《美国文学史》各章节知识点指南

1《美国文学史》各章节知识点指南时间：2011年2月使用教材：《美国文学史》（第二版）常耀信著Chapter1ColonialAmerica★1607Jamestown,Virginia：thefirstpermanentEnglishsettlementinAmerica★1620Plymouth,Massachusetts:thesecondpermanentEnglishsettlementinAmerica★CaptainJohnSmith:thefirstAmericanwriterwritinginEnglish★AnneBradstreet:thefirstAmericanwomanpoetMajorwork:TheTenthMuseLatelySprungupinAmerica(1650)Contemplations(9)onP.17（熟悉这首诗歌）ToMyDearandLovingHusband《致我亲爱的丈夫》★PhilisWheatley:thefirstblackwomanpoetinAmericanliterature★EdwardTaylor:themostfamouspoetinthecolonialperiodHuswiferyonP.19（熟悉这首诗歌）★RogerWilliams:TheBloodyTenetofPersecutionfortheCauseofConscience(1644)TranslatedtheBibleintotheIndiantongue★JohnWinthrop:“ModelofChristianCharity”（〈基督慈善之典范〉）TheHistoryofNewEngland(twovolumes,1825,1826)(〈新英格兰史〉)1630---1649indiary★ThomasPaine:CommonSense,TheAmericanCrisis,TheRightsofMan,TheAgeofReason★PhilipFreneau:PoetoftheAmericanRevolutionTheWildHoneysuckle,TheIndianBuryingGround,TheDyingIndian:TomoChequi★CharlesBrockdenBrown:thefirstimportantAmericannovelistWieland,EdgarHuntly,Ormond,AurthurMervynChapter2Edwards,Franklin,Crevecoeur★the18thcentury:AgeofReasonandEnlightenment★JonathanEdwards:America’sfirstsystematicphilosopherTheFreedomoftheWill,SinnersintheHandsofanAngryGod2★BenjaminFranklin:TheAutobiographyofBenjaminFranklin,PoorRichard’sAlmanac熟悉37页的引文★HectorSt.JohndeCrevecoeur:LettersfromanAmericanFarmerChapter3AmericanRomanticism,Irving,Cooper★WashingtonIrving:thefirstAmericanwritertowininternationalacclaimTheSketchBook:RipVanWinkle,TheLegendofSleepyHollow★JamesFenimoreCooper:LeatherstockingTales(五个故事的题目)NattyBumpo(人物形象)Chapter4NewEnglandTranscendentalism,Emerson,Thoreau★RalphWaldoEmerson:Nature(theBibleandmanifestoofNewEnglandTranscendentalism)TheAmericanScholar(America’sDeclarationofIntellectualIndependence)★HenryDavidThoreau:Walden,orLifeintheWoodsChapter5Hawthorne,Melville★NathanielHawthorne:TheScarletLetter,Twice-ToldTales,TheHouseoftheSevenGables,TheBlithedaleRomance,TheMarbleFaun,YoungGoodmanBrown★HermanMelville:MobyDick,Omoo,Mardi,Redburn,WhiteJacket,PierreChapter6Whitman,Dickinson★WaltWhitman:LeavesofGrass;freeverse;SongofMyself★EmilyDickinson:Ofthe1775poems,only7poemswerepublishedinherlifetime.熟悉教材中98至102页所选的诗歌Chapter7EdgarAllanPoe3★EdgarAllanPoe:TheFalloftheHouseofUsher,ThePhilosophyofComposition,ThePoeticPrinciple,TheRaven，ToHelen熟悉教材中107页所选的TheRaven中的部分诗行Chapter8TheAgeofRealism,Howells,James★WilliamDeanHowells:TheRiseofSilasLapham,CriticismandFiction★HenryJames:importantwritingslistedonP.125theinternationalthemeChapter9LocalColorism,MarkTwain★HamlinGarland:CrumblingIdols,Veritism(真实主义)★BretHarte:TheLuckofRoaringCamp★MarkTwain:主要作品,vernacularliterature,colloquialstyle★HarrietBeecherStowe斯托夫人&herUncleTom’sCabin《汤姆叔叔的小屋》★LouisaMayAlcott路易莎·梅·奥尔科特&herLittleWomen《小妇人》★KateChopin凯特·肖班&herTheAwakening《觉醒》Chapter10AmericanNaturalism,Crane,Norris,Dreiser,Robinson★StephenCrane:Maggie:AGirloftheStreets(thefirstnaturalisticnovelinAmericanliterature),TheRedBadgeofCourage(thefirstanti-warnovelinAmericanliterature),Famousshortstories:TheOpenBoat,TheBrideComestotheYellowSky★FrankNorris:TheOctopus,McTeague★TheodoreDreiser:SisterCarrie,JennieGerhardt,theDesireTrilogy,TheGenius★EdwinArlingtonRobinson:RichardCory★JackLondon:TheCalloftheWild,WhiteFang,TheSeaWolf,MartinEden★O.Henry(WilliamSidneyPorter):famousforhisshortstoriessuchasTheGiftoftheMagi★UptonSinclair:TheJungle,theMuckrakingMovementChapter11The1920s,Imagism,Pound4★ThefirstAmericanRenaissance:thefirsthalfofthe19thcentury★ThesecondRenaissance:the1920s★ThethreeprinciplesoftheImagistPoetry★熟悉四首意象派诗歌：InaStationoftheMetro,Oread,TheRedWheelbarrow,Fog,并会分析其中的第一和第四首★EzraPound:TheCantos,HughSelwynMauberleyChapter12T.S.Eliot,Stevens,Williams★T.S.Eliot:TheWasteLand（五个部分的题目）,TheLoveSongofJ.AlfredPrufrock其他主要作品founderofNewCriticism:depersonalization,objectivecorrelative★WilliamCarlosWilliams:PatersonChapter13Frost,Sandburg,Cummings,HartCrane,Moore★RobertFrost:NewEnglandpoet,lyricalpoet,theunofficialpoetlaureate,wonthePulitzerPrizefourtimesTheRoadNotTaken(熟悉此诗),StoppingbyWoodsonaSnowyEvening,MendingWall,Apple-picking摘苹果★CarlSandburg:Fog,TheHarbor(twofamousImagistpoems)★E.E.Cummings:themostinterestingexperimentalistinmodernAmericanpoetry★HartCrane:TheBridgeChapter14Fitzgerald,Hemingway★F.ScottFitzgerald:thespokesmanoftheJazzAgeTheGreatGatsby★ErnestHemingway:Hemingwayherowith“graceunderpressure”,theicebergprinciple“Ialwaystrytowriteontheprincipleoftheiceberg.Thereisseven-eightsofitunderwaterforeverypartthatshows.Anythingyouknowyoucaneliminateanditonlystrengthensyouriceberg.Itisthepartthatdoesn’tshow.”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。5主要作品TheOldManandtheSeawonhimthe1954NobelPrizeforliterature.Chapter15TheSouthernRenaissance,WilliamFaulkner★WilliamFaulkner:YoknapatawphaCounty(hisfictionalkingdom)主要作品（见教材）Chapter16Anderson,Stein,Lewis,Cather,Wolfe★SherwoodAnderson:Winesburg,Ohio,colloquialstyle★GertrudeStein:TheAutobiographyofAliceB.Toklas,ThreeLives“Youareallalostgeneration.”(ToHemingway)★SinclairLewis:thefirstAmer