自考英美文学作家作品复习资料.docx

自考英美文学作家作品复习资料 American Literature The romantic period I. Emerson’s transcendentalism and his attitude toward nature 1.Transcendentalism—it is a philosophic and literary movement that flourish in New England, as a reaction against rationalism and Calvinism. It stressed intuitive understanding of god without the help of the church, and advocated independence of the mind. II. Hawthorne’s Puritanism and his black vision of man: 1. Puritanism—it is the religious belief of the Puristans, who had intended to purify and simplify the religious ritual of the church of England. 2. his black vision of man—by the Calvinistic concept of original sin, he believed that human being are evil natured and sinful, and this sin is ever present in human heart and will pass one generation to another. 3. Young Goodman Brown—it shows that everyone has some evil secrets. The innocent and na?ve Brown is confronted with the vision of human evil in one terrible night, and then he becomes distrustful and doubtful. Brown stands for everyone ,who is born pure and has no contact with the real world ,and the prominent people of the village and church. They cover their secrets during daily lives, and under some circumstances such as the witch’s Sabbath, they become what they are. Even his closed wife, Faith, is no exception. So Brown is aged in that night. III. The symbolism of Melville’s Mobby-Dick 1.The voyage to catch the white whale is the one of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of universe. 2. To Ahab, the whale is an evil creature or the agent of an evil force that control the universe. As to readers, the whale is a symbol of physical limits, or a symbol of nature. It also can stand for the ultimate mystery of the universe and the wall behind which unknown malicious things are hiding. IV. Whitman and his Leaves of Grass : 1. Theme: sing of the “en-mass” and the self / pursuit of love, happiness, and ***ual love / sometimes about politics (Drum taps) 2. Whitman’s originality first in his use of the poetic form free verse (i.e. poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme),by means of which he becomes conversational and casual. 3.He uses the first person pronoun “I” to stress individualism, and oral language to acquire sympathy from the common reader.:The realistic period I.The character analysis and social meaning of Huck Finn in Adventure 本文来源：网络收集与整理，如有侵权，请联系作者删除，谢谢！第2页 共2页第 2 页 共 2 页第 2 页 共 2 页第 2 页 共 2 页第 2 页 共 2 页第 2 页 共 2 页第 2 页 共 2 页第 2 页 共 2 页第 2 页 共 2 页第 2 页 共 2 页第 2 页 共 2 页。