美國文學選讀

本書是筆者根據多年教授該課程的教學實踐和授課講義，同時借鑒參考國內外多種同類教材，並結合目前本課程授課時數的實際情況，反覆篩選、精心編纂而成。全書精選了近二十位具有代表性的小說家和詩人及其代表作，試圖以此作為學習。在本書的體例設計上，本著將歷史與作品融為一體的原則，文史結合，雙管齊下，簡明扼要，重點突出。每個章節均由時代背景、作家生平、選文、註釋及思考題等部分構成。

Unit One The Early American Literature

Chapter Ⅰ The Seventeenth Century Literature

Chapter Ⅱ The Eighteenth Century Literature

Benjamin Franklin

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

The Autobiography (excerpts)

Unit Two The Age Of Romanticism

Chapter Ⅰ American Literature of Pro-Romanticism

Washington Irving

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

Rip Van Winkle (excerpts)

Chapter Ⅱ American Literature of Post-Romanticism

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

Self- Reliance (excerpts)

Edgar Allan Poe

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

The Cask of Amontillado (excerpts)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

The Scarlet Letter (Chapter 19 )

Walt Whitman

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

I Hear America Singing

Come Up from the Fields Father

From Song of Myself ( Section 1 )

O Captain ! My Captain !

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

Success Is Counted Sweetest

There's a Certain Slant of Light

Again His Voice Is at the Door

I'm Nobody! Who Are You?

Unit Three The Age of Realism and Naturalism

Chapter Ⅰ American Literature of the Middle and Late Nineteenth Century

Mark Twain

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( Chapter 11 )

Henry James

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

Paste

Chapter Ⅱ American Literature at the Turn of the Century

Theodore Dreiser

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

Sister Carrie ( Chapter 1 )

Jack London

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

Love of Life (excerpts)

Unit Four The Twentieth Century American Literature

Chapter Ⅰ Between the Two World Wars

Robert Frost

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

The Road Not Taken

Mending Wall

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Fire and Ice

Ezra Pound

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

In a Station of the Metro

A Pact

Ernest Hemingway

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

In Another Country

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

The Great Gatsby (Chapter 3 excerpts)

John Steinbeck

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

The Grapes of Wrath ( Chapter 25 )

William Faulkner

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

A Rose for Emily

Eugene O'Neill

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

Long Day's Journey into

Night ( Act 2, Scene 2)

Chapter Ⅱ American Literature Since 1945

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

The Adventures of Augie

March ( Chapter 21 )

Ralph Ellison

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

Invisible Man ( Chapter 1 )

Joseph Heller

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

Catch-22 (Chapter 5 excerpts)

Arthur Miller

1.About the Author

2.Selected Reading

Death of a Salesman (Act Ⅱ )

References