Selected Readings in American Literature

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Selected Readings in American Literature

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Lead-inWhat movies related to American Literature have you ever seen? – The Color Purple by Alice Walker – The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan – The Snows of Kilimanjar 《乞力马扎罗 山雪》 by Ernest Hemingway – The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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A General Introduction about American Literature Although short, however, still full of glories and shining masterpieces and writers. From its first imitative activities to creative attempts nowadays, American literature gradually gains its unique style, theme and form, and becomes more and more America in its true sense.

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Nobel Prize winners for literature in American literature Sinclair Lewis (1930) Eugene O'Neill (1936) Pearl S. Buck (1938) for her rich and trulyepic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces.

T.S. Eloit (1948) William Faulkner (1949) Ernest Hemingway (1954)

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John Steinbeck (1962) Saul Bellow (1976) Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) Czeslaw Milosz (Poland/USA切斯拉 夫米沃什) (1980) Toni Morrison (1993)

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The history of American literature can be divided into 5 partsI Colonial and Revolutionary Period (1607— 1820) II The Age of Romanticism (1820—1865) III The Age of Realism and Naturalism (1865—1918) IV The Age of Modernism(1918—1945) V Contemporary Literature (1945— )

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An Outline of American Literature1. Colonial and Revolutionary period (16071820) Anne Bradstreet 安妮布雷兹特里特 (1612-1672) the first main female poet in American LIterature , “Contemplations” 《沉思》, (1678) Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography, 1771-1790) Philip Freneau: Father of American Poetry

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2. The Age of Romanticism (1820—1865) New England Renaissance;Transcendentalism Washington Irving 华盛顿欧文(17831859),“美国文学之父” The Sketch Book 《见闻札记》(181920)

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James Fenimore Cooper 詹姆斯 费尼莫 库 詹姆斯费尼莫 费尼莫库 柏, (1789-1851) – Leatherstocking Tales 《皮袜子五部曲》 – Natty Bumppo 纳蒂班波 – Pioneers 《开拓者》(, 1823) – The Last of the Mohicans 《最后的莫希 干人》(1826)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫沃尔多 爱默 生(1803-1882) Nature 《论自然》(1836) Henry David Thoreau 亨利大卫梭罗 (1803-1862) Walden《沃尔登湖》(1854) Edgar Allan Poe 埃德加 爱伦 坡 (18091849) Poet, short story writer, literary critic, Father of Detective Story “The Raven”, 《乌鸦》 (1844) “The Fall of the House of Usher”, 《厄舍古屋的倒塌》 (1839)

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Nathaniel Hawthorne 纳撒尼尔霍桑(18041864) The Scarlet Letter, 《红字》 (1850) Herman Melville 赫尔曼麦尔维尔 (18191891) Moby-Dick 《白鲸》(1851) (1851 Walt Whitman 沃尔特 惠特曼 (1819-1892) Leaves of Grass, 《草叶集》 (1855,1856, 1860-1861) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 一位独特的女 诗人

,孤独的一生，奇特的风格，1775首 诗。

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3. The Age of Realism and Naturalism (1865— 1918) William Dean Howells威廉迪恩豪威尔斯 (1837-1920),美国现实主义文学的倡导者 和奠基人之一。 Henry James亨利詹姆斯(1843-1916) novliest, literary Critic Daisy Miller 《黛西 米勒》(1897) The Ambassadors 《使节》(1903)

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Local Colorism: Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 《哈克贝利费恩历险记》 (1886) Naturalism: Stephen Crane; Theodore Dreiser西奥多德莱赛(18711945) Sister Carrie 《嘉莉妹妹》(1900)

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4. The Age of Modernism (1918—1945) Willa Cather 威拉卡瑟 (1873-1947) My Antonia 《我的安冬尼娅》(1918) T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) The Waste Land 《荒原》, (1922)

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Lost Generation “迷惘的一代” F. Scott Fitzgerald F.斯各特菲茨杰拉 德(1896-1940) Ernest Hemingway欧内斯特海明威 (1899-1961) John Dos Passos约翰多斯帕索斯 (1896-1970) Thomas Wolfe托马斯沃尔夫(19001938)

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American Modernism / Southern Literature William Faulkner威廉福克纳(1897-1962 ) The Sound and the Fury 《喧哗与骚动》 (1929) Imagism: Ezra Pound William Carlos Williams The 1930s John Steinbeck