美国文学史及作品选读

凌建娥

目录

  • 1 American Literature - Learning Sources
    • 1.1 American Passage: A Literary Survey
    • 1.2 American Literature- NYU
    • 1.3 TTC Classics of American Literature
    • 1.4 American Novel Since 1945-Yale
    • 1.5 Heath Anthology of American Literature
    • 1.6 PAL:Perspectives in American Literature
    • 1.7 TGC Literature&Life
    • 1.8 Introduction to Literature and Life- Yale
    • 1.9 Music Videos
  • 2 Native American Literature
    • 2.1 Overview
    • 2.2 Oral Tradition-Navajo Songs
    • 2.3 Native American Renaissance
    • 2.4 Native Voices -Timeline
    • 2.5 References
  • 3 Puritan Literature(1620-1763)
    • 3.1 Overview
    • 3.2 Puritanism
    • 3.3 Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
    • 3.4 Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
  • 4 Enlightenment Literature (1764-1815)
    • 4.1 Overview
    • 4.2 Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)
    • 4.3 Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
    • 4.4 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
    • 4.5 Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
  • 5 American Romanticism (1815-1865)
    • 5.1 Overview
    • 5.2 Irving and Cooper
    • 5.3 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
      • 5.3.1 Annabel Lee
      • 5.3.2 The Raven
      • 5.3.3 Israfel
    • 5.4 Emerson, Thoreau and Transcendentalism
    • 5.5 Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
      • 5.5.1 Song of Myself by Whitman
      • 5.5.2 When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d
      • 5.5.3 I dwell in Possibility
      • 5.5.4 “I died for Beauty - but was scare” by Dickinson
    • 5.6 References
  • 6 American Realism (1865-1914)
    • 6.1 Overview
    • 6.2 William Dean Howells
    • 6.3 Local Colorism
      • 6.3.1 Mark Twain
    • 6.4 Psycholological Realism
    • 6.5 Naturalism
    • 6.6 References
  • 7 American Modernism(1915-1945)
    • 7.1 The Imagist Movement
    • 7.2 The Lost Generation Writers
    • 7.3 Eugene O’Neill
    • 7.4 Tennessee Williams
    • 7.5 Arthur Miller
    • 7.6 Trifles (1916) by Susan Glaspell
    • 7.7 Earnest Hemingway
  • 8 American Postmodernism (1945-)
    • 8.1 Ovewview
    • 8.2 African American Literature
    • 8.3 Chinese American Literature
    • 8.4 Hispanic American Literature
    • 8.5 References
Oral Tradition-Navajo Songs

Song in the Garden of the House of God

(from the Navajo corn-planting ritual)


Truly in the east
The white bean
And the great corn plant
Are tied with the white lightening.
Listen! Rain approaches!
The voice of the bluebird is heard.
Truly in the east
The white bean
And the great squash
Are tied with the rainbow.
Listen! Rain approaches!
The voice of the bluebird is heard.

From the top of the great corn-plant the water gurgles, I hear it;
Around the roots the water foams, I hear it;
Around the roots of the plants it foams, I hear it;
From their tops the water foams, I hear it.

The corn grows up. The waters of the dark clouds drop, drop.
The rain descends. The waters from the corn leaves drop, drop.
The rain descends. The waters from the plants drop, drop.
The corn grows up. The waters of the dark mists drop, drop.

Shall I cull this fruit of the great corn-plant?
Shall you break it? Shall I break it?
Shall I break it? Shall you break it?
Shall I? Shall you?

Shall I cull this fruit of the great squash vine?
Shall you pick it up? Shall I pick it up?
Shall I pick it up? Shall you pick it up?
Shall I? Shall you?


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