美国文学史资料复习题

1、American Literature in the colonial（殖民） and Revolutionary（革命）: Benjamin Franklin （本杰明 富兰克林）1) Poor Richards Almanac 穷人理查德的年鉴（以笔名 Richard Sunders)2) annual collection of proverbs 流行谚语集 (It soon became the most popular book of its kind, largely because of Franklins shrewd（精明） humor, and first spread h

2、is reputation)3) The Way to Wealth (Father Abrahams Sermon) 致富之道 (as the preface（前言） to Poor Richard Improved)4) The Autobiography 自传 (18世纪美国唯一流传至今的自传)5) Founded the Junto, a club for informal discussion of scientific, economic and political ideas. 建立了一个俱乐部，讨论的主题是政治、经济和科学等时事方面的问题。6) Established Amer

3、icas first circulating library, founded the college-University ofPennsylvania 建立了美国第一个可租借的图书馆,还创办了一所大学就是现在的宾夕法尼亚大学7) first applied the terms positive and negative to electrical（电气） charges.8) Writer, printer, publisher, scientist, philanthropist（慈善家）, and diplomat（外交官）. He was the most famous and re

4、spected private （私人的）figure（人物）of his time.Fhilip Freneau（菲利普 费瑞诺）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 Wild 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

5、the most outstanding writer of the post-revolutionary period（后革命时期）.(3)has been called the Father of American Poetry(4)imaginative（富有想象力的） and melancholy（忧郁的） treatment of nature and human life, and sharp satire（讽刺） against the British tyranny（暴政）19 Century American LiteratureWashington Irving（华盛顿 欧

6、文）1. James Fenimore Cooper（詹姆斯 芬尼莫 库珀）2. Nathaniel Hawthorne（纳撒尼尔 霍桑）3. Edgar Allan Poe （埃德加 爱伦 坡）4. Henry Daived Thoreau （亨利 戴维 梭罗）5. Herman Melville（赫尔曼 麦尔维尔）6. Walt Whiteman（沃尔特 惠特曼）The Rise of American Romanticism（浪漫主义）：One of the most important periods in the history of American literature, str

7、etches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak（爆发） of the Civil War(1861 - 1865)（内战）It started with the publication of Washington Irvings The h Sketch Book（见闻札记）(1820) and ended with Whitmans Leaves f of Grass(1855)（草叶集）Romanticism 特点 : frequently shared certain general characteristics（特征）,

8、 moral（道德） enthusiasm（热情）, faith（信仰） in the value（价值） of individualism（个人主义） and intuitive（直觉的） perception（洞察力，）, and a presumption（假定） that he naturalworld was a source of corruption（腐败）.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（超验主义）: Transcendentalists place emph

9、asis（重点） on the importance of the Oversoul（超灵）, the individual（个人） and Nature. The most important representatives（代表） are Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry DavidThoreau.Washington Irving（华盛顿 欧文）A History of New York纽约外史 - 美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作（华盛顿 欧文）;The Sketch Book 见闻札记The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 睡谷传说 - 使华盛顿

10、 欧文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Tales of the Alhambra阿尔罕布拉故事 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

11、文学作家； 2) 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（恢复） the waning（减弱） Gothic romances which Poe soon infused（注入） with psychological（心理） subtleties（微妙之处）. 重振了没落的哥特式浪漫主义小说，随后

12、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 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（詹姆斯费尼莫尔库柏 ）1. Leatherstocking Tale皮袜故事集(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

13、 Pathfinder探路人、 The Pioneers拓荒者、 The Prairie大草原, 2. The Spy 间谍 ( about American Revolution（革命）) 3. The precaution(戒备) 4.contribution: launched two kinds of immensely（非常） popular stories the sea adventure tale and the frontier（边境） saga（传奇） 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。Natha

14、niel Hawthorne（霍桑）1.Fanshawe（范肖） 2.Twice-ToldTales（重讲一遍的故事）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 Railroad 5.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 Pierce 9.

15、Our Old Home 特点：(1) Unique gift was for the creation of strongly 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。(2) His ability to create vivid and symbolic images that embody great moral questions appears strongly in his short stories. 短

16、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。(3) To make a story exist in 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（埃德加爱伦坡）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

17、of Usher鄂谢府崩溃记、 The Raven乌鸦the title poem of a collection、 Tales of 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 work塔默兰诗集 Henry David Thoreau（亨利大卫梭罗）Naturalist， transcendentalist,Writer and philosopher,(

18、1)Emersons truest disciple. Put into practice many of Emersons theories 爱默生最忠实的信徒，把爱默生的许多理论付诸于实践。 (2)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 (3)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

19、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（赫尔曼梅尔维尔）1.-Novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet; 2.Moby Dick白鲸，a tremendous chronicle of whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly（似乎） 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

20、公：Ishmael，取自圣经； 在书中说：to write a mighty book you must have a mighty theme. 写一部宏大的著作，必须有一个宏大的主题。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

21、Aspects of the War,Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, John Marr and Other 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 (方案). 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. 美国历史上第一部真正的

22、史诗Poems 特点：most of the poems in -Leaves of Grass are about man and nature.3. 关注点：In his poetry, he combined（合并） the ideal of democratic（民主的） common man and that of the rugged（崎岖） individual（个人）4. 诗人职责：he envisioned（预想的） the poet as a hero, a savior and a prophet（预言家）, one who leads the community by

23、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,著作兼并了二者的文风。惠特曼是美国文坛中最伟大的诗人之一，有自由诗之父美善。Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Literature (Realism) 现实主义 (realism) New York replaced Boston as the nations literary center. 为新的文化中心。 达尔文主义 (Social Darwinism) an evident influence on n

24、aturalism, stress the animality(兽性) of man, to suggest that be was dominated by the irresistible forces of 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 freewill, that their lives were controlled by heredity and the

25、environment, there ligious-truthswere illusory, that the destiny of humanity was misery in life and oblivion in death. 强调世界的非道德性,人们没有意志的自由, 宗教上的真理是虛幻的,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 Herman Albert Dreiser（西奥多赫曼阿尔伯特德莱赛）4. Jack London（杰克 伦敦）Mark Twa

26、in(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 Age70-90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卡拉维拉斯郡著名的跳蛙 Frontier tale The Innocents

27、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 Prince 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 transatlantic（跨大西洋） literature. t

28、he 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 The 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（倡导者） of 19th century

29、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.Sister 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

30、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（鉴别） of potency（效力） with money is at the heart of Dreisers greatest 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Twel

31、ve 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 Saving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 fictio

32、n, 3. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone 4. 代表作：The People of the Abyss（深渊）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 Ame

33、rican Literature before WWII 1.Modernism现代主义：is loosely a synonym（代名词） of anything contemporary（当代的）. Strictly, especially in literary criticism, which began in the late 19th century and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base. They pay more attention to the psychic time than the chron

34、ological one. 2.现代主义的标志：T. S. Eliots The Waste Land, the most significant American poem of the twentieth century, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive（暗指） thought. 3.典型的迷惘一代： F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 了不起的盖茨比 novel Ernest Hemingway: The Sun

35、 Also Rises太阳照样升起 A Farwell to Arms告别了，武器 William Faulkner（威廉卡斯伯特福克纳） The Sound and the Fury喧嚣与骚动 4.Playwrights 戏剧、剧作家： Eugene ONeill（尤金奥尼尔）: The Emperor Jones琼斯国王、 Anna Christie安娜.克里斯蒂、 The Hairy Ape毛猿 5,代表人物： Robert Frost 罗伯特.弗洛斯特Ezra Pound 埃兹拉.庞德 F. Scott Fitzgerald F.司各特.菲茨杰拉德 William Faulkner 威

36、廉.福克纳 Ernest Hemingway 厄恩斯特.海明威 John Steinbeck 约翰.斯坦贝克 Robert Frost（罗伯特弗罗斯特）1.自然主义诗人（He saw nature as a storehouse of analogy and symbol.） 2.he become a national bard美国民族诗人的翘首, win four Pulitzer Prizes获得了四次普利兹奖. 3. The Road Not Taken（未选择的路） Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening（雪夜林间驻足）向往大自然，想逃避社会；死亡、

37、迷惑 4.代表作：A Boys Will少年的意志, North of Boston波士顿之北,Mountain Interval山洼, west-running Brook(西去的溪流),A Further range又一片牧场, A Masque（面具） of Reason理智的假面具, In the Clearing林间空地Ezra Pound（艾兹拉庞德）1. Imagism 意象派的代表人物。Pound and Eliot became the early leaders in restoring to poetry the use of literary reference as

38、an imaginative instrument. 庞德和爱略特都是运用意象主义作为文学表现手法的早期诗人。2.Imagism emphasized the direct treatment of an object or situation. 3.Pound endorsed three principles（原则） of the imagism:”direct treatment”,”economy of expression”,and”rhythm”. 4.Work: In a Station of the Metro 地铁站的一撇 (best exemplifies his Imag

39、ist ideal) Collection Poems of Ezra Pound. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald（弗朗西斯斯科特基菲茨杰拉德）1.F. Scott Fitzgerald F. is considered a member of the Lost Generation of the 1920s 2. He was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. 3.作品：This Side o

40、f Paradise人间天堂，the first novel. The Great Gatsby 了不起的盖茨比 novel Tender Is the Night 夜色温柔 novel Flappers and Philosophers Tales of the Jazz Age (爵士时代的故事) All the Sad Young Men (所有悲伤的年轻人的故事)Taps at Rveille The Beautiful and Damned (美丽与毁灭)(漂亮冤家) The Last Tycoon(unfinished) (最后一个大亨)William Cuthbert Faulkner （威廉卡斯伯特福克纳）1.作品的主题：the un