《高等学校英语专业系列教材·美国文学教程:欣赏与评析》强调内容的真实性、讲解的直观性、方法的实用性和文字的可读性,力求为学生自学和教师讲解提供借鉴和帮助。它以“题目”、“环境”、“人物”、“修辞”、“主题”五个视角为经线,以时间为纬线,集中分析美国文学各个时期代表性作品的某一个侧面。它集信息采集、知识传授、问题与思考于一身,为学生欣赏和评析美国文学以及青年老师研究美国文学提供有益的指导。
《高等学校英语专业系列教材·美国文学教程:欣赏与评析》是国内高校英美文学教材园地里的一棵新苗,是英美文学教材编撰的一次大胆尝试,因为它做到形式与内容的双重新颖性。
本书的使用对象主要是高等学校的英语本科生和研究生以及喜欢美国文学的年轻教师。
《高等学校英语专业系列教材·美国文学教程:欣赏与评析》文字简洁、通俗、生动,作者采取一种与读者调侃聊天的方式,与读者侃侃而谈,娓娓动听,平起平坐,没有距离,与读者分享他的读书心得和体会,令读者倍感亲切,阅读兴趣油然而生。
Part One Topics
Chapter 1 The Law of Life by Jack London
Chapter 2 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Chapter 3 The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
Chapter 4 A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Part Two Environment
Chapter 1 In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway
Chapter 2 A Cask of Amontillado by Adgar Allan Poe
Chapter 3 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
(excerpts)
Chapter 4 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (excerpts)
Part Three Characters
Chapter 1 Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
( excerpts )
Chapter 2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
(excerpts)
Chapter 3 A Father-To-Be by Saul Bellow
Chapter 4 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
(excerpts)
Part Four Themes
Chapter 1 The Great Gatsby by Francis Fitzgerald
(an excerpt)
Chapter 2 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (an excerpt)
Chapter 3 Everyday Use by Alice Walker / 219
Chapter 4 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
( an excerpt)
Chapter 5 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
(an excerpt)
Part Five Rhetorics
Chapter 1 To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant
Chapter 2 Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Chapter 3 The American Scholar by Ralph W. Emerson
(an excerpt)
Chapter 4 I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
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