美國文學(xué)教案

1、外語學(xué)院教案班級名稱如下：美國文學(xué)史及作品選編類替代代碼：班級專業(yè)課：英語本科授予講師：醫(yī)院：外語學(xué)院2009年1月20日Table of ContentsIntroduction1Lecture 12the literature of the colonial America and of reason and revolution 2Lecture 29American romanticism and new England literature : Washington Irving and James fenimore Cooper 9Lecture 313American roman

2、ticism and new England literature : Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau 13Lecture 418American romanticism and new England literature : nathawthorn e and Herman Melville 18Lecture 526American romanticism and new England literature : Walt Whitman，Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan po e26Lecture 6

3、35the age of realism and natural lism : Henry James 35Lecture 739the age of realism and natural lism : mark twain 39Lecture 842the age of realism and natural lism : driser 42Lecture 946the age of modernism : literature in the 1920s(Ezra pound and t . s . Eliot)46Lecture 1052Wallace Stevens，William c

4、aros Williams and Robert frost 52Lecture 1157the age of modernism : literature in the 1920 s57(f . s . fittzgerald and Ernest hemingay)57Lecture 1263the age of modernism : literature in the 1920s(William Faulkner)63Lecture 1367the age of modernism : literature in the 1930s(John dos passos，John stein

5、 beck and kaherine Anne porter)67Lecture 1473美國電視?。?Eugene o Neill and Arthur miller 73Lecture 1580postwar poetry : Elizabeth bishop and Allen gins Berg 80Lecture 1685multiethnic literature : Ralph Ellison，Tony Morrison and Saul bellow 85Introductionthis course is similar to the course of history an

6、d selected readings of English literature . a survey of American literative bo Ok)by chan Yao xingfurther more，Students are required to read two novels given by the teacher and hand in two papers，each of which no less than 1000 words。Students為turn to these references : Liu bow . 英美文學(xué)史及作品選讀(高等教育出版社，2

7、001年)、changyaxin.漫話英美文學(xué)(南開大學(xué)出版社，2004年)、Qian Qing美國文學(xué)名著精選(外語教育和研究出版社，1990)，吳定柏。美國文學(xué)史及選讀(上海外語教育出版社，1998)，楊啟深，龍文培。美國文學(xué)大綱(翻譯出版社，1985)，張宗。美國文學(xué)選讀(上海外語教育出版社2000)，朱金梅。新編美國文學(xué)史(青島海洋出版社，2000)，李共。美國文學(xué)(西安交通大學(xué)出版社2000)。There are 16 lections in this course，be it The literature of The colonial America and of reason

8、and revolution，American romantism and new enenersgrade of this course includes the grade of daily performance(50%)和the grade of final exmination (50%)。the grade of daily performance will be given according to the following items : in-class behavior(20%)，including previewinghomework(20%)；papers(20%)；

9、mid-term examination(20%)；Attendance (20%)。Lecture 1the literature of the colonial America andOf Reason and RevolutionI teaching contentliterature of the Colonial America；literature of reason and revolution time allotment2費里斯teaching objectives and requirements1 make the students know clear about Am

10、erican puritanims and its influence on American literature。2 help the students to know about the main literary form，content and theme in colonial America and the re presentative writers of this period。3 help the students know about the American history of in dependence war and the re presentatives i

11、n the period of reason and revolution，especallation4 make the students have a good understanding of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin .5 make sure the students understand clearaly about Benjamin Franklin s autobio graphy and its influence on the later Americas .key points and difficult points i

12、n teaching1美國Puritanism2 Jonathan Edwards3本杰明富蘭克林4 Autobiography teaching methods and meansLectureDiscussion多媒體 teaching process1 literature of the colonial America(1607-1765)1.1 Historical Background in 1492，Christopher Columbus found the new continent called America。there were many immigrants : Sp

13、anish(they built the first town on the new continent)；they built new York city at the beginning stage(Dutch)；French(today still lots of people s mother tongue is French in north America)；English(they first setled in Jamestown and Virginia in 1607) in1620，the famous“may flower”shipped 102 Puritans to

14、 ply mouth。(q : transportation is not consent，why some many immigrants left their hometwn and came to such a remote place as America？)，以獲取詳細(xì)信息(a : economic reasons : to seek fortune；reliaous reasons : reformation and reliaous conflicts in Europe，persecution of proestants，to seek a paradise of their own)1.2 Puritan Thought Puritans=CalvinistsPuritans believed most doctrines preached by John Calvin，a theologian，so they were also called Calvin ists。Puritans wanted to puri