美國文學(xué)簡史-序言-introduction課件

1、American LiteraturePart I. IntroductionBooks: A Survey of American Literature (good and authoritative book) by Chang Yaoxin and Selected Readings in American Literature by Chang Yaoxin are course books. References: 1.常耀信.漫話英美文學(xué)(南開大學(xué)出版社，2004), 2.吳偉仁. 美國文學(xué)史及選讀 (外語教學(xué)與研究出版社，1990), 3.楊豈深，龍文佩.美國文學(xué)選讀(譯文出版社

2、，1985), 4.左金梅.美國文學(xué)(青島海洋出版社, 2000), 5.李公昭.20世紀(jì)美國文學(xué)導(dǎo)論(西安交通大學(xué)出版社，2000). Requirement: Grade of this course includes the grade of daily performance (30%) and the grade of final examination (70%). The grade of daily performance will be given according to the following items: in-class behavior (25%), inclu

3、ding question-answering, group discussion and role play; homework and attendance. (5%). Basic Qualities of American WritersIndependentIndividualisticCriticalInnovativeHumorousPart II. The periods of American literatureThe colonial period (about 1607 - 1765)PuritanismFeatures:文學(xué)體裁：a、narratives b、jour

4、nals 寫作內(nèi)容：1）their voyage to the new land2) Adapting themselves to unfamiliar climates and crops3) About dealing with Indians4) Guide to the new land, invitation to bold spiritThe period of Enlightenment and the Independence War (1765 -1800)Benjamin Franklin（17061790） Poor Richards Almanac“ The Way t

5、o Wealth The Autobiography3. The romantic period (1800 - 1865)1、Environment:1) shaped by their New World environment2）array of ideas inherited from the romantic traditons of Europe2：features: frequently shared certain general characteristics, moral enthusiasm, faith in the value of individualism and

6、 intuitive perception, and a presumption that the natural world was a source of corruption.“New England Transcendentalism” or “American Renaissance (1836 - 1855)”EmersonThoreauWashington IrvingThe early romanticism5. The period of modernism (1914 - 1945)一、Background: World War I 第一次世界大戰(zhàn)，America have

7、 great profit. Jump in technology (automobile / radio) 科技方面的跳躍 （汽車/收音機(jī)） old moral code breaks 舊道德體系破碎1、Imagism 意象派：is a poetic movement of England and the United States, flourished from 1909-1917. Its credo, expressed in Some Imagist Poets, included the use of the language of common speech, project

8、matter, the evocation of images in hard, clear poetry, and concentration.2、Lost Generation：迷惘的一代，Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a “Lost Generation,” devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization. It describes the Americans who remained in Paris as a

9、 colony of “expatriates” or exiles. It describes the writers like Hemingway who lived in semipoverty. It describes the Americans who returned to their native land with an intense awareness of living in an unfamiliar changing world.3、Modernism現(xiàn)代主義：is loosely a synonym of anything contemporary. Strictly, especially in literary criticism, which began in the late 19th century and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base. They pay more attention to the psychic time than the chronological one.4、現(xiàn)代主義的標(biāo)志：T. S. Eliots “The Waste Land”,