American literature after WWI.docx

1、American literature after WWI1 American Literature in Transition 1945-19602.American Literature in the 1960s3.Contemporary American Novels4.Contemporary American Drama5.Contemporary American Poetry6.Contemporary Popular Literature7.Comtemporary American Literary Criticism1 American Literature in Tra

2、nsition 1945-19601.1 Historical backgroundingEconomy Cold War McCathy The Silent Generation1.2 The New Generation of Writers1.2.1 War NovelJohn Hersey, James Gould Cozzens, Irwin Shaw, James Jones, Herman Wouk, Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead (1948)1.2.2 Jewish-American NovelSaul Bellow Danglin

3、g Man, The Victim, The Aducatures of Augie March, Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain king, Herzog, Mr.Sammlers PlanetBernard Malamud The AssistantIssac Bashevis Singer The family Moskat Gimpel the Fool The Magician of Lublin1.2.3 Southern NovelRobert Penn Warren, Truman Capote, Carson McCullersWillia

4、n Styron, Eudora Welty The Optimists DaughterFlanmery OCannor A Good Man is Hard to Find1.2.4 Afro-American Novel Ann Petry The Street Ralph Ellison Invissible Man James Baldwin Go Fell it on the Mountain1.2.5 流浪汉小说 Jerome David Salinger The Catcher in the Rye Jack Kerouac On the Road1.3 The New Dra

5、ma1.3.1 ONeil The Iceman cometh Long Days Journey into Night1.3.2 Broadway and Off- Broadway1.3.3 Musical Play1.3.4 Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire Cat on a Hot-Tin Roof The Night of the Inguana The Milk Train Doesnt Stop Here Anywhere1.3.5 Arthur Miller All My sons D

6、eath of a Salesman Crucible A View from the Bridge After the Fall1.3.6 William Inge Come Back, Little Sheba Picnic Bus Stop The Dark at the Top of the Stairs1.4 Beats, the Black Mountain Poets, and the Confessional Poets Beats Allen Ginsburg Howl Gary Snyder Kenneth Rexroth Laurence Ferlinghetti the

7、 Black Mountain Poets Charles Olson The Kingfishers The Maximus Poems Robert Duncan Robert Greeley the Confessional Poets Robert Lowell Land of Unlikeness Land Wearys Castle Life Studies W.D.Snodgrass Hearts Needle John Berryman The Dream songs Anne Sexton Silvia Plath1.5 The “New Criticism” and oth

8、er Schools of Literary Criticism1.5.1 “New Criticism”William K.Wimsatt and Menroe C.Beardsley The Intentional Fallacy The Affective Fallacy Cleanth Brooks Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the structure of Poetry Rene Wellek and Warren Theory of Literary1.5.2 The Chicago School and New York Intellectuals

9、 Ronald Crane Wayne BoothLionel Trilling Leslie fielder Philip Rhav2.American Literature in the 1960s2.1. Historical backgrounding Kennedy Vietname War Racial Conflict Hippies 2.2. Realistic , Experimental Novel and Black Humor2.2.1.Realistic SchoolJohn Cheever The Wapshot Chronicle The Wapshot Scan

10、dal Bullet ParkWalker Percy The Movie Love in the RuinsJohn Updike Rabbit, Run Rabbit, Redeux Rabbit is Rich Rabbit at Rest Rabbit Remembered(2000)2.2.2 Experimental Novel John Hawks The Cannibal The Lime Twig Second Skin John Barth The Floating Opera The End of the Road Lost in the Fun House Willia

11、m.H.Gass Omensetters Luck Donald Barthelme Snow White The Dead father2.2.3. Black Humor Joseph Heller Catch-22 Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot49 Gravitys Rainbow Vineland Kurt Vonnegut Cats Cradle Slaughter house-Five2.3 Albee and New Developments in the American Theater2.3.1. Albee and The Absurd

12、Theater Whos Afraid of Vivginia wolf? The Zoo Story The Sandbox The American Dream The Death of Bessie Smith2.3.2 Jack Gelber ConnectionArthur Kopit The Questioning of Nick Sing to Me Through Open Windows IndiansJack Richardson The prodigal2.3.3 Off-Off-Broadway 2.3.4 Afro-American Playwrights Lorra

13、ine HansBerry A Raisin in the Sun Alice Childress Le Roi Jones Ed Bullins2.4.New Trends of Poetry2.4.1 The New Yorker Frank OHara John Ashbery Kenneth Koch2.4.2 Neo-surrealism Robert Bly James Wright William Staflord Louis Simpson2.4.3 Neo-Formlists Richard Wilbur Howard Nemerov James Merrill3.Conte

14、mporary American Novels3.1. Historical backgroundingimproved racial conflict end of the War Watergate Scandal conservative presperity3.2. Neo-Realism Robert Stone Dog Soldiers E.L.Doctorow Ragtime Worlds Fair Billy Bathgate Robert Coover The Public Burning Don De Lillo White Noise, Underworld3.3. Je

15、wish-American writers Stanley Elkin Walter Abish How German is it Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus Sabbaths Theater American Pastoral Paul Auster City of Glass Ghosts The Locked Room Cynthia Ozick The Shawl3.4. Afro-Ameican WritersErnest J.Gaines The Autobiography of Jane PiffmanAlex Haley RootsGayle J

16、ones Toni Cade Bambara Alice Walker In love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women The Third Life of Grange Copeland The Color Purple Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye Sula Song of Solomon Tar Baby Beloved Jazz Paradise3.5. Native American Writers N.Scott Momady The House Made of Dawn The Ancient Child Lesh

17、e Marmon Silko Ceremony Story teller James Welsh Winter in the Blood Fools Crow Gerald Vizenov The Everlasting Sky The People Named the Chippewa Louise Erdrich Love Medicine Beet Queen Tracks Tales of Burning Love Michael A.Dorris A Yellow Raft on Blue Water3.6. Chinese American WritersFrank Chin an

18、d his Literary Works Food for All His Dead Gunga Din Highway Donald Duck Plays:The Chickencoop Chinaman The Year of the DragonMaxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girhood among GhostsChina Men Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake BookAmy Tan The Joy Luck Club The Kitchen Gods Wife The Hundre

19、d Secret Senses The Bonesetters DaughterGish Jen Typical American Mona in the Promised LandWho is Irish?Gus Lee China Boy Glory and Duty The Tail of the Trigger3.7.Women Writers Alison Lurie Foreign Affairs Ann Beatie Falling in Place Bobbie Ann Mason In Country Joyce Carol Oates Them Wonderland Wha

20、t I Lived For4.Contemporary American Drama4.1. Broadway Playwrights: Simon and WilsonNeil Simon Jewish 1960s Come Blow Your Horn Barefoot in the Park The Odd Couple 1970s Brighton Beach Memories Biloxi Blues Broadway BoundLandford Wilson 1960s The Madness of Lady Bright This Is the Rill Speaking Bal

21、m in Gilead The Rimers of Eldritch 1970s The Hotel Baltimore Fifth of July Talleys Folly4.2. Ribman, Rabe and GuareRonald Ribman Cold StorageDavid Rabe The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel Sticks and Bones StreamersJohn Guare The House of Blue Leaves4.3. Shepard and Mamet Sam Shephard Curse of the Sta

22、rving The Buried Child True West David Mamet Duck Variations 1974 Sexual Perversity in Chicago American Buffalo4.4. Afro-American playwrights Charles Fuller A soldiers Play August Wilson Ma Raineys Black Bolton The Piano Lesson Fences Women Writers: J.E.Frankin Black Girl Pearl Cleage Flin West4.5.

23、Chinese-American Playwrights Frank Chin The Chickencoop Chinaman The Year of the Dragon David Henry Huang FOB The Dance and the Railroad Family Devotions Rich Relations M.Butterfly5.Contemporary American Poetry5.1. Post-Confessional Poetry Paul Zimmer The Zimmer Poems Charles Wright Black Zodiac Gre

24、gory Orr William Matthews5.2. Language Poetry Language Group Ron Silliman Michael Palmer BruceAndrews Clark Cooling Charles Berstein5.3. Other Major Poets Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems Amy Clampitt Philip Levine Donald Itall Mark Strand Adrienne Rich5.4. Ethnic Poetry5.4.1 Afro-American Poets

25、Gwendolyn Brooks Robert Hayden Don Lek Nikki Giovanni Maya Angelon On the Pulse of Morning Rita Dove Thomas and Baulah5.4.2 Native Poets Momady Gourd Dance James Welch Riding the Earthboy 40 Gerald Vizenor Raising the Moon Vine Matsushima Louise Erdrich Jacklight Baptism of Desire Allen, Ortiz, Barn

26、es, Harjo, Bear6.Contemporary Popular Literature6.1. The Continuing Development of Popular Historical Western Louis LAmour Jack Schaefer First Blood6.2. The Evolution and Popularity of Modern Crime Fiction Patricia Highswith Margaret Miller Mario Puzo The Godfather Leslie Waller George Higgins Elmor

27、e Leonard6.3. The Resurging of Womens Fiction, Science Fiction and Horror Fiction Erich Segal Love Story Helen Van Slyke Danielle Steel Harry Harrison Samuel Delany William GibsonStephen King6.4. The Rise of Sweet-Savage Romance and High-Thchnical Thriller Kathleen Woodwiss The Flame and the Flower

28、Rosemary Rogers Sweet Savage Love Tom Clancy The Hunt for Red October Michael Crichton Jurassic Park6.5 The Revival of Social Expose Fiction Margaret Truman Sidney Sheldon Robin Cook John Grishman7.Comtemporary American Literary Criticism7.1 Sructuralism Robert Scholes Stucturalism in Literature:An

29、Introduction(1974)Jonathan Culler Strcturalist Poetics:Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature(1975)7.2Deconstruction Jacques Derrida Structure,Sign and the Play in the Discourse of the Human Science(1966), Of Grammatology(1967), Writing and Difference(1967),Speech and Phenomena(1967)

30、 Dissemination(1972)“Yale School”Paul de Man Blindness and Insight:Essays in the Rhotoric of Contemporary Criticism(1971) Allegories of Reaing:Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzche, Rilke and Proust(1979)Hillis Miller George Poulets “Criticism of Identification”(1971) Tradition and Difference(1972) Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels(1982) Deconstruction and Criticism(1979)Geoffrey H.Hartman Harold BloomDerrida, De Man, Miller-boa-deconstructors7.3. Jamesons Marxist Criticism Fredric Jameson Marxism and Form: Tw