美國文學week3

9/30   Washington Irving’s "Rip Van Winkle"

• Hen

       Henpecked :You use hen-pecked to describe a man when you 

       disapprove of the fact that his wife, or another woman, is 

       always telling him what to do or telling him that he has done 

       something wrong. e.g. People refer the man who was afraid of 

       his wife as henpecked.

       predecessor: is the person who had your job before you. 

         flaw:A flaw in someone's character is an undesirable quality

       that they have. e.g.The only flaw in his character seems to be a 

       short temper.

• American Renaissance:Studies of the American Renaissance have tended to exclude the significant contributions of women and minority writers.

•  enslavement

        enlarge

        encourage

•  Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States(1829–1837).

•  Impeachment(n.)The impeachment of a senior official is the process of charging them with a crime which makes them unfit for office.

     One vote short

• ob-negative

       obscure

       obstacle
       obsede

• Iron Road is a 2009 China television miniseries written by Barry Pearson and Raymond Storey and directed by David Wu. 

      starring Sun Li.

      Colonial literature

• Transcendentalism (p169) never really a formalized movement, but instead a shared belief among a group of writers in the creative powers of the individual mind and the need to question established institutions and traditions.

• trans-across

       transport
       transcript
       transit

• Inferiority complex:An inferiority complex is a lack of self-worth, a doubt and uncertainty, and feelings of not measuring up to standards.

• Anne Bradstreet 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.

  

      emigrate
      immigrate

     defect

     perfect

I washed thy face, but more defects I saw,
And rubbing off a spot still made a flaw.
I stretched thy joints to make thee even feet,
Yet still thou run’st more hobbling than is meet;

rhyme scheme(end- rhyme)

trim(v.)

ex: I have my hair trim.

父親在美國文學中缺席、盪然無存

--> 因為逃離母國

p119 The Author to Her Book

female

subjecting

thou（主格you）

thee （受格you）

thy （所有格you）

feeble (week)

amend (v.)

amendment(n.)

personification

metaphor

metrical feet

lambic pentameter


 “ To My Dear and Loving Husband”

    bridal shower 

    baby shower

   

    Invocation

antebellum (bell-war)

ante-before


“Meditation & divine”

extinction(ex-out)

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Obviously, if these intuitions are assumed to be doctrines or dogmas, all kinds of interesting applications of them can be made. Emerson made several: that Christianity is false; that thought is an activity and manifestation of the Over-Soul within man; and that, therefore, man must rely on himself, for in doing so he is trusting in God.

Theme

innovative

first American

dislocation

sir Walter Scott “ The Sketch Book”

“ Sleepy Hollow”