lecture 6 美国文学史课件.ppt

Lecture 6 Post –war Literature Poetry and New-Realistic Novels Historical Background: 1.the U.S. : emerging from World War II in excellent economic shape 2. Dropping of the atomic bombs: fear and doubt 3.1950s—fear and conformity ,“red hunt” : Cold War, McCarthyism ,Korea War 4.1960s – counterculture, a decade of social conflict between conformity and individuality, tradition and innovation, stability and disruption: Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement feminist movement American Literature after World War II Between 1945 and the 1960s, the belief continued that literature could represent a “common national essence,” an ideal formed in the 1950s as a patriot act to fight communism and accumulate material possessions. In response to the challenges of literary theory and the explosive growth of the information age, two literary developments emerged: the nonfiction novel and metafiction. From the late 1960s onward, American writing was also characterized by a shift in emphasis from homogeneity as a national ideal to the celebration of diversity as a cultural reality. Fiction: post-war realism: John Cheever, John Updike, J.D.Salinger. Joyce Carol Oates 2. post-modern fiction: Black Humor: Joseph Heller JohnBarth,Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov, John Barth Other writers: Don DeLillo, Willim Caddis, Ronald Sukenick 3. Jewish Literature: Saul Bellow Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth Poetry: 1. Beat Generation: poets: Allen Ginsberg. Lawrence Ferlinghetti; novelist: Jack Kerouac 2. Black Mountain Poets: Charles Olsen, Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley 3.Confessional Poets: Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath Drama: Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee Black Literature: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Malcom X, LeRoi Jones, Alice Walker, Toni Morr