课程编号：02043471a
总学时数：32学时
学 分：2学分
执 笔 人：李鑫
审 定 人：龙湘明
一、课程的性质及任务
本课程为英语专业高年级阶段必修课程。其教学目的是帮助学生在比较全面系统地掌握英美文学在各个不同历史发展时期的创作风格和文学流派的基础上，重点阅读一些有代表性的原文作品，使学生能够对知名作家的生平和影响及其作品的内容和艺术特色有较为清晰准确的认识，从而培养他们对于英美文学语言的理解与欣赏能力，进一步提高自身的文学素养。
二、本课程的基本内容
本课程根据《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》的课程设置，充分考虑我国英语专业高年级学生的兴趣和爱好，简要介绍美国文学的主要历史阶段的特点以及重要作家和作品，以期使学生对美国文学有总体的认识和把握。本课程从著名作家的著名作品中选择影响大、流传广、并经过时间考验而脍炙人口的经典片段，引导学生从阅读原著入手，培养学生对文学作品的阅读、赏析能力，进而感受英、美两国文学丰富的思想内涵，并在此基础上提高学生的人文素质。本课程的美国文学部分授课时间为一个学期，周学时为2，每学期32学时。此部分教学内容包括七章，每章由概述、作家简介、作品概要、原著选读、注释、赏析点评和思考题等部分构成。具体教学内容如下:
Chapter One American Literature in the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods
1. Teaching Objectives: To have a general idea of the Historical background and Puritanism
2. Teaching Focus and Difficulty: Puritanism; Benjamin Franklin
3. Periods: 2
4. Main Teaching Content:
4.1 The Development of American Literature;
4.2 Puritanism;
4.3 Franklin--- “The Way to Wealth”.
Chapter Two 19th Century American Literature
1. Teaching Objectives: To understand the American Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Pre-Romanticism, post-romanticism and the development of literature
2. Teaching Focus and Difficulty: Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman
3. Periods: 4
4. Main Teaching Content:
4.1 Irving--- “Rip Van Winkle”;
4.2 Hawthorne--- The Scarlet Letter;
4.3 Allan Poe--- “The Raven”;
4.4 Melville--- Moby-Dick;
4.5 Whitman--- “Song of Myself”
Chapter Three Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Literature
1. Teaching Objectives: To understand the American realism, regional and local color writings, literary naturalism
2. Teaching Focus and Difficulty: Mark Twain, Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London
3. Periods: 6
4. Main Teaching Content:
4.1 Mark Twain--- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn;
4.2 Henry James--- Daisy Miller;
4.3 Theodore Dreiser--- Sister Carrie;
4.4 Jack London--- The Call of the Wild
Chapter Four 20th Century American Literature before World War II
1. Teaching Objectives: To understand Modernism in the American Grain, Freud and psychoanalysis
2. Teaching Focus and Difficulty: Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, F.Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck
3. Periods: 6
4. Main Teaching content:
4.1 Frost--- “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”;
4.2 Pound--- “In a Station of the Metro”;
4.3 Fitzgerald--- The Great Gatsby;
4.4 Faulkner--- “A Rose for Emily”;
4.5 Hemingway--- The Old Man and the Sea; etc.
Chapter Five 20th Century African-American Literature
1. Teaching Objectives: To catch the historical background and the development of African- American literature of this period
2. Teaching Focus and Difficulty: Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker
3. Periods; 4
4. Main Teaching Content:
4.1 Hughes--- “Dreams”;
4.2 Ellison--- Invisible Man;
4.3 Morrison--- Beloved;
4.4 Walker--- The Color Purple
Chapter Six: 20th Century American Drama
1. Teaching Objectives: To understand the development of drama of this period
2. Teaching Focus and Difficulty: Eugene O’neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller
3. Periods: 6
4. Main Teaching Content:
4.1 O’neill--- Long Day’s Journey into Night;
4.2 Williams--- A Streetcar Named Desire;
4.3 Miller--- Death of a Salesman
Chapter Seven Post-War American Literature
1. Teaching Objectives: To have a general understanding of the diversified American literature under new conditions, existentialism, postmodernism, theory and deconstruction, contemporary multi-ethnic literature
2. Teaching Focus and Difficulty: Saul Bellow, J.D.Salinger, Joseph Heller, John Updike, Amy Luth Tan
3. Periods: 4
4. Main Teaching Content:
4.1 Saul Bellow---Seize the Day;
4.2 Salinger--- The Catcher in the Rye;
4.3 Joseph Heller--- Catch-22;
4.4 Updike--- Rabbit, Run;
4.5 Amy Tan--- The Joy Luck Club
三、教学方法：
课堂教学主要通过教师讲授纲要难点，学生阅读文本，师生讨论流派观点，学生口头陈述总结心得体验、课堂朗诵诗歌、散文和小说经典篇章，师生表演戏剧、小说的经典部分来实现。课程开展形式多样化，生动活泼，寓教于乐，富于趣味。本课程通过对英美文学发展史纲的讲授及文学作品的阅读赏析进行教学, 并组织学生看英文原版的名著片(利用多媒体设备或网络)。
四、考核方式:
本课程的第二学期的考核方式为考试，以闭卷形式进行，期终考核成绩以期末考试成绩为主（80%），平时考核和作业成绩计入考核成绩（20%），考核成绩为百分制。考试时间一般为120分钟。
五、教材与主要参考书目:
（一）教材：
刘洊波. 美国文学史概述及作品选读[M]. 北京: 高等教育出版社，2010.
（二）主要参考书目：
（1）常耀信.美国文学简史[M]. 天津:南开大学出版社，2012.
（2）林六辰 编. 英美小说要素解析[M]. 上海：上海外语教育出版社，2005.
（3）童明. 美国文学史[M]. 上海：外语教学与研究出版社，2008.
（4）杨金才，于建华. 英美诗歌：作品与评论[M]. 上海：上海外语教育出版社，2009.
（5）朱刚. 二十世纪西方文艺批评理论[M]. 上海：上海外语教育出版社，2001.
（6）M. H. Abrams. A Glossary of Literary Terms[M]. 北京：外语教学与研究出版社，2004.
