The United States of American公开课教学课件.pptxVIP

Part Two The United States of American ;Task One Leading -in;Task Two Exchanging Pre-reading （自主交流） Exchange what you have learned about American Literature. 1.The history of American Literature 2.Feature 3. Development 4. Famous writers;Task Three Presenting new reading （自主探究） Skim to get the main idea of each paragraph by finding key words or topic sentences or using your own words. A. Fiction;The fiction that is typically American actually began from the novelist Mark Twain who employed the real American elements in his fiction impressed the readers greatly. From the turn of this century, American fiction began to be more and more noticeable both in American literature and world literature. And there appeared many world famous writers such as Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck, etc. After the Second World War, there appeared a diversity of American fiction, such as the Jewish fiction, the Southern fiction ,the black fiction, etc. And it is hard to summarize it in uniformity.; American contemporary literature has continued to undergo healthy development in producing new forms and new language suitable for expressing a vivid and varied sense about contemporary life. American modernism lasted from 1900 to about 1940, and postmodernism was in vogue from 1960s-1980s. American fiction became generally more conservative during the late 1980s. ;The new directions include the emergence of science fiction and its various hybrid forms; critical literature, diversity of forms, voices and myths developed by women writers and by authors from other marginal groups( Blacks, Native Americans, gays, Chicano, etc); the recent flowering of the American short story, in particular the terse, cool-surfaced minimalist(or new)fiction.; Once upon a time American writers appropriated European examples and principles, but they were never satisfied. For nearly three centur