10/15 美國文學 week 6 Introduction of Several Authors－JaneJaneLand

§p.119

-The most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. She was also a prominent Puritan figure in American Literature. Her first volume of poetry was The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in 1650. It was met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World.

-female subjectivity

§p.145

*Edward Taylor (1642-1729)

-A colonial American poet, pastor and physician.

*metaphor

→The Tyger…..(讚美造物主)

-名詞大寫 →德語的殘留

-thou wilt.. (= you are…)

-和中世紀的祈禱詩相近

§p.213-216

* Jonathan Edwards

- A Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian," and one of America's greatest intellectuals.

-Sinners in the hands of an angry god…

→使用恫嚇型的文字

-Puritanism(清教徒主義)

→original sin/ predestine (命定好的)/inherited guilt

-Iliad

→theme: Achilles wrath

-(p.215)

→重複但丁<神曲>:漏斗型地獄的重現

-keywords: Wrath

§p.234-236,248-249,301-303,305

*Benjamin Franklin

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

-當時的”巴菲特”(成功的商業人士)/勤勉致富

-曾從事外交工作

→born diplomat: detached, adaptable, witty, urbane, charming and clever.

→Treaty of Paris 1783 (北約協定)

-entreaty to Achelous

-The Autobiography (p.248-249)

→Felicity, old man, vanity…

→自製表格，檢視自己 (p.301-305)

→想解決問題，意願最重要

§p.323-324

*Thomas Paine

-An English and American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. As the author of the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.

-<Common Sense>

-<The American Crisis>

-<Rights of Man>

→<The American Crisis> & <Rights of Man> 影響法國大革命

-words:

→monarchy寡頭政治

§p.337-340

*Thomas Jefferson

-比較內斂

-agrarian

→ 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.'

§p.345-348,350

*The Federalist聯邦論者

-advocate

§p.467

*Washington Irving

- 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.

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