美国文学大纲.doc

PAGE PAGE 8 The Outline of American Literature I Colonial Period (1607—1765) Colonial Part: American Puritanism II Revolutionary Period (1765—1800) 1 The Great Awakening 2 The Enlightenment III The Age of Romanticism (1800—1865) 1 American Romanticism 2 New England Transcendentalism 新英格兰超验主义 IV The Age of Realism (1865—1918) 1 Beginning 2 Local Colorism 乡土文学 3 American Naturalism (1908—1918) V American Modernism (1918—1945) (I)Modern Poetry American Modernism first began in poetry. 3 types of poems: A: Chicago Poets B: Leading figures in the poetic revolution Imagism and New-poetry Movement C: in-between poets 1 Great playwright of the 1920s 2 playwrights of the 1930s (II) Modern Novels 1 Lost GenerationErnest Hemingway 2 The Age of JazzF. Scott Fitzgerald 3 Literature of Depression 4 Literature of the South / the Southern Renaissance 5 Other famous novelists in the 1920s 6 Female Writers 7 Literary critics: New Criticism“新批评派” 8 Black Literature: Harlem Renaissance哈莱姆文艺复兴 (III) American Drama VI Contemporary Literature (1945-- ) (I) Postwar Novels (II) Postwar Dramas (III) Postwar Poetry (IV) Multiethnic Literature American Literature I Colonial Period (1607—1800) ⅠIntroduction The period stretches roughly from the settlement of Americans in the early seventeenth century through the end of the eighteenth. The major topic is about American Puritanism, the one enduring influence in American literature. II American Puritanism Puritans English religious and political reformers who fled their native land in search of religious freedom, and settled and colonized New England in the 17th century. They at first wished to reform or “purify” their religious beliefs and practices. To them, religion should be a matter of personal faith rather than a ritual. Puritanism Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of puritans. American Puritanism The Puritans established their own religious and moral principles known as American Puritanism which became one of the endur