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1、完整word版美国文学史复习要点整理手动美国文学史整理一、Colonial America 殖民时期1、 New England：Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.2、 Doctrines of Puritanism清教American Puritanism stressed predestination（命运神定), original sin（原罪）, total depravity (彻底的堕落), and limited atonement (有限的赎罪)from God

2、s grace.3、 Writing style：fresh, simple and direct and with a touch of nobility； the rhetoric is plain and honest.4、 Life style：hard work, thrift, piety, and sobriety.5、 Main writer: Thomas Paine 托马斯潘恩work：Common Sense (1776) 常识American Crisis (1776-1783)美国危机The Rights of Man人权The Age of Reason理性时代Be

3、njamin Franklin（本杰明富兰克林）Poor Richards Almanac 穷查理历书Autobiography 富兰克林自传 Thomas Jefferson 托马斯杰弗逊 Declaration of Independence (1776)独立宣言二、American Romanticism (early period) 浪漫主义前期1、Characteristics：A rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism. 反对理性主义的客观性。Feelings, intuitions and emotions were mo

4、re important for romantics than reason and common sense. 感受、直觉和情感重于理性和常识。An emphasis on individualism; placing the individual against the group, against authority.强调个人主义,将个人与团体,反对权威。Stress on the close relationship between man and nature. 强调人与自然之间的密切关系。Fascination with the wild, the irregular, the i

5、ndefinite, the remote, the mysterious, and the strange 疯狂的迷恋,不规则,不定,远程,神秘,奇怪Cherishing a strong interest in the past, especially the medieval. 对过去有强烈的兴趣,特别是中世纪。2、Features：New experience in the American Romanticism.A deep influence from the American Puritanism.The “newness” of the Americans as a nati

6、on.3、writers and works:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 亨利瓦兹沃思朗费罗A Psalm of Life (1838) 人生礼赞Voices of the Night (1839) 夜吟The Song of Hiawatha (1855) 海华沙之歌The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858) 迈尔斯斯坦迪什的求婚Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863) 路边客栈的故事Washington Irving 华盛顿欧文A History of New York (1809) 纽约外史The Sketch

7、 Book (1819-1820) 见闻札记“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” 睡谷的传说 “Rip Van Winkle” 瑞普凡温克尔 (The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person.)Bracebridge Hall (1822) 布雷斯布里奇田庄Tales of a Traveller (1824) 旅客谈James Fennimore Cooper 詹姆斯费尼莫尔库柏Leather-stocking Tales 皮袜子故事集The Pioneer 拓荒者The Prairie 大草原The S

8、py 间谍三、New England Transcendentalism (新英格兰超验主义)1、Over-soul（超灵）was an all-pervading power goodness, omnipresent and omnipotent.(简答) Individualism individual was the most importanta fresh view of nature symbolic of the Spirit or God. 2、writers and works: Ralph Waldo Emerson 艾默生Nature (1836)论自然 The Ame

9、rican Scholar (1837) 论美国学者Divinity School Address (1838) 神学院演说Self-Reliance (1841) 论自助Representative Men (1850) 代表人物The Transcendentalist 超验主义者The Over-Soul 论超灵Henry David Thoreau 梭罗Walden; or Life in the Woods (1854)瓦尔登湖；或林中生活四、American Romanticism (later period) 浪漫主义后期我们可以把超验主义产生之前的那一段称为前期浪漫主义，而把1

10、9世纪30年代之后的文学称为后期浪漫主义。前期浪漫主义是以欧文等人将美国文学提高到欧洲水平为特征，后期浪漫主义则是以超验主义激励而起的“文艺复兴”文学兴起，并最终产生了独立的美国文学为标志。 1、 High Romantics in fiction2、 Nathaniel Hawthorne 霍桑 Twice-Told Tales (1837) 尽人皆知的故事Mosses from an Old Manse (1846) 古屋青苔The Scarlet letter (1850) 红字The House of Sever Gables (1851) 有七个尖角阁的房子Blithedale Ro

11、mance (1852) 福谷传奇The Marble Faun (1860) 玉石雕像Our Old House (1863) 我们的故居Herman Melville 赫尔曼麦尔维尔Moby-Dick (1851) 白鲸 (pp113-118)Pierre (1852) 皮埃尔Typee (1846)泰比Omoo (1847)奥穆Mardi (1849)玛迪2、High Romantics in poetryEdgar Allan Poe 艾伦坡Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) 怪诞故事集“The Raven” (1845) 乌鸦“An

12、nabel Lee ” (1849) 安娜贝尔李Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼Leaves of Grass 草叶集Features in Whitmans poems：Organic form ：extremely long, not constrained by the number of beats in a line.Thought rhythm： does not move in terms of beats, but in terms of thoughts. Parallelism：The parallel lines say the same thing but use

13、 different words.Cataloguing technique：long lists of images, sights, sounds, smells, taste, and touch. Free verse (自由诗)Emily Dickinson 艾米丽狄金森Theme：Religion & faith Beauty & truth Life & death Nature friendship love & marriageWork：I died for beautyFeatures：frequent use of dashes（破折号）， sporadic capita

14、lization of nouns（零星的名词）， convoluted and ungrammatical phrasing（措辞费解不合文法），off-rhymes（压尾韵）, broken meters, bold and unconventional and often startling metaphors（大胆的隐喻）, and aphoristic wit（警句）.五、The Age of Realism 美国现实主义文学at the later part of the 19th century. simply fidelity to actuality in its repre

15、sentation in literature.based on the accurate of human experiences. It insists on precise description, authentic action and dialogue, moral honesty, and a democratic openness in subject matter and style. is inclusive of naturalism, regionalism and local color writing. feature：objective and realWrite

16、rs and works:Howells Their Wedding Journey (1872) 结婚旅行Henry James 亨利詹姆斯The American (1877) 一个美国人Daisy Miller (1878) 黛西密勒The Portrait of a Lady (1881) 贵妇画像 The Art of Fiction (1884) “小说的艺术”The Bostonians (1886) 波士顿人The Tragic Muse (1890) 悲惨的缪斯 The Wings of Dove (1902) 鸽翼The Ambassadors (1903) 专使The G

17、olden Bowl (1904) 金碗六、Regionalism & Local Colorism（乡土文学与地方色彩文学）presents a locale which is distinguished from the outside world. describes the exotic and the picturesque.glorifies the past.attempts to show things as they are.stresses the influence of setting on character.Dialect peculiarities are the

18、 defining characteristicWriters and works:1 Mark Twain 马克吐温 “the Lincoln of literature”The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) 汤姆索亚历险记The Prince and the Pauper (1882) 王子与贫儿Life on Mississippi (1883) 密西西比河上The Gilded Age (1873, with Charles D.Warner) 镀金时代The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) 哈克贝利费恩历险

19、记 Feature：use Vernacular language. local colorStyle： unpretentious, colloquial, poetic.2 Harriet Beecher Stowe 哈里特比彻斯托Uncle Toms Cabin （1852） 汤姆叔叔的小屋3 Francis Bret Harte 弗朗西斯布雷特哈特The Lost Galleon (1867) 沉船The Luck of Roaring Camp (1870) 咆哮营里的幸运儿Mrs. Skaggss Husbands (1873) 斯凯葛夫人的丈夫们 An Heiress of Re

20、d Dog (1879) 红狗的女继承人七、American Naturalism 美国自然主义文学美国文学自然主义者认为，人同时受制于（are controlled）自然环境与社会环境，因而遗传因素（laws of heredity）与社会环境（environment）是人的命运不可抵抗的决定力量。他们认为，在受制于不以人的意志为转移的非道德力量的世界中，宣扬道德的地位是毫无意义的。more inclusive and less selective than realism. 比现实主义更具包容性，选择却更少Determinism governs everything 决定论支配一切It d

21、aringly opened up the seamy underside of society and such topics as divorce, sex, adultery, poverty, and crime.It conceives of man as controlled by his instincts or his passions, or by his social and economic environment and circumstances.1、 writers and works:1 Stephen Crane 斯蒂芬克莱恩The Red Badge of C

22、ourage (1895) 红色英勇勋章 Frank Norris 弗兰克诺里斯McTeague (1899) 麦克提格 Theodore Dressier 西奥多德莱塞An American Tragedy (1925) 美国悲剧 Sister Carrie (1900) 嘉莉妹妹Jennie Gerhardt (1911) 珍妮姑娘The Financier (1912) 金融家The Titan (1914) 巨人The Stoic (1947) 斯多葛The Genius (1915) 天才 Jack London 杰克伦敦Martin Eden (1909) 马丁 伊登 The So

23、n of the Wolf (1900) 狼之子The Call of the Wild (1903) 野性的呼唤The Sea Wolf (1904) 海狼White Fang (1906) 白獠牙“Love of Life” (1907) 热爱生命 Upton Sinclair 厄普顿辛克莱The Jungle 屠场八、Modern American Poetry 美国现代诗歌feature：fragmentation（分散，碎片） stream-of-consciousness（意识流的） a break with the pastwriters and works:1 Ezra Pou

24、nd 庞德Des Imagists 意象派诗选 Cantos 诗章Cathay 华夏 “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” 休赛尔温毛伯利 T. S. Eliot 托马斯斯特尔那斯艾略特The Waste Land (1922) 荒原Family Reunion (1950) 大团圆 Robert Frost 罗伯特弗罗斯特A Boys Will (1913) 少年的心愿North of Boston (1914) 波士顿以北After Apple Picking (1914) 摘苹果之后Mountain Interval (1916) 山间洼地New Hampshire (1923

25、) 新罕布什尔West-Running Brook (1928) 西流的溪涧A Further Range (1936) 又一片牧场A Witness Tress (1942) 一株见证的树“Mending Wall” “修墙” “The Road Not Taken” “没有走过的路” Carl Sandburg 卡尔桑德伯格In Reckless Ecstasy 肆无忌惮的狂想Cornhuskers 辗米机 The American Songbag 美国歌袋Smoke and Steel 烟与钢 The Prairie Years 草原的年代Good Morning, America 早上

26、好，美国 The People, Yes 人民，好 九、Modern American Fiction 美国现代小说1、The Lost Generation （迷惘的一代）Writers and works:1 Ernest Hemingway 海明威He was famous for his novels and short stories written in his spare, laconic, yet intense prose with short sentences and very specific details.Almost all his stories deal with the theme of courage in face of tragedy.They reveal mans impotence and despairing courage to assert himself against overwhelming odds.The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. (一座冰山在海面上移动是很壮观的，因为只有八分之一露出水面。)The