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1、美国文学史复习(colonialism)第一部分 殖民主义时期的文学William Bradford 布拉德福德literatureCaptain John Smith 史密斯literatureThe colonial American literature殖民地时期The colonial and revolutionary American literature(1607-1781-1815) 殖民地时期及独立革命时期The revolutionary American literature独立革命时期Anne Bradstreet Edward Taylor 泰勒Roger Willi
2、ams 威廉斯Philip Freneau弗瑞诺Benjamin Franklin富兰克林Thomas Paine 潘恩Jonathan Edwards爱德华兹Thomas Jefferson杰斐逊一、时期综述1、清教徒采用的文学体裁:a、narratives 日记 b、journals 游记2、清教徒在美国的写作内容:1)their voyage to the new land2) Adapting themselves to unfamiliar climates and crops3) About dealing with Indians4) Guide to the new land,
3、 endless bounty, invitation to bold spirit3、清教徒的思想:1)puritan want to make up pure their religious beliefs and practices 净化信仰与行为方式2) Wishto restore simplicity to church and the authority of the Bible to the theology. 重建教堂,提供简单服务,建立神圣地位来源:() - 美国文学史复习1(colonialism)_苗苗_新浪博客 3)look upon themselves as ch
4、osen people, and it follow logically that anyone who challenged their way of life is opposing Gods will and is not to be accepted. 认为自己是上帝选民,对他们的生活有异议就是反对上帝4)puritan opposition to pleasure and the arts sometimes has been exaggerated. 反对对快乐与艺术的追求到了十分荒唐的地步 5)religious teaching tended to emphasize the
5、image of a wrathful God.强调上帝严厉的一面,忽视上帝仁慈的一面。4、典型的清教徒: John Cotton & Roger William他们的不同:John Cotton was much more concerned with authority than with democracy; William begins the history of religious toleration in America.5、William的宗教观点:Toleration did not stem from a lack of religious convictions. In
6、stead, it sprang from the idea that simply to be virtuous in conduct and devout in belief did not give anyone the right to force belief on others. He also felt that no political order or church system could identify itself directly with God. 行为上的德,信仰上的诚,并没有给任何人强迫别人该如何行事的权利。没有任何政治秩序与教会体制能够直接表达神本身的意旨。
7、6、英国最早移民到美国的诗人:Anne Bradstreet7、在殖民时期最好的清教徒诗人:the best of Puritan poets is Edward Tayor.学习指南:1、Could you give a description of American Puritans? 关于美国清教徒的描绘 Like their brothers back in England, were idealists, believing that the church should be restored to the purity of the first-century church as
8、established by Jesus Christ himself. To them religion was a matter of primary importance. They made it their chief business to see that man lived and thought and acted in a way which tended to the glory of God. They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin and total depravity, and limit
9、ed atonement through a special infusion of grace from God, all that John Calvin, the great French theologian who lived in Geneva had preached. It was this kind of religious belief that they brought with them into the wildness. There they meaant to prove that were Gods chosen people enjoying his bles
10、sings on this earth as in Heaven.2、Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing.3、The work of two writers, Anne Bradstreet & Edward Taylor, rose to the level of real poetry.4、The earliest settlers included Dutch, Swedes, Germans,French, Spaniards Italian, and Portuguese.Works:第 4 页