father of American literature.
The short story as a genre in American literature probably began with Irving’s The Sketch Book, a collection of essays, sketches, and tales,
James Fenimore Cooper(1789-1851) Ralph Waldo Emerson (拉尔夫. 华尔多. 爱默生)
Henry David Thoreau Nathaniel Hawthorne (纳撒尼尔. 霍桑) Herman Melville (赫尔曼. 麦尔维尔)
Edgar Allan Poe Walt Whitman (华尔特. 惠特曼)
Emily Dickinson
• Washington Irving (华盛顿. 欧文, 1783-1859)
• The father of American Literature
• short story writer, essayist, poet, travel book writer, best known for the short stories “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (睡谷的传说)” and “Rip Van Winkle (瑞普. 凡. 温克尔)".
(1) American westward expansion (美国西部扩展)---“拓荒小说”
(2) New England Transcendental Movement (新英格兰超验主义运 动)-----”宗教性”、“象征”
New England Transcendental Movement
(5) Description of the role of nature and American landscape
(6) strongly influenced by the Puritanism
Major writers and their works of the period Washington Irving (华盛顿. 欧文)
American Literature
The Romantic Period
(the end of the 18th century ----the outbreak of the Civil War. )
the first American Renaissance Historical background
the Oversoul---- nature as symbol
the individual
Features of literature of this period
(1) Description of national experience of “pioneering into the west” (西部开拓)
约翰尼-德普(Johnny Depp) 克里斯蒂娜-里奇(Christina Ricci) 米兰达-理查森(Miranda Richardson) 卡斯帕-范-迪恩(Casper Van Dien)
导 演：蒂姆-伯顿 (Tim Burton) 种 类：恐怖片
被誉为“美国文学之父”的华盛顿-欧文的经典 之作《睡谷传奇》自1912年首次搬上银幕以来， 曾有多个电影版本相继面世，其中迪斯尼的卡通 版《无头骑士传奇》最为深入人心。曾执导《蝙 蝠侠》、《火星人大入侵》的大导演蒂姆 -伯顿 在这部经过重构的新片中再度运用极具个性化的 电影语言，在戏剧化与幽默感兼顾的情况下将欧 文的小说原著提升到一个新高度。同时，曾为 《星球大战》系列影片以及《魔鬼终结者》等片 制作数码特效的工业光魔公司，成功为影片营造 出的令人毛骨悚然的恐怖场面将使本片毫无争议 地跻身经典恐怖片之列。
Nature: the bible of New England
Transcendentalism This book pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England Transcendentalism, the summit of American Romanticism.
(2) Fascination about the past and the exotic
(3) free expression of emotion and display of the psychic states of the characters.
(4) Pay attention to the description of the individual and the common man
From 1804 to 1806 he travelled widely in Europe.
Irving's career as a writer started in journals and newspapers.
Major poier of imaginative literature to gain international fame.
Biography
Born of a wealthy merchant in New York City as the youngest of 11 children. Early in his life Irving developed a passion for books. He studied law privately but practiced only briefly.
the most famous story are “Rip Van Winkle” (瑞普. 凡. 温克尔) and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (睡谷的传说)
Sleepy Hollow (沉睡谷/断头谷)
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