一：作家作品
1.Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio(小镇畸人，1919) The Triumph of the Egg(鸡蛋的胜利，1921)
2.John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath(愤怒的葡萄，1939，strong sociological novel,1940年获普利策奖（Pulitzer Prize)),1962年获诺贝尔文学奖①the foremost novelist of the American Depression.美国大萧条时期最杰出的小说家。 ②代表作：
“Of Mice and Men”《人鼠之间》 portrayed the tragic friendship between two migrant workers “The Grapes of Wrath”《愤怒的葡萄》regarded as masterpiece ,showed the migration of the Okies from the Dust Bowls to
California ,a migration that ended in broken dreams and misery but at the same time affirmed the
ability of the common people to endure and prevail. Theme : strength comes from unity i-we ;faith
in life; struggle to live better
2.John Dos Passos: 约翰多斯帕索斯His trilogy U.S.A(美利坚)---The 42nd Parallel(北纬42度，1930), 1919(1932), The Big Money(1936), Three Soldiers。三个士兵。 Experimental writing
skills(实验性写作技巧)
3.F. Scott Fitzgerald: he began as a spokesman for the jazz age and became its symbol.爵士年代的代言人This Side of Paradise(1920), Tales of the Jazz Age(爵士时代的故事,1922,①作品：“This Side of Paradise”《人间天堂》，the first novel. “The Great Gatsby” 《了不起的盖茨比》Jay Gatz Daisy. Tom Buchanan . novel .theme: the hollowness of the upper
class; the meaning of the past . desire inevitably invited disappointment, for the gap between
actuality and possibility was only rarely bridge in his world. “Tender Is the Night” 《夜色温柔》 novel ②第二本小说的开展过程：dream梦想 → Daisy self-centered 理想化的淑女，自我为中心 → disenchantment, disillusion魔法消失，(因阶级差异)梦想破灭 → sense of
failure and despair (light)失败和绝望 Ash 灰(象征) → forest树木，西部开发，树木变成灰了 ③limited point of view有限视角 → suspense悬念 + mystery神秘真实性→reliable可信的，不偏，不评价
4.Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms(1929,救护车司机和一个英国护士之间的悲剧爱情),
The Sun Also Rises(1926,反法西斯小说，歌颂兄弟般的友谊), For Whom the Bell Tolls(1940),
The Old Man and the Sea(1952),硬汉形象(tough guy image),冰山原则风格(the iceberg
principle),生活态度：压力下的风度，失败者的尊严grace under pressure.
5.William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury(喧哗与骚动,1929),Benjy:a moaning, speechless
idiot.Quentin, Tason.Absalom, Absalom(押沙龙，押沙龙),1950年获诺贝尔文学奖(Nobel Prize
in Literature)，意识流(stream of consciousness)、世系小说(Yoknapatawpha country) Light in
August, Joe Christmas.
6.Katherine Anne Porter: Ship of Fools(愚人船,1962，讽刺纳粹主义Nazism兴起)
7.Carson McCullers: The Member of the Wedding(1946--1950),人类精神的孤寂
8.Eudora Welty: The Optimist’s Daughter(1972,Pulitzer Prize)
9.A Good is Hard to Find(1955),南方哥特式风格
Ezra Pound: The Cantos(1925),美国现代诗歌之父①Imagism 意象派的代表人物。Pound and
Eliot became the early leaders in restoring to poetry the use of literary reference as an imaginative
instrument. 庞德和爱略特都是运用意象主义作为文学表现手法的早期诗人。 ②major
work of poetry is the long poem called “The Cantos”
11.Robert Frost: New Hampshire(1923)对人类悲剧的恐惧，对复杂人生的态度，对生活负担
的坦然罗伯特.弗洛斯特 自然主义诗人 poet ①诗歌特点和内容：(1)rejected the
revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries, choosing instead “the old-fashioned way to
be new.” He employed the plain speech of rural New Englanders and preferred the short,
traditional forms of lyric and narrative. (2)He saw nature as a storehouse of analogy and
symbol. (3)His concern with nature reflected deep moral uncertainties, and his poetry,
for all its apparent simplicity, often probes mysteries of darkness and irrationality in the bleak and
chaotic landscapes of an indifferent universe where men stand alone, unaided and perplexed.
②he become a national bard美国民族诗人的翘首, win four Pulitzer Prizes获得了四次普利兹奖. ③“The Road Not Taken”、“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”向往大自然，想逃避社会；死亡、迷惑
ngston Hughes: New Negro Renaissance哈林文艺复兴运动(Harlem Renaissance)中的重要作家和思想家，颂扬黑人生活
11.Richard Wright: The Outsider(1953)Cross Damon, Native son(1940), Bigger Thomas .Black
Boy(1945)autobiographic .
12.Eugene O’Neil: 4次普利策，一次诺贝尔。Beyond the Horizon(1920),在天边外，表现主义，美国的莎翁(William Shakespeare) George Bernard Shaw.萧伯纳 Three greatest playwrights in
English language theatre. Desire under the elms,榆树下的欲望。The Iceman Cometh.送冰的人来了。Long Day’s Journey into Night.进入黑夜的漫长旅程, 代表作。James Tyrone Sr. his wife,
Mary.
13.Joseph Heller: Catch-22(1961)第二十二条军规。Non-chronological style. self-contradictory.
What is right to do in a basic moral, social, prisoner’s dilemma .
14.Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five(1969)第五号屠宰场 Billy Pilgrim.
15.Thomas Ruggles Pynchon托马斯·鲁格斯·品钦 Gravity’s Rainbow 万有引力之虹。Four
parts: beyond the zero, un perm’s au casino Hermann goering, in the zone, the counter
force.
16.J.D.Salinger: The Cather in the Rye 麦田的守望者。Holden Caulfield, 16,Phoebe妹妹。Major
theme of alienation as a form of self-protection, the painfulness of growing up and the phoniness
of the adult world.
17.Allen Ginsberg: Howl 嚎叫。Three sections. 金斯伯格被奉为“垮掉的一代”之父，
18.Saul bellow: The Victim(1947) The adventures of augie march (1953) Herzog (1964)
Humboldt’s Gift.洪堡的礼物,诺贝尔奖和普利策奖。Seize the day .
19.Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon (1977),Native Son. Invisible Man. milestone.The Bluest
Eye(1970) .Beloved 1987,宠儿Sethe is a proud and noble woman. Magic realism
20.Alice Walker: The Color Purple(1982,普利策奖), 女权主义 ,黑人女性主义者womanism 。The color purple. Heroine is Celie ,Nettie is sister.Shug. theme: African women’s growth against
the backdrop of social and familial oppression.
21.Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club(1989)喜福会mother-daughter relationship . jin-mei anh her
mother suyuan woo.
22.Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman(1949)推销员之死 Willy Loman 主角。Biff 大儿子。ALL
My Sons. The crucible . after the fall. Pulitzer prize for drama .