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1、丽 水 学 院 教 案课 程 名 称 ：美国文学史及作品选读 课 程 代 码 ： 107013831 授课专业班级 ： 英语本科 授 课 教 师 ： 何青芒 院 别 ： 外国语学院 2009年 1月20日110Table of ContentsIntroduction1Lecture 12The Literature of the Colonial America and of Reason and Revolution2Lecture 29American Romanticism and New England Literature: Washington Irving and James
2、Fenimore Cooper9Lecture 313American Romanticism and New England Literature: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau13Lecture 418American Romanticism and New England Literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville18Lecture 526American Romanticism and New England Literature: Walt Whitman, Emil
3、y Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe26Lecture 635The Age of Realism and Naturalism: Henry James35Lecture 739The Age of Realism and Naturalism: Mark Twain39Lecture 842The Age of Realism and Naturalism: Dreiser42Lecture 946The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1920s (Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot)46Lecture
4、1052The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1920 (Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost)52Lecture 1157The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1920s57 (F. S. Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway)57Lecture 1263The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1920s (William Faulkner)63Lecture 136
5、7The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1930s (John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck and Katherine Anne Porter)67Lecture 1473American Drama: Eugene ONeill and Arthur Miller73Lecture 1580Postwar Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop and Allen Ginsberg80Lecture 1685Multiethnic Literature: Ralph Ellison, Tony Morrison a
6、nd Saul Bellow85IntroductionThis course is similar to the course of History and Selected Readings of English Literature. A Survey of American Literature (good and authoritative book) by Chang Yaoxin and Selected Readings in American Literature by Taojie are course books. When studying this course, s
7、tudents are required to prepare a notebook and take notes of the important information given by the teacher. Besides, students are required to read some selected readings and discuss some questions given by the teacher. Furthermore, students are required to read two novels given by the teacher and h
8、and in two papers, each of which no less than 1000 words. Students can turn to these references: 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
9、.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).There are 16 lectures in this course, be it The Literature of the Colonial America and of Reason and Revolution (1 lecture), American Romanticism and New England Literature (4 lectures), The Age of Realism and Naturalism (3 lectures), The Age of M
10、odernism: Literature in the 1920s ( 4 lectures ), The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1930s (1 lecture), American Drama: Eugene ONeill and Arthur Miller (1 lecture), Postwar Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop and Allen Ginsburg (1 lecture), Multiethnic Literature: Ralph Ellison, Tony Morrison and Saul Bel
11、low (1 lecture). Grade of this course includes the grade of daily performance (50%) and the grade of final examination (50%). The grade of daily performance will be given according to the following items: in-class behavior (20%), including previewing, taking notes, question-answering and presentatio
12、n ; homework (20%); papers (20%); mid-term examination (20%); attendance (20%). Lecture 1 The Literature of the Colonial America and of Reason and Revolution Teaching ContentLiterature of the Colonial America; Literature of Reason and Revolution Time Allotment2 periods Teaching Objectives and Requir
13、ements1 Make the students know clear about American Puritanism and its influence on American Literature. 2 Help the students to know about the main literary form, content and theme in Colonial America and the representative writers of this period. 3 Help the students know about the American history
14、of Independence War and the representatives in the period of Reason and Revolution, especially their influence on American Literature.4 Make the students have a good understanding of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin. 5 Make sure the students understand clearly about Benjamin Franklins Autobiog
15、raphy and its influence on the latter Americans. Key Points and Difficult Points in Teaching1 American Puritanism 2 Jonathan Edwards 3 Benjamin Franklin 4 Autobiography Teaching Methods and Means Lecture; Discussion; Multi-media Teaching Process1 Literature of the Colonial America (1607-1765)1.1 Historical Background In 1492, Christopher Columbus found the new continent called America. There were many immigrants: Spanish (they built the fi
