the introduction to american literature 美国文学课件.ppt

* The Introduction to American Literature American literature is the written or literary works produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies. During its early history, America was a series of British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States. Therefore, its literary tradition begins as linked to the broader tradition of English literature. However, unique American characteristics and the breadth of its production usually now cause it to be considered a separate path and tradition. Temporal Comparison Between British and American Literatures Brief Review of British Literature: 1 Before Shakespeare (Beowulf Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales) 2 The Renaissance (16th c: Shakespeare Francis Bacon) 3 The 17th century (The English Revolution the Restoration: John Milton) 4 The Enlightenment Classicism (18th c: Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and William Blake) 5 The Romantic Period (1798-1832: William Wordsworth John Keats ) 6 Critical Realism (The Victorian Age 1832-1868: Charles Dickens Robert Browning) 7 20th century literature (Thomas Hardy Virginia Woolf) 2. The Very Brief Outline of American Literature 1. Colonial period (1607-1783)2. Romanticism (1783-1861)3. Realism (1861-1914) 4. Modernism (1914-1945) 5. Contemporary Literature (1945-now) 3. Conclusion: Although derived mainly from British literary academy, American literature has gradually formed its own characteristic style. It’s because her uniqueness that American literary thumbs has gained such an achievement that from 1930, starting with Sinclair Lewis, there has been eleven authors who have been awarded with Nobel Literary Prize. Name list of American Nobel literary Prize Winners Sinclair Lewis (1930) Eugene O’Neil (1936) Pearl S. Buck (1938) T.S. Eliot (1948) William Faulkner (1949) Ernest Hemingway (1954) John Steinbeck (1962) Saul Bellow (1976) Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) Cz