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大致提纲 美国文学 1 colonial America 2Franklin 3 American romanticism 4 Irving 5 Cooper Def.transcendentalism 6Hawthorne 7 Melville 8Whitman 9 Dickinson 10 Edgar Allen Poe 11 Howells Def.realism 12 James 13 Local colorism 14 Mark Twain Def.American naturalism 15 Crane 16 Dreiser 17 Robinson Def.imagism 18 Pound 19 T.S.Eliot 20 Williams 21 Frost 22 Hemingway 23 William Faulkner 24 Stein 25 Dos Passos (忽略) 26 Steinbeck 27 American Drama 英国文学 1 Beowulf 2 Chaucer Def. Renaissance humanism 3 more utopia 4 Edmund Spenser 5 Francis bacon 6 Shakespeare 7 Milton 8 Bunyan 9 Metaphysical poets and Cavalier poets Def. Metaphysical Def. englightment Def. classicism 10 pope 11 swift 12 Defoe Robinson Crusoe 13 Johnston def. sentimentalism 14 Blake 15 Burns 16 the romantic period 17 Wordsworth 18 Byron 19 Shelley 20 Keats 21 De Quincey 22 Scott Def. critical realism 23 dickens 24 Jane Austen 25 The Bronte sisters 26 Tennyson 27 The Brownings Def.naturalism Neo-Romanticism Aestheticism 28 Hardy 29 Bernard Shaw Def. imagism 30 W. B. Yeats 31 D.H.Lawrence 32 James Joyce 美国文学 1-5 American Puritanism The settler of northern American carried a code of values, a philosophy of life, a point of view, which take root in the new world. It shapes American thought and literature. Characteristic of literature of this period: Based on myth (full of optimism) A literary symbolism Simple style. ( from bible) Franklin Reputations: father of the Yankees; father of his country; symbol of America in the age of enlightenment; everything but a poet. Works: Poor Richard’s Almanac Autobiography American romanticism Causes: political, economic and cultural independence as well as foreign influences. Features: Focus on the experience of pioneering into the west Bear the cultural heritage of American Puritanism “newness” of the American as a nation Both imitative and independent Irving First book: A history of New York Master piece: The Sketch Book (rip van winkle the legend of sleepy hollow)