美国文学演示教学.ppt

American Literature;“New England Transcendentalism” or “American Renaissance (1836 - 1855)”;The realistic period (1865 - 1914) Midwestern Realism;The period of modernism (1914 - 1945) Modern poetry: experiments in form (Imagism);;The Contemporary Literature (1945 - 2000) American Poetry Since 1945: the Anti-tradition American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation.;Part ONE. Early American and Colonial Period to 1765; The Main Features of this period;Part two. The period of Enlightenment and the Independence War (1765 -1800); Benjamin Franklin1706 - 1790(An Extraordinary Life and An Electric Mind);Poor Richard’s Almanac Maxims（谚语，格言） and axioms（哲理，格言） Lost time is never found again. A penny saved is a penny earned. God help them that help themselves. Fish and visitors stink in three days. Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Ale in, truth out. Eat not to dullness. Drink not to elevation. Diligence is the Mother of Good Luck. One Today is worth two tomorrow. Industry pays debts. Despair encreaseth them.;Autobiography It is perhaps the first real post-revolutionary American writing as well as the first real autobiography in English. It gives us the simple yet immensely fascinating record of a man rising to wealth and fame from a state of poverty and obscurity into which he was born, the faithful account of the colorful career of America’s first self-made man. First of all, it is a puritan document. The most famous section describes his scientific scheme of self-examination and self-improvement. It is also an eloquent elucidation of the fact that Franklin was spokesman for the new order of eighteenth century enlightenment, and that he represented in America all its ideas, that man is basically good and free, by nature endowed by God with certain inalienable rights of liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is the pattern of Puritan simplicity, directness, and concision. The plainness of its style, the homelines