Romanticism 2美国现实主义课件.pptVIP

2. James Fenimore Cooper  詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀 (1789-1851) ;1) Works. The Spy 1821 《间谍》 The Pilot 1823 《水手》 Leatherstocking Tales 《皮袜子故事集》; Leatherstocking Tales The Pioneers 1823 《拓荒者》 ………………… …………..4 The Last of the Mohicans 1826 《最后的莫希干人》…….2 The Prairie 1827 《大草原》 ……………………………….5 The Pathfinder 1840 《探路人》 …………………………..3 The Deerslayer 1841 《杀鹿者》……………....................1;2) Life;He went and spent five years at sea; then, while still in his early twenties, he inherited his father’s vast fortune and settled down to a life of comfort and even luxury. His second book, The Spy, a novel about the American Revolution, proved to be an immense success. ;3). His Skills He is good at making plots. All his novels are full of myths. He had never been to the frontier and among the Indians and yet could write five huge epic books about them is an eloquent proof of the richness of his imagination. He created the first Indians to appear in American fiction and probably the first group of noble savages. He hit upon the native subject of frontier and wilderness, and helped to introduce the “Western” tradition into American literature. ;4）Evaluation;The Last of Mohicans; (3) Natty Bumppo represents the ideal American, living a virtuous and free life in God’s world. To him and to Cooper, the wildness is good, pure, perfect, where there is freedom not tainted and fettered by any forms of human institutions. Natty Bumppo is a veritable embodiment of human virtues like innocence, simplicity, honesty and generosity, a man born with an immaculate ?[i’m?kjulit] sense of good and evil and right and wrong. （纳蒂·班波） ;Homework:;3. William Cullen Bryant 威廉·柯伦·布莱恩特 (1794-1878);1) Works;(3) The White-Footed Deer 1844 (4) A Forest Hymn 1860 (5) The Flood of Years 1878;(6) To a Waterfowl 1815 (7)Thanatopsis ?[θ?n?t?psis] 1817 (8) The Yellow Violet 1814;2）Life;Bryant quitted his study in university and then became a lawyer. In 1825, he turne