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презентация powerpoint lecture 2 literature of the usa basic words: pedant- somebody who displays his or her knowledge ostentatiously puritans- a member of a group of protestants in 16th- and 17th-century england and 17th-century america who believed in strict religious discipline and called for the simplification of acts of worship puritan- somebody who lives by a strict moral or religious code, especially somebody who is suspicious of pleasure millennium- a period of 1,000 years, especially a period that begins or ends in a year that is a multiple of romantic poetry1,000 1. literature of the 17th – 18th centuries and its characteristic features. the hard-fought american revolution against britain (1775-1783) was the first modern war of liberation against a colonial power. the triumph of american independence seemed to many at the time a divine sign that america and her people were destined for greatness. military victory fanned nationalistic hopes for …

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es fenimore cooper, ralph waldo emerson,. henry david thoreau, herman melville, nathaniel hawthorne, edgar allan poe, walt whitman, and emily dickinson. america's literary independence was slowed by a lingering identification with england, an excessive imitation of english or classical literary models, and difficult economic and political conditions that hampered publishing. revolutionary writers, despite their genuine patriotism, were of necessity self-conscious, and they could never find roots in their american sensibilities. colonial writers of the revolutionary generation had been born english, had grown to maturity as english citizens, and had cultivated english modes of thought and english fashions in dress and behavior. their parents and grandparents were english (or european), as were all their friends. wor added to this, american awareness of literary fashion still lagged behind the english, and this time lag intensified american imitation. fifty years after their fame in england, english neoclassic writers such as joseph addison, richard …

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, was a printer by trade and could publish his own work. charles brockden brown was more typical. the author of several interesting gothic romances, brown was the first american author to attempt to live from his writing. but his short life ended in poverty. the lack of an audience was another problem. the small cultivated audience in america wanted well-known european authors, partly out of the exaggerated respect with which former colonies regarded their previous rulers. this preference for english works was not entirely unreasonable, considering the inferiority of american output, but it worsened the situation by depriving american authors of an audience. only journalism offered financial remuneration, but the mass audience wanted light, undemanding verse and short topical essays -- not long or experimental work. чарльз брокден браун — американский публицист и редактор. википедия дата и место рождения: 17 января 1771 г., филадельфия, пенсильвания, сша дата и место …

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ntly the so-called battle of the ancients and moderns—the critical comparison of greek and roman authors with more recent ones—was fought chiefly in that arena. an essay on criticism (1711), by english poet alexander pope, put together in verse both ancient and modern opinions. pope considered nature, including human nature, to be universal, and he saw no contradiction between the modern writer‘s task of addressing a contemporary audience and the insistence by traditional critics that certain rules derived from the practice of the ancients be followed: ―those rules of old discovered, not devised, / are nature still, but nature methodized.‖ english writer samuel johnson, in the preface to his 1765 edition of shakespeare‘s plays, observed that ―nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature.‖ accordingly, he praised shakespeare for creating universal characters ―who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have …

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little about human nature and wrote ―stale tales‖ in an overly sentimental style. since most women of her day received little education, wollstonecraft feared that reading such novels would further hinder women‘s ―neglected minds‖ in ―the right use of reason.‖ in the third quarter of the 18th century, french philosopher, novelist, and outspoken autobiographer jean jacques rousseau offered an alternative to the faith in universal human reason propounded by pope, johnson, and other writers . opponents of excessive rationalism found in rousseau an advocate of their own growing interest in the expression of emotion, individual freedom, and personal experience. жан-жак руссо философ описание описание жан-жак руссо́ — франко-швейцарский философ, писатель и мыслитель эпохи просвещения. также музыковед, композитор и ботаник. виднейший представитель сентиментализма. его называют предтечей великой французской революции. проповедовал «возврат к природе» и призывал к установлению полного социального равенства. википедия дата и место рождения: 28 июня 1712 г., женева, швейцария …

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презентация powerpoint lecture 2 literature of the usa basic words: pedant- somebody who displays his or her knowledge ostentatiously puritans- a member of a group of protestants in 16th- and 17th-century england and 17th-century america who believed in strict religious discipline and called for the simplification of acts of worship puritan- somebody who lives by a strict moral or religious code, especially somebody who is suspicious of pleasure millennium- a period of 1,000 years, especially a period that begins or ends in a year that is a multiple of romantic poetry1,000 1. literature of the 17th – 18th centuries and its characteristic features. the hard-fought american revolution against britain (1775-1783) was the first modern war of liberation against a colonial …

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