭院里开放
whitmansque love-and-death motif
president lincoln
death is not the end, but the beginning of life
船长,我的船长
lincoln's assassination
fearful trip
captain
Emily Dickinson
themes
religion
death/immorality
love
nature
masterpiece
我的生命在结束之前已结束了两次
writing styles
comparison between whitman and dickinson
similarity2
emergent America,,,American renaissance
breaking free of the convention of the iambic pentameter,,,,pioneers
differences4
Edgar Allan Poe埃德加·爱伦·坡
虽然少,但是很有趣,很有影响力
position
forerunner of western decadent literature西方颓废文学先驱
father of psychoanalytic criticism精神分析批评之父
father of American detective novel
father of modern short story
masterpiece
厄舍古屋的倒塌
short stories
theme
symbolism5
乌鸦
poe's poetic theory
symbols4
theme
tone
melancholy悲哀的,沮丧的
致海伦
simile,exaggeration,alliteration,parallelism and metaphor
the true beauty=physical beauty+spiritual beauty
the age of realism
background3
influences on literature
American Realism3
characteristics of American realism8
writers
Henry James亨利·詹姆斯
position
the fonder of psychological realism心理现实主义的先驱
the first American writer to conceive his artistic work in international themes美国第一个致力于国际题材的作家
masterpiece
贵妇人的自画像
奉史记
theme
the international theme:the meeting of America and Europe
American innocence contrast with European decadence
William Dean Howells威廉·迪恩·豪威尔斯
achievement4
masterpiece
塞拉斯·拉帕姆的发迹
the greatest happiness for the greateast number
sybolism
purpose
作者对现实主义的观点3
Mark Twain马克·吐温
writer humorist journalist local colorist A Mirror of America
writing periods
early stage
mid-term
late period
masterpiece
assessment4
theme3
the sybolism of river
艺术特色
镀金时代
三人之间的对比
Naturalism
definition
features of naturalist writings3
writers
Stephen Crane克莱恩
红色英勇勋章
三个主题
Frank Norris弗兰克·诺里斯
麦克提格
章鱼
Theodore Dreiser德莱塞
view2
嘉莉妹妹
pursue the American dream
express her naturalistic belife
珍妮姑娘
美国悲剧
Jack London杰克·伦敦
he found fashionable society life empty and distasteful
马丁·伊登
野性的呼唤
is a novella by Jack London
the protagonist is about a domesticated dog
theme
白牙
O.Henry欧·亨利
the most famous short story writer in the world
麦琪的礼物
“twisting end"扭转结局
Upton Sinclair厄普顿·辛克莱
丛林
American literature in the 1920s 20世纪20年代的美国文学
the imagist poem
definition: a small group of English and American poets
three phases
image
types of image
influence
evaluation
imagery
American imagists美国意象派诗人
Ezra Pound埃兹拉·庞德
the father of modern American poetry the leader of the imagist movement
points of views4
masterpiece
巴黎地铁站
can see beauty
theme
诗章
Amy Lowell
William Carlos Williams威廉·卡洛斯·威廉斯
红色手推车
Wallace Stevens华莱士·史蒂文斯
T.S.Eliot T.S.艾略特
poet,dramatist,critic
literary criticism3
artistic features3
荒原
brief introduction
Carl Sandburg
T.E. Hulme
Autumn
F.S. Flint
the swan
Hilda Doolittle
奥瑞德、林中女仙
the jazz age
1920s-1930s
great depression,the privious values,decadence and hedonism颓废和享乐主义,individualism