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literature,architecture and music 文学，建筑和音乐

 

1)major american writers and their works

 

① bejamin franklin(1706-1790)本杰明.富兰克林: the only writer in the colonial period. works: poor richard's almanac, which is an annual collection of proverbs.

殖民地时期的作家。作品：《穷理查年鉴》，一本年度谚语集。

 

② washington irving(1803-1882) 华盛顿 欧文: a history of new youk纽约外史; the ¹ book最著名的作品为《见闻札记》，his most famous book, contians “rip van winkle”《瑞普.凡.温克尔》and “the legend of sleepy hollow”《睡谷的传说》

 

③ralph waldo emerson(1803-1882) 爱默生：the leader of the movement of transcendentalism.超验 主义运动的领导者works:nature,（论自然） self-reliance（论自助）, representative men（代表人物）, english traits and poems (英国人的性格和诗).

 

③ nathaniel hawthorne(1804-1864) 霍桑：the ² letter红字

 

⑤mark twain1835-1910）马克吐温: the ³ jumping frog(《著名的跳蛙》，成名之作) ；the adventures of tom sawyer(a boy book)汤姆.索亚历险记; the adventures of huckleberry finn(his master work)哈克贝利.芬历险记，则是他最杰出著作; atramp abroad浪迹海外, life on the mississippi密西西比河上, the golded age 镀金时代and innocents abroad异乡奇遇。

 

⑥walt whitman(1819-1892) 沃尔特. 惠特曼: the first to explore ⁴ the possibilities of free verse（探索自由诗体可能性的第一人）. leaves of grass(his masterpiece)草叶集, emily dickinson(1830-1886) 艾米丽. 狄更生:death was one of the great themes of her work死亡是她作品的重要主题之一

 

⑦theordor dreiser(1871-1945)西奥多.德莱塞: the representative of ⁵ in whose works reported truthfully and objectively the life in the slums.自然主义代表，在他们的作品里对贫民窟的生活进行了真实而客观的报道。 works:trilogy of desire(欲望三部曲); an american tragedy(美国的悲剧—被公认为最佳作品，which is considered to be his best)

 

⑧t.s eliot(1888-1965);won the nobel prize for literature in 1946

 

⑨emest hemingway(1899-1967)海明威; was awarded the nobel prize 诺贝尔文学奖for literature in 1954. a farewell to arms永别了，武器; for whom the bell tolls(the two about the first and second world war); 丧钟为谁而鸣（关于一、二战的2篇小说）old man and the sea(his representative book)老人与海（代表作）.

 

2)harlem renaissance(哈莱姆复兴) and black writing in american literature:

 

in the 1920s, black litrature developed into an upsurge which has come to be known as the harlem renaissace.20世纪20年代， 黑人文学蓬勃发展，后来被称为‘哈莱姆复兴’。langston hughes(1899-1967) 休斯 (masterpiece: the weary blues困倦的blues) and richard wright(1908-1960) 赖特（masterpiece: native son土生子） were the major figures of those black writers.

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