美国文学笔记-专八
专八人文(美国文学部分)
the Prairie大草原
the pathfinder探路人
the Deerslayer杀鹿者
Edgar Allan Poe爱伦·坡(poet, novelist)
Father of the American detective stories
Tales of the Grotesque andArabesque怪诞奇异故事集
站在大贵族大资产阶级立场上观察描述现实社会，被称为“温和现实主义”
O. Henry欧亨利
1.The father of modern American short stories;
2.American life humor encyclopedia
3.Short prose writer laureate as Manhattan
2Focus on commonness of the lives of the common people;
3Objective rather than idealistic view of human nature;
4Present moral visions;
5Usually open ending.(开放式结局)
2.pen name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
3.Three giants of American realistic writers.
1.TheAdventures of TomSawyer;
2.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(“all modern American literature comes”---Hemingway)
英语专八文学知识梳理
殖民时期——美国梦的开始●爱德华兹《自述》●富兰克林《格言历书》《自转》美国最早的传记文学作品,记录他致富过程。
浪漫主义——美国梦的全盛时期●欧文，第一个得到欧洲承认的国家,被称为美国文学之父,第一个发掘和表现美国历史和风土人情的作家.传世佳作见闻札记,反映了美国文学从表面上看18世纪的理性主义到本世纪末19世纪浪漫主义的转变,作者自述叙述了见闻札记的原委。
大部分以英国为背景,《里普凡温克尔》和《睡谷的传说》以美国风物为背景。
●库柏，第一个以边疆生活为主题的《皮袜子五部曲》,揭露开拓者向西过程中对印第安人的丑恶面目.●爱默生，超验主义者,《论自然》《论美国学者》:反对怀古咏史,要求学者正视和讴歌现实,吹起了美国文化独立的号角。
核心是美国人要从精神上独立于欧洲大陆，摆脱旧学说的束缚，自助，自立，自爱。
●坡，描写人的内心世界和精神状态,一方面对死亡,复仇,转生等题材描写起来肆恣意挥洒,充满了颓废情绪, 含恐怖因素。
《乌鸦》，心爱人的去世《厄舍古屋的倒塌》《莫格路上的暗杀》《被盗的信》●朗费罗，在文学上创作对欧洲和英国的文学传统亦步亦趋，写的多是关于家庭，儿女，爱情和自然方面的题材。
《人生礼赞》●梭罗《华尔腾，或林中生活》，表达一个浪漫主义者对现代文明的鄙弃。
超验主义者。
●霍桑，描写社会和人性的阴暗面，是心理小说的开创者，擅长剖析人的内心。
《红字》《年轻小伙子布朗》《教长的黑面纱》●梅尔维尔《白鲸——莫比•迪克》人必须承认自己心中的恶，人虽然可以观察世界，或对世界有一定的影响力，但是从根本来说，他不能左右或征服自然。
人只要不冒失地自取灭亡，大自然便乐于让他平静的生活。
揭示了捕鲸工人的辛勤劳动和智慧，揭示了资本主义的残酷剥削。
●惠特曼，草叶集，草赋予最普通的遭人践踏的小东西以崇高的地位和尊严。
受爱默生的影响很大。
《自我之歌》表达诗人对哲学和宗教的观点。
歌颂人的灵魂美，肉体美。
《我听见美国在唱歌》充满和谐与欢乐的歌声《我坐而眺望》诗人对世界上存在的痛苦和丑恶的态度，充满凄惨哀鸣。
美国文学 专八人文知识复习
美国文学第一章殖民地时期及独立革命时期的美国文学（1617——1783）Background: 1)The first permanent English settlement in North America at James Town, Virginia in 16172)In 1629 the puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony.3)Independent War (1776——1783)Personal Literature In Its Various FormsJohn Smith A True Relation of Virginia《关于弗吉尼亚的真实叙述》William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation《普利茅斯种植园史》He was the first governor of the Plymouth PlantationEarly PoetryAnne Bradstreet Contemplations《沉思集》She was known as the “Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up”inAmerica.Important Writers of American PuritanismJonathan Edwards The Freedom of the Will《论意志自由》His endeavors contributed to bringing about the “GreatAwakening（大觉醒）”.他被认为是美国超验主义的先驱。
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanac《穷查理年鉴》The Autobiography《自传》Authors who call for democratic government and writes for it Thomas Paine Common Sense《常识》The American Crisis《美国危机》The Rights of Man《人的权利》The Age of Reason《理性的时代》Philip Freneau The Indian Burying Ground《印第安人殡葬地》“The Wild Honey Suckle”《野忍冬花》He is “poet of the American Revolution”and the “father ofAmerican Poetry”OthersThomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence《独立宣言》第二章浪漫主义时期的美国文学（19世纪上半叶）Early American RomanticismWashington Irving The Sketch Book《见闻札记》marked the beginning ofAmerican Romanticism.Rip Van Winkle《瑞普·凡·温克尔》The Legend of Sleepy Hollow《睡谷传说》He has been called the father of the American short story.He is the first American Writer of imaginative literature togain international fame, so he was regarded as father ofAmerican literature.James Fennimore Cooper The Spy《间谍》Leaherstocking Tales《皮袜子五部曲》拓荒者，最后的莫西干人，草原，探路者，杀鹿者他是第一个在大西洋两岸有影响力的美国作家New England Transcendentalism(1840s开始)Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature《论自然》had been called “the manifesto ofAmerican Transcendentalism”美国超验主义的宣言The American Scholar《美国学者》Henry David Thoreau Walden《瓦尔登湖》Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter《红字》He is a master of symbolism. Herman Melville Moby Dick《白鲸》Edgar Allan Poe Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque《怪诞奇异故事集》The Raven《乌鸦》他是侦探小说的鼻祖(In the poetry aspect)Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass《草叶集》Emily Dickinson Because I Could Not Stop for Death《因为我不能等待死神》I Heard a Fly Buzz----When I Died《我死时听到了苍蝇的嗡嗡声》New England PoetsWilliam Cullen Bryant To a Waterfowl《致水鸟》是美国第一个赢得国际声誉的本土诗人The Reformers and AbolitionistsHarriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin《汤姆叔叔的小屋》She is an anti-slavery writer.第三章现实主义时期的美国文学（19世纪后半叶）背景：1861—1865美国内战By the 1870s, the New England Renaissance gradually lost its influence. The age of Romanticism and Transcendentalism was by and large over. Then the age of realism arrived. American realism developed into naturalism.Realism writersWilliam Dean Howells The Rise of Silas Lapham《塞拉斯·拉帕姆的发迹》He writers about the rising middle class.Henry James The American《美国人》Daisy Miller《戴茜·米勒》The Portrait of a Lady《贵妇人的画像》He describes the upper class. He is famous forpsychological realism.Local Colorism WritersMark Twain The Adventuress of Tom SawyerThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Gilded Age《镀金时代》Life on the Mississippi《在密西西比上》Autobiography《自传》The Innocents Abroad《傻子出国记》The Prince and the Pauper《王子与贫儿》Bret Harte The Luck of Roaring Camp《咆哮营的幸运儿》Hamlin Garland Main-Traveled Road《大路条条》Naturalism WritersStephen Crane Maggie: A girl of the Streets《街头女郎马吉》The Red Badge of Courage《红色英勇勋章》Frank Norris Mcteague《麦克提格》Octopus《章鱼》Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie《嘉丽姐妹》金融家，巨头，斯多噶Jack London The Call of the Wild《野性的呼唤》他被认为是心理现实主义的创造者O’Henry The Last Leaf《最后一片叶子》麦琪的礼物Upton Sinclair The Jungle《屠场》Oil《石油》Boston《波士顿》第四章现代时期的美国文学。
专八美国文学~~~
美国文学主要分为四个时期：㈠The Literature Around the Revolution of Independence（独立革命前后的文学）。
一．殖民地时期（The Literature of Colonial American Colonial Period 1607---1775）1、约翰·史密斯（John Smith）：早期英国殖民者、探险家，在弗吉尼亚建立了第一个永久英国殖民地。
被誉为美国文学的第一位作家。
（注：Jamestown, Virginia, was the first permanent English settlement in North America on May, 1607.）代表作：《关于弗吉尼亚的真实叙述》（A True Relation of Virginia）是美国文学第一书。
2、纳撒尼尔·沃德（Nathaniel Ward）：被誉为“北美讽刺文学第一笔”。
代表作：《北美的阿格瓦姆鞋匠》（The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam in America）。
3、威廉·布拉福德（William Bradford）：被誉为“美国历史之父”。
说起美国人的祖先，一般人都会说是“五月花”号（Mayflower）。
威廉·布拉福特（William Bradford）就是“五月花”号上的领导者，《五月花号公约》Mayflower Compact的主要起草人，后来成为普利茅斯殖民地的总督。
现在，美国的第二号节日“感恩节”就是由他提出来的。
代表作：《普利茅斯种植园史》（History of Plymouth Plantation）。
4、安妮·布拉德斯特里特（Anne Bradstreet）：殖民地时期的第一位诗人。
代表作：《最近在北美出现的第十位缪斯》（The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America）。
专业英语8级人文知识之美国文学
专业英语八级人文知识之美国文学第一阶段独立革命之前（十七世纪中期之前）概述1、美国本土文学（美国印第安传统文学）早在欧洲人闯入北美大陆之前，那里世世代代居住的原始人是印第安人，他们的文化早已在这片土地上流传、存在了几千年之久。
他们创造出了并仍然在创造这优秀的印第安口头文学。
在各种典礼上咏诵的祝词，在劳作中吟唱的歌曲，世世代代交口相传的部落神话故事和英雄故事，刻写在山间岩壁上的象形史诗，都是印第安传统文学的只要内容和形式，也是人类文明的宝贵遗产之一。
后来，随着殖民地的开拓，移民人数的剧增，印第安文化不断遭受重创，从而在17世纪出现断裂。
18世界末又开始以书面文学的形式开始了新的发展。
Three stages of development：1）traditional literature 2）transitional literature 3）modern literature2、北美殖民时期文学（十六世纪末—十七世纪中期）北美殖民文学的开端，以1607年英国在今佛吉尼亚的詹姆斯顿建立第一个永久性殖民点为标志。
从那时起直到1776年美利坚合众国成立，这半个世纪的北美英语文学的发展是外来文学移植、扎根并本土化的一个准备过程。
这一时期的文学作品主要是一些英国的殖民地官员或传道士、冒险家们以日记或游记随笔等形式记录的新大陆的风土人情、自然景色和民间生活等。
John Smith was considered to be the first author in the history of American literature。
3、清教思想的表述最初从欧洲来到美国的定居者被成为“清教徒”，因为他们迁徙的主要目的之一是为了“净化”教堂中的宗教行为。
他们的作品主要以传布清教主义思想的布道文为主。
第二阶段独立革命时期（17世纪中期—18世纪末）概述独立革命前后的美国文学，标志着北美文学产生后的第一次大转折，其主要内容和形式与殖民时期文学截然不同：如果说殖民时期文学主要反映的是清教精神，独立革命时期的文学则充满了浓烈的政治性和思辨性。
专八考试人文知识英美文学部分
英国文学知识点总结一、中古世纪时期和文艺复兴时期1.The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on theirway to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by ______. (2006)A.William LanglandB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. William ShakespeareD. AlfredTennyson2.______ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed intofourteen lines. (2006)A.Free verseB. sonnetC. odeD. epigram重要文学术语一句话定义：Ballad 民谣：Ballad is a story in poetic form to be sung or recited. It was handed down from generation to generation. 代表作：Robin HoodEpic 史诗：Epic, in poetry, refers to a long work dealing with the actions of gods and heroes. 代表作：BeowulfRenaissance 文艺复兴：It meant the reintroduction into Western Europe of the full cultural heritage of Greece and Rome.Humanism 人文主义：Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.Spenserian stanza 斯宾塞诗节：it refers to a stanza of nine lines, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter, the last line in iambic pentameter, rhyming ababbcbcc. 代表作：the Faerie QueeneSonnet 十四行诗: A sonnet is a lyric consisting of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter. 代表人物：William Shakespeare重要人物和其代表作的一句话评价：Geoffrey Chaucer 乔叟：He is regarded as the father of modern English poetry. 英国诗歌之父代表作：Canterbury Tales: A collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims.Philip Sidney 菲利普锡尼：He stands for the spirit of the Elizabeth age. 伊莉莎白时代精神的代表代表作：Defense of Poetry, Arcadia.Edmund Spenser 斯宾塞：the poet s’ poet. He created Spenser Stanza. 诗人中的诗人，斯宾塞诗节的创作者。
专八人文知识(美国文学)
一．Literature of colonial settlements(北美殖民时期文学)（16C末——17C中）John Smith “the first author”《A True Map of Virginia》二．the literature around the revolution of independence (17C中——18C末)1．Franklin （1706——1790）scientist politician writer《the Autobiography，自传》《poor Richard’s almanac穷查理历书》2. Thomas Jefferson (1743——1826) 《the declaration of independence，独立宣言》3. Philip Freneau 菲利普·弗伦诺(1752——1832) “father of American poetry”《the wild honey suckle，野忍冬花》《The Indian Burying Ground 印第安人殡葬地》《the British prison shop英国囚船》《the rising glory of America美国的荣耀蒸蒸日上》三．American Romanticism(18C末——19C中后)1. Washington Irving 华盛顿·欧文美国文学之父《the sketch book 见闻札记》《the legend of sleep hollow 睡谷的传说》《rip Van Winkler 瑞普·凡·温克尔》2. James Fenimore Cooper 詹姆斯·菲尼·莫库珀《the spy 间谍》《the pioneers 拓荒者》《the last of the Mohicans 最后的莫西干人》《the prairie 大草原》《the pathfinder 探路人》《the deerslayer 杀鹿者》《leather stocking tales 皮袜子的故事集》3. Edgar Allen Poe 埃德加·爱伦·坡写科学和侦探小说“侦探小说的鼻祖”《tales of the grotesque and arabesque 怪诞故事集》《the murders in the Rue morgue 莫格街谋杀案》《the fall of the house of Usher 厄舍古厦的倒塌》4．Ralph waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生transcendentalism超验主义《Nature 论自然》《essays 论文集》《the American scholar 美国学者》5．Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗超验主义《Walden 瓦尔登湖》6．Herman Melville 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔《Moby Dick 莫比·迪克》7．Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 亨利·朗费罗《the song of Hiawatha 海华沙之歌》《voices of the night 夜吟》《A psalm of life 人生礼赞》8．Walt Whitman 华尔特·惠特曼《leaves of grass 草叶集》《song of myself 自我之歌》四．American Realism （19C中——20C初）1．Harriet Beecher Stowe 哈丽叶特比彻斯托夫人女《uncle tom’s cabin 汤姆叔叔的小屋》（anti-slavery novel）2．Mark Twain 马克·吐温《the adventures of Tom Sawyer 汤姆·索耶历险记》《the adventures of Huckleberry Finn 哈克贝利·芬历险记》《life on Mississippi 密西西比河上》《the gilded age镀金时代》海明威评价：“全部美国文学都来自马克吐温的《哈克贝利·芬历险记》”3．O·Henry 欧·亨利短篇小说《the cop and the anthem 警察与赞美诗》《the furnished room 带家具出租的房间》《the gift of the magi 麦琪的礼物》《the last leaf 最后一片藤叶》4．Henry James 亨利·詹姆斯《Daisy Miller 黛西·米勒》《the portrait of a lady 贵妇人画像》《the wings of the dove 鸽翼》《the ambassadors 大使们》《the Golden bowl 金碗》5．Jack London 杰克·伦敦《the sea wolf 海狼》自传体短篇小说《Martin Eten 马丁·伊登》《the call of the wild 野性的呼唤》6．Theodore Dreiser 西奥多·德莱赛《sister Carrie 嘉莉妹妹》《Jennie Gerhardt 珍妮姑娘》五．American modernism （20C初——）1．Sinclair Lewis 辛克莱·刘易斯1930年第一个美国人获诺贝尔奖《main street 大街》《Babbitt 巴比特》2．Eugene O’Neill 尤金·奥尼尔剧作家1936年获诺贝尔奖《long day’s journey into night 进入黑夜的漫长旅途》《the hairy ape 毛猿》《the Iceman cometh 送冰人来了》3．Pearl S. Buck 赛珍珠1938年获诺贝尔奖《the good earth 大地》翻译了《水浒传all men are brothers》4．Thomas Stearns Eliot T.S.艾略特1948年获诺贝尔奖《the wasteland 荒原》《four quartets 四个四重奏》《murder in the Cathedral 大教堂的凶杀案》《the hollow man 空心人/透明人》5．William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳1949年获诺贝尔奖《the sound and the fury 愤怒与喧嚣》《as I lay dying 当我垂死的时候/我弥留之际》6．Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威“the lost generation迷惘的一代”的代表作家1954年获诺贝尔文学奖《the sun also rises 太阳照常升起》《farewell to arms永别了，武器》《for whom the Bell tolls 丧钟为谁而鸣》《the old man and the sea 老人与海》7．F·Scott Fitzgerald 司各特·费茨杰拉德《the great Gatsby 了不起的盖茨比》（jazz age）8．John Steinbeck 约翰·斯坦贝克1962年获诺贝尔奖《the grapes of wrath 愤怒的葡萄》《of mice and men 人与鼠》9．Toni Morrison 托尼·莫瑞森黑人作家1993年获诺贝尔奖《song of Solomon 所罗门之歌》10．J.D. Salinger J.D.塞林格《the catcher in the rye 麦田里的守望者》11．Ralph Ellison拉尔夫·埃里森African-American novelist 《the invisible man 隐形人》12．Joseph Heller 约瑟夫·海勒“黑色幽默”文学代表人物《catch-22 第二十二条军规》13．Tennessee Williams 田纳西·威廉斯剧作家《A streetcar named desire 欲望号街车》14．Ezra Pound 艾兹拉·庞德意象派诗歌（imagism）创始人《in A station of the metro 地铁车站》（14words ：the apparition of these faces in the crowd；petals on a wet, black bough.）15．Robert Frost 罗伯特·弗罗斯特“新英格兰诗人”《new Hampshire 新罕布什尔》《A boy’s wish 一个孩子的愿望》16．Margaret Mitchell 玛格丽特·米切尔《gone with the wind 飘》。
专四专八：美国文学简史笔记（3）
3. point of view(1) He expressed what the young people believed in the 1920s, the so-called “American Dream” is false in nature.(2) He had always been critical of the rich and tried to show the integrating effects of money on the emotional make-up of his character. He found that wealth altered people’s characters, making them mean and distrusted. He thinks money brought only tragedy and remorse.(3) His novels follow a pattern: dream – lack of attraction – failure and despair.4. His ideas of “American Dream”It is false to most young people. Only those who were dishonest could become rich.5. StyleFitzgerald was one of the great stylists in American literature. His prose is smooth, sensitive, and completely original in its diction and metaphors. Its simplicity and gracefulness, its skill in manipulating the relation between the general and the specific reveal his consummate artistry.6. The Great GatsbyNarrative point of view – NickHe is related to everyone in the novel and is calm and detected observer who is never quick to make judgements. Selected omniscient point of viewII. Ernest Hemingway1. life2. point of view (influenced by experience in war)(1) He felt that WWI had broken America’s culture and traditions, and separated from its roots. He wrote about men and women who were isolated from tradition, frightened, sometimes ridiculous, trying to find their own way.(2) He condemned war as purposeless slaughter, but the attitude changed when he took part in Spanish Civil War when he found that fascism was a cause worth fighting for.(3) He wrote about courage and cowardice in battlefield. He defined courage as “an instinctive movement towards or away from the centre of violence with self-preservation and self-respect, the mixed motive”. He also talked about the courage with which to face tragedies of life that can never be remedied.(4) Hemingway is essentially a negative writer. It is very difficult for him to say “yes”. He holds a black, naturalistic view of the world and sees it as “all a nothing” and “all nada”.3. works(1) In Our Time(2) Men Without Women(3) Winner Take Nothing(4) The Torrents of Spring(5) The Sun Also Rises(6) A Farewell to Arms(7) Death in the Afternoon(8) To Have and Have Not(9) Green Hills of Africa(10) The Fifth Column(11) For Whom the Bell Tolls(12) Across the River and into the Trees(13) The Old Man and the Sea4. themes – “grace under pressure”(1) war and influence of war on people, with scenes connected with hunting, bull fighting which demand stamina and courage, and with the question “how to live with pain”, “how human being live gracefully under pressure”.(2) “code hero”The Hemingway hero is an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent, a man of action, and one of few words. That is an individualist keeping emotions under control, stoic and self-disciplined in a dreadful place. These people are usually spiritual strong, people of certain skills, and most of them encounter death many times.5. style(1) simple and natural(2) direct, clear and fresh(3) lean and economical(4) simple, conversational, common found, fundamental words(5) simple sentences(6) Iceberg principle: understatement, implied things(7) SymbolismIII. Sinclair Lewis – “the worst important writer in American literature”1. life2. works(1) Main Street(2) Babbitt(3) Arrowsmith(4) Dodsworth(5) Elmer Gantry3. point of view – satirical critic of American middle class(1) Lewis showed the villagers to be narrow-minded, greedy, pretentious and corrupt.(2) He attacked middle class for its indifference to art and culture, and its assumption that economic success made it superior.4. style(1) photographic, verisimilitude(2) colloquialism(3) characterization: he often created a type of character rather than an individual(4) old fashioned in theme(5) lack in psychological explorationIV. Willa Cather1. life2. works(1) Alexander’s Bridge(2) O Pioneers(3) The Song of the Lark(4) My Antonia3. features of her works(1) She was one of the few “uneasy survivors of the nineteenth century”. Hanging onto the traditional values, she was never able to come to terms with modernity.(2) Old west becomes in most of her novels the centre of moral reference against which modern existence is measured.(3) She withdraws in her later fiction into the historical past.(4) She often uses women protagonists in her novels.Southern LiteratureI. HeritageAmerican southern literature can date back to Edgar Allen Poe, and reach its summit with the appearance of the two “giants”– Faulkner and Wolfe. There are southern women writers – Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O’Connor. II. Southern Myths – guilt, failure, poverty1. Chevalier heritage2. Agrarian virtue3. Plantation aristocracy4. Lost cause5. White supremacy6. Purity of womanhoodSouthern literature: twisted, pessimistic, violent, distortedGothic novel: PoeIII. William Faulkner1. life2. literary career: three stages(1) 1924~1929: training as a writerThe Marble FaunSoldier’s PayMosquitoes(2) 1929~1936: most productive and prolific periodSartorisThe Sound and the FuryAs I Lay DyingLight in AugustAbsalom, Absalom(3) 1940~end: won recognition in AmericaGo Down, Moses3. point of viewHe generally shows a grim picture of human society where violence and cruelty are frequently included, but his later works showed more optimism. His intention was to show the evil, harsh events in contrast to such eternal virtues as love, honour, pity, compassion, self-sacrifice, and thereby expose the faults of society. He felt that it was a writer’s duty to remind his readers constantly of true values and virtues.4. themes(1) history and raceHe explains the present by examining the past, by telling the stories of several generations of family to show how historychanges life. He was interested in the relationship between blacks and whites, especially concerned about the problems of the people who were of the mixed race of black and white, unacceptable to both races.(2) Deterioration(3) Conflicts between generations, classes, races, man and environment(4) Horror, violence and the abnormal5. style/features of his works(1) complex plot(2) stream of consciousness(3) multiple point of view, circular form(4) violation of chronology(5) courtroom rhetoric: formal language(6) characterization: he was able to probe into the psychology of characters(7) “anti-hero”: weak, fable, vulnerable (true people in modern society)He has a group of women writers following him, including O’Connor and Eudora WeltySection 2 The 1930sRadical 1930sI. BackgroundGreat Depression (1929 “Black Thursday”)II. Literature1. Writers of the 1920s were still writing, but they didn’t produce good works.2. The main stream is left-oriented.III. Writers of 1930s1. social concern and social involvement2. revival of naturalistic tradition of Dreiser and NorrisIV. John Steinbeck1. life2. works(1) Cup of Gold(2) Tortilla Flat(3) In Dubious Battle(4) Of Mice and Men(5) The Grapes of Wrath(6) Travels with Charley(7) Short stories: The Red Pony, The Pearl3. point of view(1) His best writing was produced out of outrage at the injustices of the societies, and by the admirations for the strong spirit of the poor.(2) His theme was usually simple human virtues, such as kindness and fair treatment, which were far superior to the dehumanizing cruelty of exploiters.4. style(1) poetic prose(2) regional dialect(3) characterization: many types of characters rather than individuals(4) dramatic factors(5) social protect: spokesman for the poverty-stricken people5. The Grapes of WrathChapter 6 The Post-War Period: 50s & 60sI. Historical Background – multi-faceted1. Cold War2. McCarthyism (persecution of communists)3. Korean War4. Civil Rights Movement5. Counter-culture Movement – political, economical and military achievementII. Literature in the 1950s1. Regional literature emerged from the south, etc. Many women writers appeared.2. Dramatists wrote about everyday people, e.g. Arthur Miller.3. Minority literature developed quickly.III. Literature in the 1960sThis period is the rising period of post-modern literature. Many forms of post-modern fiction appeared, such as metafiction, surfiction, parafiction, self-reflexive fiction, self-begetting fiction, anti-novel, etc. The literature in this period is considered as “multi-cultural” literature. The same mood in this period is despair, but continuing to search absurdity of modern life; lonely, but searching for the meaning of existence; identity.Section 1 PoetryI. Features1. Some poets found inspiration in the past.2. Poetry became more attuned to political and social issues of the period.3. Poets became more visible in American public life.4. There was no prescribed form for poetry.5. Poets became more political. Themes such as homosexuality, racism, etc. are included in the poems. In 1960s, poetry became more and more political.II. Schools of Poetry (time, representatives, major features)1. Confessional Poets: Robert LowellThe greatness of Lowell lies in the fact that, in talking candidly about himself, he is examining the culture of his nation. The identification of personal experience with that of an age has always ensured greatness and even immortality as it did.2. Black Mountain Poets: Charles OlsonThere is an emphasis on the importance of the moments of awareness. It portrays a world of “awakened, contemplative awareness”, one in which civilization appears alien, cold, and almost unreal.3. Beat Generation: Alien GinsbergIn the fifties, there was a widespread discontentment among the post-war generation, whose voice was one of protest against all the mainstream culture America had come to represent.Section 2 FictionI. General Features1. matter of fact2. frank, amazingly detailed about war experiences3. lacking social consciousnessII. Overview1. Post-war Realism: Cheever, Oates2. Black Novel: Richard Wlight, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Malcolm, Leroi Jones3. Jewish Novel: Saul BellowIII. Post-War Realism1. Features(1) Naturalistic depiction has become explicit: old-fashioned realism is combined with modernism.(2) While following the realistic and naturalistic tradition, these writers borrowed various experimental forms and techniques in probing the inner world in detail.(3) It has been a search for a way to connect an oppressed response to society and history and an awareness of individual loneliness.2. J. D. Salinger(1) Life(2) Point of viewOne of his frequent themes is young people longing for simplicity and truth instead of complexity and hypocrisy of the life they observed around them. In his novels, he questions the moral foundations of society and often places innocent idealist characters in setting where a vicious, corrupt society could destroy them. Although his stories are often pessimistic, the characters represent hope rather than despair. They want to affirm truth. They deplore the lies with which the society conceals its own corruption. They withdraw the society, become drop-outs rather than participants in the society.(3) Catcher in the RyeIV. Black Humour1. definition: to deal with tragic things in comic ways to make it more powerful and more tragic.It refers to the use of morbid and absurd for darkly comic purpose. It carries the tone of anger, bitterness in the grotesque situation of suffering, anxiety, and death. It makes the reader laugh at the blackness of modern life. The writers usually do not laugh at the characters.2. Features(1) Comic way to express tragic situations(2) Creation of anti-hero(3) Illogical narrative structure3. Joseph Heller(1) Life(2) Catch-22It is not only a war novel, but also a novel about people’s life in peaceful time. This novel attacked the dehumanization of all contemporary institutions and corruptions of individuals who gain power in institutions. Armed-forces are the most outrageous example of the t w o e v i l s .。
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美国文学笔记整理完整版1607-1776北美殖民时期Colonial Settlements约翰·史密斯美国文学史上第一个作家John Smith A Ture Relation of Virginia《关于费吉尼亚的真实叙述》（美国文学第一本书）乔纳森·爱德华兹清教徒主义作家（Puritanism）Jonathan Edwards1776-1783独立革命时期Revolution of Independence （启蒙运动）本杰明·富兰克林Poor Richard’s Almana c穷查理历书；Benjamin Franklin The Way to Wealth致富之道；1706-1790 The Autobiography自传(记录作者从穷到成功的经历，“美国梦”反映，体现启蒙倡导的理性主义和有序、教育的观点)托马斯·潘恩美国独立之父the father of American revolutionThomas Paine Common Sense常识（独立战争宣传册revolutionary pamphlets）1737-1809American Crisis美国危机（鼓励人民抵抗英军，共16小册）Rights of Man人的权利（支持法国革命）The Age of Reason理性时代（基督给他名誉带来的影响）菲利普·弗伦诺独立诗人a poet of the American Revolution，美国诗歌之父Philip Freneau The Rising Glory of America蒸蒸日上的美洲1752-1832 The British Prison Ship英国囚船The Wild Honey suckle野生的金银花The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地To the Memory of the Brave Americans纪念美国勇士--同类诗中最佳托马斯·杰斐逊独立宣言Declaration of IndependenceThomas Jefferson18世纪末-19世纪中后浪漫主义时期Romanticism1. 早期浪漫主义华盛顿·欧文美国文学之父father of American Literature(为美国文学第一次赢得世界声誉)Washington Irving 以笔记小说和历史传厅闻名，humor1783-1859 The Sketch Book见闻札记（标志浪漫主义开始）A History of New York纽约史---美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作；----The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说---成为美国第1个获国际声誉作家-----Rip Van Winkle里普·万·温克尔(李伯大梦)The Alhambra阿尔罕伯拉詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀frontier novel边疆传奇小说sea novelJames Fenimore Cooper The Spy间谍（独立战争间谍对抗英国）1789-1851 The Pilot领航者（sea novel）Leatherstocking Tales皮袜子五步曲（frontier novel）The Pioneer拓荒者（the first true romance of the frontier inAmerican literature）The Last of Mohicans最后的莫希干人（主角：Natty Bumppo纳蒂班波）The Prairie大草原The Pathfinder探路者The Deerslayer杀鹿者2. 超验主义New England Transcendentalism拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生Nature论自然-----新英格兰超验主义者的宣言书manifesto Ralf Waldo Emerson The American Scholar论美国学者;1803-1882 Self-reliance论自立The Transcendentalist超验主义者Representative Men代表人物School Address神学院演说Days日子-首开自由诗之先河free verse亨利·大卫·梭罗Walden瓦尔登湖Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers在康科德河和梅里麦克河上的一周1817-1862 Civil Disobedience论公民之不服从纳撒尼尔·霍桑subject: human soul first great American writer of fiction 象征主义大师Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter红字1804-1864 Twice-told Tales尽人皆知的故事Mosses from an Old Manse古屋青苔The House of the Seven Gables有七个尖角阁的房子The Marble Faun玉石雕像The Blithedale Romance福谷传奇Young Goodman Brown年轻的布朗The Birthmark胎记赫尔曼·迈尔维尔擅长航海奇遇和异域风情Herman Melville Moby Dick/The White Whale白鲸（first American prose epic史诗）1819-1891 Typee泰比Omoo奥穆Mardi玛地White Jacket白外衣Pierre皮尔埃; Billy Budd比利·巴德沃尔特·惠特曼Father of free verse自由诗之父Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass草叶集（the birth of truly American poetry and the endof romanticism）(共和圣经Democratic Bible美国史诗American Epic)1819-1892 Song of Myself自我之歌Democratic Vistas民主的前景埃米莉·迪金森她的诗大量破折号dash,主题love, nature, death, immortality; 语言plain, brevity, directEmily Dickinson This is My Letter to the World这是我给世界的一封信1830-1886I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died我死时听到一只苍蝇叫Because I could not Stop for Death因为我不能等待死神I’m Nobody. Who Are You?我是无名小卒。
你是谁？埃德加·爱伦·坡侦探小说之父，首开近代侦探小说先河，又是法国象征主义运动的源头Edgar Allan Poe Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque怪诞奇异故事集;1809-1849 The Murders in the Rue Morgue莫格路上的暗杀The Fall of the House of Usher厄舍古屋的倒塌The Raven乌鸦To Hellen致海伦3. 炉边诗人Fireside Poets威廉·柯伦·布莱恩特Thanatopsis死亡观William Cullen Bryant To a Waterfowl致水鸟1794-1878The Fountain泉Song of Marion’s Men马里恩的人类之歌The Flood of Years似水流年A Forest Hymn森林赋The White-Footed Deer白蹄鹿亨利·沃兹沃思·朗费罗the first poet to write the narrative poemsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow V oices of the Night夜吟1807-1882 A Psalm of Life人生礼赞Evangeline伊凡吉琳The Song of Hiawatha海华沙之歌----美国人写的第一部印第安人史诗;20世纪初至今现代主义时期American Modernism1.二战前诗歌艾兹拉·庞德美国现代诗歌创始人the father of modern American poetry, 意象派诗歌之父Ezra Pound the father of Imagist Peotry1885-1972 Cathay华夏（英译中国诗）In a station of the Metro在地铁站Pisam Cantos比萨诗章The Cantos of Ezra Pound庞德诗章（109首及8首未完成稿）罗伯特·弗罗斯特New Hampshire新罕布什尔The Road Not taken没有选择的道路Robert Frost A Boy’s Wish少年心愿After Apple-picking摘苹果之后1874-1963 North of Boston波士顿之北Mending Wall修墙华莱士·史蒂文斯spokesman for the rationalist humanist traditionWallace Stevens Harmonium风琴1879-1955 The Man With the Blue Guitar弹蓝吉它的人Collected Poems 诗集The Auroras of Autumn秋天的晨曦Sunday Morning礼拜天早晨2.二战前小说弗朗西斯·司各特·菲茨杰拉德The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比F Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and the Damned美丽的和该死的1896-1940 The Side of Paradise人间天堂（his first novel）Tender in the Night夜色温柔(迷惘的一代) Tales of the Jazz爵士时代的故事The Last Tycoon最后的巨头Flappers and Philosophers姑娘们和哲学家们辛克莱·刘易斯美国第一个获诺贝尔奖Sinclair Lewis Babbitt巴比特1885-1951 Main Street大街Arrowsmith艾罗史密斯Elmer Gantry艾尔默·甘特里Dodsworth多兹沃斯欧内斯特·海明威“迷惘的一代”的代表人物Lost generation 1954诺贝尔奖Ernest Hemingway Farewell to Arms永别了，武器1899-1961 The Old Man and the Sea老人与海The Sun Also Rises太阳照样升起For Whom the Bell Tolls丧钟为谁而鸣Death in the Afternoon午后之死In Our Time在我们的年代里;The Torrents of Spring春潮;威廉·福克纳1950诺贝尔奖William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury喧嚣与骚动（lost innocence, stream of consciousness）1897-1962 Absalom,Absolam押沙龙，押沙龙（historical novel）As I lay dying当我弥留之际约翰·斯坦贝克1962诺贝尔奖，美国经济大萧条时期作家John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath愤怒的葡萄1902-1966 Of Mice and Men鼠和人The Pearl珍珠Tortilla Flat煎饼房舍伍德·安德森Winesburg,Ohio俄亥俄州的温斯堡Sherwood Anderson The Triumph of the Egg鸡蛋的胜利1876-1941 Death in the Woods林中之死3.二战前戏剧尤金·奥尼尔1936诺贝尔奖，标志美国民族戏剧的成熟，悲剧Eugene Oneil Beyond the Horizon天边外1888-1953 The Long Days Journey Into Night长夜漫漫路迢迢4.当代作家威廉·卡罗斯·威廉斯William Carlos Williams 诗人1883-1963 Red Wheelbarrow红色手推车杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格Jerome David Salinger 1919- The Catcher in the Rye麦田守者(长篇小说) 杰克·克鲁亚克Jack Kerouac 小说家1922-1969 On the Road在路上阿瑟·米勒Arthur Miller 剧作家1915- The Death of a Salesman推销员之死拉尔夫·埃里森Ralph Ellison 小说家1914-1994 Invisible Man看不见的人（长篇小说）。