美国文学史概论之五：现代主义文学

1、v. the modern era (1914-1945) 5.1 modern poetry (five modernist giants) (a) 1. ezra pound (85-72): hugh selwyn mauberley; cantos; cathay 2. t.s. eliot: the love song of j. alfred prufrock(1915), the wasteland (1922), four quartets(1935-42) 3. wallace stevens: harmonium, ideas of order, the man with

2、the blue guitar and other poems; “anecdote of the jar” 4. w.c. williams: paterson (1946-63); “the red wheelbarrow” 5. robert frost(1874-1963): a boys will(1913, “mowing”)north of boston (14, “home burial”, “mending wall”, “after apple-picking” )mountain interval (1916, “birches”, “the road not taken

3、”) new hampshire (23/“fire and ice”; “stopping by woods on a snowy evening”) west-running brook (28); a further range(36, “design”); a witness tree(42); steeple bush(47, “directive”); in the clearing (1962)v. the modern era (1914-1945) 5.1 modern poetry (other modernist poets) (b) 1. harriet monroe

4、& louis untermeyer: two modernist pioneers 2. carl sandburg and midwest poets: chicago poems; cornhuskers; good morning, america; the people, yes; smoke and steel. 3. vachel lindsay: general william booth enters into heaven; the congo; the chinese nightingale and other poems 4. hart crane: white

5、 buildings,26; the bridge, 30 5. e. e.cummings: the enormous room (22);tulips and chimneys(23) 6. h.d. (hilda doolittle): sea garden; helen in egypt; “oread” “heat” “hermes of the ways” 7. john gold fletcher: irradiations: sand and spray; the ghosts of an old house; goblins and pagodas 8. marianne m

6、ore: poems; observations; “no swan so fine;” “fish” 9. fugitives such as ransom, allan tate, donald davidson, etc. v. the modern era (1914-1945) 5.2 modern novelists 11. two novelists in the transitional eraa. sherwood anderson(1876-1941): windy mcphersons son (16); marching men (17); winesburg, ohi

7、o (19); poor white (20); the triumph with the egg(21); dark laughter (25); death in the woods (33)b. willa cather(1873-1947) alexanders bridge(12), o pioneers(13), the song of the lark(15), my antonio(18)one of ours (22);the professors house (23)2. the first nobel prize winner: sinclair lewis(1885-1

8、951)our mr. wrenn (14); main street (1920); babbitt (1922); arrowsmith (25); elmer gantry (27); dodsworth (29)v. the modern era (1914-1945) 5.2 modern novelists 23. two female euro-residing geniuses in the modern literary stagea. gertrude stein (1874-1946) three lives (1909); the making of america (

9、1925); tender buttons (1914); the autobiography of alice b. toklas (1933)b. djuna barnes (1892-1982) a book (1923); a night among the horses (1929); ryder (1928); nightwood (1936); smoke and other early stories(82) 4. representatives of the lost generation: a. ernest hemingway (1899-1961) in our tim

10、e (25); the sun also rises (26); men without women (27); a farewell to arms (29); winner take nothing (33); death in the afternoon (32); green hills of africa (35); to have and for whom the bell tolls (40); the old man and the sea (52); “the short happy life of francis macomber,” “the snows of kilim

11、anjaro”.b. f. s. fitzgerald (1896-1940) this side of paradise (20); flappers and philosophers (20); tales of the jazz age (22); the beautiful and the damned (22); the great gatsby (25); tender is the night (34); the last tycoon (41)v. the modern era (1914-1945) 5.2 modern novelists 3 5. epitome of t

12、he southern renaissance: william faulkner (1897-1962) and his yoknapatawpha country soldiers pay (26); mosquitoes (27); sartoris(29); the sound and the fury (29); as i lay dying (30);sanctuary (31); light in august (32); absalom, absalom (36) the unvanquished (38); the wild palms (39); go down, mose

13、s (42)(“the bear”) the hamlet (40); a fable (57);the town (57); the mansion (60); intruder into the dust (48); requiem for a nun (51); the reivers (62)v. the modern era (1914-1945) 5.2 modern novelists 4 6. faulkners southern followers: a. anne porter (1890-1980): flowering judas (30); noon wine (37

14、); pale horse, pale rider (39); ships of fools (62); the never-ending wrong (77); letters (90) b. eudora welty (1909- ): a curtain of green (41); the wide net (43); the golden apples (49); the bride of the innisfallen (55); moon lake (80); the robber bridegroom (42); delta wedding (46); the ponder h

15、eart (54); the optimists daughter (72) c. carson mccullers(1917-67): the heart is a lonely hunter (40); reflections in a golden eye(41); the member of the wedding (46); clock without hands(61); the ballad of the sad caf (51)v. the modern era (1914-1945) 5.2 modern novelists 5 7. pearl buck (1892-197

16、3), the first woman nobel prize winner in literature and china under her pen “the house of earth” trilogy: the good earth,1931, pulitzer prize; sons, 1932; a house divided, 1935. the spirit and the flesh (36); all men are good brothers (33,37); imperial woman (1956) 8. raymond chandlers(1888-1959) m

17、ystery novels the big sleep (39); farewell, my lovely (40); the lady in the lake (43); the long goodbye (54)v. the modern era (1914-1945) 5.2 modern novelists 6 9. the black novelists in the harlem renaissance: zora neale hurston (1901-1960) jonahs gourd vine (34); their eyes were watching god (37);

18、 moses: man of the mountain (39); seraph on the suwanee (48); dust tracks on a road (42) langston hughes (1902-67) novels: not without laughter (30); tambourines to glory (58) short tale collections: the ways of white folks (34); something in common (63) poems: the weary blues (26); fine clothes to

19、the jew (27); dear lovely death (31); the negro mother (31); the dream keeper (32); montage of a dream deferred (51); ask your mama (61) richard wright (1908-1960) uncle toms children (38); native son(40); 12 million black voices (41); black boy(45); the outsider (53); the long dream (58)v. the mode

20、rn era (1914-1945) 5.2 modern novelists 710. the radical novelists as the leftist writers: john dos passos (1896-1970)three soldiers (21); manhattan transfer (25); orient express (27); usa trilogy: the 42nd parallel (30); 1919(32); the big money (36)district of columbia trilogy (52): adventures of a

21、 young man(39); number one (43); the grand design (49) steinbeck(1902-1968): the cup of gold (29); the pastures of heaven(32); tortilla flat (35); in dubious battle (36); of mice and men (37); the grapes of wrath (39); the pearl (48); bombs away: the story of a bomber team (42); the moon is down (42

22、); cannery row (45); the wayward bus (47); east of eden (52), etc. james t. ferrell(04-79)young lonigan (32); the yang manhood of studs lonigan (34); judgment day (35) erskine caudwell(03-87): tobacco road (32); gods little acre (33);journeyman (35); trouble in july (40); house in the uplands 46)v.

23、the modern era (1914-1945) 5.2 modern novelists 8 11. the jewish american novelists in this period: nathaniel west (03-40): the dream life of balso snell,31; miss lonelyhearts,33; a cool million, 34; the day of the locust,39. edwin rolfe (09-54): to my contemporaries, 36; “epitaph, for arnold reid”,

24、 38; first love and other poems,51; permit me refuge,41. henry roth (05-95): call it sleep, 34; mercy of a rude stream, 94. tess slessinger (05-45): missis flinders, 32; time: the present, 35; the unpossessed, 34,her first novel. muriel rukeyser (13-80): theory of flight, 35 (including the boy with his hair cut short); u.s.1, 38; a turning wind, 39; the soul and body of john brown, 40; beast in view, 44. karl shapiro (13-2000): good housekeeping; poetry. abraham cahan (60-51): yekl: a tale of the new g york ghetto, 1896; the rise of davis levinsky, 17. v. the modern era (1