General introduction 美国文学课件.ppt

* * Introduction to American Literature What to learn? General introduction to the history of American literature: basic literary concepts, important literary schools and key writers How to learn? Read the materials assigned Take notes carefully Write literary reviews Participate in discussions Answer questions in class Prepare for quizzes Textbooks and score History and Anthology of American Literature I and II Outline of American Literature 60%: final exam 40%: attendance and performance in class 15%; assignments and notes 15%; quizzes 10% An Overview of American Literature I. The Colonial Period: early 17th century to 18th century II. The Romantic Period: from the first half of the 19th century III. The Age of Realism: started from the Civil War IV. 20th-century literature I. The Colonial Period: early 17th century to 18th century American Puritanism 清教主义 II. The Romantic Period: basically the first half of the 19th century Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper Around the 1840s: “New England Transcendentalism”超验主义 (American Renaissance 文艺复兴) Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau II. The Romantic Period: basically the first half of the 19th century Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe “New England poets” (schoolroom poets) William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow III. The Age of Realism: started from the Civil War Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson Harriet Beecher Stowe Mark Twain Henry James O. Henry Naturalism: from the last decade of the 19th century Stephen Crane IV. 20th-century literature (1) Realism Modernism Postmodernism Realism, Modernism Theodore Dreiser 德莱赛 Jack London Upton Sinclair辛克莱 Sherwood Anderson Sinclair Lewis Willa Cather凯瑟 Edith Wharton华顿 F. Scott Fitzgerald菲茨杰拉德 Ernest Hemingway William Faulkner Realism, Modernism 1930s (Red Decade): Left-oriented writers John Dos Passos多斯·帕索斯, James T. Farrell John Steinbeck斯坦贝克 John Cheever奇弗 J. D. Salinger塞林格 Norman Mailer梅勒 John Updike