1、第一部分 殖民时期一、时期综述（关于清教的应该都是重点） 1、清教徒采用的文学体裁：A、narratives 日记 B、journals 游记 2、清教徒在美国的写作内容：their voyage to the new land adapting themselves to unfamiliar climates and crops about dealing with Indians guide to the new land, endless bounty, invitation to bold spirit 3、清教徒的想法：Puritans want to make up pure t
2、heir religious beliefs and practices.净化信仰和行为方式wish to restore simplicity to church services and the authority of the Bible to theology.重建教堂，提供简单服务，建立神圣地位 look upon themselves as a chosen people, and it follow logically that anyone who challenged their way of life is opposing Gods will and is not to
3、be accepted.认为自己是上帝选民，对他们的生活有异议就是反对上帝。Puritan opposition to pleasure and the arts sometimes has been exaggerated.反对对快乐和艺术的追求到了十分荒唐的地步。religious teaching tended to emphasize the image of a wrathful God.强调上帝严厉的一面，忽视上帝仁慈的一面。 4、典型的清教徒： John Cotton and Roger Williams 他们的不同：John Cotton was much more conce
4、rned with authority than with democracy. Williams begins the history of religious toleration in America. 5、Williams 的宗教观点：Toleration did not stem from a lack of religious convictions. Instead, it sprang from the idea that simply to be virtuous in conduct and devout in belief did not give anyone the
5、right to force belief on others. He also felt that no political order or church system could identify itself directly with God. 行为上的德，信仰上的诚，并没有给任何人强迫别人该如何行事的权利。没有任何政治秩序和教会体制能够直接体现神本身的意旨。 6、英国最早移民到美国的诗人：Anne Bradstreet 7、在殖民时期最好的清教徒诗人：the best of Puritan poets is Edward Taylor. 第二部分 理性和革命时期一、时期综述 1、美
6、国的性质：The war for Independence ended in the formation of a Federative bourgeois democratic republic the United States of America.联邦的资产阶级民主共和国 美利坚合众国。 二、代表作家： 1、Benjamin Franklin 本杰明. 弗兰克林 代表作：“Poor Richards Almanac”穷人理查德的年鉴 annual collection of proverbs 流行谚语集 It soon became the most popular book of i
7、ts kind, largely because of Franklins shrewd humor, and first spread his reputation. 机智、幽默、风趣成为最畅销的书籍，弗兰克林的成名作。 Found the Junto, a club for informal discussion of scientific, economic and political ideas. 建立了一个秘密俱乐部，讨论的主题是政治、经济和科学等时事方面的问题。 established Americas first circulating library, founded the
8、college University of Pennsylvania. 建立了美国第一个可租借的图书馆，还创办了一所大学就是现在的宾夕法尼亚大学。 first applied the terms “positive” and “negative” to electrical charges. 在电子运动中，首次使用了电流中的“正电”和“负电”的专业术语。 As a representative of the Colonies, he tried in vain to counsel the British toward policies that would let America grow
9、and flourish in association with England. He conducted the difficult negotiations with France that brought financial and military support for America in the war. 作为殖民地的代表，他不断建议英国改变政策，使美国可以和英国一起发展、繁荣。他说服法国支持美国的独立战争。 As an author he had power of expression, simplicity, a subtle humor, sarcastic. 作为作家具
10、有非凡的才能，表达简洁明了，幽默，讽刺天才。 “Autobiography” 自传 18 世纪美国唯一流传至今的自传 2、Thomas Paine 托马斯. 佩因 “Great Commoner of Mankind” 最平凡的人 famous pamphlet “Common Sense” 著名的政治小册子 常识，it boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”, and brought the separatist agitation to a crisis. 拥护“ 独立宣言”，使分裂活动发展成最后危机。 “American Cri
11、sis”美国危机, signed “Common Sense”.署名为“常识”。（P31，第一段看一下） 3、Thomas Jefferson 托马斯.杰弗逊 drafted the Declaration of Independence. 起草了独立宣言。 与清教不一样，主张追求幸福。All Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Hap
12、piness.人人生而平等，他们都从他们的“造物主”那边被赋予了某些不可转让的权利，其中包括生命权、自由权和追求幸福的权利。 4、Philip Freneau 菲利浦.弗瑞诺 poet and political journalist 诗人和政治方面的新闻记者。 perhaps the most outstanding writer of the post-Revolutionary period.可能是革命战争后期最杰出的作家。 has been called the “Father of American Poetry” 美国诗歌之父 第三部分 浪漫主义时期一、文学特征： 1、enviro
13、nment：shaped by their New World environment 美洲大陆新环境 array of ideas inherited from the romantic traditions of Europe.欧洲早期浪漫主义思潮 2、美国文学特点:pluralistic 多元化，manifestations 表现形式: Varied 多样, Individualistic 个人主义,Conflicting 矛盾 3、romanticism 的特点：frequently shared certain general characteristics; moral enthu
14、siasm, faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perception, and a presumption that the natural world was a source of goodness and mans societies a source of corruption.浪漫主义之间大部分是相通的，都注重道德，强调个人主义价值观和直觉感受，并且认为自然是美的源头，人类社会是腐败之源。 4、transcendentalism 超验主义： as a moral philosophy, transcendentalis
15、m was neither logical nor systematized. It exalted feeling over reason, individual expression over the restraints of law and custom. 不讲逻辑，不讲系统，只强调超越理性的感受，超越法律和世俗束缚的个人表达。 they spoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society.呼吁文化复兴，反对美国社会的拜金主义。 they believed in the tran
16、scendence of “Oversoul,” an all-pervading power for goodness from which all things come and of which all things are a part.相信精神上的超越，相信无所不能的善的力量，强调善为万物之源。 it could exercise a healthy and restorative influence on the human mind. “Go back to nature, sink yourself back into its influence and youll becom
17、e spiritually whole again.” The natural implication of all this was, of course, that things in nature tended to become symbolic, and the physical world was a symbol of the spiritual. This in turn added to the tradition of literary symbolism in American literature. 代表人物：Emerson 爱默生， believed that man
18、 was a part of absolute good。人性本善 Thoreau 梭 罗，beheld divinity in the “unspotted innocence” of nature. 自然才是神圣的“洁白无瑕” 5、Literary forms 文学形式：Novels, short stories, and poems replaced sermons and manifestos as Americas principal literary forms.长篇小说、短篇故事和诗歌取代说教类及宣言类作品成为美国主要的文学形式。 6、Imaginative literature
19、 想象类文学 7、the wilderness came to function almost as a dramatic character that illustrated moral law.戏剧化特色的野性讽喻了时代的道德准则。 8、The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature. 逃离社会，回到自然成为了美国文学永恒的创作习惯。 9、Nationalism stimulated a greater lite
20、rary interest in Americas language. In 1828 Noah Webster published “An American Dictionary of the English Language”. American character types speaking local dialects appeared in poetry and fiction with increasing frequency. 受民族主义影响，作家的目光转向了美国本土的语言，具有美国特征的本土方言开始在诗歌和小说中大量涌现。 10、At mid-century a cultur
21、al reawakening brought a “flowering of New England.” Led by Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau. New England Transcendentalism, 从新英格兰文学到超验主义。 二、代表作家： 1、Washington Irving 华盛顿.欧文 the first great belletrist 第一个纯文学作家，划线部分为三个主要 contribution the first great prose stylist of American romanticism. 美国第一位浪漫主义散文文体
22、作家 “Sketch Book”见闻札记, the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.现代文学史上第一部短篇小说和美国第一部伟大的青少年文学读物。 Irving restored the waning Gothic romances which Poe soon infused with psychological subtleties.重振了没落的哥特式浪漫主义小说，随后坡在此基础上，把心理学的一些知识融入了这种体裁。 “Legends of the Conquest of
23、Spain” 西班牙征服记 manner 形式 matter 内容 ； avoid moralization 教化 to entertain 娱乐 / amuse 消遣 2、James Fenimore Cooper 詹姆斯.芬尼莫.库珀 contribution: launched two kinds of immensely popular stories the sea adventure tale and the frontier saga 开创了两种流传极广的小说体裁，边疆传奇小说和海上传奇小说。 “Leatherstocking Tales”皮袜子故事集 ，包括“The Deers
24、layer”杀鹿者 、“The Last of the Mohicans”最后的莫希干人、“The Pathfinder”探路人、“The Pioneers”拓荒者、“The Prairie”大草原, regard as “the nearest approach yet to an American epic.” 被认为是迄今为止美国最接近史诗的作品。 the central figure in the novels, Natty Bumppo. 小说的中心人物，纳蒂.班波 (笔记上添的) the Critic 评论家认为，他揭示了矛盾 the direction was morally r
25、ight the other practically / inevitable Leatherstocking: insist on old forest freedom 皮袜子：保存了这些原始森林的面貌 Judge Temple: man remain savage without law and order 3、William Cullen Bryant 威廉.卡伦. 布莱恩特 poet 诗人 as Irving had shown that American prose had cone of age, so Bryant demonstrated to European readers
26、 that American poetry was ready to demand serious attention.当欧文预示美国散文时代的到来时，布莱恩特向欧洲读者证实了美国的诗歌达到相当高的水平。 He was the first American to gain the stature of a major poet.第一个获得美国主要诗人称号的作家。 “To a Waterfowl”致水鸟the most perfect brief poem in the language. 用美国英语写作的最完美的短诗。 4、Edgar Allan Poe 埃德加.阿伦. 坡 show his
27、true talents as an editor, poet, literary critic. 编辑、诗人、文学评论家。 Grahams Magazine 格雷厄姆杂志（坡的工作场所） “The Fall of the House of Usher”鄂谢府崩溃记、“The Raven”乌鸦the title poem of a collection, “Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque”述异集first collection of short stories. 第一部短篇小说集。 often use grotesque or fantastic ev
28、ents.擅长描写哥特式和幻想类的小说。 （笔记上添的） integrate 统一性 one sitting brevity 简洁 readability 可读性 totality of impression 开门见山，加强印象 compression 浓缩 finality 要求结局 5、Ralph Waldo Emersion 拉尔夫. 沃尔多.爱默生 be responsible for bringing Transcendentalism to New England, 是把超验主义引入新英格兰的先驱。 Emerson believed above all in individuali
29、sm 个人主义, independence of mind 思想独立, and self-reliance 自强. 作品：“Nature”论自然、“Essays” 随笔录、 “The American Scholar” 美国学者, our intellectual Declaration of Independence.我们知识分子的独立宣言。 his most important works are “Representative Men ”代表and “English Traits”英国人、“Poems”诗集 摘自论自然：Standing on the bare ground, -my h
30、ead bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, -all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. 人形的约束没有了。 6、Henry David Thoreau 亨利.戴维.梭罗 Emersons truest disciple. Put into practice many of Emersons theories 爱默生最忠实的信徒，把爱默生的许多理论付诸于实践。 “In Walden”沃尔登成名作。“Civil Disobedience”
31、平民反抗essay 随笔。非暴力不合作 教义：I would not have anyone adopt my mode of living, each should find out his own way, not his neighbors or his parents. 我不希望人们接受我的生活模式，每一个都应该发现自己的生活方式，不是邻居的，也不是他父母的。 7、Nathaniel Hawthorne 纳萨尼尔.霍桑 background: one of his ancestors was Judge Hathorne, who harm a person.曾经有个做法官的祖辈害人。
32、 “The House of the Seven Gables”七尖角阁房，是霍桑著名神秘小说中的一个房屋名称。 he reveals the depth of his concern with the dark side of Puritanism, the harshness and the persecutions.对清教徒阴暗面的深切关注，认为清教徒的戒行过于森严，对不同信仰人的迫害过于残酷。 “Mosses from an Old Manse”古厦青苔、“The Marble Faun”玉石神像 特点unique gift was for the creation of strongly symbolic stories which touch the deepest roots of mans moral nature. 独特才能主要表现在他能够通过一些极具象征意义的故事来触摸人类灵魂深处的道德品质。
