美国文学史Introduction.pptVIP

About me My Name: 祁和平 Ways to reach me: Mobile phone: E-mail box: qpuhepingqi@ Welcome to contact me when you need. American Literary History Introduction Introduction An outline of American literature Colonial Period (17th-18th century) ? American Puritanism ? major figures: Jonathan Edwards Benjamin Franklin The Romantic Period (the first half of 19th century) ? Washington Irving—the first important American writer, “Rip Van Winkle” “the Legend of Sleepy Hollow”; James Fenimore Cooper—Leatherstocking Tales Introduction ↓New England Transcendentalism (1836-1855): Ralph Waldo Emerson—Nature, “The American Scholar” Henry David Thoreau—Walden ? Walt Whitman—Leaves of Grass Emily Dickinson ? Nathaniel Hawthorne—The Scarlet Letter Herman Melville—Moby Dick ? “New England Poets”/ “Schoolroom Poets”/ “Fireside Poets”: William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier ? Edgar Allan Poe Introduction The Age of Realism: It expresses the concern for the commonplace and the low, and offers an objective rather than an idealistic view of human nature human experiences. ? William Dean Howells ? Mark Twain The End of the 19th century ↓American Naturalism: ?Stephen Crane: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ?Frank Norris: McTeague ?Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie Introduction →O. Henry Jack London The 1920s ? Poetry Ezra Pound—Imagism T. S. Eliot—Modernism William Carlos Williams Wallace Stevens Robert Frost Carl Sandburg Hart Crane The Red Wheelbarrow So much depends Upon A red wheel Barrow Glazed with rain Water Beside the white Chicken 红色手推车 ——（美）威廉·卡洛斯·威廉斯 有那么许多 要靠 一辆红色手 推车 被雨水淋得 晶亮 在一群白鸡 近旁。 红色手推车  那么多东西 仰仗 这辆红色的 手推车运送 雨水浇得它 浑身溜滑 旁边有 几只白鸡  红色手推车  许多——许多悬系 于 一辆红轮 手推车 闪烁的雨 水 近旁白色的 小鸡。  红色手推车  一辆红轮 手推车 闪烁的雨 水 近旁白色的 小鸡 展现着 许多——许多。  红色手推车 ——（美）威廉·卡洛斯·威廉斯 这样多的依赖 于 一辆红色轮盘的 手推