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1、negative to electrical charges.8） Writer,printer,publisher,scientist,philanthropist,and diplomat,he was the most famous and respected private figure of his time.hilip Freneau 菲利普 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 W

2、ild Honeysuckle野生的金银花； The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地（1）poet and political journalist 诗人和政治方面的新闻记者（2）perhaps the most outstanding writer of the post-revolutionary period.（3）has been called the Father of American Poetry 美国诗歌之父（4）Imaginative and melancholy treatment of nature and human life,and shar

3、p satire against the British tyranny19th Century American Literature Washington Irving（华盛顿.欧文）1James Fenimore Cooper（詹姆斯.芬尼莫.库珀）2Nathaniel Hawthorne（纳萨尼尔.霍桑）3Edgar Allan Poe （埃德加.阿伦.坡）4Henry Daived Thoreau（亨利.戴维.梭罗）5Herman Melville（赫尔曼.麦尔维尔）6Walt Whiteman（沃尔特.惠特曼）The Rise of American Romanticism? On

4、e of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War（1861-65）. It started with the publication of Washington Irvings e The h Sketch Book（1820） and ended with Whitmans s Leaves f of Grass（1855）.Romanticism的特

5、点：frequently shared certain general characteristics, moral enthusiam, faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perception, 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。Transcendentalism : Transcendentalists place

6、emphasis on the importance of the Over-soul, the individual and Nature. The most important representatives are Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.Washington Irving（华盛顿.欧文）A History of New York（纽约外史）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

7、传说-使之成为美国第一个获得国际声誉的作家；The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon（见闻札记 收录了The legend of the Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说和Rip Van Winkle瑞普.凡.温克尔等名篇 ,开创了美国短篇小说的传统）The Tales of a Traveller,（旅人述异）The Alhambra阿尔罕伯拉A HIstory of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus（哥伦布的生平和航行）1） the first great belletrist 第一个纯文学作家，2）

8、The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon（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青少年文学读物。3） 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。4） He was

9、 the first American to gain the stature of a major poet.第一个获得美国主要诗人称号的作家James Fenimore Cooper（詹姆斯.芬尼莫.库珀）1. Leather stocking Tale 皮袜子故事集, （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 Deerslayer杀鹿者、 The Last of the Mohicans最后的莫希干人、 The Pathfinder探路人、 The Pioneers拓荒

10、者、 The Prairie大草原,2.The Spy?间谍（about American Revolution）3.precaution（戒备）4. 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。5.拓荒者在草原上探路，遇到最后一个莫西干人在杀鹿。Nathaniel Hawthorne（纳萨尼尔.霍桑）1.Fanshawe（范肖）2.Twice-ToldTales（重讲

11、一遍的故事）3.The Blithedale Romance（福谷传奇）4.Mosses from an Old Manse（古宅青苔）（包括Young Goodman Brown小伙子布朗，The Celestial Railroad5.The Scarlet Letter（红字）6.The House of the Seven Gables?（带有七个尖角阁的房子）7.The Marble Faun（玉石人像）8.The life of Franklin Pierce9.Our Old Home特点：（1） unique gift was for the creation of stron

12、gly symbolic stories which touch the deepest roots of mans moral nature. 独特才能主要表现在他能够通过一些极具象征意义的故事来触摸人类灵魂深处的道德品质。 his ability to create vivid and symbolic images that embody great moral questions appears strongly in his short stories. 短篇小说里，通过活生生、极具有象征意义的想象来体现人类社会的一些重大道德问题。 to make a story exist in

13、its own right but at the same time appear as a moral symbol.杰出之处在于他能把一个故事安放在自己设置的正义标准之中来讲述，他书中的正义标准成为当时人们的道德参考。Edgar Allan Poe 埃德加.阿伦.坡1.show his true talents as an editor, poet, literary critic. 编辑、诗人、文学评论家。2.The Fall of the House of Usher鄂谢府崩溃记、 The Raven乌鸦the title poem of a collection, Tales of

14、the Grotesque and Arabesque述异集first collection of short stories. 第一部短篇小说集。3.often use grotesque or fantastic events.擅长描写哥特式和幻想类的小说。4.First workHenry David Thoreau 亨利.戴维.梭罗 Naturalist， transcendentalist,Writer and philosopher, Emersons truest disciple. Put into practice many of Emersons theories 爱默生最

15、忠实的信徒，把爱默生的许多理论付诸于实践。 Walden瓦尔登湖成名作。 Civil Disobedience平民反抗（论公民的不服从权利）essay 随笔。非暴力不合作 教义：I would not have anyone adopt my mode of living, each should find out his own way, not his neighbors or his parents. 我不希望人们接受我的生活模式，每一个都应该发现自己的生活方式，不是邻居的，也不是他父母的。Herman Melville（赫尔曼.麦尔维尔）1.-Novelist,short story

16、writer,essayist and poet. 2.Moby Dick白鲸，a tremendous chronicle of whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.主要讲述了一个为追捕一只想象中的神秘白鲸的漫长海上故事。 The book is steeped in symbolism. 本书达到了象征主义手法的创作高峰。 主人公：Ishmael，取自圣经。 在书中说：to write a mighty book you must have a mighty theme. 写一部宏大的着作，必须

17、有一个宏大的主题。 故事人物：Captain Ahab.船长阿哈比；Queequeg，捕鲸人奎因奎格，was a friendly person；3. Omoo 奥姆,Mardi玛迪,White-Jacket白外套,Billy Budd水手比利巴德,Pierre皮埃尔,Israel Potter伊斯雷尔波特,the Piazza Tales广场的故事,The Confidence-Man骗子,Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War,Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land?,John Marr and Oth

18、er Sailors（约韩玛尔和其他水手）?,Timoleon（梯摩里昂）Walt Whitman 沃尔特.惠特曼1.free verse （自由诗体） without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. 无固定节奏，无有规律的韵脚.2.Leaves of Grass草叶集 1870 the first genuine epic poem. Marked the birth of the truly American poetry.美国历史上第一部真正的史诗Poems 特点：most of the poems in Leaves of Grassare

19、about man and nature.3.关注点：In his poetry, he combined the ideal of democratic common man and that of the rugged individual4.诗人职责：he envisioned the poet as a hero, a savior and a prophet, one who leads the community by his expressions of the truth.表达真理的前提下，引导社会发展。5.他身处于超验主义与现实主义间的变革时期，着作兼并了二者的文风。惠特曼是

20、美国文坛中最伟大的诗人之一，有自由诗之父美誉。Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Literature （Realism）现实主义（realism）-New York replaced Boston as the nations literary center. 纽约成为新的文化中心。达尔文主义:an evident influence on naturalism, stress the animality of man, to suggest that be was dominated by the irresistible forces of

21、 evolution. 对自然主义影响极大，强调人的动物性，意味着人的命运受进化的不可抗力来决定的。The naturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and women had no free will, that their lives were controlled by heredity and the environment, the religious truths were illusory, that the destiny of humanity was misery in life and obliv

22、ion in death. 强调世界的非道德性，人们没有意志的自由，宗教上的真理是虚幻的，现实生活是痛苦的。 Deterministic 决定论，宿命的，1.Mark Twain（马克.吐温）2.Henry James（亨利.詹姆斯）3.Theodore Dreiser4.Jack LondonMark Twain（马克.吐温）1.美国现实主义文学的代表作Adventures of Huckleberry Finn哈克贝里.费恩历险记（马克最有名的作品）2.代表作:Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 哈克贝里.费恩历险记,美国现实主义文学的代表作the Gilded

23、Age 70-90年代，镀金时代，贫富分化，财富积累。 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer汤姆索亚历险记， The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County（卡拉维拉斯郡着名的跳蛙）-frontier tale The Innocents Abroad（傻子出国记） Roughing It（淘金岁月） Travel narratives: A Tramp Abroad（流浪汉在国外） Life on the Mississippi（密西西比河上的生涯） Following the Equator（赤道沿线） The Princ

24、e and the Pauper（乞丐公主）Henry James（亨利.詹姆斯）1. novelist小说家；Literature theoretician 文学理论家James is one of the great figures of c transatlantic literature.the founder of psychological realism.?心理现实主义的开创者： 2.代表作： Roderick Hudson?（罗德里克赫德森） The American（美国人） Daisy Miller（黛西米勒 The Portrait of a Lady一位女士的画像 Th

25、e Spoils of Poynton被凌辱的伯顿 The Wings of the Dove鸽翼 The Ambassadors使节 The Golden Bowl?金碗3.He was one of the three strong advocates of 19th century American realism, The two was Howells and Mark Twain.4.His literary technique is mainly concerned with “point of view”.,Theodore Dreiser 西奥多.德莱塞代表作： 1.Sist

26、er Carrie嘉莉妹妹 （the first novel, which traces the material rise of Carrie Meeber and the tragic decline of G. W. Hurstwood.） 2.Trilogy of Desire 欲望三部曲: The Financier（金融家） The Titan（巨人）、 The Stoic （斯多葛） 3.An American Tragedy美国悲剧，（The identification of potency with money is at the heart of Dreisers gre

27、atest and most successful novel,德莱塞最恢宏、最成功的小说，表达了金钱万能的主题。） 4. Plays of the Natural and Supernatural（自然和超自然的戏剧）， A Hoosier Holiday（印第安纳节日） Twelve Men（十二个男人）， A Book About Myself（关于我自己）， The Color of a Great City（大都会的色彩）， A Gallery of Women（妇女群像） Dawn（黎明）， Tragic America（悲剧的美国）， America Is Worth Savin

28、g（美国值得拯救）Jack London 杰克.伦敦： 1.was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. 2.A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, 3.he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone 5.代表作：The People of the Abyss（深渊里的人们） The Call of the Wild （野性的呼唤） The Sea Wolf（海狼） Martin Eden （马丁伊登） （autobiographical novel自传体小说） The Son of Wolf（狼子） White Fang（白牙）20th Century American Literature before WWII 1.Modernism现代主义：