美国文学选读期末复习资料.docxVIP

精选资料，欢迎下载 精选资料，欢迎下载 美国文学选读期末复习资料 The Col on ial Period or The En lighte nment and Revoluti on Period American Puritanism ( roughly from the settlement of America in the early 17th cen tury through the end of the 18th) 一、Benjamin Franklin 本杰明?富兰克林 作品：1 Poor Richards Alma nac《格言历书》---A Collect ion of maxims, or proverbs, on the value of work and savi ngs for success. 、The Autobiography 《自传》---美国梦”的根源 、参与起草《独立宣言》 America n Roma nticism The Roma ntic Period stretches from the end of the 18th cen tury to the outbreak of the Civil War. It is a period of the great floweri ng of America n literature. 浪漫主义两大主题：爱和大自然的力量 The social and cultural backgro und of Roma nticism ---The young Republic was flourishing into a politically, economically and culturally in depe ndent coun try. ---The Romantic writings revealed unique characteristics of their own in their works and they grew on the n ative Ian ds. ---The desire for an escape from society and a retur n to n ature became a perma nent conven tio n of America n literature. ---The America n Purita nism as a cultural heritage exerted great i nflue nces over America n moral values. Roma ntics freque ntly shared certa in gen eral characteristics : moral en thusiasm, faith in value of in dividualism and in tuitive percepti on, and a presumpti on that the n atural world was a source of good ness and man societies as a source of corrupti on. 二、Edgar Allan Poe 埃德加?爱伦?坡---poet, short story writer and literary critic (48 poems,70 short stories) He greatly in flue need the devotees of Art for art sake.He was father of psyehoanalytic criticism （ Art for art sake. 诗歌的精髓就是追求美 小说的主题常常是恐怖和死亡，其中还运用了象征手法。 The Poetic Prin ciple : 1. The poem, should be short, readable at one sitt ing; Beauty (the rhythmical creati on of beauty); Mela ncholy 忧伤(especially the death of a beautiful woma n). 代表作：The Fall of the House of Usher 《厄舍大厦的倒塌》 Ligeia 《莉盖亚》 Ann abel Lee 《安娜贝尔?李》 LigeiaAnn abel LeeThe Rave n Ligeia Ann abel Lee The Cask of Amo ntillado 《阿