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AmericanLiterature:AConciseHistoryI.Review1.WhowroteTheAmerican?(2023)A.HermanMelvilleﻩ ﻩB.NathanielHawthorneC.HenryJamesﻩ ﻩﻩﻩD.TheodoreDreiser2.DeathofaSalesmanwaswrittenby____.(2023)A.ArthurMiller ﻩﻩ B.ErnestHemingwayC.RalphEllison ﻩD.JamesBaldwin3.ThenovelForWhomtheBellTollsiswrittenby___.(2023)A.ScottFitzgerald B.WilliamFaulknerC.EugeneO’Neil ﻩ D.ErnestHemingway4.WilliamSydneyPorter,knownasO’Henry,ismostfamousfor_____.(2023)A.hispoemsﻩﻩﻩ B.hisplaysC.hisshortstoriesﻩ ﻩﻩD.hisnovelsII.HistoricalPeriods1.ColonialPeriod:17th~18th(faith→reason)2.RomanticPeriod:endof18thtotheCivilWar★3.TheAgeofRealism:1865-1890★4.TheAgeofNaturalism:1890-19005.ModernPeriod:1912-1945★6.PostwarRealism:1950s-1960s7.Postmodernism:1960s-1980sIII.KeyFigures1.BenjaminFranklin2.JamesFenimoreCooper,WashingtonIrving;EdgarAllanPoe,WaltWhitman,EmilyDickinson/NathanielHawthorne,HermanMelville(R.W.Emerson,H.D.Thoreau)3.O’Henry,HenryJames,MarkTwain4.StephanCrane,TheodoreDreiser,JackLondon5.EzraPound,T.S.Eliot,R.L.Frost/ErnestHemingway,F.S.Fitzgerald,SinclairLewis,JohnSteinbeck/EugeneO’Neill,TennesseeWilliams,ArthurMiller6.JeromeSalinger7.NabokovMarkTwain:①Trend:realism(localcolorism)②Genre:fiction③Masterpiece:TheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinn④DistinctiveStyle:vernacularlanguage⑤OtherImportantWorksIV.Sample1.Americanliteratureproducedonlyonefemalepoetduringthe19thcentury.Shewas__________.A.AnneBradstreetﻩﻩ ﻩB.JaneAustenﻩC.KatherineAnnePorterﻩD.EmilyDickinson2.ThefirstAmericantowintheNobelPrizeforLiteraturewasasharpsocialcritic,whosenamewas__________.A.T.S.Eliotﻩ ﻩ B.SinclairLewisﻩC.ErnestHemingway ﻩD.WilliamFaulkner3.WhichofthefollowingisNOTincludedinDreiser’strilogyofdesireconcerningtheruthlessnessofcapitalists?A.TheGenius B.TheFinancierC.TheTitanﻩﻩﻩﻩ ﻩ D.TheStoic4.WithHowells,James,andMarkTwainactiveonthescene,__________becamethemajortrendintheseventiesandeightiesofthenineteenthcentury.A.sentimentalism ﻩB.romanticismC.realismﻩﻩ ﻩﻩ D.naturalism5.From1732to1758,Franklinwroteandpublishedhisfamous__________,anannualcollectionofproverbs.A.Autobiographyﻩﻩ ﻩﻩB.PoorRichard’sAlmanacC.CommonSenseD.TheGeneralMagazine6.“TheAmericanRenaissance”istheperiodof______inthehistoryofAmericanliterature.A.localcolorismﻩﻩﻩ ﻩﻩB.RomanticismC.Transcendentalism ﻩ D.Colonism7._________isMarkTwain’smasterwork,theonebookfromwhichasHemingwaynoted,“AllmodernAmericanliteraturecomes”.A.TheGildedAgeﻩﻩﻩﻩ ﻩB.LifeontheMississippiC.TheAdventuresofTomSawyerD.TheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinn8._______istheonlyAmericanplaywrightawardedNobelPrizeofLiterature.A.ArthurMillerﻩ ﻩ ﻩB.EugeneO’NeillC.TennesseeWilliams D.SinclairLewis9.WhichofthefollowingdoesNOTbelongto“BeatGeneration”?A.JackKerouac ﻩ ﻩﻩﻩB.F.S.FitzgeraldC.AllenGinsbergﻩ ﻩﻩﻩD.WilliamBurroughs10.__________isidentifiedasthefatherofmodernAmericanpoetry,whoalsoplaysanimportantroleintransmittingChineseculturetotheEnglish-speakingworld.A.T.S.Eliotﻩ ﻩ B.RobertFrostC.EzraPound ﻩﻩ ﻩD.WaltWhitmanI.ColonialPeriod:17th~18thTheinfluenceofPuritanismonwriting:fresh,simpleandplaintraceabletothedirectinfluenceoftheBiblefrequentreferencetothetechniqueofsymbolismAnneBradstreetTheTenthMuseLatelySprungupinAmericaMichaelWigglesworthTheDayofDoomEdwardTaylor:ametaphysicalpoetBenjaminFranklin:thespokesmanoftheAmericanEnlightenment(AgeofReason/GreatAwakening);createdtheimageoftheYankeepseudonym:SilenceDogoodPoorRichard’sAlmanacAutobiographyThomasPaine(hisstyle:plain)CommonSense—thefirstpamphleturgingimmediateindependencefromBritain;hismostfamouspamphlet;thegreatestoftheRevolutionarypamphletsPhilipFreneauThefirstAmerican-bornpoet;PoetoftheAmericanRevolutionTheme:nationalismThebeginningofAmericanRomanticismII.RomanticPeriod:1)EarlyRomanticsNewEnglandPoets(Fireside/SchoolroomPoets):HenryWadsworthLongfellowThesongofHiawatha—thefirstAmericanepicinblankverseabouttheAmericanIndiansThefirstAmericanpoettobehonoredbyhavinghisbustplacedinthePoets’CornerofWestminsterAbbeyWilliamCullenBryant:theAmericanWordsworthThanatopsis(ponderingondeath)—hisgreatestpoemNovelist:JamesFenimoreCooper:thefirstsuccessfulAmericannovelist32novels3kinds:abouttherevolutionarypast—TheSpyaboutthesea—Thepilot★aboutthefrontier—TheLeatherstockingTales(ThePioneers,TheLastoftheMohicans,ThePrairie,ThePathfinder,andTheDeerslayer;protagonist:NattyBumppo--“theessentialAmericansoul”byD.H.Lawrence)StoryWriterandProseStylist:WashingtonIrvingTheSketchBookwonhiminternationalfame“RipVanWinkle”&“TheLegendofSleepyHollow”“Crayon”styleIntroducedthefamiliaressaytoAmericaII.RomanticPeriod:2)TranscendentalistsNewEnglandTranscendentalism=AmericanRenaissanceFeatures:Itstressedthepowerofintuition.Itplacedspiritfirstandmattersecond.IttooknatureassymbolicofspiritorGod.Itemphasizedthesignificanceoftheindividual.Itenvisionedreligionasanemotionalcommunicationbetweenanindividualsoulandtheuniversal“Oversoul”.Itheldthatcommercewasdegrading.TheTranscendentalClub&theirjournalTheDialEssayists:RalphWaldoEmersonTranscendentalism’smostseminalforceTheLyceumMovementNature—“themanifestoofAmericantranscendentalism”TheAmericanScholar—“America’sDeclarationofIntellectualIndependence”HenryDavidThoreauHisfirstmajorinfluence:nonviolentstruggleasexpressedinhis“CivilDisobedience”Hissecondmajorinfluence:callof“BacktoNature”Walden—aclassicofAmericanprose;readslikeadiaryofanatureloverSymbolismII.RomanticPeriod:3)HighRomanticsEdgarAllanPoeLiterarytheories:1)AtheoryofPoetryThemostimportantpurposeofpoetryisthecreationofbeauty(Englishasamediumofpuremusicalandrhythmicbeauty).Thetoneofitshighestmanifestationisoneofsadness.Thedeathofabeautifulwomanisthemostpotentialtopic.death–predominantthemeinPoe’swriting“Poeisnotinterestedinanythingalive.EverythinginPoe’swritingsisdead.”2)AboutHisFictionThementalworldofthepeopleshouldbeilluminated.Theprincipleofconcentrationandthematictotalityshouldbestressed.Truthratherthanbeautyisoftentheaimofthetale.Literaryachievements:TheRaven—hismostfamousnarrativepoemDetectivestories,ratiocinativestories&sciencefictionTheMurdersintheRueMorgueTheFalloftheHouseofUsherTheMasqueoftheRedDeathWaltWhitmanLeavesofGrass(9editions)—America’sfirstgenuineepicpoemStyle:freeverseTheenvelopestructure,cataloguetechnique,thoughtrhythmRepresentsaturningpointinthehistoryofAmericanpoetryEmilyDickinsonForthewhole19thcenturyshewastheonlywomanpoetwhoenjoyshighacademicesteemtoday.PoemsThemes:religion–doubtandbeliefaboutreligioussubjectsdeathandimmortalitylove–sufferingandfrustrationcausedbylovephysicalaspectofdesirenature–kindandcruelfreewillandhumanresponsibilityNathanielHawthorne—thefirstAmericanromancer;thefirstmajornovelistinEnglishtowedmoralitytoartHisnovelswereperhapsthedeepestandmostpsychologicalinthe19thcentury.TheScarletLetterHesterPrynne,Pearl,Chillingworth,DimmesdalePointofview:Evilisatthecoreofhumanlife.Whereverthereissin,thereispunishment.Sinorevilcanbepassedfromgenerationtogeneration.HermanMeiville—anadventurewriter,knownas“amanwholivedwithcannibals”MobyDick—thefirstAmericanproseepic;thegreatestAmericannovelbysomecriticsAsymboltorepresentcruel,brutal,maliciouspowersofnatureThetechniqueofmultipleviewsStyle:highlysymbolicandmetaphoricalIII.TheAgeofRealismFeatures:truthfuldescriptionoflifetypicalcharacterundertypicalcircumstanceobjectiveratherthanidealized,closeobservationandinvestigationoflife“Realisticwritersarelikescientists.”open-ending:Lifeiscomplexandcannotbefullyunderstood.Itleavesmuchroomforreaderstothinkbythemselves.WilliamDeanHowellsProductiveexceptthegenreofpoetryTheRiseofSilasLaphamWilliamSydneyPorter(O.Henry)Thesurpriseendingishisspecialty,e.g.“TheCopandtheAnthem”.SherwoodAnderson:Winesburg,Ohio★HenryJames:novelsofmannersDevelopedtheinternationalnovelDaisyMillerestablishedhisreputationathomeandabroad(theme:Americaninnocencevs.Europeansophistication)TheAmbassadors:hismost“perfect”workofart,claimedbyhimself3influentialsubjects:children,newwomenandartistsTheoryoffictioninhisTheArtofFictionChiefcriterion:showingratherthantellinghonors:thefirstofthe“modernpsychologicalnovelists”A“realistoftheinnerlife”AbridgeofAmericanandEuropeanculturesLocalColorismThelate1860stoearly1870sTowriteorpresentlocalcharactersoftheirregionsintruthfuldepictiondistinguishedfromothers,usuallyaverysmallpartoftheworld.HamlinGarland’s“UndertheLion’sPaw”HarrietBeecherStowe:UncleTom’sCabin—thegreatestofallanti-slaveryliteratureMarkTwain(SamuelClemens)—“theLincolnofourliterature”;thetruefatherofAmericanliteratureOnefamousessay:“TothePersonSittinginDarkness”Hisgreatestachievement:TheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinnOtherworks:Hispennamewasmadefamousby“TheNotoriousJumpingFrogoftheCalaverusCounty”;TheGildedAge:asatireagainstcorruptionTheAdventuresofTomSawyer;LifeontheMississippicolloquiallanguage,vernacularlanguage,dialectslocalcoloursyntacticfeature:sentencesaresimple,brief,sometimesungrammaticalhumourtalltales(highlyexaggerated)socialcriticism(satireonthedifferentuglythingsinsociety)III.TheAgeofRealism:ComparisonThemeHowells–middleclassJames–upperclassTwain–lowerclassTechniqueHowells–genteelrealismJames–psychologicalrealismTwain–localcolorismandcolloquialismIV.TheAgeofNaturalismRealismvs.Naturalism:Thoughnaturalistsalsodescribereallife,theypresentharsherreality,usuallytheviolent,sensational,unpleasant,anduglyaspectsoflife.Theirwritingstyleandtechniqueweremoreinnovative.StephanCrane--pessimismMaggie,AGirloftheStreets—thefirstnaturalisticnovelwrittenbyanAmericanTheRedBadgeofCourage—hismostfamousbookabouttheAmericanCivilWarStyle:realistic,naturalistic,andimpressionisticFrankNorris--optimismMcTeague—thefirstfull-bodiednaturalisticAmericannovelTheOctopus—hismostimpressiveproseepicTheodoreDreiser–“thewheelhouseofAmericannaturalism”SisterCarrie:aslavetoherheredityandtoherenvironmentAnAmericanTragedy:hismasterpieceStyle:journalisticmethodofreiteration,word-pictures,sharpcontrast,stubbornhonestyJackLondonTheSonoftheWolf—firstcollectionofthestoriesTheCalloftheWild—anall-timebestsellerHisfictionhastheunusualandintriguingpowerofancientmyth.Theoriginatorofanewtypeofwriting:roughrealismV.ModernPeriod:1)PoetrySub-branches:Imagism,symbolism,impressionism,futurism,constructivism,surrealism,etcFeatures:Modernismdramatizeddiscontinuity.Modernistshadasenseoffragmentation.Ithasastrongandconsciousbreakwithtradition.(streamofconsciousness)V.ModernPeriod1)PoetryEzraPound—thefatherofmodernAmericanpoetryCantos—hismajorworkofpoetryCathay—avolumeofChinesetranslationsStyle:clarity,precisionandadirectconversationaldiction,economyofverseImagismT.S.Eliot—apoet,aplaywright,andaliterarycriticHedeclaredhimselfa“classicistinliterature,royalistinpolitics,andAnglo-Catholicinreligion”TheWasteLand—acentralpoemofmodernism;readslikeamanifestoofthe“LostGeneration”FivesegmentsOrganizingprinciple:themythofdeathandrebirthNewEnglandPoets:E.A.RobinsonwonPulitzerforthreetimes.RobertLeeFrost—themostpopularAmericanpoetfrom1914tohisdeathHewonPulitzerforfourtimes.PastoralpoetryV.ModernPeriod2)FictionLostGeneration:ThetermwasfirstusedbyGertrudeStein.ErnestHemingway—aNobelPrizeWinner(1954)TheSunalsoRisesAFarewelltoArms:establishedhisreputationasagreatAmericanwriterForWhomtheBellTollsTheOldManandtheSeaTelegraphicstyleIcebergtheoryofwriting“thecodehero”FrancisScottFitzgeraldThisSideofParadise—hisfirstnovel;thefirstAmericannoveldepictingthecasualdissipationsof“flamingyouth”TheGreatGatsby—hisbestnovelwhichdealswiththefrustrationanddespairresultingfromthefailureoftheAmericandream★SinclairLewis—thefirstAmericanwritertoreceivetheNobelPrizeforliterature(1930)MainStreetsatirizesthesmugprovincialcomplacencyofthemiddleclassBabbitt—hismasterpieceTheword“babbittry”meansenergeticshallownessandself-satisfactionSatiricmonologueJohnSteinbeck—theforemostwriteroftheGreatDepressionTheGrapesofWrath—hismasterpiece,wonaPulitzerPrizeAcombinationofnaturalistandsymbolisttechniqueV.ModernPeriod:3)DramaEugeneO’Neill—thefounderofmodernAmericandrama3PulitzerPrizes&theNobelPrizeIntroducedtrendsofrealism,naturalismandexpressionismBeyondtheHorizonLongDay’sJourneyintoNightTennesseeWilliamsTheGlassMenagerieAStreetcarNamedDesire—wonhimhisfirstPulitzerPrizeColloquialsouthernspeechArthurMillerDeathofaSalesman—hismasterpiece;anAmericanmythandacontemporarytragedyVI.PostwarRealismJohnCheever—shortfictionJohnUpdike—themostrealisticofallthepostwarrealists;“Olinger”storiesJamesThurber—thegreatestAmericanliteraryhumoristofthe20thcenturyJeromeSalinger—arepresentativeofalienatedyoungAmericans;generationgapTheCatcherintheRye—amodernHuckFinnVII.Post-modernism:FictionModernismvs.post-modernismUnlikemodernism,whichsuggestedahistoricperiod,post-modernismdescribedasensibility,afeelin
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