1、Unit 7 America Literature Early Fiction The post-Revolutionary period.?Washington Irving:History of New York,Tour on Prairies.?James Fenimore Cooper:The Spy,the Leather-Stocking Tales(containing The Pioneers,The Last of the Mohicans,The Prairie,The Pathfinder,and The Deerslayer)Transcendentalists?Ra
2、lph Waldo Emerson:Nature?Henry David Thoreau:Walden Power of Imagination?Edgar Allan Poe:“The Masque of Red Death”and“The Fall of the House of Usher”?Nathaniel Hawthorne:Twice-Told Tales,The Scarlet Letter?Herman Melville:Moby-Dick(considered as Americans greatest novel)New Vision of America?Walt Wh
3、itman:Leave of Grass is egotism(one main poem is called“Song of Myself”).Reform and Liberation?Frederick Douglass?Harriet Beecher Stowe:Uncle Toms Cabin Regionalism(地方主义)?William Dean Howells:Atlantic magazine?Mark Twain(real name Samuel Clemens)The Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court,The Advent
4、ures of Huckleberry Finn (his greatest book)?Emily Dickinson A New Wave?Henry James:The American,Portrait of a lady,The Wings of the Dove,The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.?Emile Zola:The Rise of Silas Lapham?Stephen Crane:Maggie,A Girl of the Street?Theodore Dreiser:Sister Carrie,The Red Badge of
5、 Courage?Upton Sinclair:The Jungle?Jack London:Call of the Wild?Edith Wharton:The House of Mirth,The Age of Innocence?Kate Chopin:The Awakening?Willa Cather:O Pioneers!?W.E.B.Du Bois:Souls of Black Folk Rebellious Spirit?Sherwood Anderson:Winesburg,Ohio and Main Street?Sinclair Lewis(the first Ameri
6、can who won the Nobel Prize in 1930):Babbitt and Arrowsmith The Modernists and the Lost Generation Imagism?Ezra Pound?T.S.Eliot:The Waste Land?e.e.cumming?Wallace Stevens?William Carlos Williams The Lost Generation?F.Scott Fitzgerald:The Great Gatsby?Ernest Hemingway(also won the Nobel Prize):The Su
7、n Also Rises,A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls.?William Faulkner:The Sound and the Fury(1929),As I Lay Dying(1930),Light in August(1932),and Absalom,Absalom!(1936).He used the stream of consciousness,multiple points of view,symbolism and imagery.He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in
8、1950.Harlem Renaissance?Langston Hughes?Countee Cullen?Zora Neale Hurston:Their Eyes Were Watching God(1937)New Drama?Eugene ONeill:Desire Under the Elms,Mourning Becomes Electra,The Iceman Cometh and Long Days Journey into Night.ONeill won a Nobel Prize in 1936 for literature.Depression,Postwar Voi
9、ces and the“Beat Generation”Depression?John Steinbeck:The Grapes of Wrath?Richard Wright:Native Son African-American?Ralph Ellison:Invisible Man?James Baldwin:Go Tell It on the Mountain and The Fire Next Time Jews?Saul Bellow?Isaac Bashevis Singer Bellow and Singer won the Nobel Prize?Tillie Olsen:T
10、ell Me a Riddle Theater?Tennessee Williams:The Glass Menagerie,Desire?Arthur Miller:Death of a Salesman The Beat Generation?Alan Ginsberg:Howl?J.D.Salinger:The Catcher in the Rye Native American Literature?Zitkala Sa:Old Indian Legends?Mourning Dove:Cogewea,the Half-Breed?DArcy McNickle:The Surround
11、ed?N.Scott Momaday:House Made of Dawn and The Way to Rainy Mountain(regarded as sparking the beginning of the Native American Renaissance).New American Voices?Toni Morrison:The Bluest Eye,Song of Solomon and Beloved.She won the Nobel Prize in 1993,the first African-American writer to receive this honor.?Maxine Hong Kingston(Chinese-American):The Woman Warrior and China Men?Amy Tan(Chinese-American):The Joy Luck Club
