10/1 美國文學 week 4 Washington Irving－JaneJaneLand

*movie: American Dream in China 海闊天空

*About American Dream?

*Transcendentalism?

*Learn by heart

*時事：

→不要錢的最貴，不喜歡人家就不要亂拿別人的東西

→Cassandra & Apollo

(free gift =不懷好意的gift)

* When I Was One-and-Twenty__ A.E.Housman

‘The heart out of the bosom was never given in vain; this paid with sighs a plenty and sold for endless rue.’

*1820~1865

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1. Washington Irving (1783~1859)

→An American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

> Rip Van Winkle (*Van→荷蘭貴族的後裔)

→cultured, urbane

→‘Dutch’(*嘲笑荷蘭人)

*movie: National Treasure國家寶藏

*Paul Revere’s Ride

→A poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775, although with significant inaccuracies.

2. James Fenimore Cooper (1789~1851)

→ A prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature.

(movie: The Last of the Mohicans 大地英豪→美國開拓這和當地原住民的事情)

(Hawkeye鷹眼)

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3. The Romantic Period ( handout p.167)

→inferiority complex (用美國文化的方面去寫)

→“The Federalist”

→the decoration of independence

(*Life, Liberty, Happiness)

4. American Dream

→A national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers.

→The Land of Opportunity