(英美国家概况课件）Unit 19 Literature Men of Letters.ppt

Movements and Schools The School of Imagism Modernism Imagism Objectivism The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the Negro Renaissance and the New Negro Movement (Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman, and Zora Neale Hurston) Main writers William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway? Robert Frost Eugene O’Neill 2. Postwar Literature, 1945–1970 Dominant Genres and Literary Forms Postmodernism The Beat movement Main Writers Allen Ginsberg William S. Burroughs Arthur Miller Tennessee Williams 3. Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present postconfessional, postfeminist, postracial, postcolonial, poststructural, Postmodernist, and even post-Postmodernist . 3. Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present The novel continues to be popular, with writers such as John Barth, Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Roth, and John Updike, who were working in previous decades, still making important contributions after 1970. The short story has enjoyed a resurgence in this period. American poetry in this period is produced by a more diverse group of poets in terms of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality than in earlier times. Drama since 1970 has benefited from the birth of Off Broadway in the 1950s and Off Off Broadway and the expansion of regional theaters in the 1960s. The United States of America University of International Business and Economics Press The United States of America Unit 19 Literature Men of Letters The United States of America Think about these questions before we start: 1. What about the poetry writing in the early American literature? 2. What are the forms of American Gothic? 3. Why did the development of the self become a major theme for Romantic writers? Warming-up Activities Contents 19th Century Since 20th Century Before 19th Century Ⅰ Ⅱ Ⅲ Colonial Literature, 1607–1776 Dominant Genres and Literary Forms With the exception of the novel, colonial America produced litera