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1、基本教材：美国文学选读（上、下册）, 李宜燮、常耀信, 南开大学出版社, 2009年6月推荐书目：1.美国文学简史(第二版), 常耀信, 南开大学出版社，20032.美国文学史及选读，Wu Weiren, History and Anthology of American Literature (FLTRP, 2nd ed.)严忠志13508320933 Why should we study literature?What can we study?How do we study it ?What is the format of the final exam?Identify the au
2、thors of the following works. Identify the works from which the following parts are taken. Describe the following terms. Write a short essay (about 200 words) discussing one of the following writers in terms of the historical backgrounds, literary movements, major works and ideas about literature. R
3、eadings for American Literature1Autobiography (pp.21-26,Vol.1)The Authors Account of Himself (pp.58-61,Vol.1)Nature (pp.130-133,Vol.1)O Captain, My Captain (pp.330-332,Vol.1)Because I Could Not Stop for Death (pp.336-338,Vol.1)The Raven (pp.149-154,Vol.1)The Ambassadors (pp.469-485,Vol.1)The Adventu
4、res of Huckleberry Finn(pp.422-428,Vol.1)Sister Carrie (pp.576-587,Vol.1)In a Station of the Metro (p.110, Vol.2 )The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (pp.181-188, Vol.2)Anecdote of the Jar (p.76-77, Vol.2)The Road Not Taken (pp.53-54, Vol.2)Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening (pp.48-49, Vol.2)1
5、5. A Farewell to Arms (pp.271-277, Vol.2)16. The Grapes of Wrath (pp.329-333, Vol.2)17. Catch-22 (pp.708-719, Vol.2)18. Herzog (pp. 504-518, Vol.2)19. The Death of a Salesman (pp.454-464, Vol.2)20. Song of Solomon (pp.833-852, Vol.2)A General Survey of American LiteratureThis outline of American lit
6、erature intends to cover the whole range of the literary history of the United States of America from the early Colonial Period through the 1970s, and offer a brief account of the major authors and their masterworks and of the major literary trends and currents of thought which dominated the America
7、n literary scene at one time or another and became the thematic or formal concern of some major authors in their literary endeavors.This is, then, what we intend to do in the series of brief lectures that follow. We offer a sketch, or a birds-eye view, or probably a stepping stone of sorts, and anyo
8、ne who expects more will have to go further afield. The emphasis is chiefly placed on the nineteenth-century and the period between the two wars, with a brief overview of Black American literature, American drama, and the post-war scene respectively. As recent American literature is still being writ
9、ten, and critical evaluations are still being made, we propose to offer only a brief account of it in the present course.Chapter 1 Colonial PeriodIt is now a critical commonplace that American literature per se did not begin until the nineteenth century. Therefore we shall be brief about the Colonia
10、l Period, the period stretching roughly from the settlement of America in the early seventeenth century through the end of the eighteenth. The major topic here will be about American Puritanism, the one enduring influence in American literature, and the major figures to mention will be Jonathan Edwa
11、rds and Benjamin Franklin who, between them, represent the heritage of American Puritanism.Jonathan Edwards *170358, American theologian and metaphysician, b. East Windsor (then in Windsor), Conn. He was a precocious child, early interested in things scientific, intellectual, and spiritual. After gr
12、aduating from Yale at 17, he studied theology, preached (172223) in New York City, tutored (172426) at Yale, and in 1727 became the colleague of his grandfather, Solomon Stoddard, in the ministry at Northampton, Mass. In 1729, on his grandfathers death, Edwards took sole charge of the congregation.
13、The young minister was not long in gaining a wide following by his forceful preaching and powerful logic. These abilities were in the best Calvinist tradition and were enriched by his reading in philosophy, notably ，Edwardss favorite themes were predestination and the absolute dependence of humble m
14、an upon God and divine grace, which alone could save humanity. He rejected with fire the Arminian modification of these Calvinist doctrines. He exhorted his hearers with great effect and in 173435 held a religious revival in Northampton that in effect brought the Great Awakening to New England. Edwa
15、rds was stern in demanding strict orthodoxy and fervent zeal from his congregation. He was unbending in a controversy over tests for church membership, and in 1750 his congregation dismissed him from Northampton. At Stockbridge, Mass., where he went to care for the Native American mission and to minister to a small white congregation, he completed his theological masterpiece, The Freedom of the Will (1754), which sets forth metaphysical and ethical arguments for determinism. In 1757 Edwards was called to be president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), but he died a few months later
