美国文学整理概要1.docx

introductionThe periods of American literature1.The colonial period (约1607 - 1765)The main features Puritanism2.The period of Enlightenment and the Independence War (1765 -1800)Benjamin Franklin3.The romantic period (1800 - 1865)(1)The early romanticism -------------------------Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper(2)“New England Transcendentalism” or “American Renaissance (1836 - 1855)”-----------Emerson Thoreau Whitman Dickinson Hawthorne Melville Allan Poe4.The realistic period (1865 - 1914)(1)Midwestern Realism --------------William Dean Howells(2)Cosmopolitan Novelist--------------Henry James(3)Local Colorism-------------Mark Twain(4)Naturalism-------------Stephen Crane Jack London Theodore Dreise5.The period of modernism (1914 - 1945)(1)Modern poetry: experiments in form (Imagism)----Ezra Pound T.S.Eliot Robert Frost(2)Prose Writing: modern realism (the Lost Generation)----F.Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway William Faulkner(3)Novels of Social Awareness---------Sinclair Lewis John Steinbeck Richard Wright(4)The Harlem Renaissance-------Langston Hughes Zora Neals Hurston(5)The 20th Century American Drama---Eugene O’Neil Tennessee Williams Arthur Asher Mille6.The Contemporary Literature (1945 -) American Poetry Since 1945: the Anti-traditionAmerican Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation.Nobel Prize winner1930 Scinclair Lewis Main Street1936 Eugene O’Neill The Hairy Ape 1938 Pearl S. Buck The Good Earth1949 William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury1954 Earnest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises1962 John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath1976 Saul Bellow Herzog1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer Gimpel the Fool 1987 Joseph Brodsky Six Years Later1993 Toni Morrison Beloved Lecture 2 American Literature in the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods(1607 -1800)1.From 1607, American writing began with the work of English adventurers and colonists in the New World chiefly for the benefit of readers in the mother country. Some of these early wo