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内容大纲
本书既是一部文学史,也是一部文化和思想断代史。全书共分为四部,聚焦于十九世纪中期美国的五位文学巨匠——爱默生、梭罗、霍桑、梅尔维尔、惠特曼,从语言和文体上系统论述了这五位重要作家的文学成就,绘制出一幅美国文艺复兴代表人物的集体肖像画,集中展示了美国文学的第一个高峰,在推动美国文学研究方面起到了重要的作用。 -
作者介绍
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目录
BOOK ONE: FROM EMERSON TO THOREAU
Ⅰ.IN THE OPTATIVE MOOD
1.Consciousness
2.Eloquence
3.Expression
4.The Word One with the Thing
5."The light of the body is the eye"
6.A Few Herbs and Apples
7.The Flowing
8.Self-Portrait of Saadi
Ⅱ.THE ACTUAL GLORY
1.Expected Unexpectedness
2.What Music Shall We Have?
3.Thinking in Images
Ⅲ.THE METAPHYSICAL STRAIN
1.Man Thinking
2.The Mingling of Walden and Ganges
3.Ishmael's Loom of Time
Ⅳ.THE ORGANIC PRINCIPLE
1.From Coleridge to Emerson
2.Horatio Greenough
3.Thoreau
4.New England Landscapes
5.Walden: Craftsmanship vs.Technique
BOOK TWO: HAWTHORNE
Ⅴ.THE VISION OF EVIL
Ⅵ.PROBLEM OF THE ARTIST AS NEW ENGLANDER
1.Starting Point
2.The First Tales
3."To open an intercourse with the world"
4.The Haunted Mind
Ⅶ.ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLISM
Theory
1.The American Bias and Background
2.The Imagination as Mirror
3.The Crucial Definition of Romance
Practice
1.The Scarlet Letter
2.From ‘Young Goodman Brown' to ‘TheWhiteness of the Whale'
3.Hawthorne and James
4.Hawthorne and Milton
Coda
Ⅷ.A DARK NECESSITY
1.Hawthorne's Politics, with the Economic Structure of The Seven Gables
2.Hawthorne's Psychology: The Acceptance of Good and Evil
3.From Hawthorne to James to Eliot
BOOK THREE: MELVILLE
Ⅸ.MOMENT OF TRANSITION
1.‘Out of unhandselled savage nature'
2.Mardi: A Source-Book for Plenitude
3.Autobiography and Art
Ⅹ.THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY
1.The Economic Factor
2.‘The world's a ship on its passage out'
3.Structure
4.‘A bold and nervous lofty language'
5.The Matching of the Forces
6.The Fate of the Ungodly God-like Man
7.The Levels Beyond
Ⅺ.THE TROUBLED MIND
Ⅻ.REASSERTION OF THE HEART
1.An Alien to His Contemporaries
2.Billy Budd, Foretopman
BOOK FOUR: WHITMAN
ⅩⅢ.ONLY A LANGUAGE EXPERIMENT
1.‘Words! book-words! what are you?'
2.Vision and Attitude
3.Three Analogies for a PoemOratory
The Opera
The Ocean
4.‘Rhythm in its last ruggedness and decom-position'
5.‘Landscapes projected masculine, full-sizedand golden'
The Genre Painting of W.S.Mount
The Realism of Millet and of Eakins
‘And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls?'
ⅩⅣ.MAN IN THE OPEN AIR
1.The Need for Mythology
2.Representative Men
3.American Demigods
4.Full Circle
CHRONOLOGY
INDEX
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