课程编号:02043411a
总学时数:32学时
学 分:2学分
执 笔 人:黄芳
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,简要介绍英国文学的主要历史阶段的特点以及重要作家和作品,以期使学生对英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。英国文学部分开课时间为一个学期,周学时为2,共32学时。此部分包括七章,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 Early and Medieval English Literature
1. Teaching Objectives: the making of England; Romance and the English Ballads; Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales.
2. Teaching Focus and difficulty: Beowulf; the English Ballads; Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales.
3. Periods: 2
4. Main Teaching Content:
4.1 Beowulf;
4.2 The English Ballads;
4.3 Geoffrey Chaucer—The Canterbury Tales.
Chapter Two English Literature of the Renaissance
1. Teaching Objectives: the flowering of English Literature and English drama.
2. Teaching Focus and Difficulty: Francis Bacon’s essays; William Shakespeare’s dramas and writing skills.
3. Periods: 8
4. Main Teaching Content:
4.1 Francis Bacon--- “Of Studies”;
4.2 William Shakespeare and Hamlet;
4.3 Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare.
Chapter Three: English Literature during the English Bourgeois Revolution and the Restoration
1. Teaching Objectives: the English Bourgeois Revolution and the Restoration; the English Literature of this period.
2. Teaching Focus and Difficulty: John Milton and Paradise Lost.
3. Periods: 2
4. Main Teaching Content:
John Milton---Paradise Lost.
Chapter Four: Eighteenth Century English Literature
1. Teaching Objectives: the Enlightenment; Classicism/ Neoclassicism; Sentimentalism; Pre-Romanticism.
2. Teaching Focus and Difficulty: Daniel Defoe, William Blake and Robert Burns.
3. Periods: 6
4. Main Teaching Content:
4.1 Daniel Defoe---Robinson Crusoe;
4.2 poems written by William Blake and Robert Burns.
Chapter Five English Literature of Early Nineteenth Century
1. Teaching Objectives: Romanticism and poems by romanticists.
2. Teaching Focus and Difficulty: William Wordsworth, George Gordon Byron and Jane Austen.
3. Periods: 8
4. Main Teaching content:
4.1 William Wordsworth--- “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”;
4.2 George Gordon Byron---“When We Two Parted”,
4.3 Jane Austen--- Pride and Prejudice.
Chapter Six English Literature of the Mid-and-Late 19th Century
1. Teaching Objectives: Critical Realism; naturalism;aestheticism.
2. Teaching Focus and Difficulty: Charles Dickens, the Bronte sisters, Thomas Hardy
3. Periods: 4
4. Main Teaching Content:
4.1 Charles Dickens---Oliver Twist;
4.2 Charlotte Bronte---Jane Eyre;
4.3 Thomas Hardy---Tess of D’Urbervilles;
Chapter Seven English Literature of the Twentieth Century before World War II
1. Teaching Objectives: Neo-Romanticism; naturalism; stream of consciousness.
2. Teaching Focus and Difficulty: D.H.Lawrence.
3. Periods: 2
4. Main Teaching Content:
D.H.Lawrence---Sons and Lovers.
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。本课程通过对英国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:
本课程的考核方式为考查,以平时的综合考评和期末考核的形式进行,平时的综合考评占比为40%, 期末考核占60%。期末考核采用开卷或闭卷方式,要求学生在一定的时间内完成教师所设计的考试题目或写出一定字数的小论文,考核成绩为百分制。
五、教材与主要参考书目:
教材:
刘洊波. 英国文学史概述及作品选读[M]. 北京: 高等教育出版社,2010.
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)刘炳善. 英国文学简史[M]. 郑州:河南人民出版社,2006.
(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.