Week 1 An Introduction to____ American Literature.ppt

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1、SelectedReadingsinAmericanLiteratureGuiyangCollegeInstructor：CaiFengmingITOPIC:GeneralIntroductiontoAmericanLiteratureIIOBJECTIVES:A)TheColonialperiod(1607-1775)B)PeriodofIndependentwar(1775-1783)C)Romanticperiod(1815-1865)D)Realismperiod(1865-1914)E)Modernismperiod(1914-1

2、945)(Modernliteraturestartswithpoets)F)Contemporaryperiod(1945-the21stcentury)G)theNobelPrizewinnersinliteratureTheColonialperiod(1607-1775)◆Jamestown:firstpermanentsettlementinAmerica,Mayflowerin1620;SeparatistsandPuritans.◆CaptainJohnSmith(thefirstAmericanwriter).NewEngla

3、ndTrialsandTheGeneralHistoryofVirginiaPuritanclergymenandgovernors,thetwoessentialcharacteristicsoftheearlyAmericanliterature:theirreligioussubjectandimitationofEnglishliterarytraditions.PeriodofIndependentWar(1775-1783)BenjaminFranklin(1706-1790)﹙thefirstpersontopickoutAme

4、ricandreamandthe1stwritertowriteautobiography﹚:Autobiography(1771-1790)ThomasPaine(1737-1809):CommonSense(常识)(1776):“ThecauseofAmericaisinagreatmeasurethecauseofallmankind.”ThomasJefferson(1743-1826):DeclarationofIndependence(1776)Notes:Thetriumphofthehard-foughtAmerimanind

5、ependence(1775-1783)seemedtomanyatatimeadevinesignthatAmericaandherpeopleweredestinedforgreatness.Militaryvictoryfannednationalistichopesforagreatnewliterature.Notes:Thetriumphofthehard-foughtAmericanindependence(1775-1783)seemedtomanyatatimeadivinesignthatAmericaandherpeop

6、leweredestinedforgreatness.Militaryvictoryfannednationalistichopesforagreatnewliterature.PeriodofRomanticism(1815-1865)WashingtonIrving(1783-1859)(FatherofAmericanliterature):TheSketchBook(《随笔集》或《见闻札记》—1819-1820,RipVanWinklefromit)Irvingdiscoveredandhelpedsatisfythenewnatio

7、n’ssenseofhistory.JamesFenimoreCooper(1789-1851):TheLeather-stockingTales(皮袜子故事集):ItiscomposedoffivenovelswhichconstituteavastproseepicbybringingtolifefrontierAmericafrom1740to1804.RalphWaldoEmerson(1803-1882)(thefounderoftranscendentalism):NatureSelf-RelianceTheAmericanSch

8、olarTheOversoulHetriedtoavoidbuildingalogicalintellectualsystem,andbelievedinintui