《美国文学》课件0

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• 李宜燮，常耀信，美国文学选读 • (Selected Readings in American Literature），南开大学出版社，1991 年（上册，下册）
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主要参考书目
1. 常耀信著, A Survey of American Literature (the 2nd edition), 南开大学出版 社, 2003 2. 杨仁敬, 20世纪美国文学史, 青岛出版社, 1999 3. 史志康主编，美国文学背景概观，上海外语 教育出版社，1998 4．Rod W. Horton & Herbert W. Edwards. Backgrounds of American Literary Thought (third edition), Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1974
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• III. What is to be studied in British and American literature • 1. History of British and American literature; • 2. Major writers and their major works; • 3. Historical (economic, political and ideological) background for the creation of the major writers; • 4. Literary creative thought and artistic features of the major writers; • 5. Central thought and social significance and writing techniques of a specific literary work; • 6. General literary theories and schools
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3. The Divisions of American literary history
(1) the Colonial Period, stretching roughly from the early 17th century to the middle of the 18th century; (2) the Period of Revolution and Enlightenment, covering the last decades of the 18th century; (3) the Romantic period, roughly covering the first half of the 19th century;
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5) in 1775, the American War of Independence broke out, and in 1783 America gained its independence; 6) from 1861 to 1865 America experienced the period of Civil War, through which American independence was consolidated; 7) from 1607 to the present, America has a history of roughly 400 years.
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• II. Essential prerequisites for the study of British and American literature • 1. Interest in literature; • 2. A large vocabulary; • 3. Good habits of study;
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3) in 1630, more English people migrated to the continent and established the Massachusetts Bay Colony; 4) up to 1773, thirteen English colonies had been established in America;
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9．王宝童编著，Sound O’er the Realms of Gold—How Poetry Rings (金域音－英诗声韵)，河南大学出版社， 1998； 10．王宝童编著，Out the Realms of Gold—How Poetry Lasts （金域荣－ 英诗运化），河南大学出版社，2000
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Pre-knowledge of America and American Literature
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1. The discovery of America 1) in 1492, the Italian navigator Christopher Columbus(1451-1506) reached a group of islands now called the Bahamas, mistaking them for part of Asia, thus calling the natives there Indians;
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2. The brief history of America
1) in 1607, a group of Englishmen came to North America, establishing the first English colony, Jamestown in Virginia, thus beginning the national history of America; 2) in 1620, another group of Englishmen got to North America in a ship called the “Mayflower” and established the Plymouth Colony in New England;
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Selected Readings in American Literatdy of British and American Literature
• I. Preliminary knowledge for the study of British and American literature • 1. Basic knowledge of British and American literary works; • 2. Basic knowledge of world literary classics, particularly those of ancient Greece; • 3. Basic knowledge of ancient Greek and Roman mythology; • 4. Basic knowledge of British and American history and politics; • 5. Basic knowledge of the Christian Bible
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• IV. My requirements • 1. Previewing without exception; • 2. Regular attendance (exception permitted only with convincing reasons); • 3. Class participation (Be active) and oral presentation; • 4. Note-taking (many things out of the textbook are to be touched upon in class, and some of them are to be included in the final exam); • 5. Don’t expect me (or anybody else) to discuss everything about a writer or a literary work as a teacher of intensive reading does; don’t expect me to write everything I say on the blackboard. This is not at all the proper method of studying literature
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2) in 1499, another Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512), confirmed that a new continent rather than Asia had been discovered; 3) in 1507, the new continent was named after Amerigo Vespucci -America
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5．王长荣, 现代美国小说史, 上海外语教 育出版社, 1992 6. Laurie E. Rozakis, 陈兵译编，How to Interpret Poetry（怎样赏析诗歌），上 海译文出版社，2005； 7．罗良功编著，英诗概论，武汉大学出 版社，2002； 8．王宝童编著，Round the Realms of Gold: A Poetry Textbook （金域行－英 诗教程）, 河南大学出版社，1993;
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(4) the Age of Realism (Critical Realism), from the Civil War to the end of the19th century; (5) the Age of Modernism, originating at the end of the 19th century, reaching its maturity in the 1920s, declining after the 1950s; (6) the Age of Postmodernism, usually taken to begin from the 1950s