殖民时期文学英美文学概况.ppt

Colonial American(Early 17th Century – The End of 18the Century) American Puritans: the founding fathers Self-asserted God-chosen people with a strong sense of mission to build the wilderness into a new Garden of Eden according to their own ideal as Not tolerant to dissenters: Strictness and austerity in conduct and religion Calvinists Practical idealists The shaping influence of Puritanism upon American Literature American literature: The expression of the American Puritan bequest For the establishment of the Garden of Eden (practice of the God-endowed mission) with the indomitable courage and confident hope, fired with a sense of mission and the spirit of optimism The inevitable outcome---the mood of frustration and despair---in the wake of the initial optimism and idealism Symbolism as part of American intellectual tradition: a metaphorical mode of perception Simplicity in writing technique Make me, O Lord, thy Spinning Wheele compleat; ?????Thy Holy Worde my Distaff make for mee. Make mine Affections thy Swift Flyers neate, ?????And make my Soule thy holy Spoole to bee. ?????My Conversation make to be thy Reele, ?????And reele the yarn thereon spun of thy Wheele. The literary scene in Colonial America Colonial Authors: John Smith William Bradford John Winthrop Anne Bradstreet Edward Taylor Roger Williams Thomas Paine John Woolman Philip Freneau Charles Brown Philip Morin Freneau (January 2, 1752 – December 18, 1832) was a notable American poet, nationalist, sometimes called the Poet of the American Revolution. * * Chinese Confucianism American Puritanism The beliefs and practices characteristic of Puritans (most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects) The founding fathers of America A group of religious people with a particular state of mind: John Calvin (1509 – 27) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. Puritans believed that human beings were predest