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[초기미국문학] early american literature(영문)에 대한 자료입니다.
목차
1. Classicism and Neo-Classicism
2. Social Context
3. Olaudah Equiano
What he had experienced and his influences
4. Phillis Wheatley
Primary Works
Analysis – Theme and Style
Contribution to American Literature
5. Conclusion
6. Discussion
본문내용
Classicism
In the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seeks to emulate.
Originally Classicism was professed for humanism, equality, liberty, etc.
Later it was studied deductively. So the art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained.
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism -the name given to quite distinct movements literature that draw upon Western classical art and culture (usually that of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome). These movements were dominant during the mid 18th to the end of the 19th century.
Pseudo Classicism- another name of neoclassicism given by Romanticists for its following only formality.
Features of Neoclassicism literature
Ideals of order, logic, restraint, accuracy, correctness, restraint, decorum, and so on
참고문헌
Renfro, G. Herbert. Life and Works of Phillis Wheatley. Salem: Ayer Company, Publishers, Inc., 1993.
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/aframerwriters/a/wheatley_poems_2.htm