美国文学史复习大纲.doc

一：作家作品1.Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio(小镇畸人，1919) The Triumph of the Egg(鸡蛋的胜利，1921)2.John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath(愤怒的葡萄，1939，strong sociological novel,1940年获普利策奖（Pulitzer Prize)),1962年获诺贝尔文学奖3.John Dos Passos: U.S.A(美利坚)---The 42nd Parallel(北纬42度，1930), 1919(1932), The Big Money(1936),Experimental writing skills(实验性写作技巧)4.F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise(1920), Tales of the Jazz Age(爵士时代的故事,1922,注意与马克吐温的镀金时代比较), The Grate Gatsby(1925)5.Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms(1929,救护车司机和一个英国护士之间的悲剧爱情), The Sun Also Rises(1926,反法西斯小说，歌颂兄弟般的友谊), For Whom the Bell Tolls(1940), The Old Man and the Sea(1952),硬汉形象(tough guy image),冰山原则风格(the iceberg principle),生活态度：压力下的风度，失败者的尊严6.William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury(喧哗与骚动,1929),Absalom, Absalom(押沙龙，押沙龙),1950年获诺贝尔文学奖(Nobel Prize in Literature)，意识流(stream of consciousness)、世系小说(Yoknapatawpha)7.Katherine Anne Porter: Ship of Fools(愚人船,1962，讽刺纳粹主义Nazism兴起)8.Carson McCullers: The Member of the Wedding(1946--1950),人类精神的孤寂9.Eudora Welty: The Optimist’s Daughter(1972,Pulitzer Prize)10.A Good is Hard to Find(1955),南方哥特式风格11.Ezra Pound: The Cantos(1925),美国现代诗歌之父12.Robert Frost: New Hampshire(1923)对人类悲剧的恐惧，对复杂人生的态度，对生活负担的坦然13.Langston Hughes: 哈林文艺复兴运动(Harlem Renaissance)中的重要作家和思想家，颂扬黑人生活14.Richard Wright: The Outsider(1953), Native son(1940), Black Boy(1945)15.Eugene O’Neil: Beyond the Horizon(1920),表现主义，美国的莎翁(Shakespeare)16.Joseph Heller: Catch-22(1961)17.Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five(1969)18.Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon(1977),The Bluest Eye(1970)19.Alice Walker: The Color Purple(1982,普利策奖),女权主义20.Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club(1989)21.Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman(1949) 二：术语1.The Beat Generation(垮掉的一代): The Beat Generation applied to certain American artists and writers who were popular during the 1950s. Essentially anarchic, members of the beat generation rejected traditional social and artistic forms. The beats sought immediate expression in multiple, intense experiences and be