美国文学教案

外国语学院`教案课程名称：美国文学授课专业班级：BW0901,BW0902,,BW0903授课教师：王希玲院别：外国语学院2012年1月201日TableofContentsIntroduction.......................................4Lecture1............................................5TheLiteratureoftheColonialAmericaandofReasonandRevolution..........................................5Lecture2..........................................32AmericanRomanticismandNewEnglandLiterature:......WashingtonIrvingandJamesFenimoreCooper..........................................................32Lecture3..........................................48AmericanRomanticismandNewEnglandLiterature:RalphWaldoEmersonandHenryDavidThoreau..........................................................48Lecture4..........................................69AmericanRomanticismandNewiiEnglandLiterature:NathanielHawthorneandHermanMelville.69Lecture5........................................101AmericanRomanticismandNewEnglandLiterature:WaltWhitman,EmilyDickinsonandEdgarAllanPoe..................................................101Lecture6........................................140TheAgeofRealismandNaturalism:HenryJames..................................140Lecture7........................................156TheAgeofRealismandNaturalism:MarkTwain...................................156Lecture8........................................168TheAgeofRealismandNaturalism:Dreiser............................................168Lecture9........................................184TheAgeofModernism:Literatureinthe1920s(EzraPoundandT.S.Eliot)...............................................184Lecture10......................................207TheAgeofModernism:Literatureiiiinthe1920’(WallaceStevens,WilliamCarlosWilliamsandRobertFrost)..............................................207Lecture11......................................230TheAgeofModernism:Literatureinthe1920s230(F.S.FitzgeraldandErnestHemingway)......................230Lecture12......................................255TheAgeofModernism:Literatureinthe1920s(WilliamFaulkner)..255Lecture13......................................270TheAgeofModernism:Literatureinthe1930s(JohnDosPassos,JohnSteinbeckandKatherineAnnePorter)............................................270Lecture14......................................293AmericanDrama:EugeneO’NeillandArthurMiller.........................293Lecture15......................................320PostwarPoetry:ElizabethBishopandAllenGinsberg.......................320Lecture16......................................341ivMultiethnicLiterature:RalphEllison,TonyMorrisonandSaulBellow.............................................341IntroductionThiscourseissimilartothecourseofHistoryandSelectedReadingsofEnglishLiterature.ASurveyofAmericanLiterature(goodandauthoritativebook)byChangYaoxinandSelectedReadingsinAmericanLiteraturebyTaojieare2coursebooks.Whenstudyingthiscourse,studentsarerequiredtoprepareanotebookandtakenotesoftheimportantinformationgivenbytheteacher.Besides,studentsarerequiredtoreadsomeselectedreadingsanddiscusssomequestionsgivenbytheteacher.Furthermore,studentsarerequiredtoreadtwonovelsgivenbytheteacherandhandintwopapers,eachofwhichnolessthan1000words.Studentscanturntothesereferences:刘洊波.《英美文学史及作品选读》(高等教育出版社，2001),常耀信.《漫话英美文学》(南开大学出版社，2004),钱青等.《美国文学名著精选》(商务印书馆，1995),吴伟仁.《美国文学史及选读》(外语教学与研究出版社，1990),吴定柏.《美国文3学大纲》(上海外语教育出版社，1998),杨岂深，龙文佩.《美国文学选读》(译文出版社，1985),张冲.《新编美国文学史》(上海外语教育出版社，2000),左金梅.《美国文学》(青岛海洋出版社,2000),李公昭.《20世纪美国文学导论》(西安交通大学出版社，2000).Thereare16lecturesinthiscourse,beitTheLiteratureoftheColonialAmericaandofReasonandRevolution(1lecture),AmericanRomanticismandNewEnglandLiterature(4lectures),TheAgeofRealismandNaturalism(3lectures),TheAgeofModernism:Literatureinthe1920’s(4lectures),TheAgeofModernism:Literatureinthe1930’s(1lecture),AmericanDrama:Eugene4O’NeillandArthurMiller(1lecture),PostwarPoetry:ElizabethBishopandAllenGinsburg(1lecture),MultiethnicLiterature:RalphEllison,TonyMorrisonandSaulBellow(1lecture).Gradeofthiscourseincludesthegradeofdailyperformance(50%)andthegradeoffinalexamination(50%).Thegradeofdailyperformancewillbegivenaccordingtothefollowingitems:in-classbehavior(20%),includingpreviewing,takingnotes,question-answeringandpresentation;homework(20%);papers(20%);mid-termexamination(20%);attendance(20%).5Lecture1TheLiteratureoftheColonialAmericaandofReasonandRevolutionⅠTeachingContentLiteratureoftheColonialAmerica;LiteratureofReasonandRevolutionⅡTimeAllotment4periodsⅢTeachingObjectivesandRequirements1MakethestudentsknowclearaboutAmericanPuritanismanditsinfluenceonAmericanLiterature.2Helpthestudentstoknowaboutthemainliteraryform,contentandthemeinColonialAmericaandthe6representativewritersofthisperiod.3HelpthestudentsknowabouttheAmericanhistoryofIndependenceWarandtherepresentativesintheperiodofReasonandRevolution,especiallytheirinfluenceonAmericanLiterature.4MakethestudentshaveagoodunderstandingofJonathanEdwardsandBenjaminFranklin.5MakesurethestudentsunderstandclearlyaboutBenjaminFranklin’sAutobiographyanditsinfluenceonthelatterAmericans.ⅣKeyPointsandDifficultPointsi