American_ Literature(美国文学).pptVIP

American Literature Periods of Am. Lit. Beginning of American Literature: 1607-1776 Colonial Period 1765-1790 The Revolutionary Age 1775-1828 The Early National Period 2. Romanticism, Transcendentalism 1828-1865 The Romantic Period (Also known as: TheAmerican Renaissance) The Age of Transcendentalism 1865-1900 3. Realism, Naturalism The Realistic Period 1900-1914 The Naturalistic Period (extreme realism) 1914-1939 1920s 1920s, 1930s: American Modernist Period: Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance The Lost Generation 1939-present 1950s 1960s, 1970s The Contemporary Period: The Beat generation American Literature recognizes works of: African-American Writers Native American Writers Asian-American Writers Colonial Period Periods of Am. Literature vary a lot It′s impossible to give exact dates The first literature started to appear after founding of the first settlement at Jamestown in 1607 It continuoud till the outbreak of the Revolution Literary genres: Historical writings Religious themes – sermons (kázání) tracts Writers: Anne Bradstreet (poet) Benjamin Franklin (The Way to Wealth) William Bradford The Revolutionary Age The greatest documents of American history were authored: Thomas Paine (Common Sense – he urged independence) The Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson - 1776) The Constitution (1789 - ratified) The Early National Period Beginnings of true Am. Literature The writers wrote in th English style but the settings, themes and characters were authentically American Washington Irving – he wrote about Am. Life, biography of G. Washington James Fenimore Cooper – The Last of the Mohicans Edgar Allan Poe E.A.Poe (1809-1849) son of a poor actress (drastic death) his father alcoholic He was taken by his guardian Mr. Allan Studied West Point – kicked out Marriage with 13 year-old cousin She died of TB ten years later – despair, grief was reflected in his works 1849 found delirious in a stee