期末复习美国文学简史汇总.ppt

* 期末复习美国文学简史汇总 Socially, the different regions of the United States felt the need to assert their cultural identity, seeking understanding and recognition by showing their local character. Culturally, the frontier tall-tale tradition paves the way for the flourish of local colorism. * 期末复习美国文学简史汇总 A tendency to glorify and idealize and have a nostalgic feeling to the past Minutely accurate descriptions of the life of the regions and truthful depiction of the common people. * 期末复习美国文学简史汇总 Bret Harte (1836—1902), the first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity. The Luck of Roaring Camp, Tennessees Partner Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown Folks, Uncle Toms Cabin Hamlin Garland , Main-Traveled Roads Sarah Orne Jewett, Deephaven Kate Chopin, The Awakening Mark Twain * 期末复习美国文学简史汇总 “In my opinion, Mark Twain was the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs, who descended from him.” (William Faulkner) * 期末复习美国文学简史汇总 The Gilded Age (1873); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884);The Prince and the Pauper (1882); Life on the Mississippi (1883), etc. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889); The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1900);The Mysterious Stranger(1916); Autobiography (1924), etc. * 期末复习美国文学简史汇总 Twain was first and foremost known as a local colorist: 1) his theories of localism The life of the people and the soul of a nation will be represented by means of localism. 2) his works sum up the tradition of Western humor and frontier realism. * 期末复习美国文学简史汇总 Differences between Twain and Howells and Henry James: Thematically: James: upper class; Howells: middle class; Mark Twain: lower class Technically: James: psychological realism; Howells: genteel realism; Mark Twain: local colorism and colloquial style * 期末复习美国文学简史汇总 His humor is characterized by practical jokes, comic details, witty remarks, puns, exaggeration, repetition, anti-climax, etc. * 期末复习美国文学简史汇总 Plot：P135-13