美国文学2重点.doc

1.................Father of American Literature: Irving Father of the American novel: Cooper Inventor of the American Short Story: Poe ▲▲▲▲▲▲Washington Irving 华盛顿?欧文 1.地位：Father of American literature▲▲▲ 1. the first American (true) literary writer 2. the first American man of letters 3. America’s first genuine internationally best-selling author 4. the first belletrist in American literature, writing for pleasure at a time when writing was practical and for useful purposes 注意Mark Twain also is called the Father of American Literature ， the true Father of American Literature。 2In 1820, Irving published The Sketch Book under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. 代表作▲▲▲ The hit book made Irving the first American author to gain real fame in Europe. The stories (including “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”) appeared serially in 1819–20. 3作品 (1) A History of New York (2) The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (This gives him international recognition.) (3) The History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (4) A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada (5) The Alhambra 4文学成就 1. short story 2. “Rip Van Winkle” 3. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” Poe first theorized on the structure and purpose of the short story. 5“Rip Van Winkle”similar to a 3rd-century Chinese tale of Ranka (烂柯) retold in Lionel Giles in A Gallery of Chinese Immortals part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Rip Van Winkle: the protagonist主要人物a villager of Dutch descent lives in a nice village at the foot of New Yorks Catskill Mountains an amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect he is loved by all but his wife 6The Legend of Sleepy Hollow the longest tale in the collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. written while he was living in Birmingham, England. 人物： Ichabod Crane: a lean, lanky, and extr