第一章殖民时期.ppt

美国文学史1
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Part I: The Literature of Colonial America
a. General Introduction to America
Literature
b. The Literature of Colonial America
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Step 1. Introduction
1. Introducing Reqirements
2. Introducing Class Assignments and Grading
3. Introducing the content of exam
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1. Introducing Reqirements
a. In class students will participate
frequently.
b. Students are required to make
presentations by group about a chosen or
given topic.
c. After class students are required to read
some selected works & do some research
with the help of the dictionaries, notes,
libraries, and .
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2. Introducing Class Assignments and Grading
a. Class attendance and participation,
mid-term test (50%)
B. Final-term exam (paper) (50%)
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Step 2. General Introduction to America Literature
1. Early American Literature (1620-early 19th C)
Puritanism; Benjamin Franklin; Jonathan
Edwards
2. American Romanticism (early 19th C-1865)
Early Romanticism; Transcendentalism;
Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne,
Melville, Poe, etc.
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Step 2. General Introduction to America Literature
3. American Realism (1865-1914)
Local colorism: early realism,
eg. Mark Twain
. Howells
Henry James;
Naturalism-
Stephen Crane;
Theodore Dreiser
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Step 2. General Introduction to America Literature
4. American Modernism(1914-1945)
Poetry:-Imagism: Pond, . Eliot, . Williams,

Novel/Short story:-Anderson; Fitzgerald;
Hemingway; Faulkner
John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, etc.
Drama- Eugene O’Neill
5. Post Modernism (1945-
Saul Bellow, Arthur Miller, . Salinger, etc.
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Step 3. Th