美国文学简介 英文版.ppt

American Literature Zhang Rui Requirement of the course You are supposed to do your HOMEWORK Final marks: class performance （30%）+ final exam（70%） Contact with me E-mail: montana2004@yahoo. cn Tel:mmggwx@163.com Code:Group work What do you know about American Literature? American Nobel Prize Winners for Literature 1993 - Toni Morrison 1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 1976 - Saul Bellow 1962 - John Steinbeck 1954 - Ernest Hemingway 1949 - William Faulkner 1948 - T.S. Eliot 1938 - Pearl Buck 1936 - Eugene ONeill 1930 - Sinclair Lewis Periods of A. Lit. 1. The early A. literature (Colonial period early national and revolutionary period ) (1620-1781) 2. The age of Romanticism (1781-1865) 3. The age of Realism Naturalism (1875-1914) 4. A. Lit. between the two wars: 1914-1945 (modernism) 5. Contemporary A. Lit.: 1945- (postmodernism) 1. Colonial period early national and revolutionary period Early 17th C—the end of the 18th C Characteristics of the colonial literature Spirit: optimistic The purpose—pragmatic Writers—amateurs English literary traditions were faithfully imitated and transplanted. The categories of the lit.: travel book, diary, poem, history, letter, sermon… poetry and prose gained most achievements Early American Writers and Poets Captain John Smith---first American writer; A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia 《关于弗吉尼亚的真实叙述》 Anne Bradstreet: first American poet to publish a book; Features of the 18th C. A. Lit. political lit.: the prose of the great philosopher-statesmen makes up a prominent part; most of the writers were active supporters or participants of American revolution Major lit. figures: Philip Freneau菲利普· 弗瑞诺—The Wild Honey Suckle American Romanticism It covers the first half of the 19th century. Pre-Romanticism Post-Romanticism Culmination—New England Transcendentalism （新英格兰超验主义）or American Renaissance (1836-1855) The Age of Reali