美国文学史复习资料(8)

(2) His primary concern was an individual’s ―moment of truth,‖ and his fascination with the threat of physical, emotional, of

psychic death is reflected in his lifelong preoccupation with stories of war.主题强调换个体―真理的瞬时性‖，痴迷于描写肉体情感

方面面临的威胁和心灵死亡等主题。

(3) man’s greatest achievement is to show 最

大限度地挖掘自己使自己成为一个纯粹的人.

②代表作：―The Sun Also Rises‖ Hemingway became the spokesman for ―a lost generation‖

―A Farewell to Arms‖、―For Whom the Bell Tolls‖、―The Old Man and the Sea‖

7、John Steinbeck 约翰.斯坦贝克

①the foremost novelist of the American Depression.美国大萧条时期最杰出的小说家。

②代表作：

―Of Mice and Men‖《人鼠之间》 portrayed the tragic friendship between two migrant workers

―The Grapes of Wrath‖《愤怒的葡萄》regarded as masterpiece 视为杰作。

8、William Faulkner 威廉.福克纳

①作品的主题：the universal theme of ―the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself‖人类心灵与自己冲突是宇宙永恒

的主题。

②作品：―The Sound and the Fury‖《喧嚣与骚动》成名作、―Absalom, Absalom!‖、―Go Down, Moses‖

③narrative method叙述方法:1、stream of consciousness 意识流

2、multiple point of view, narrator多角度，多个叙述者

《美国文学史》复习指南

使用教材：《美国文学史》（第二版）常耀信著

Chapter 1 Colonial America

★ 1607 Jamestown, Virginia：the first permanent English settlement in America

★ 1620 Plymouth, Massachusetts: the second permanent English settlement in America

★ Captain John Smith: the first American writer writing in English

★ Anne Bradstreet: the first American woman poet

Major work: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America (1650)

Contemplations (9) on P. 17 （熟悉这首诗歌）

To My Dear and Loving Husband《致我亲爱的丈夫》

★ Philis Wheatley: the first black woman poet in American literature

★ Edward Taylor: the most famous poet in the colonial period

Huswifery on P. 19 （熟悉这首诗歌）

★ Roger Williams: The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience (1644)

Translated the Bible into the Indian tongue

★ John Winthrop: ―Model of Christian Charity‖ （〈基督慈善之典范〉）

The History of New England (two volumes, 1825, 1826)

(〈新英格兰史〉) 1630 --- 1649 in diary

★ Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The American Crisis, The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason

★ Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution

The Wild Honeysuckle, The Indian Burying Ground, The Dying Indian: Tomo Chequi

★ Charles Brockden Brown: the first important American novelist

Wieland, Edgar Huntly, Ormond, Aurthur Mervyn

Chapter 2 Edwards, Franklin, Crevecoeur

★ the 18th century: Age of Reason and Enlightenment

★ Jonathan Edwards: America’s first systematic philosopher

The Freedom of the Will, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

★ Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac

熟悉37页的引文

★ Hector St. John de Crevecoeur: Letters from an American Farmer

Chapter 3 American Romanticism, Irving, Cooper

★ Washington Irving: the first American writer to win international acclaim

The Sketch Book: Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow