Lecture 1 An Overview of American Literature
Lecturer: Luke Shen
参加的英文短语ppt 第二页 前面加American
• 3. Realism (after 1865)
• 4. Naturalism (last decade of the 19th )
• 6. Lost Generation (the 1920s)
第6页 ：American Puritanism:(清教徒)
On the one hand, Puritanism is a highly strict religious doctrine. The Puritans were determined to find a place on the new continent where they could worship God in the way they thought true Christians should.
阳光天井 On the other hand, Puritanism also has its practical aspect. The Puritans had to work ha
rd in order to make a living and be ready for any misfortunes and tragic failures that might lie in wait for them.
清教徒的三大特点：1.predestination 宿命论
2.total depravity 彻底堕落
3.limited atonement 有限救赎
Lecture 2 Washington Irving
ppt 第6页（细看）：Position in American Literature
⏹ 1. He was the first American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fame.
⏹ 2. The short story as a genre in American literature probably began with Irving’s The Sketch Book.
<<The Legend of Sleepy Hollow>>
Rip Van Winkle 沉睡者的故事—Conrvation 保守政治观
L3
Father of American Detective Stories (AA)
Lecture 4 Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804—1864)
ppt 第4页：Summary of His Literary Creation
● Guiding Ideology
Psychology, esp. moral, emotional and psychological impacts of “sin” on characters（背）
● Themes
Sin, supernatural, New England past.
● Craftsmanship
Symbolizing + romancing characters’ psychological movement
第6页：霍桑的作品(能识别)： 1. The Scarlet Letter (1850)
2. The Hou of the Seven Gables (1851)
3. The Blithedale Romance (1852)
4. The Marble Faun (1860)
第8页：三个阶段：what does the scarlet letter “A” symbolize?
1. Adultery 通奸
2. Able 能力
3. Angle 慈善
第9页：Crafts in 动画分镜头脚本The Scarlet Letter
Symbolism
Imperceptible change which the scarlet letter undergoes in meaning is symbolic of the fact that her moral development is gradual.（看）
4. Romancing
The interchangeable worlds: Imagination and Reality.
看书上《红字》中unsunned snow 这一段和A共同点
Lecture 6 对学前教育的认识Walt Whitman & Emily Dickinson
ppt 第4页： Poetic Craftsmanship
1. Theme and Form
(1) American in theme and form:
An emergent America, its expansion, its individualism and its Americanness
(2) Breaking free of the convention of the iambic pentameter and exhibiting a freedom in f
orm unknown before
2. Reprentative work: Leaves of Grass 草叶集（一共有9版 nine editions）
(1) Nine editions: fifth edition of 1871 won him recognition in both England and America; Deathbed Edition of 1891-1892~400-odd poems, lifetime endeavor
(2) Banned, sold better: xuality, exotic and vulgar language
第6页： Free ver：rhyme (韵)scheme free 押韵不固定
Song of mylf 自我之歌 （草叶集中的第一首）强调：individualism
Lecture7 Emily Dickinson (1830 ~ 1886)
ppt 第4页： Themes of Her Poems：
1. Death & Immortality
2. Love
3. Nature
4. Science
5. Ethics
Ppt 第9,11页：两首诗歌（考） 要看懂
1 I’m Nobody! Who Are You?
I'M Nobody! Who are you?
Are you--Nobody--too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Dont tell! they'd adverti--you know!
How dreary--to be--Somebody!
How public--like a Frog–
To tell your name--the livelong June–
To an admiring Bog!
2 Success
Success is counted sweetest
By tho who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of Victory
As he defeated--dying--
On who forbidden ear如何安装驱动
The distant strains of triumph钱七虎简介
Burst agonized and clear!
科举考试制度
此诗歌中哪些语句来定义success?
Lecture 8 American Realism and Mark Twain
微信安全码是什么 马克吐温的原名：Samuel Langhorn Clemens
Ppt 第2页：“The Gilded Age”（镀金年代）: “an age of extremes”— “of decline and progress, of poverty and dazzling wealth, of gloom and buoyant hope”. Also the title for a novel jointly compod by Mark Twain and C. D. Warner in 1873.
Ppt 第7页：local color 定义
Local colorists concerned themlves with prenting and interpreting the local character of their region, prenting elements such as speech, customs and mores peculiar to one particular place. The background covers physical tting and tho distinctive qualities of landscape, which condition human thought and behavior. They tended to idealize and glorify their local culture.
PPT 第12页：the greatest work: Adventure of Huckleberry Finn(1884) 体现了：humanism
Life On The Mississippi
