【正文】 麗 水 學 院 教 案課 程 名 稱 ：美國文學史及作品選讀 課 程 代 碼 ： 107013831 授課專業(yè)班級 ： 英語本科 授 課 教 師 ： 何青芒 院 別 ： 外國語學院 2009年 1月20日110Table of ContentsIntroduction 1Lecture 1 2The Literature of the Colonial America and of Reason and Revolution 2Lecture 2 9American Romanticism and New England Literature: Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper 9Lecture 3 13American Romanticism and New England Literature: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau 13Lecture 4 18American Romanticism and New England Literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville 18Lecture 5 26American Romanticism and New England Literature: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe 26Lecture 6 35The Age of Realism and Naturalism: Henry James 35Lecture 7 39The Age of Realism and Naturalism: Mark Twain 39Lecture 8 42The Age of Realism and Naturalism: Dreiser 42Lecture 9 46The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1920s (Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot) 46Lecture 10 52The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1920’ (Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost) 52Lecture 11 57The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1920s 57 (F. S. Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) 57Lecture 12 63The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1920s (William Faulkner) 63Lecture 13 67The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1930s (John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck and Katherine Anne Porter) 67Lecture 14 73American Drama: Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller 73Lecture 15 80Postwar Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop and Allen Ginsberg 80Lecture 16 85Multiethnic Literature: Ralph Ellison, Tony Morrison and Saul Bellow 85IntroductionThis course is similar to the course of History and Selected Readings of English Literature. A Survey of American Literature (good and authoritative book) by Chang Yaoxin and Selected Readings in American Literature by Taojie are course books. When studying this course, students are required to prepare a notebook and take notes of the important information given by the teacher. Besides, students are required to read some selected readings and discuss some questions given by the teacher. Furthermore, 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 can turn to these references: 劉洊波.《英美文學史及作品選讀》(高等教育出版社，2001), 常耀信.《漫話英美文學》(南開大學出版社，2004), 錢青等.《美國文學名著精選》(商務印書館，1995), 吳偉仁. 《美國文學史及選讀》 (外語教學與研究出版社，1990), 吳定柏.《美國文學大綱》(上海外語教育出版社，1998), 楊豈深，龍文佩.《美國文學選讀》(譯文出版社，1985), 張沖. 《新編美國文學史》(上海外語教育出版社，2000), 左金梅.《美國文學》(青島海洋出版社, 2000), 李公昭.《20世紀美國文學導論》(西安交通大學出版社，2000).There are 16 lectures in this course, be it The Literature of the Colonial America and of Reason and Revolution (1 lecture), American Romanticism and New England Literature (4 lectures), The Age of Realism and Naturalism (3 lectures), The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1920’s ( 4 lectures ), The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1930’s (1 lecture), American Drama: Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller (1 lecture), Postwar Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop and Allen Ginsburg (1 lecture), Multiethnic Literature: Ralph Ellison, Tony Morrison and Saul Bellow (1 lecture). Grade of this course includes the grade of daily performance (50%) and the grade of final examination (50%). The grade of daily performance will be given according to the following items: inclass behavior (20%), including previewing, taking notes, questionanswering and presentation 。 homework (20%)。 papers (20%)。 midterm examination (20%)。 attendance (20%). Lecture 1 The Literature of the Colonial America and of Reason and RevolutionⅠ Teaching ContentLiterature of the Colonial America。 Literature of Reason and RevolutionⅡ Time Allotment2 periodsⅢ Teaching Objectives and Requirements1 Make the students know clear about American Puritanism 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 representative writers of this period. 3 Help the students know about the American history of Independence War and the representatives in the period of Reason and Revolution, especially their influence on American Literature.4 Make the students have a good understanding of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin. 5 Make sure the students understand clearly about Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and its influence on the latter Americans. Ⅳ Key Points and Difficult Points in Teaching1 American Puritanism 2 Jonathan Edwards 3 Benjamin Franklin 4 AutobiographyⅤ Teaching Methods and Means Lecture。 Discussion。 MultimediaⅥ Teaching Process1 Literature of the Colonial America (16071765) Historical Background● In 1492, Christopher Columbus found the new continent called America.● There were many immigrants: Spanish (they built the first town on the new continent)。 Dutch (they built New York city at the beginning stage)。 French (today still lots of people’s mother tongue is French in North America)。 English (they first settled in Jamestown and Virginia in 1607)● In1620, the famous “May Flower” shipped 102 Puritans to Plymouth.(Q: transportation is not convenient, why some many immigrants left their hometown and came to such a remote place as America?)(A: Economic reasons: to seek fortune。 Religious reasons: reformation and religious conflicts in Europe, persecution of Protestants, to seek a paradise of their own) Puritan Thought● Puritans=Calvinists◆ Puritans believed most doctrines preached byJohn Calvin, a theologian, so they were also called Calvinists.◆ Puritans wanted to “purify the church” to its original state, because they thought the church was corrupted and had too many rituals.◆ To be a Puritan: taking religion as the most important thing。 living for glorifying God。 believing predestinat