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
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

Both Walt Whitman (1819-1892) abd Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) were American poets in theme and technique. Thematically, both extolled, in their different ways, an emergent America, its expansion, its individualism, and its Americanness, their poetry being part of what F. O. Matthiessen terms "American Renaissance." In technical terms, both added to the literary independence fo the new nation by breaking free of the convention of the iambic pentameter (抑扬格五音步) and exhibiting a freedom in form unknown before: they were pioneers in American poetry ...

-- Chang Yaoxin, A Survey of American Literature, 3rd edition,2006, p.88