美国文学思维导图

美国文学作家及其主要作品，简版

American literature

• the colonial culture 1607-1775
  • first permanent settlement 1607-Jamestown Virginia
  • 1620 mayflower Massachusetts
  • doctrine
    • 1.predestination 2.original sin and total depravity 3.limited atonement 4.theocracy
  • Anne Bradsteet (the tenth muse)
    • 1.first book《the tenth muse lately sprung up in the America》 2.several poems 3.to my dear and loving husband 4.contemplations 沉思录
• the revolutionary period 1776-1820
  • Thomas Pane
    • Common Sense
      • Powerful and widely read
  • Thomas Jefferson
    • The third president of the America
    • The declaration of independence 1776
  • Benjamin Franklin
    • style: 1.rather formal of organization 2.simplicity 3.subtl humor 4.sarcastic
    • Poor Richard Almanac
      • Lost time is never found again.
    • Autobiography
      • the first autobiography in English
• the romantic period 1821-1860
  • Washinton Irving
    • the father of American literature
    • The Sketch book 见闻札记
      • Rip Van Winkle
      • The legend of sleepy hollow
      • two of the bestlove stories from America
  • Hawthorne
    • style: 1.dark romanticism 2.inherent evil and sin of humanity 3.master of symbolism 4.multiple views 5.free indirect speech自由间接引语
    • 1.The scarlet letter 2.The House of the Seven Gables
  • Edgar Allen poe
    • Gothic; the father of detective tales and science fiction;
    • The Raven 乌鸦
  • Emily Dickson
    • a famous poet
      • love
      • death
      • nature
    • Because I Could Not Stop for Death
• the realistic period 1861-1914
  • Mark Twain
    • a writer, journalist and humorist
    • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Life on the Mississippi
  • O.Henry
    • 1.The gift of magi 2.The cop and the anthem 3.The Trimmed Lamp 4.The last leaf
  • Jack London
    • extensive life experiences
    • The Call of the Wild Martin Eden
  • Theodore Dreiser
    • The greatest American literature natualist
    • 1.Trilogy of Desire 2.Sister Carrie
• the modernist period
  • Ezra Pound
    • Imagism
      • 1.free verse 2.image 3.without interpretation 4.Free choice of subject matter
    • 1.A lamp Spento 熄灭的细烛 2.In a Station of the Metro 3.The Cantos 诗章（百科全书式的自由诗）
  • Ernest Hemingway
    • The lost generation （Gertrude Stein）
    • 1.The Sun Also Rises 2.Man without woman 3.A farewell to Arms 4.For Whom the Bell Tolls 5.Nobel Prize:Old Man and the Sea
      • Iceberg Theory grace under the pressure
  • F.Scott Fitzgerald
    • The spokesman of the roaring 20s The mirror of the jazz age
    • 1.The side of the paradise 人间天堂 2.The great Gatsby 3.Tender is the night 夜色温柔 4.Tales of the Jazz age
  • William Faulkner
    • Southern Writer-------Yoknapatawpha County约克纳帕塔法郡
      • 1.The sound and the Fury 喧哗与骚动 2.Absalom,Absalom 押沙龙 押沙龙 3.As I Lay Dying诺贝尔文学奖 3.A rose for Emily
• the literature since 1945
  • Arthur Asher Miller
    • an playwright and essayist
    • A View from the Bridge Death of a Salesman
  • Saul Bellow
    • a playwright and novelist
    • Seize the Day The Dangling Man
  • J.D.Salinger
    • The Catcher in the Rye