美国文学讲座.ppt

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dianazhou@ American Literature Lecturer: Diana Zhou Themes Puritanism American Dream Freedom, Equal opportunity Human Nature Original Sin Relationship between God and Human Social Crisis Psychological Crisis …. American Puritanism Colonial settlement American Puritans: idealists restore the Church to the ‘purity’, religion as primary importance, Calvinism (original sin, the salvation of a selected few) Characters: Struggle for Survival-Preoccupied with profits; Practical; Austere, Rigid, Intolerant, Bigot, Killjoy, Ruthless, Pious Significance : compared with Confucianism Puritan Influence on Literature---- Optimism, Symbolism, Simplicity idealism, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, James a technique: Garden of Eden, Bradford, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Howells Colonial Literature (1607-1765) Puritan Poets: Anne Edward Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) search for a sense of man’s nature and destiny and his mission in the new world Colonial Literature (1607-1765) Edward Taylor (1642-1729) Huswifery Make me, O Lord, thy spinning wheel complete. Thy holy word my distaff make for me. Make mine affections thy swift flyers neat, And make my soul thy holy spool to be. My conversation make to be thy reel, And reel the yarn thereon spun of thy wheel. Baroque poet; the symbolic images speak for God in his Puritan eyes. Colonial Literature (1607-1765) Non-puritan Themes: Civil and religious freedom; American shaking off the fetters of British rule Literary Forms: Diary, history, journal, letter, travel book, sermon, etc Roger Williams(1603-1683) ‘The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience’ (1644): fight for freedom and democracy John Woolman (1720-1772) ‘Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes’ , ‘A Plea for the Poor’, ‘Journal’: Quaker, preacher of inward communication with God, the rights of

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