《AmericanRealism》教学课件.ppt

American Realism 1865 --- 1918 * * American Revolution Civil War WWI Early and Colonial American Literature Age of Romanticism Age of Realism Benjamin Franklin Emerson, Thoreau Longfellow, Allan Poe, Whitman, Dickinson Hawthorne, Melville, Allan Poe Historical Background rapid growth in industrialism and urbanization the Second Industrial Revolution b. expanding population due to immigration 37 million c. The First World War(1914 --- 1918) United States declared the entry in the war in the year 1917. Realism is nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material. --- William Dean Howells Age of Realism Features Subject matter: our experience, the experience of common, the average people; the relations between people and society. Characters: ordinary people, who are described is depth. Point of view: from omniscient point of view to limited point of view Technique: from Symbolism to Imagism; pays much attention to psychological description Representatives Local colorist Mark Twain Henry James a. international theme b. psychological description (stream of consciousness) c. point of view of the limited omniscient author. Writer of Naturalism Stephen Crane Mark Twain (1835 --- 1910) Life Childhood: Hannibal, Missouri, a port town on the Mississippi River Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri Name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens He got his pen name from the experience on Mississippi river as the riverboat pilot. He adopted this name from the call Mark twain!’ meaning by the mark of two fathoms (a measurement of 6 feet, used to refer to the depth of the water) to show the depth of the river. Experience Traveling to different places (U.S.A; Europe) Trying different jobs: Printer, steamboat pilot, miner, journalist While he tried different life experiences, he started to produce literary works. Marriage Olivia Langdon, a girl from a wealthy family in New York, gave birth to three daughters. a 19-room house in Hartford, Co