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教研室: 文学教研室
课程名称:美国文学史及选读
任课教师: 陈倩

德州学院外语系
美国文学史及选读
课程的教育目标:
通过教学,使学生掌握美国文学的发展史及各阶段具有代表性的主要作家及其作品的主要特色,具备一定的分析鉴赏英语文学作品的能力,帮助培养学生的英语思维能力,提高英语整体水平。
课程的基本要求:
要求学生有目的、较系统地了解和掌握美国文学的发展史及各阶段具有代表性的主要作家及其作品的主要特色。
课程的重点与难点:
对具有代表性的作家的评价,对著名的美国小说和诗歌的分析、鉴赏及评价。
主要参考书目
《美国文学简史》(第二版)常耀信南开大学出版社 2004
《美国文学选读》李宜燮南开大学出版社 2000
《牛津文学术语辞典》上海外语教育出版社 2000
《美国文学大纲》吴定柏上海外语教育出版社 1998
Introduction
:简述美国文学史,包括美国文学史的5个主要阶段,每个阶段的起止时间,主要特点及代表作家,要求学生了解美国文学史概况
:美国文学史的五个阶段及起止时间
:各个阶段的主要特点

Am literature is one lf the youngest national literature in the world. It became a colony of Britain in the early 17th century. And the American Independence War stretched from 1776 to 1783. The short history can be divided into several stages:
colonial period
It stretched roughly from the settlement of Am in the early 17th C through the end of the 18th. The first permanent settlement in America was established by English in 1607.(A group of people was sent by the English king James I to hunt for gold. They arrived at Virginia in named the James River and build the James town.) Here the major topic will be about Am Puritanism .
Romantic Period
It covers the first half of the 19th C, which is a period following the national political independence. Around 1840s arose the culmination of the Romantic Period---New England Transcendentalism(1836-1855) .
Age of Realism
It was after the civil war (1861-1865) till the end of the 19th century, covering the latter half of the 19th C. The civil war brought the Romantic period to an end.
(the last decade of the 19th c)
In the last decade of the 19thc, the age of naturalism came into being. Naturalists saw man’s life as governed by two forces---- heredity & environment.

In the decade of the 1920s,there came the age of modernism. (here are many eminent writers in this period, such as Eliot, Earnest Hemingway, William Faulkner, etc.)
:简介美国文学史