自考“英美文学选读”重要笔记

自考“英美文学选读”重要笔记内容摘要：

rse, Envelope structure, Catalogue (Listing) A new ideal, a new world, a new lifestyle There Was a Child Went Forth how a child is greatly influenced by his growing environments Cavalry Crossing a Ford a scene of the American Civil War, all the movements described in this picture are frozen. Song of Myself Whitman is a man bubbling with energy and laden with ideas, spontaneous expression of his original ideas Herman Melville a master of allegory and symbolism, like HawthorneMobyDick the first American prose epic, Ishmael both as a character and a narrator, the captain, Ahab is a monomaniac Realistic period the Gilded Age, the poor poorer and the rich richer, people39。 s attention was now directed to the interesting features of everyday existence Local colorism, social Darwinism, bestiality, beyond man39。 s control Mark Twain the true father of American literature Local colorist, vernacular, simple sentence, 39。 the damned human race39。 The Gilded Age 3 boyhood books Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck39。 s inner conflict about whether or not he should write a letter to tell Miss Watson where Jim is. Henry James international theme, psychological realistStream of consciousness, interior monologue, free association Daisy Miller the narrator is an American expatriate, named Winterbourne. Daisy is the most innocent girl. The clash is between two different cultures. Emily Dickinson Based on her own experiences, her sorrows and joys This is my letter to the World express Dickinson39。 s anxiety about her munication with the outside world. I heard a Fly buzz when I died deIscript/Iion of a moment of death I like to see it lap the Miles Dickinson makes the train part of nature by animalizing it, like a horse. Because I could not stop for Death personify death and immortality so as to make her message strongly felt Theodore Dreiser America39。 s literary naturalists Case history including everything Determinism (heredity biological amp。 environment), survival of the fittest, the jungle law Trilogy of Desire The Financier, The Titan, The Stoic Sister Carrie 39。 who shall cast the first stone?39。 The modern period the second American Renaissance, the expatriate movement, the Lost Generation, a transformation from order to disorder Seize the day, enjoy the present, spiritual wasteland, collective unconscious, psychoanalysis Imagist movement, Jazz Age Ezra Pound a leading spokesman of the 39。 Imagist Movement39。 The Cantos In a Station of the Metro Pound attempts to produce the emotion he felt when he walked down into a Paris subway station and suddenly saw a number of faces in the dim light. To capture the emotions, Pound uses the image of petals on wet, black boughs. The River Merchant39。 s Wife: A Letter A Pact agreement with Whitman39。 s free verse Robert Lee Frost four times awarded Pulitzer Prize, pastoral life and scene After ApplePicking The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Eugene O39。 Neill founder of the American drama, won the Pulitzer Prize four times The Hairy Ape F. Scott Fitzgerald spokesman of the Jazz Age, Dollar Decade, 1920s A double vision of the Jazz Age, both an insider and an outsiderAmerican Dream The Great Gatsby Ernest Hemingway awarded the Nobel Prize Iceberg style, Code hero, the lost generation, grace under pressure Indian Camp from In Our Time birth and death coexist William Faulkner awarded a Nobel Prize South, imprisonment in the past Stream of consciousness, multiple points of view Yoknapatawpha Country A Rose for Emily Emily is regarded as the symbol of tradition and the old way of life. Thus her death is like the falling of a monument. 英美文学重点 English amp。 American Literature Old English 4501066 Beowulf Medieval English 1066 middle 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer the father of English poetry The Canterbury Tales first time to use 39。 heroic couplet39。 The Renaissance rebirth or revival Humanism the essence of the Renaissance, the dignity of human being amp。 the importance of the present life Edmund Spenser the poets39。 poet The Faerie Queene Christopher Marlowe University Wits, the pioneer of English drama Blank verse, hyperbole 夸张 Dr. Faustus the human passion for knowledge, power and happiness The Passionate Shepherd to His Love pastoral life William Shakespeare above all writers in the past and in the present time Four tragedies Hamlet, Othello, King Lear amp。 Macbeth Son 18 eternal or immortal beauty The Merchant of Venice to praise the friendship between Antonio and Bassanio, to idealize Portia a heroine of great beauty, wit and loyalty, to expose the insatiable greed and brutality Hamlet hesitate between fact and fiction, language and action, too sophisticated to degrade his nature to the conventional role of a stage revenger To be, or not to be to live on in this world or to die。 to suffer or to take action Soliloquy or monologue fully reveal the inner conflict of the characters Francis Bacon brevity, pactness amp。 powerfulness, his essays is an important landmark in the development of English proseInductive method 归纳法 in place of deductive method 演绎法 Of Studies uses and benefits of study studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Studies perfect nature, and are perfected by experience. Different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies studies and experience are plementary 互补 to each other. The correct attitude to reading books to weigh and consider. How studies exert influence over human character reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. John Donne Imeta/Iphysical poetry break away from love poetry, a seemingly unfoc。