英语国家社会与文化入门UnitAmericanliterature.ppt

Unit 7 American Literature Definition of literature --Literature encompasses poetry, fiction (novels, short stories) , drama, prose 诗歌 小说 戏剧 散文 --14th c.-18th c. literature was a synonym for literacy( 文化知识) Unit 7 American Literature --18th c. –the term’s meaning changed: it referred to books and other printed texts – the scope of literature was broad, encompassing all public writing -- 19th c. imaginative, creative writing Unit 7 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》 Unit 7 American Literature (2) James Fenimore Cooper 费尼莫.库珀 Leather-stocking Tales 《皮袜子故事集》 The Spy 《间谍》 Unit 7 American Literature 2. Transcendentalists 超验主义者 19th 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》 Unit 7 American Literature Unit 7 American Literature Unit 7 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 》 Unit 7 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 presence as a relief. Unit 7 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 Unit 7 American Literature 4. New Vision of America 美国新构想 Walt Whitman 惠特曼 poet Leaves of Grass