美国初期文学史_Yanqing Zhang.pptx

History of American Literature:I. The First Americans;  2. Inventing Americas.  ;I. The First Americans American Literature Before and During the Colonial and Revolutionary Period--- Imagining Eden --- A multicultural environment ;Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) ;Myth of Eden;Perspective of Native Americans ;Common refrains in Native American tales;A multicultural environment;2. Inventing Americas--- The Making of American Literature, 1800–1865;--- The Making of American Literature, 1800–1865;Moving west: Trail of Tears;The Making of American Myths--- Myths of an emerging nation;A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (1809) under the pen name of Diedrich Knickerbocker : --- the book in fact burlesques contemporary historical narratives, satirizes pedantry and literary classics, and offers a comic critique of Jeffersonian democracy;;The Sketch Book contains two small masterpieces that initiated the great tradition of the American short story, “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” --- Both “Rip Van Winkle” and “Sleepy Hollow” have origins in German folklore; ---Both exploit their specifically American settings and create American myths: they explore the social and cultural transformations occurring in America at the time in terms that are at once gently whimsical and perfectly serious.;“Rip Van Winkle”;“Sleepy Hollow”;The making of Western myth;Five Leatherstocking Tales;American pastoral, resituating Eden;Natural wisdom and natural morality;Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849): the founding father of Southern myth;Themes in Poe’s poems;What should a poet be concerned?;;‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ (1839);The Making of American Selves--- The Transcendentalists;Influences of other philosophers ;Journal to record his daily expriences;What is the universe?;What’s the nature of life?;Citations;Contributions of Emerson ;Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862);Voices of African-American identi