review American__ Literature 美国文学复习提纲

1、2022-5-312022-5-32 Colonial period (16071765) Period of Independent War(17651800) The Age of Romanticism (18001865) The Age of Realism (18651918) American Modernism (19181945) Contemporary period (1945- ) American literary history2022-5-33Pay attention to 1.the important literary terms of each perio

2、d2. representatives and masterpieces in each period2022-5-34.Literature of Colonial Period(1607-1765)Understand: 1.Terms: Puritanism: origin, 4 doctrines, relationship with American literature 2. writers: Anne Bradstreet: the first American woman writer2022-5-35II Revolutionary Period (17651800) Ben

3、jamin Franklin the first person to pick out American dream and the 1st writer to write autobiography, the first self-made American) Thomas Paine :Common sense Thomas Jefferson :Declaration of Independence 2022-5-36Period of Romanticism Washington Irving ( Father of American literature) :The Sketch B

4、ook , “Rip Van Winkle”, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” James Fenimore Cooper :The Leather-stocking Tales Henry Wadsworth Longfellow William Cullen Bryant Ralph Waldo Emerson (the founder of transcendentalism): Nature, “Self Reliance” , The Poet, “The American scholar” Henry David Thoreau :Walden 2022

5、-5-37 Walt Whitman (the pioneer of American poem revolution): “Leaves of Grass”, “Song of myself” “O, Captain! My Captain!” Emily Dickinson : “Im Nobody” Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven”, “Annabel Lee”, “To Helen” Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter Herman Melville :Moby Dick 2022-5-38Period of Roma

6、nticism Terms: Romanticism Transcendentalism Oversoul Free verse Puritanism Original sin 2022-5-39 The Age of Realism(p59) Henry James(p64): Daisy Miller, The Portrait of A Lady Mark Twain(p75) :The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Hemingway once said that all modern Am

7、erican literature comes from the book written by Mark Twain ) Sherwood Anderson(p70): Winesburg, Ohio2022-5-310 Stephen Crane(p88): The Red Badge of Courage. Theodore Dreiser(p92) :Sister Carrie An American Tragedy The Trilogy of Desire Frank Norris: The Octopus Jack London: The Call of the WildThe

8、Age of Realism -Naturalism(p85)2022-5-311Terms in this period Realism Local Colorism Tall Tale Naturalism2022-5-312 Modernism PoetryEzra Pound (the founder of imagism movement)(p103): The Cantos In A Station of the MetroT.S. Eliot (Nobel Prize winner)(p106) : The Waste Land (William said that the pu

9、blishment of The Wasted Land like an atom, destroy our world.) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock“Wallace Stevens(p108): Anecdote of the JarRobert Frost(p113): The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on A Snowy Evening 2022-5-313 Modernism Fiction F. Scott Fitzgerald (spokesman of Jazz Age)(p124): Thi

10、s Side of Paradise: The Great Gatsby Tender Is the Night The Last TycoonErnest Hemingway(p120) (Nobel Prize winner, typical writer of lost generation) : The Old Man and the Sea; The Sun Also Rises; A Farewell to Arms ; For Whom the Bell TollsShort story : A Clean Well-lighted PlaceWilliam Faulkner (Nobel Prize winner)(p197) :(Yoknapatawhpa County) The Sound and the Fury; Light in August; Abslom, Abslom, Go down, Moses John Steinbeck(130): The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men 20