美国文学

彭荻、吴东京、苏鑫、陈文玉

目录

  • 1 Colonial period
    • 1.1 1.1 The soil of American Dream: Puritanism
    • 1.2 1.2Anne Bradstreet: Verse upon the Burning of Our House
    • 1.3 consolidation
  • 2 Revolutionary period
    • 2.1 Benjamin Franklin ;autobiography
  • 3 American Romanticism
    • 3.1 What is Romanticsim
    • 3.2 Washington Irving
    • 3.3 consolidation
  • 4 Summit of Romanticism – American Transcendentalism
    • 4.1 Four sources, appearance, feature, influence
    • 4.2 Ralph Waldo Emerson :Self-Reliance
    • 4.3 Henry David Thoreau: Walden
    • 4.4 consolidation
  • 5 Late Romanticism
    • 5.1 Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • 5.2 Herman Melville
    • 5.3 consolidation
  • 6 Romantic Poet
    • 6.1 Walter Whitman
    • 6.2 Emily Dickinson
    • 6.3 Comparison: Whitman vs. Dickinson
    • 6.4 consolidation
  • 7 American Gothic Literature
    • 7.1 Edgar Allen Poe
    • 7.2 Raven, The Masque of the Red Death
  • 8 The Age of Realism
    • 8.1 Ｂackground, characteristics
    • 8.2 Three Giants in Realistic Period
    • 8.3 Ｌocal colorism
    • 8.4 consolidation
  • 9 American Naturalism
    • 9.1 Background,features, significance
    • 9.2 Poems of naturalism
  • 10 The Modern Period
    • 10.1 The 1920s and imagist movement
    • 10.2 Robert Frost
  • 11 Novels in the 1920s
    • 11.1 I.F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • 11.2 II.Ernest Hemingway
  • 12 Southern Literature
    • 12.1 William Faulkner
    • 12.2 Barn Burning
  • 13 American Drama
    • 13.1 Eugene O'Neil
    • 13.2 Absurd Drama
  • 14 The Post-War Period: 50s & 60s
    • 14.1 Allen Ginsburg: Howl
    • 14.2 Sylvia Plath: Daddy (confessionist)
  • 15 Post-War American literature
    • 15.1 Salinger
    • 15.2 Joseph Heller
  • 16 Multi-ethic American Literature I
    • 16.1 Hughes:
    • 16.2 Toni Morrison
    • 16.3 Suzan-Lori Parks
  • 17 Multi-ethic American Literature II
    • 17.1 Maxine Hong Kingston：Women Warrior
    • 17.2 David Henry Hwang:  M.  Butterfly
Emily Dickinson



I. Emily Dickenson

1. life

2. works

(1) My Life Closed Twice before Its Close

(2) Because I Can’t Stop for Death

(3) I Heard a Fly Buzz – When I died

(4) Mine – by the Right of the White Election

(5) Wild Nights – Wild Nights

3. themes: based on her own experiences/joys/sorrows

(1) religion – doubt and belief about religious subjects

(2) death and immortality

(3) love – suffering and frustration caused by love

(4) physical aspect of desire

(5) nature – kind and cruel

(6) free will and human responsibility

4. style

(1) poems without titles

(2) severe economy of expression

(3) directness, brevity

(4) musical device to create cadence (rhythm)

(5) capital letters – emphasis

(6) short poems, mainly two stanzas

(7) rhetoric techniques: personification – make some of abstract ideas vivid