3)With regard to their writing, the style is fresh, simple and direct; the rhetoric is plain and honest, not without a touch of nobility often traceable to the direct influence of the Bible.
3.features of Puritanism（1）Predestination: God decided everything before things occurred.（2）Original sin: Human beings were born to be evil, and this original sin can be passed down from generation to generation.（3）Total depravity（4）Limited atonement:Only theselectedcan be saved.
2) Symbolism
To the pious puritans, the physical phenomenal world was nothing but a symbol of god.The American puritan’s metaphorical mode of perception was chiefly instrumental in calling into being a literary symbolism which is distinctly American.
教学重点
清教主义
教学难点
清教主义教义及对美国文学影响
教学方法
口头陈述、提问
教学内容及
时间安排
美国文学概述现代时期25’
Historical Background10’
John Smith10’
William Brandford and John Winthrop10’
John Cotton and Roger William10’
The story with an account of the small group of puritans who migrated fromEnglandtoAmsterdamand then to the new world, with its direct reporting, make it readable and moving
2.Reasons:
They felt the church of England was too close to the church of Rome in doctrine, form of worship and organization of authority.
The puritans felt the influences of politics and the court had led to corruption within the church.
4. influences on American literature
1)Its optimism
American literature was from the outset conditioned by the Puritan heritage. It can be said American literature is bases on the Biblical myth of theGardenof Eden. (Adam and Eve used to live a carefree life in theGardenofEden.lured by the snake, they ate the Forbidden Fruit in the apple tree. A piece of apple choked in Adam’s throat, then came Adam’s apple. After knowing the truth, God became very angry and drove them all out of the Garden of Eden. The snake used to walk like man but after that the God force him to crawl. Then man was forced to suffer the labor to keep the whole family and Woman was forced to suffer the agony of baby bearing.) After that, men have an illusion to restore the paradise. The puritans, after arriving atAmerica, believing that God must have sent them to this new land to restore the lost paradise, to build the wilderness into a new Garden of Eden. Fired with such a strong sense of mission,the puritans looked even the worst of lifewith a tremendous amount of optimism. The optimistic Puritans have exerted a great influence on American literature.
Historical Introduction:
In the16th, the Caribbean islands,Mexico, and other parts of central and south America had been occupied by the Spanish.
Early in 17th, the English settlements inVirginiaandMassachusettsbegan the main stream of what we recognize as the American history.
The literature in colonial America
The first writings:
Diaries, histories, journals, letters, commonplace books, travel books, sermons, in short personal literature in its various forms, occupy a major position in the literature of the early colonial period.
教案首页
授课内容
殖民地时期美国文学
所需课时
2学时主要ຫໍສະໝຸດ 材或参考资料吴伟仁美国文学史及选读外语教学及研究出版社1990
常耀信美国文学简史南开大学出版社2003
教学目标
知识目标：了解殖民地时期美国文学历史背景、代表作家
清教主义
能力目标：了解清教主义的教义，掌握清教主义对美国文学的影响以及殖民时代的主要作家的特点
For the most part sustained by English traditions, ruled by English laws, supported by English commerce, and named after English monarchs and English lands
John Winthrop
1.life
2.works:the history of new England (a journal on the Bay Colonists’ voyage toMassachusettsaboard the ship Arbella in 1630)
John Cotton and Roger William
American puritanism:
1.origin:In the mediaevalEurope, there was widespread religious revolution. In the 16th C, the English King Henry VIII(At that time ,the Catholics were not allowed to divorce unless they have the Pope’s permission. Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife because she couldn’t bear him a son. But the Pope didn’t allow him to divorce because his wife is the Pope’s niece. Henry VIII became very dissatisfied with the Pope, so he broke away from the Roman Catholic Church & established the Church of England. But there was no radical difference between the doctrines of the Church of England and the Catholic Church. A group of people thought the Church of England was too Catholic and wanted to purify the church. Then came the name Puritan.So he puritans are a group of religious people seekto restore simplicity to church services and the authority of the bible to theology.