1、i. The Colonial Period1. 关键词: America Puritanism2. Calvinism 特点: total depravity, Unconditional election, Limited atonement, Irresistible grace, Perseverance of the saints3. Anne Bradstreet( P17 ): a Puritan poet be known as “The Muse”4. Thomas Paine: one of continual, unswerving fight for the right
2、s of man.works: “Common Sense” “American Crisis” “The Rights of Man” “The Age of Reason”理性时代5. Phillip Freneau(P22): 美国文学史上的重要人物dawning nationalism 代表人物Poems: The Wild Honeysuckle 野生的金银花first modern American Petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound2. T. S. EliotPoems The Waste Land (1922)-spiritual
3、crisis of postwar Europe, like a manifesto of the “Lost generation”The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock (1917)- a poem with a notable modern emotional color，意识流，现代主义情感色彩3. Wallace StevensBasic theme: interrelationship between reality and art, power of imaginationWorks: “Anecdote of the Jar”古坛轶事4. Will
4、iam Carlos WilliamsWorks: Famous poem: Paterson 帕特森(194658). Subject: everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people. Writing style: unusual meters and styles, easy and enjoyable to read 5. Carl Sandburg-One of The greatest poets in the “Chicago Renaissance” -Chicago Poems6. Robert Fr
5、ostSubject: the people and landscape of New England. (Misconception of him as a lyric poet or as an authentic painter of local landscape)Theme: (universal and abstract) the complexity of human existence Works: poem collection：A Boys Will (1913), North of Boston(1914)New Hamphshire(1923), Collected P
6、oems(1930),A Further Range(1936), A Witness Tree(1942)Some famous poems: “After Apple Picking”“Mending Wall”“Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening”“The Road not Taken”“Design”“The Wood-Pile”Writing style: -form to retain traditional forms of poetry-themedeceptively simple (trivial subjects)-languagel
7、ucid, easy, fluent7. William Faulkner: one of the twentieth centurys greatest writers -one of the southern writers (fictional Yoknapatawpha County)-the Nobel Prize-winning novelist(1949)-a famous short story writerWorks: 19 novels, 3volumes of short stories poem collection: The Marble Faun, 1924) No
8、vel: The Sound and the Fury, 1929 喧哗与躁动As I Lay Dying, 1930Light in August, 1932 Absalom, Absalom!, 1936Go Down, Moses, 1942 short story: “A Rose For Emily”Theme: general human situationWriting style: difficult and experimental Vivid characterization( character with great independence) Multiple narr
9、ators Story-novel (emphasis on narrative) Modern stream of consciousness (fragmentary and obscure) A variety of English8. F. Scott Fitzgeraldwork: The Great Gatsby(1925)Themes: The decline 衰落 of American Dream in the 1920sThe Hollowness 空虚 of the upper classSymbols: The green light 9. Ernest Hemingw
10、ayNick Adams, a Hemingway hero, first appears in the novel In Our Time (1925)The Sun Also Rises (1926)Jake BarnesA Farewell to Arms (1929)Frederick Henry & Catherine BarkleyDeath in the Afternoon (1932 )Green Hills of Africa (1935)For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)The Old Man and the Sea (1952)Manolin &
11、 Santiagoviii. American drama1. Eugene ONeil(1888 1953) father of American dramaWorks:first published play, Beyond the Horizon (1920) on Broadway The Iceman Cometh (1946)Long Days Journey into Night (1956)：an autobiographical play and released after ONeills death.2. John Steinbeckthe Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962Famous for The Grapes of Wrath (1939), a novel widely considered to be a 20th-century classic.
