美国文学史及作品选读PPT1
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美国文学史PPT课件
2. 19th_century American Literature 1) Romanticism; 2)Realism; 3)Naturalism 3. American Literature of the 20th century and the
present 1)modernism; 2)postmodernism
— John Updike: “Bitter Bamboo”
What is the implication of Updike’s comment ? Do you agderstanding about American literature and culture at present?
B) Simple, fresh, direct, plain, a touch of nobility
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Periodization of American Literature Key Themes in American Literature
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Periodization of American Literature
A General Introduction to American Literature
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Discussions
China, experts agree, is the nation of the future […] The commercial and intellectual success its emigrants have enjoyed in nations from Malaysia to the United States all augur (预示) impending global dominance. In literature, however, the Chinese mainland, as far as Western ears go, is pretty quiet. […] Bookstores, the Times reports, are bustling, but nearly half the purchases consist of textbooks and half the translations are of American books.
present 1)modernism; 2)postmodernism
— John Updike: “Bitter Bamboo”
What is the implication of Updike’s comment ? Do you agderstanding about American literature and culture at present?
B) Simple, fresh, direct, plain, a touch of nobility
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Periodization of American Literature Key Themes in American Literature
8
Periodization of American Literature
A General Introduction to American Literature
1
Discussions
China, experts agree, is the nation of the future […] The commercial and intellectual success its emigrants have enjoyed in nations from Malaysia to the United States all augur (预示) impending global dominance. In literature, however, the Chinese mainland, as far as Western ears go, is pretty quiet. […] Bookstores, the Times reports, are bustling, but nearly half the purchases consist of textbooks and half the translations are of American books.
美国文学史及作品选读(级)PPT
● When he was born, his family declined. He was aware of his ancestors’ misdeeds and thus “blackness of Hawthorne” formed. He thought that the reason of his family’s decline is his ancestors’ misdeeds. And he didn’t agree with the optimism held by Transcendentalists towards human nature. He wrote lots of works on everlasting evil side in human nature.
● Like Emerson, Hawthorne thinks that man’s eyes should pierce the veil of surfaces to discover the human nature.
● For Hawthorne, as for Emerson, external reality, nature, objects, tangible forms are merely symbols of a deeper, more inward, ultimately spiritual reality, and Hawthorne’s language, like Emerson’s, is an attempt to extract the secret meaning from reality.
● He graduated from Bowdoin College. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Mr. Pierce, the 14th American president were his classmates.
American literaturePPT课件
2. Exclusion of the literature of women and colored people (American Indians, AfricanAmericans, Asian Americans, etc)
Nationalistic Orientation (2)
3. “Good” literature: embodiment of American national spirit – e.g. F. O. Matthiessen in American Renaissance (1941) enshrines five writers for their devotion to “democracy”, dismissing Mrs. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) as second rate popular writing only. cf. The Scarlet Letter (1850) Moby Dick (1851) Walden (1854) Leaves of Grass (1855) Americanness vs Excellence
Indians? • Literature most representing American
national spirit by American citizens? • – women’s domestic / private literature? • Literature created by American citizens
Hawthorne: cultural production
1. Evert Duyckinck, who managed the magazine United States Magazine and Democratic Review , advocate of American literary nationalism, proponent of high culture
Nationalistic Orientation (2)
3. “Good” literature: embodiment of American national spirit – e.g. F. O. Matthiessen in American Renaissance (1941) enshrines five writers for their devotion to “democracy”, dismissing Mrs. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) as second rate popular writing only. cf. The Scarlet Letter (1850) Moby Dick (1851) Walden (1854) Leaves of Grass (1855) Americanness vs Excellence
Indians? • Literature most representing American
national spirit by American citizens? • – women’s domestic / private literature? • Literature created by American citizens
Hawthorne: cultural production
1. Evert Duyckinck, who managed the magazine United States Magazine and Democratic Review , advocate of American literary nationalism, proponent of high culture
英美文学选读课件PPT课件
总结词
培养人文素养
详细描述
通过对英美文学作品的主题和思想内涵的分析，可以培养 我们的人文素养，提高对文学、文化和社会的认识和理解 。
探讨作品的艺术手法和语言特色
总结词
欣赏文学技巧
详细描述
艺术手法和语言特色是文学作品的重要组成部分，通过 探讨作品的艺术手法和语言特色，可以更好地欣赏文学 的技巧和魅力。
总结词
增强审美能力
详细描述
通过对作品艺术手法和语言特色的探讨，可以增强我们 的审美能力，提高对文学作品的鉴赏水平。
总结词
学习语言表达
详细描述
英美文学作品的语言表达富有特色，通过学习作品的艺 术手法和语言特色，可以学习到地道的语言表达方式， 提高英语语言表达能力。
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英美文学作品在当代的影响和价值
对当代文学的影响
英美文学选读课件ppt课 件
• 英美文学概述 • 英美文学作品选读 • 英美文学作品的赏析方法 • 英美文学作品在当代的影响和价值 • 总结与思考
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英美文学概述
英美文学的发展历程
早期文学
当代文学
从盎格鲁-撒克逊时期到文艺复兴时期， 英美文学逐渐形成和发展，涌现出许 多杰出的作家和作品。
从20世纪末至今，英美文学呈现出多 元化的发展趋势，涵盖了各种文学流 派和风格，如后现代主义、魔幻现实 主义等。
通过阅读英美文学作品，人们可以拓展视野、丰富内心世界，增强自我认知和自我成长的能力。同时 ，文学作品中所蕴含的人生哲理和智慧，也能为人们在生活中提供指导和启示。
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总结与思考
对英美文学的总体评价和思考
英美文学在世界文学中的 地位
英美文学作为世界文学的重要组成部分，具 有深远的影响力和独特的魅力。通过学习和 研究英美文学，可以深入了解西方文化、历 史和社会背景，拓宽视野，提高跨文化交流 的能力。
培养人文素养
详细描述
通过对英美文学作品的主题和思想内涵的分析，可以培养 我们的人文素养，提高对文学、文化和社会的认识和理解 。
探讨作品的艺术手法和语言特色
总结词
欣赏文学技巧
详细描述
艺术手法和语言特色是文学作品的重要组成部分，通过 探讨作品的艺术手法和语言特色，可以更好地欣赏文学 的技巧和魅力。
总结词
增强审美能力
详细描述
通过对作品艺术手法和语言特色的探讨，可以增强我们 的审美能力，提高对文学作品的鉴赏水平。
总结词
学习语言表达
详细描述
英美文学作品的语言表达富有特色，通过学习作品的艺 术手法和语言特色，可以学习到地道的语言表达方式， 提高英语语言表达能力。
04
英美文学作品在当代的影响和价值
对当代文学的影响
英美文学选读课件ppt课 件
• 英美文学概述 • 英美文学作品选读 • 英美文学作品的赏析方法 • 英美文学作品在当代的影响和价值 • 总结与思考
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英美文学概述
英美文学的发展历程
早期文学
当代文学
从盎格鲁-撒克逊时期到文艺复兴时期， 英美文学逐渐形成和发展，涌现出许 多杰出的作家和作品。
从20世纪末至今，英美文学呈现出多 元化的发展趋势，涵盖了各种文学流 派和风格，如后现代主义、魔幻现实 主义等。
通过阅读英美文学作品，人们可以拓展视野、丰富内心世界，增强自我认知和自我成长的能力。同时 ，文学作品中所蕴含的人生哲理和智慧，也能为人们在生活中提供指导和启示。
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总结与思考
对英美文学的总体评价和思考
英美文学在世界文学中的 地位
英美文学作为世界文学的重要组成部分，具 有深远的影响力和独特的魅力。通过学习和 研究英美文学，可以深入了解西方文化、历 史和社会背景，拓宽视野，提高跨文化交流 的能力。
外研社美国文学史及选读(第三版)(第一册)教学课件Chapter 26 Sherwood Ander
born in Camden, Ohio His works pay much attention to the psychological and emotional aspect of American small-town life, with emphasis on lower-class people. His works reveal the important transnational period in the American history, that is, from a rural to a predominantly industrial society. Anderson received little formal education.
Content
Chapter 21 Henry James Chapter 22 Kate Chopin Chapter 23 O. Henry Chapter 24 Theodore Dreiser Chapter 25 Jack London Chapter 26 Sherwood Anderson
Wing Biddlebaum, forever frightened and beset by a ghostly band of doubts, did not think of himself as in any way a part of the life of the town where he had lived for twenty years. Among all the people of Winesburg but one had come close to him. With George Willard, son of Tom Willard, the proprietor of the new Willard House, he had formed something like a friendship. George Willard was the reporter on the Winesburg Eagle and sometimes in the evenings he
Content
Chapter 21 Henry James Chapter 22 Kate Chopin Chapter 23 O. Henry Chapter 24 Theodore Dreiser Chapter 25 Jack London Chapter 26 Sherwood Anderson
Wing Biddlebaum, forever frightened and beset by a ghostly band of doubts, did not think of himself as in any way a part of the life of the town where he had lived for twenty years. Among all the people of Winesburg but one had come close to him. With George Willard, son of Tom Willard, the proprietor of the new Willard House, he had formed something like a friendship. George Willard was the reporter on the Winesburg Eagle and sometimes in the evenings he
20世纪美国文学史ppt课件
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Jazz Age
After WWI, people found that the war which
cost millions of lives failed to provide an abiding
solutions to the world’s problems, that the war
to Arms, 1929, William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury, 1929,
Drama: Eurgene O’Neill, The Emperor Jones, 1920, Anna
Christie, 1921, The Hairy Ape 1922,
Part V. Twentieth-Century Literature
1920s, Jazz Age.
I. Historical Background: WWI, peace-making period/boom time.
Politically, US entered WWI in 1917 for purity and democracy. The period of peace-making ended with general disillusionment about the value of war: only a sense of the failure of political leaders and a belief in the futility of hope. No abiding solutions to the world’s problems was found. And the resurgence of nationalism and the rise of new totalitarianism produce a second world war.
美国文学 PPT课件
➢ Chapter II Revolutionary Period
Benjamin Franklin Philip Freneau
➢ Chapter III American Romanticism
Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper William Cullen Bryant Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brief Outline of American literature
1. Colonial period (1607-1775)
Anne Bradstreet Edward Taylor
2. Revolutionary period
(1775-1783) Benjamin Franklin Philip Freneau
The early settlers
❖ Christopher Columbus discovered the American continent in 1492.
❖ Captain John Smith reached Jamestown, Virginia in 1607.
❖ Puritans came the New England area, by Mayflower in 1620.
❖ Literature is characterized by beauty of expression and form and by universality of intellectual and emotional appeal.
2. Forms (genres) of literature? Poetry, novel (fiction), drama, prose, essay, epic, elegy, short story, journalism, ts, novelette, etc.
Benjamin Franklin Philip Freneau
➢ Chapter III American Romanticism
Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper William Cullen Bryant Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brief Outline of American literature
1. Colonial period (1607-1775)
Anne Bradstreet Edward Taylor
2. Revolutionary period
(1775-1783) Benjamin Franklin Philip Freneau
The early settlers
❖ Christopher Columbus discovered the American continent in 1492.
❖ Captain John Smith reached Jamestown, Virginia in 1607.
❖ Puritans came the New England area, by Mayflower in 1620.
❖ Literature is characterized by beauty of expression and form and by universality of intellectual and emotional appeal.
2. Forms (genres) of literature? Poetry, novel (fiction), drama, prose, essay, epic, elegy, short story, journalism, ts, novelette, etc.
美国文学史总结PPT课件
人之福，也是众人之父“a common blessing and father to them all”
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John Winthrop
John Winthrop:《新英格兰历史》“The History of New England”. 1630年登上“阿贝亚”（Arbella）to Massachusetts并开始写日记keep a journal
其还是美国第一位主要作家the first major writer非凡表达能力，简洁明了，有点幽默，还是一位讽 刺天才as an author he had power of expression, simplicity, a subtle humor. He was also sarcastic.
美国早期文学主要为the narratives and journals of these settlements采用in diaries and in journals(日记和日志)，他们写关于the land with dense forests and deep-blue lakes and rich soil.
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Edward Taylor
清教徒诗人中最杰出的一位the best of the Puritan poets 他的作品遵循了十七世纪中期一些杰出诗人风格和形式his work followed they
style and forms of the leading English poets of the mid-seventeenth century。 他大部分作品关于宗教的，大部分诗歌直接以赞美诗为基础进行创作的most of
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John Winthrop
John Winthrop:《新英格兰历史》“The History of New England”. 1630年登上“阿贝亚”（Arbella）to Massachusetts并开始写日记keep a journal
其还是美国第一位主要作家the first major writer非凡表达能力，简洁明了，有点幽默，还是一位讽 刺天才as an author he had power of expression, simplicity, a subtle humor. He was also sarcastic.
美国早期文学主要为the narratives and journals of these settlements采用in diaries and in journals(日记和日志)，他们写关于the land with dense forests and deep-blue lakes and rich soil.
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Edward Taylor
清教徒诗人中最杰出的一位the best of the Puritan poets 他的作品遵循了十七世纪中期一些杰出诗人风格和形式his work followed they
style and forms of the leading English poets of the mid-seventeenth century。 他大部分作品关于宗教的，大部分诗歌直接以赞美诗为基础进行创作的most of
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Lecture 1 The Literature of the Colonial America and of Reason and Revolution
Teaching Objectives and Requirements
1 Make the students know clear about American Puritanism and its influence on American Literature.
◆ Life style of Puritans: pious austere of taste diligent thrift rigid sense of morality self-reliant
American Puritanism: the practices and beliefs of the American Puritans ◆ American Puritans were originally members of a division of the Protestant Church, who came into existence in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. ◆ They were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and moral principles. They wanted to purify their religious beliefs and practices. They came to America out of various reasons.
◆ They were idealists, believing the church should be restored to complete “purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden on earth. They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin, total depravity, and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace from God. But in the grim struggle for survival after their arrival in America, they became more and more practical. ◆ American Puritans’ lives were extremely disciplined and hard. They drove out of their settlements all those opinions that seemed dangerous to them.
1.2 Puritan Thought
Puritanism: the practices and beliefs of the Puritans ◆ Puritans: Calvinists. ◆ Puritans wanted to “purify the church” to its original state. ◆ To be a Puritan: religion—the most important thing; living for glorifying God; believing predestination, original sin, total depravity, limited atonement
2 Help the students to know about the main literary form, content and theme in Colonial America and the representative writers of this period. 3 Help the students know about the American history of Independence War and the representatives in the period of Reason and Revolution, especially their influence on American Literature. 4 Make the students have a good understanding of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin. 5 Make sure the students understand clearly about Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and its influence on the latter Americans.
>> back
2 Literature of Reason and Revolution (1765-End of 18th C)
2.1 Historical Background
2.2 Representatives in the period of Reason and Revolution
● Enlightenment (启蒙运动): ◆ Originated in Europe in the 17th century (1680) ◆ Resources: Newton’s theory; deism（P28）; French philosophy (Rousseau, Voltaire) ◆ Basic principles: stressing education; stressing Reason (Order); employing Reason to reconsider the traditions and social realities; concerns for civil rights, such as equality and social justice
◆ Edward Taylor: the best of the puritan poets; a meditative poet; most of his work treated religious themes, with poems based directly on the Psalms ◆ Roger Williams: one of the greatest Puritan dissenters; begins with the history of religious toleration in America, and the history of the separation of church and state.
Influence of American Puritanism on literature ◆ Basis of American literature: the dream of building an Eden of Garden on earth
◆ Being instrumental in calling into being a literary symbolism (meaning using symbols in literary works. The symbol means something representing or standing for abstract deep meaning.): lots of American writers liked to employ symbolism in their works
1 Literature of the Colonial America (1607-1765)
2 Literature of Reason and Revolution (1765-End of 18th C)
1.1 Historical Background
In 1492, Christopher Columbus found the new continent called America. Spanish (the first town on the new continent) Dutch (New York city) French (French: lots of people’s mother tongue in North America); English (first settled in Jamestown of Virginia in 1607) In1620, the famous “May Flower” shipped 102 Puritans to Plymouth.
◆ Anne Bradstreet: first American woman
poet; a Puritan poet; once called “Tenth Muse”; her first collection of poems, “The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America” was the first book written by a woman to be published in the United States; her poems mainly about religious experience, family life and early settlers’ lives; her work also serves as a document of the struggles of a Puritan wife against the hardships of New England colonial life, and in some way is a testament to plight of the women of the age; her most famous poems—“Contemplations” (P17)
Teaching Objectives and Requirements
1 Make the students know clear about American Puritanism and its influence on American Literature.
◆ Life style of Puritans: pious austere of taste diligent thrift rigid sense of morality self-reliant
American Puritanism: the practices and beliefs of the American Puritans ◆ American Puritans were originally members of a division of the Protestant Church, who came into existence in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. ◆ They were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and moral principles. They wanted to purify their religious beliefs and practices. They came to America out of various reasons.
◆ They were idealists, believing the church should be restored to complete “purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden on earth. They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin, total depravity, and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace from God. But in the grim struggle for survival after their arrival in America, they became more and more practical. ◆ American Puritans’ lives were extremely disciplined and hard. They drove out of their settlements all those opinions that seemed dangerous to them.
1.2 Puritan Thought
Puritanism: the practices and beliefs of the Puritans ◆ Puritans: Calvinists. ◆ Puritans wanted to “purify the church” to its original state. ◆ To be a Puritan: religion—the most important thing; living for glorifying God; believing predestination, original sin, total depravity, limited atonement
2 Help the students to know about the main literary form, content and theme in Colonial America and the representative writers of this period. 3 Help the students know about the American history of Independence War and the representatives in the period of Reason and Revolution, especially their influence on American Literature. 4 Make the students have a good understanding of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin. 5 Make sure the students understand clearly about Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and its influence on the latter Americans.
>> back
2 Literature of Reason and Revolution (1765-End of 18th C)
2.1 Historical Background
2.2 Representatives in the period of Reason and Revolution
● Enlightenment (启蒙运动): ◆ Originated in Europe in the 17th century (1680) ◆ Resources: Newton’s theory; deism（P28）; French philosophy (Rousseau, Voltaire) ◆ Basic principles: stressing education; stressing Reason (Order); employing Reason to reconsider the traditions and social realities; concerns for civil rights, such as equality and social justice
◆ Edward Taylor: the best of the puritan poets; a meditative poet; most of his work treated religious themes, with poems based directly on the Psalms ◆ Roger Williams: one of the greatest Puritan dissenters; begins with the history of religious toleration in America, and the history of the separation of church and state.
Influence of American Puritanism on literature ◆ Basis of American literature: the dream of building an Eden of Garden on earth
◆ Being instrumental in calling into being a literary symbolism (meaning using symbols in literary works. The symbol means something representing or standing for abstract deep meaning.): lots of American writers liked to employ symbolism in their works
1 Literature of the Colonial America (1607-1765)
2 Literature of Reason and Revolution (1765-End of 18th C)
1.1 Historical Background
In 1492, Christopher Columbus found the new continent called America. Spanish (the first town on the new continent) Dutch (New York city) French (French: lots of people’s mother tongue in North America); English (first settled in Jamestown of Virginia in 1607) In1620, the famous “May Flower” shipped 102 Puritans to Plymouth.
◆ Anne Bradstreet: first American woman
poet; a Puritan poet; once called “Tenth Muse”; her first collection of poems, “The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America” was the first book written by a woman to be published in the United States; her poems mainly about religious experience, family life and early settlers’ lives; her work also serves as a document of the struggles of a Puritan wife against the hardships of New England colonial life, and in some way is a testament to plight of the women of the age; her most famous poems—“Contemplations” (P17)