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【正文】 in him. He acplishes his aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements.In a broader sense Expressionism is one of the main currents of art in the late 19th and the 20th centuries, and its qualities of highly subjective, personal, spontaneous selfexpression are typical of a wide range of modern artists and art movements. The Little Theater Movement in the 1920s and 1930s Tennessee WilliamsThe Streetcar Named Desire欲望號街車Arthur MillerDeath of a Salesman推銷員之死Theater of the Absurd often applied to the modern sense of human purposelessness in a universe without meaning or value.The classic work of absurdist theater is Beckett’s En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot, 1952).Edward Albee is most closely connected with the Theater of the Absurd.(Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 誰害怕弗吉尼亞沃爾夫？)美國黑人文學(xué)African American LiteratureEarly African American literatureFrederick Douglass。 Zora NealeAlice WalkerThe Color Purple紫色Tony MorrisonThe Bluest Eye最藍的眼睛；Beloved寵兒美國華裔文學(xué)Chinese American LiteratureEdith Maud Eaton水仙花Mrs. Spring Fragrance春香夫人美國華裔文學(xué)的開山之作Louis Chu雷庭招Eat a Bowl of Tea吃一碗茶第一部以美國華埠為背景的華裔小說Frank Chin趙健秀第一位引起美國主流批評注意的華裔劇作家Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Prose and Poetry哎呀！美國亞裔作家文集Maxine Hong Kingston湯婷婷The Woman Warrior女勇士China Man中國佬Amy Tan譚恩美The Joy Luck Club喜福會David Henry Hwang黃哲倫M. Butterfly蝴蝶君第一部在百老匯上演的華裔戲劇作品附：American Nobel Prize Winners in LiteratureSinclair Lewis (1930, the first American writer to win Nobel Prize)The Main Street (1920)《大街》Eugene O’Neil (1936)Desire under the Elms (1924)《榆樹下的欲望》T. S. Eliot (1948)The Waste Land（1922）《荒原》William Faulkner (1950)The Sound and the Fury（1929）《喧囂與騷動》Ernest Hemingway (1954)The Old Man and the Sea（1952）《老人與海》John Steinbeck (1962)The Grapes of Wrath (1939《憤怒的葡萄》) 12 。Langston Hughes“The Negro Speaks of River”“黑人說河”African American literature in the 1940s and 1950sRichard Wright。W. E. B. DuBoisThe Souls of Black Folks: Essays and Sketches 黑人的靈魂。 Ernest Hemingwayspokesman for the Lost Generationiceberg theory：The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only oneeighth of it being above water.The Sun Also Rises太陽照常升起；A Farewell to Arms 永別了，武器；For Whom the Bell Tolls 喪鐘為誰而鳴；The Old Man and the Sea 老人與海Hemingway’ styleHemingway’s style is noted for its simplicity. In diction, he focus on nouns and verbs and reduces the use of adjectives, especially plicated adjectives. In sentence structure, he uses coordinated clauses to avoid subordinated clauses that would imply vague judgments. This was especially obvious in his writings in the 1920s.Some other writersSherwood AndersonWinesburg, Ohio 小鎮(zhèn)畸人Willa CatherMy Antonia我的安東尼亞Sinclair LewisThe first American writer to win the Nobel Prize. Main street 大街；Babbitt巴比特John Steinbeckhe Grapes of Wrath憤怒的葡萄Margaret MitchellGone With the Wind飄 美國南方文學(xué)Southern American literatureThe American SouthThe American South includes the southeastern states and the southern states along the Gulf of Mexico.This is a unique region where people speak with strong southern accent. The southerners have their distinctive culture, viewpoint, and history. In the southern history, the South was guilty of slavery which began in 1621, the So
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