§Literature period
*每個時期都有一個燦爛的文體
*每個時期都是上一個時期的反動
+1. Classicism (tragedy/comedy/epic)
-2. Medieval (courtly love/3M: morality play, mystery play, miracle play)
+3. Renaissance
-4. Neoclassicism
+5. Romanticism (individualism/ emotionalism)
-6. Victorianism (high-seriousness)
+7. Modernism (humanism)
→ 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.
→An American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.
→The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.
*Modernism in American literature→Imagism
*individualism的情感
→An essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets. Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930) and Four Quartets (1945).
→化作春泥更護花
→信奉英國國教派
*Marianne Moore (p.1999)
→ An American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.
→‘imaginary gardens with real toads in them, then you are interested in poetry.’
→“genuine”, “real”
(*derivative異於常軌的)
→Edward Estlin Cummings, known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.
→簽名喜歡簽小寫
→會故意在標點符號後面不空格
e.g. ‘i carry your heart with me(i carry it in / my heart)’
→‘in just’ (p.2137)
→‘Somewhere’ (p.2140/述說男女間的情愛關係)
*The first rose
→The Great Gatsby─‘At his lips touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.’
*Generation X 新人類
*Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
→An American playwright and author of many stage classics. After years of obscurity, he became suddenly famous with The Glass Menagerie (1944), closely reflecting his own unhappy family background. This heralded a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, and Sweet Bird of Youth. His later work attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences, and alcohol and drug dependence further inhibited his creative output.
→和母親之間的關係沒有處理好(離不開母親身邊)
→The Glass Menagerie玻璃動物園 (角色和現實的人有呼應，但是作者否認)
→把寫實(現代感)的區塊帶進舞台
→‘The Poker Night’(p.2349/Scene 9)
1. I need kindness
2. Desired and being desired
→the demise of romantic ‘Old South’
(> In capability to connect with the reality/people? E.g. southern belle, twilight, vampire)
→The Deep South is a descriptive category of the cultural and geographic subregions in the Southern United States. Historically, it is differentiated from the "Upper South" as being the states most dependent on plantation type agriculture during the pre–Civil War period. The Deep South was also commonly referred to as the Lower South or the Cotton States.
→古老的榮光
→Dixie (貨幣)
→車牌上有‘鵜鶘’
→市旗：法國王室的花
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