广东技术师范学院美国文学课件Unit1 Brief Survey of American__ Literature.ppt

美国文学选读 主讲：广东技术师范学院外语系 陆道夫教授 美国文学分期 五个时期 获得诺贝尔的九位作家 Period of Independent war Romantic Period Realism period Modernism period ( modern literature start with poet ) Contemporary period pay attention to representatives and masterpieces in each period the important literary terms of each period War of independent period Benjamin Franklin ﹙the first person to pick out American dream and the 1st writer to write autobiography ﹚:Autobiography Thomas Paine :Common sense Thomas Jefferson :Declaration of Independence Period of Romanticism Washington Irving ( Father of American literature) :The Sketch Book James Fenimore Cooper :The Leather-stocking Tales Ralph Waldo Emerson (the founder of transcendentalism): Nature, Self Reliance Henry David Thoreau :Walden Henry Wadsworth Longfellow :The Song of Hiawatha Walt Whitman (the pioneer of American poem revolutionary): Leaves of Grass, Song of myself Emily Dickinson :I’m Nobody Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter Herman Melville :Mody Dick Period of Romanticism Edgar Allan Poe (Father of detective story, The first American literary theorist): The Fall of The House of Usher; The Purloined Letter Terms: Transcendentalism over soul Free verse Puritanism Original sin Realism period Stowe :The Uncle Tom’s Cabin Chopin :The Awakening Howells :The Rise of Silas Lapman Mark Twain (the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) :The Gilded Age; Innocents Abroad ;The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Hemingway once said that all modern American literature comes from the book written by Mark Twain ) Henry James: The Portrait of a Ladys; The Ambassadors Stephen Crane: Maggie: a Girl of the Streets. Theodore Dreiser :Sister Carrie( ban novel); An American Tragedy Modernism period  Ezra Pound (the founder of imagism movement): The cantos T.S. Eliot (Nobel Prize winner) :The Wasted Land (William said that the publi