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
Sylvia Plath: Daddy (confessionist)

Confessional Poets: Robert Lowell

The greatness of Lowell lies in the fact that, in talking candidly about himself, he is examining the culture of his nation. The identification of personal experience with that of an age has always ensured greatness and even immortality as it did.

Sylvia Plath