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美国文学史及选读复习资料.docx

1、美国文学史及选读复习资料美国文学史复习1(colonialism)第一部分 殖民主义时期的文学一、时期综述1、清教徒采用的文学体裁:a、narratives 日记 b、journals 游记2、清教徒在美国的写作内容:1)their voyage to the new land2) Adapting themselves to unfamiliar climates and crops3) About dealing with Indians4) Guide to the new land, endless bounty, invitation to bold spirit3、清教徒的思想:1

2、)puritan want to make up pure their religious beliefs and practices 净化信仰和行为方式2) Wishto restore simplicity to church and the authority of the Bible to the theology. 重建教堂,提供简单服务,建立神圣地位来源:( - 美国文学史复习1(colonialism)_苗苗_新浪博客 3)look upon themselves as chosen people, and it follow logically that anyone who

3、challenged their way of life is opposing Gods will and is not to be accepted. 认为自己是上帝选民,对他们的生活有异议就是反对上帝4)puritan opposition to pleasure and the arts sometimes has been exaggerated. 反对对快乐和艺术的追求到了十分荒唐的地步 5)religious teaching tended to emphasize the image of a wrathful God.强调上帝严厉的一面,忽视上帝仁慈的一面。4、典型的清教徒:

4、 John Cotton & Roger William他们的不同:John Cotton was much more concerned with authority than with democracy; William begins the history of religious toleration in America.5、William的宗教观点:Toleration did not stem from a lack of religious convictions. Instead, it sprang from the idea that simply to be virt

5、uous in conduct and devout in belief did not give anyone the right to force belief on others. He also felt that no political order or church system could identify itself directly with God. 行为上的德,信仰上的诚,并没有给任何人强迫别人该如何行事的权利。没有任何政治秩序和教会体制能够直接体现神本身的意旨。6、英国最早移民到美国的诗人:Anne Bradstreet7、在殖民时期最好的清教徒诗人:the bes

6、t of Puritan poets is Edward Tayor.学习指南:1、Could you give a description of American Puritans? 关于美国清教徒的描绘 Like their brothers back in England, were idealists, believing that the church should be restored to the purity of the first-century church as established by Jesus Christ himself. To them religion

7、 was a matter of primary importance. They made it their chief business to see that man lived and thought and acted in a way which tended to the glory of God. They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin and total depravity, and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace from

8、 God, all that John Calvin, the great French theologian who lived in Geneva had preached. It was this kind of religious belief that they brought with them into the wildness. There they meaant to prove that were Gods chosen people enjoying his blessings on this earth as in Heaven.2、Hard work, thrift,

9、 piety and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.3、The work of two writers, Anne Bradstreet & Edward Taylor, rose to the level of real poetry.4、The earliest settlers included Dutch, Swedes, Germans,French, Spaniards Italian, and Portuguese.美国文学史复习2(rea

10、sonandrevolution)(2009-01-17 15:54:25) 一、美国的性质:The war for Independence ended in the formation of a Federative bourgeois democratic republic - the United States of America. 联邦的资产阶级民主共和国-美利坚合众国。二、代表作家:1、Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林 1706-17901)Poor Richards Almanac 穷人查理德的年鉴 annual collection of proverbs

11、流行谚语集It soon became the most popular book of its kind, largely because of Franklins shrewd humor, and first spread his reputation2) Founded the Junto, a club for informal discussion of scientific, economic and political ideas. 建立了一个秘密俱乐部,讨论的主题是政治、经济和科学等时事方面的问题3)established Americas first circulating

12、 library, founded the college-University of Pennsylvania. 建立了美国第一个可租借的图书馆,还创办了一所大学就是现在的宾夕法尼亚大学。4)first applied the terms positive and negative to electrical charges.5)As a representative of the Colonies, he tried in vain to counsel the British toward policies that would let America grow and flourish

13、 in association with England. He conducted the difficulty negotiations with France that brought financial and military support for America in the war. 作为殖民地的代表,他不断建议英国改变政策,使美国可以和英国一起发展、繁荣。他说服法国支持美国的独立战争。6)As an author he had power of expression, simplicity, a subtle humor, sarcastic.作为作家具有非凡的才能,表达简洁

14、明了,幽默,讽刺天才、7)The Way to Wealth 致富之道 The Autobiography自传 18世纪美国唯一流传至今的自传2、Thomas Paine 托马斯佩因1737-1809 Great Common of Mankind 最平凡的人1)famous pamphlet Common Sense 著名的政治小册子常识 it boldly advocated a Declaration for Independence, and brought the separatist agitation to a crisis. 拥护独立宣言,是分裂活动发展成最后危机。2)Amer

15、ican Crisis 美国危机,signed Common Sense (p31,第一段)The Case of the Officers of Excise税务员问题;Common Sense常识;American Crisis美国危机;Rights of Man人的权利:Downfall of Despotism专制体制的崩溃;The Age of Reason理性时代3、Thomas Jefferson 托马斯杰弗逊1)drafted the Declaration of Independence. 起草了独立宣言2)与清教徒不同,主张追求幸福。All Men are created

16、equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness. 人人生而平等,他们都从“造物主”那边被赋予了某些不可转让的权利,其中包括生命权、自由权和追求幸福的权利。4、Philip Freneau 菲利普费瑞诺 poet and political journalist 诗人和政治方面的新闻记者1)perhaps the most outstanding writer

17、of the post-revolutionary period.2)has been called the Father of American Poetry 美国诗歌之父The Rising Glory of America蒸蒸日上的美洲;The British Prison Ship英国囚船;To the Memory of the Brave Americans纪念美国勇士-同类诗中最佳;The Wild Honeysuckle野生的金银花;The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地学习指南:1、Theology dominated the Puritan pha

18、se of American writing. Politics was the next great suject to command the attention of the best minds.2、Freneau was neoclassical by training and taste ye romantic in essential spirit.美国文学史复习3(Romanicism)(2009-01-17 18:58:09) 一、文学特征:1、Environment:1)shaped by their New World environment 美洲大陆新环境2)array

19、 of ideas inherited from the romantic traditons of Europe 欧洲早期浪漫主义思潮2、美国文学特点:pluralistic多元化 manifestations varied 表现形式多样 Individualistic个人主义 conflicting 矛盾3、Romanticism的特点:frequently shared certain general characteristics, moral enthusiam, faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perception

20、, and a presumption that he natural world was a source of corruption.浪漫主义之间大多是相通的,都注重道德,强调个人主义价值观和直觉感受,并且认为自然是美的源头,人类社会是腐败之源。4、Transcendentalism 超验主义1)as a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematized. It exalted feeling over reason, individual expression over the restrai

21、nts of law and custom.不讲逻辑,不讲系统,只强调超越理性的感受,超越法律和世俗束缚的个人表达。2)they spoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society.呼吁文化复兴,反对美国社会的拜金主义。3)they believe in the transcendence of over soul, an all-pervading power for goodness from which all things come and of which all things

22、 are a part. 相信精神上的超越,相信无所不能的善的力量,强调善为万物之源。4)it could exercise a healthy and restorative influence on the human mind. “Go back to nature, sink yourself back into its influence and youll become spiritually whole again.” The natural implication of all this was, of course, that things in nature tended

23、to become symbolic, and the physical world was a symbol of the spiritual. This in turn added to the tradition of literary symbolism in American literature.5)代表人物:Emerson爱默生,believed that man was a part of absolute good。人性本善Thoreau 梭 罗,beheld divinity in the “unspotted innocence” of nature. 自然才是神圣的“洁

24、白无瑕”5、Literary forms文学形式:Novels, short stories, and poems replaced sermons and manifestos as Americas principal literary forms.长篇小说、短篇故事和诗歌取代说教类及宣言类作品成为美国主要的文学形式。6、Imaginative literature想象类文学7、the wilderness came to function almost as a dramatic character that illustrated moral law.戏剧化特色的野性讽喻了时代的道德准

25、则。8、The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature. 逃离社会,回到自然成为了美国文学永恒的创作习惯。9、Nationalism stimulated a greater literary interest in Americas language. In 1828 Noah Webster published “An American Dictionary of the English Language”. A

26、merican character types speaking local dialects appeared in poetry and fiction with increasing frequency. 受民族主义影响,作家的目光转向了美国本土的语言,具有美国特征的本土方言开始在诗歌和小说中大量涌现。10、At mid-century a cultural reawakening brought a “flowering of New England.” Led by Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau. New England Transcendental

27、ism, 从新英格兰文学到超验主义。二、代表作家:1、Washington Irving华盛顿.欧文 the first great belletrist 第一个纯文学作家,划线部分为三个主要contribution the first great prose stylist of American romanticism. 美国第一位浪漫主义散文文体作家“Sketch Book”见闻札记, the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.现代文学史上第一部短篇小说和美国第一部伟大的

28、青少年文学读物。Irving restored the waning Gothic romances which Poe soon infused with psychological subtleties.重振了没落的哥特式浪漫主义小说,随后坡在此基础上,把心理学的一些知识融入了这种体裁。“Legends of the Conquest of Spain”西班牙征服记A History of New York 纽约的历史-美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作;The Sketch Book见闻札记The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说-使之成为美国第一个获得国际声誉的作家;

29、Bracebridge Hall布雷斯布里奇田庄;Talks of Travellers旅客谈;The Alhambra阿尔罕伯拉2、James Fenimore Cooper 詹姆斯.芬尼莫.库珀contribution: launched two kinds of immensely popular stories the sea adventure tale and the frontier saga 开创了两种流传极广的小说体裁,边疆传奇小说和海上传奇小说。“Leatherstocking Tales”皮袜子故事集,包括“The Deerslayer”杀鹿者、“The Last of

30、the Mohicans”最后的莫希干人、“The Pathfinder”探路人、“The Pioneers”拓荒者、“The Prairie”大草原, regard as “the nearest approach yet to an American epic.” 被认为是迄今为止美国最接近史诗的作品。the central figure in the novels, Natty Bumppo. 小说的中心人物,纳蒂.班波Judge Temple: man remain savage without law and orderThe Spy 间谍 The Pilot 领航者 The Lit

31、tlepage Manuscripts 利特佩奇的手稿3、William Cullen Bryant 威廉.卡伦.布莱恩特 poet 诗人as Irving had shown that American prose had cone of age, so Bryant demonstrated to European readers that American poetry was ready to demand serious attention.当欧文预示美国散文时代的到来时,布莱恩特向欧洲读者证实了美国的诗歌达到相当高的水平。He was the first American to g

32、ain the stature of a major poet.第一个获得美国主要诗人称号的作家。 “To a Waterfowl”致水鸟the most perfect brief poem in the language. 用美国英语写作的最完美的短诗。4、Edgar Allan Poe 埃德加.阿伦.坡show his true talents as an editor, poet, literary critic. 编辑、诗人、文学评论家。Grahams Magazine 格雷厄姆杂志(坡的工作场所)“The Fall of the House of Usher”鄂谢府崩溃记、“The Raven”乌鸦the tit

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