美国文学重点.doc

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1、美国文学重点TheRomanticPeriodFromtheendofthe18thcenturytotheoutbreakoftheCivilWar.StartedwithWashingtonIrving'sandendedwithWhitman's,alsocalled'theAmericanRenaissance'.Freeexpressionofemotion,escapesfromsociety,andreturntonatureNewEnglandTrans

2、cendentalism新英格兰超验主义-WaltWhitman,whoseestablishedhimasthemostpopularAmericanpoetofthe19thcentury.WashingtonIrving-oneofthefirstAmericanwriterstoearnaninternationalreputation,anearlyRomanticwriter,andFatheroftheAmericanshortstories,“theAmericanGoldsmith

3、”regardedasawriterwho“perfectedthebestclassicstylethatAmericanliteratureeverproduced.”Firstnovel纽约外史wonhimwidepopularity见闻札记woninternationalfame→containsGermanfolktales,READING:excerptfrom“RipVa

4、nWinkle”瑞普·凡·温可尔Itisnotonlywell-knownforRip’s20-yearsleepbutalsoconsideredamodelofperfectEnglishinAmericanliteratureandintheEnglishlanguageaswell.RalphWaldoEmerson-thespokesmanofNewEnglandTranscendentalism（超验主义）movement论美国学者,论自助,

5、eOver-Soul>areflectionupontheaesthetic(美学的)problemsintermsofthepresentstateofliteratureinAmericaadiscussionabouttheconflictbetweenidealismandordinarylife.AmericanPuritanism,EuropeanRomanticism,intuitive(直觉的)knowledge,over-soul,individual,natureHe

6、nryDavidThoreau梭罗-沃乐登READING:excerptfromNature论自然isregardedastheBibleofNewEnglandTranscendentalism，Emerson’sfirstlittlebook,whichdiscusstheloveofnature,theusesofnature…“atransparenteyeball”NathanielHawthorneInterior(内部)oftheheart,‘thereisevilineveryhu

7、manheart,whichmayremainlatent,perhaps,throughthewholelife,butcircumstancesmayrouseittoactivity’,soinalmosteverybook,Hawthornediscusssinandevil.thescarletletterAisambiguous(不明确的).Andtheambiguityisoneofthesalient(显著的)characteristicsofHawthorne’sart.RE

8、ADING:YoungGoodmanBrown小伙子布朗GoodmanBrown,aPuritan(清教徒),whoacceptsbothsocietyingeneralandhisfellowmenasindividual