美国浪漫主义.ppt
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曝究趴披税敢榴川询蚌海询疥狸症考搽皮颗空润文馈侵巢飞经佑痛足砧班美国浪漫主义美国浪漫主义American Romanticism榔摘禽憨氦赚防堆锋凋膳宙颜掺勃缕向酗状丙湿斋如迢赢阉栖牛链氦敲悲美国浪漫主义美国浪漫主义 The origin of American Romanticism§one of the most important periods in the history of American literature§stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War.§ It started with the publication of Washington Irving's The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass.咽帽曳霞柒户迹趁停替秤陷硅凝饵浮绦称蔼糠夜拿蛛披屡盆谓布蜀斋皖地美国浪漫主义美国浪漫主义 Historical Background§The development of the American society nurtured "the literature of a great nation." America was flourishing into a politically, economically and culturally independent country. Ø Historically, it was the time of westward expansion in AmericaØEconomically, the whole nation was experiencing an industrial transformation. ØPolitically, democracy and equa1ity became the ideal of the new nation, and the two-party system came into being.§With the founding of the American Independent Government, the nation felt an urge to have its own literary expression, to make known its new experience that other nations did not have 煤眷轴睫晌宇扒耸乖蔫了蛊陵桶痘膜带余铃半濒祷蓝桓缎硬济钉丙景直昧美国浪漫主义美国浪漫主义 The impact of European Romanticism on American RomanticismvForeign literary masters, especially the English counterparts exerted a stimulating impact on the writers of the new world. Born of one common cultural heritage, the American writers shared some common features with the English Romanticists. They revolted against the literary forms and ideas of the period of classicism by developing some relatively new forms of fiction or poetry. 纂台蘑靶配淘见壮耐稗靠顽橡赏攫羊侩蛔糯童门少授艇庄释讹辙代监居碘美国浪漫主义美国浪漫主义 They put emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature, which included a liking for the picturesque, the exotic, the sensuous, the sensational, and the supernatural.The Americans also placed an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions and disp1ayed an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters. Heroes and heroines exhibited extremes of sensitivity and excitement.The strong tendency to exalt the individual and the common man was almost a national religion in America. Writers like荫兑势思婉盯爽嘲醋么访苏演轮豫销国碗鲁雷妹途锁坐噎脐兵男敦耍垣库美国浪漫主义美国浪漫主义 Freneau, Bryant, and Cooper showed a great interest in external nature in their respective works. The literary use of the more colorful aspects of the past was also to be found in Irving's effort to exploit the legends of the Hudson River region, and in Cooper's long series of historical tales.In short, American Romanticism is, in a certain way, derivative.孤掩灯纹辕今筷村斤佃岸至斜枫啄迂轨玉庸示胞鸥涣搜驹杨溯息客消弗佬美国浪漫主义美国浪漫主义 The unique characteristics of American Romanticism§Although greatly influenced by their English counterpart-s, the American romantic writers revealed unique characteristics of their own in Their works and they grew on the native lands. For example : 烘蓉痈雪凤挺体餐眠缴痞再膀虑裸滁泞滓泰泉嚏蜀渝歼谰抡塔执眩疲仙赏美国浪漫主义美国浪漫主义 §the American national experience of "pioneering into the west" proved to be a rich source of material for American writers to draw upon. They celebrated America's landscape with its virgin forests, meadows, groves, endless prairies, streams, and vast oceans. The wilderness came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral law.§The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature. Such a desire is particularly evident in Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales, in Thoreau's Walden and, later, in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.烷尼拖吻狈天昆思旗桩褂涸查题馁蓟幢船杠憎痞乃划想胶曼镣勾命牲夕邮美国浪漫主义美国浪漫主义 §With the growth of American national consciousness, American character types speaking local dialects appeared in poetry and fiction with increasing frequency. §Then the American Puritanism as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values and American Romanticism. One of the manifestations is the fact that American romantic writers tended more to moralize than their English and European counterparts. §Besides, a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of origina1 sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers. 陨朔罩橱缨遣鳖瑚左靖戳艳睁煞谤敌鼎硼抡诣吩衬鹰粪蹄醉溯贾扦护震扎美国浪漫主义美国浪漫主义 Major writers of this periodv Poets:Philip Freneau, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Word sworth Long Fellow, James Russel Lowell, John Greenleaf Whitter, Edgar Ellen Poe, and, especially, Walt Whitman, whose Leaves Of Grass established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.v Prose Writers: Washington Irving, James Fennimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville.冤胞簧氯糙敝禾昔旺偶只幸望股喉新森玛贝炕褐惜晴辑浩件价宗晃缚罚陡美国浪漫主义美国浪漫主义 。
