美国文学史复习资料(10)

★ The three principles of the Imagist Poetry

★ 熟悉四首意象派诗歌：In a Station of the Metro, Oread, The Red Wheelbarrow, Fog, 并会分析其中的第一和第四首

★ Ezra Pound: The Cantos, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

Chapter 12 T. S. Eliot, Stevens, Williams

★ T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land （五个部分的题目）, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

其他主要作品

founder of New Criticism: depersonalization, objective correlative

★ William Carlos Williams: Paterson

Chapter 13 Frost, Sandburg, Cummings, Hart Crane, Moore

★ Robert Frost: New England poet, lyrical poet, the unofficial poet laureate, won the Pulitzer Prize four times

The Road Not Taken (熟悉此诗), Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Mending Wall, Apple-picking <<摘苹

果>>

★ Carl Sandburg: Fog, The Harbor (two famous Imagist poems)

★ E. E. Cummings: the most interesting experimentalist in modern American poetry

★ Hart Crane: The Bridge

Chapter 14 Fitzgerald, Hemingway

★ F. Scott Fitzgerald: the spokesman of the Jazz Age

The Great Gatsby

★ Ernest Hemingway: Hemingway hero with ―grace under pressure‖, the iceberg principle

―I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you

know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn’t show. ‖ 冰山运动之雄伟壮观，是因为它只有

八分之一在水面上。 水底的部分占整座冰山的八分之七。

主要作品

The Old Man and the Sea won him the 1954 Nobel Prize for literature.

Chapter 15 The Southern Renaissance, William Faulkner

★ William Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha County (his fictional kingdom)

主要作品（见教材）

Chapter 16 Anderson, Stein, Lewis, Cather, Wolfe

★ Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio, colloquial style

★ Gertrude Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Three Lives

―You are all a lost generation.‖ (To Hemingway)

★ Sinclair Lewis: the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for literature (in 1930)

Main Street, Babbit

★ Willa Cather: My Antonia

★ Thomas Wolfe: Look Homeward, Angel

Chapter 17 The 1930s, Dos Passos, Steinbeck

★ John Dos Passos: U. S. A.

★ John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath (Joad family); Nobel Prize for literature in 1962 and Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction

Chapter 18 Porter, Welty, McCullers, West, The New Criticism

★ Katherine Anne Porter: The Flowering Judas, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

★ Eudora Welty: Death of a Traveling Salesman

★ Carson McCullers: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Café

★ Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts

Chapter 19 American Drama