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*Notice:
1.到全民書局買書、預習下一周進度

2.下載 syllabus
3. Highlight 18 titles about syllabus
4.有效利用 Sara’s Blog
(http://blog.udn.com/tysunnhcue/article?f_ART_CATE=638673)

5. Post weekly notes on the blog
6. Know how to read, understand, and appreciate the Great Books!

7.copy p.165,167 from World Literature made Simple

*About American Literature

1. Verse English literature
English literature starts with Belwolf

(Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, the oldest surviving epic poem of Old English and thus commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also arguably the earliest vernacular English literature)

*大事紀→ 1066 William the Conqueror

(William I, usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard,was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087. The descendant of Viking raiders, he had been Duke of Normandy since 1035 under the style William II. After a long struggle to establish his power, by 1060 his hold on Normandy was secure, and he launched the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The rest of his life was marked by struggles to consolidate his hold over England and his continental lands and by difficulties with his eldest son.)

*English Renaissance →影響 English Literature (女王喜歡+商團支持)

(In England, the Elizabethan era marked the beginning of the English Renaissance with the work of writers William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Sir Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Sir Philip Sidney, John Milton, as well as great artists, architects (such as Inigo Jones who introduced Italianate architecture to England), and composers such as Thomas Tallis, John Taverner, and William Byrd.)

American literature starts with poetry
*大事記→ 1492 哥倫布(Christopher Columbus)發現新大陸

(Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa (today part of Italy). Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the Spanish colonization of the New World.)

*短篇小說為卓越文體

*作品富含independence, individualism, innovative

*God helps them that help themselves.(天助自助者)_Benjamin Franklin

(Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and in many ways was "the First American". A world-renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. )

2. Introdution
→Robert Frost

(Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.)

→beauty and form/ universal intellectual and emotional appeal

→point of view: who tells the story
(*西洋文學概論：Man learns from suffing._ Iliad

(The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.)

“Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

→Zeus的角度/ theme: Aeschylus生氣了)

3. Major periods
*Part I: Colonial 
→pamphlets and writings 小冊子(propaganda)
→Captain John Smith(總督 of Virginia/ 菸草商大本營) 寫了第一本文學作品(form as diary) 

(Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was considered to have played an important part in the establishment of the first permanent English settlement in North America. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay. He was the first English explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay area and New England.)

*Stamp Act 印花稅  1765
(movie: National Treasure 國家寶藏)

*George Washington(第一個文人)

(George Washington was the first President of the United States (1789–1797), the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He presided over the convention that drafted the United States Constitution, which replaced the Articles of Confederation and remains the supreme law of the land.)

*Map of America (沒有北方/cast away)
→ “Rip Van Winkle”(歐洲民間故事改編)

("Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819 as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.. Although the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills.")

1) Hen pecker 妻管嚴
2) Van (Dutch) → Go dutch 各付各的
3) “女人不能碎念，男人會覺得煩。”___Sara Sun

*最早開發America的不是 British
→ The Revolution…
1) 管理越少的政府才是好政府

4. Roots:
*di- : one separates into two
e.g.
diversity/ dilemma/ diverse