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美国文学史及选读 Happy New Semester 成绩构成 平时成绩(10%): 课堂表现、出勤情况和平时作业 期中考试(30%) 期末考试(60%) 考试题型 A.给出作家写作品，或给出作品写作家 Anne Bradstreet---Meditations B. 给出诗歌或作品选读，要求写出哪个作家 的哪个作品以及风格、主题，并做出评论(选择或填空) C. 文学术语 D. 评析诗歌 E. 回答essay question Who is the first American writer? Captain John Smith Captain John Smith A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened inVirginia Since the First Planting of That Colony自殖民地第一次在弗吉 尼亚垦荒以来发生的各种事件的真实介绍(1608) A Map of Virginia : with a Description of the Colony弗吉 尼亚地图，附一个乡村的描述 (1612) General History of Virginia弗吉尼亚通史(1624) Early New England Literature New England had from the beginning a literature of ideas: theological, moral, historical, political. Over the years the Puritans built a way of life that was in harmony with their somber religion, one that stressed hard work, thrift, piety, and sobriety. These were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writings, including the sermons, books, and letters of such noted Puritan clergymen as John Cotton and Cotton Mather. The American poets who emerged in the seventeenth century adapted the style of established European poets to the subject matter confronted in a strange, new enviornment. Anne Bradstreet was one such poet. John Winthrop William Bradford and John Winthrop William Bradford(1590-1657): History of Plymouth Plantation普利茅斯开发历史(1856) is an account of the small group of Puritans who migrated from England to Amesterdam and then to the New World. The New England colonies mourned him, in words later by Cotton Mather, as “a common blessing and father to them all”. Who is the father of American history? John Winthrop(1588-1649): The History of New England新英格兰历史(1825,1826) Both accounts were written, not from literary ambition, but from a sense of the need to record important events in permanent form. Cotton Mather(1663-1728) Diary(1911,1912), an account of his pain of losing two wives and thirteen children, an