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 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
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;
Emily Dickson
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