11美国文学教案

外国语学院教案课程名称：美国文学史及作品选读课程代码：授课专业班级：英语本科授课教师：院别：外国语学院2009年1月20日iTableofContentsIntroduction.................................................................................................................1Lecture1.......................................................................................................................2TheLiteratureoftheColonialAmericaandofReasonandRevolution.......................................................................................................................................2Lecture2.......................................................................................................................8AmericanRomanticismandNewEnglandLiterature:WashingtonIrvingandJamesFenimoreCooper.............................................................................................8Lecture3....................................................................................................................12AmericanRomanticismandNewEnglandLiterature:RalphWaldoEmersonandHenryDavidThoreau........................................................................................12Lecture4....................................................................................................................17AmericanRomanticismandNewEnglandLiterature:NathanielHawthorneandHermanMelville........................................................................................................17Lecture5.....................................................................................................................25AmericanRomanticismandNewEnglandLiterature:WaltWhitman,EmilyDickinsonandEdgarAllanPoe...............................................................................25Lecture6.....................................................................................................................34TheAgeofRealismandNaturalism:HenryJames...............................................34Lecture7.....................................................................................................................38TheAgeofRealismandNaturalism:MarkTwain................................................38Lecture8....................................................................................................................41TheAgeofRealismandNaturalism:Dreiser.........................................................41Lecture9.....................................................................................................................45TheAgeofModernism:Literatureinthe1920s(EzraPoundandT.S.Eliot).....................................................................................................................................45Lecture10...................................................................................................................51TheAgeofModernism:Literatureinthe1920’(WallaceStevens,WilliamCarlosWilliamsandRobertFrost)......................................................................................51iiLecture11...................................................................................................................56TheAgeofModernism:Literatureinthe1920s56(F.S.FitzgeraldandErnestHemingway)...............................................................................................................56Lecture12..................................................................................................................62TheAgeofModernism:Literatureinthe1920s(WilliamFaulkner)..................62Lecture13...................................................................................................................66TheAgeofModernism:Literatureinthe1930s(JohnDosPassos,JohnSteinbeckandKatherineAnnePorter)...................................................................66Lecture14...................................................................................................................72AmericanDrama:EugeneO’NeillandArthurMiller..........................................72Lecture15...................................................................................................................79PostwarPoetry:ElizabethBishopandAllenGinsberg.........................................79Lecture16...................................................................................................................84MultiethnicLiterature:RalphEllison,TonyMorrisonandSaulBellow.....................................................................................................................................841IntroductionThiscourseissimilartothecourseofHistoryandSelectedReadingsofEnglishLiterature.ASurveyofAmericanLiterature(goodandauthoritativebook)byChangYaoxinandSelectedReadingsinAmericanLiteraturebyTaojiearecoursebooks.Whenstudyingthiscourse,studentsarerequiredtoprepareanotebookandtakenotesoftheimportantinformationgivenbytheteacher.Besides,studentsarerequiredtoreadsomeselectedreadingsanddiscusssomequestionsgivenbytheteacher.Furthermore,studentsar