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American LiteraturePeriods of Am. Lit.1.Beginning of American Literature:1607-1776 Colonial Period1765-1790 The Revolutionary Age1775-1828 The Early National Period2. Romanticism,Transcendentalism 1828-1865The Romantic Period(Also known as:TheAmerican Renaissance) The Age of Transcendentalism 186519003. Realism, NaturalismThe Realistic Period 1900-1914
The Naturalistic Period (extreme realism)1914-1939 1920s 1920s, 1930s:American Modernist Period:Jazz Age,Harlem RenaissanceThe “Lost Generation”1939-present 1950s 1960s, 1970sThe Contemporary Period: The Beat generation American Literature recognizes worksof:African-American WritersNative sầu American WritersAsian-American WritersColonial Period Periods of Am. Literature vary a lot It´s impossible to give sầu exact dates The first literature started toappear afterfounding of the first settlement at
Jamestown in 1607 It continuoud till the outbreak of theRevolutionLiterary genres: Historical writings Religious themes –sermons (kázání)tractsWriters:Anne Bradstreet (poet)Benjamin Franklin (The Way khổng lồ Wealth)William BradfordThe Revolutionary Age The greakiểm tra documents of Americanhistory were authored: Thomas Paine (Comtháng Sense – heurged independence) The Declaration of Independence(Thomas Jefferson – 1776) The Constitution(1789 – ratified)
The Early National Period Beginnings of true Am. Literature The writers wrote in th English style butthe settings, themes and characters wereauthentically American Washington Irving – he wrote about Am.Life, biography of G. Washington James Fenimore Cooper – The Last of theMohicans Edgar Allan PoeE.A.Poe (1809-1849) son of a poor actress (drastic death) his father alcoholic He was taken by his guardian Mr. Allan Studied West Point – kicked out Marriage with 13 year-old cousin She died of TB ten years later – despair,grief was reflected in his works 1849 found delirious in a steet
The Raven (poem) -a tired, unhappystudent asks if he ever meets his loveagain His doubts are underlined by the raven´srepetition „nevermore“,symbol of doubts và longing The Golden Bug The Pit and the Pendulum The Blachồng Cat The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Fall of the House of UsherHis work: 1. realism: detective sầu stories – logical,brilliant, rational 2. romanticism – irrationalism, mystery,violence, criminality, death, passionPerverse, vulgar, grotesque style.Transcendentalism American reflection of Europeanromanticism Philosophical movement
The transcendal philosophy was basedon:1.Free willHumanityIntuitionIndividual conscienceIt glories nature2.3.4.5. All transcendentalists were isolated people They lived in „Utopian Community“ –Brookfarm near Boston The individual can transcend the world& discover union with God and Ideal
Main representatives: Ralph Walvày Thoreau Henry David ThoreauOther Romantic Writers Herman Melville – symbomenu (Moby-Dick) Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)the main theme –sinHester has te wear letter A – means adulteress Walternative phebinhvanhoc.com.vn/en Whitman (poet) Emily Dickinson (poet)Realistic Period After Civil War: Social injustice – first millionaires appear(Rockefeller) discoveries in science (railway, telegraphcable, telephone,…) Growth of education Twain called this period „gilded age“Realism kích hoạt against romanticism Main literary size – novel Authors accuse romanticism of falsehood
They describe common things, commonplaces, everyday lifeMark Twain His real name: Samuel Langorne Clemens He spent his childhood on the Mississippiriver Workedon a steamboat on the Mississippi Travelled a lot He recollects his childhood in his books The Innocents Abroad The Gilded Age The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Advedntures of Huckleberry FinnTom likes danger, he´s always able toavoid problems, Huchồng represents socialconscience, he´s sensitive sầu khổng lồ everythingaround himNaturalism Derived from the word nature (interest innature)
It has its origin in France – Zola Prople are influenced by environmentalforces (outside us) và inner drives (insideus) – peole can ´t control them The main drives of characters: hunger,fear, sex, … Their writings are often cruel & tragic. Stephen Crane Jaông chồng London (Tjhe Call of the Wild) Theodore Dreiser (An American Tragedy) Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)
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