1. Colonial literature
About Anne Bradstreet
1. She was 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.
2. Her famous work: "The Author to Her Book", "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America"
2. Revolutionary period
About Thomas Jefferson
1. was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801–1809).
2. At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia, and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781).
3. In opposition to Alexander Hamilton's Federalism, Jefferson and his close friend, James Madison, organized the Democratic-Republican Party, and later resigned from Washington's cabinet.
About Benjamin Franklin
1. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and in many ways was "the First American".
2. He was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity.
About Thomas Paine
1. He was 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.
2. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination"
3. Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution.
4. His powerful pamphlet Common Sense (1776), the all-time best-selling[4] American title which crystallized the rebellious demand for ndependence from Great Britain.
5.Thomas Paine 受啟蒙年代的影響，Common Sense 後來影響法國大革命。
=>管的最少的政府才是最好的政府 (最早出現在Thoreau)
=> 天賦人權
=>movie: National Treasure (國家寶藏)
About The federalist
1. It is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution.
2. 三權分立: legislative, executive, judiciary
3. Romantic period
About Rip Van Winkle
1. 號稱第一部文學作品
2. "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.
3. Van 指 Dutch 的貴族姓氏=> Go Dutch! 嘲笑Dutch
About inferiority complex
1. An inferiority complex is a lack of self-worth, a doubt and uncertainty, and feelings of not measuring up to standards. It is often subconscious, and is thought to drive afflicted individuals to overcompensate, resulting either in spectacular achievement or extreme asocial behavior.
2. The term was coined to indicate a lack of covert self-esteem.
3. 寫美國的純真和歐洲的邪惡
About Henry James
1. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism.
2. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allows him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.
3. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and possibly unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to narrative fiction.
About Henry David Thoreau
1. Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.
2. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings
3. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail.
4. In American Literauture there is alway no role of father because it often escape.
About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1. He was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was one of the five Fireside Poets
2. Longfellow wrote predominantly lyric poems, known for their musicality and often presenting stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas. He has been criticized, however, for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses.
About A Psalm of Life (p659)
1. "Act-act in the glorious Present! 行在當下
2. "footprint on the sands of time life": "sand" means life and the beach.
3. "Art is long, time is fleeting" => Amanda McBroom's Errol Flynn
About My Lost Youth (p663)
"And the thought of youth are long, long thoughts." use the repetition.
About "Paul Revere's Ride"
=> [Movie] The age of innocence (純真年代)
=>The Departed (神鬼無見 )
=＞Infernal Affairs (無間道)
Boston
1. Old North Church: This is the location from which the famous "One if by land, and two if by sea" signal is said to have been sent. This phrase is related to Paul Revere's midnight ride.
2. The Destruction of the Tea in Boston : was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773.
3. Boston Bomber: The Boston Marathon bombings and subsequent related shootings were a series of attacks and incidents which began on April 15, 2013, when two pressure cooker bombs exploded during the Boston Marathon at 2:49 pm EDT, killing 3 people and injuring an estimated 264 others.
4. Make way for Duckings (繪本): It is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. This story was set the scene in the Boston Public Park.
5. Boston (cream) pie: A Boston cream pie is a pie that is filled with a custard or cream filling and frosted with chocolate.Created by Armenian-French chef M. Sanzian at Boston's Parker House Hotel in 1856.
New York
1. movie: Sex and the City
2. movie: Breakfast at Tiffany's
3. movie: An Affair to Remember
4. movie: Sleepless in Seattle
About Nora Ephron
Ephron is best known for her romantic comedies and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Writing
For:
About Edith Wharton
1. She was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
American Literature:Transcendentalism (England Literature:William Blake)
About Ralph Waldo Emerson
1. He was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
2. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society
3. Self-Reliance is an essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.
4. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. Following this ground-breaking work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence".
About Each and All (P581-582)
1. heifer 母牛
2. Thy life to thy neughbor's creed was rent.
=> John Done "No man is an island."
3. All are neede by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
Al Gore's Concession
=> Hillary Cliton: Action is eloquence (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvUfEpaPOls)
從American dream討論The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 最後第四段 "The shadowy, moving glow...melt away until... new world...Dutch Sailor eye..." =>逆流而上，背叛前進
movie: Let The River Run - Carly Simon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv-0mmVnxPA)
20世紀百大小說 ~ www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-movies
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