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AmericanLiterature,指导老师：蒋学清老师讲解：秦方博班级：自动化0906时间：2011.3.21,DefinitionCharacteristicsExamplesRecommendation,Contents,WhenitcomestoAmerica,whatcomestoourmindfirst?,Literature?Maybenot.,However,AmericanLiteraturedoesexist.Whatsmore,almost10AmericanwritersgottheNobelLiteraturePrize.Socanyouoffersomeexamples?(Whoeveranswermyquestionisverynice),Definition(fromWikipedia)AmericanliteratureisthewrittenorliteraryworkproducedintheareaoftheUnitedStatesanditsprecedingcolonies.,BecauseoftheuniqueAmericanhistory,itsliteratureisalsounique.,1.TheresnodoubtthatAmericanliteratureoriginatedfromEuropeanLiterature.2.Unlikeothercountriesliterature,theresnolimitationofFeudal(封建)culture.3.Americaisacountryofimmigrationfromallovertheworld.So,Americanliteratureismorefree,moreliberal,andfullofcreation.,EuropeanLiterature.,Indian,Asian,Creation,African,Americanliterature,SomeExamples,ErnestMillerHemingway(July21,1899July2,1961),RepresentativeWork,TheOldManandtheSea(NobelLiteraturePrize)“Manisnotmadefordefeat.Amancanbedestroyedbutnotdefeated”TheSunAlsoRisesAFarewelltoArms,MarkTwain,HeisnotedforhisnovelsAdventuresofHuckleberryFinn(1885)(calledtheGreatAmericanNovel“)TheAdventuresofTomSawyer(1876).,O.Henry,Oneofthethreegreatestshortnovelwritersintheworld.Hisshortstoriesarewellknownfortheirwit(风趣),wordplay（双关）,warmcharacterizationandclevertwistendings（欧亨利式结尾）.,Wellknownnovels,TheGiftoftheMagiAServiceofLoveTheCopandtheAnthemARetrievedReformation,WaltWhitman,anAmericanpoet，calledthefatheroffreeverse（自由体）.,HisfamouspoetrycollectionLeavesofGrass,Thisisthegrassthatgrowswhereverthelandisandthewateris,Thisthecommonairthatbathestheglobe.(哪里有土，哪里有水，哪里就长着草)_SongofMyself,AchildsaidWhatisthegrass?fetchingittomewithfullhands;HowcouldIanswerthechild?Idonotknowwhatitisanymorethanhe.-songofmyself,Inaddition,ComicsandScienceFictionareliteraturestoo.Sowemustmentionthewidely-spreadandmostwonderfulAmericanComicsandScienceFiction.Forexample:I,Robot-IsaacAsimovStarWars-GeorgeLucas,Recommend,Whattoread?.AskDouBAN!,Neverletanyoneknowwhatyouarethinking.,Thanks!,AmericanNobelPrizeinLiteraturewinners1930:SinclairLewis1936:EugeneONeill1938:PearlS.Buck1948:T.S.Eliot1949:WilliamFaulkner1954:ErnestHemingway1962:JohnSteinbeck19