美国文学大纲资料

1、苏州科技学院外国语学院 _美国文学史_(课程名称)课程考试大纲 一、课程性质与特点美国文学史为“英语”和“英语（师范）”专业任意选修课，属于考查课，共24学时，1.5学分。本课程涵盖美国文学史上从殖民地时期、浪漫主义、现实主义、现代主义、后现代主义至当代各个时期重要的文学思潮、流派及其发生的社会、文化、哲学背景以及各个时期重要作家的代表性作品。本课程所讲授的知识是英语专业本科生知识结构不可或缺的一部分，是英语专业学生人文素养必要的组成成分，也是英语专业八级考试“人文知识”部分考核的内容之一。鉴于本课程学时短，内容多，本课程的特点是以史为经，以作家作品为纬，详讲浪漫主义、现实主义和现代主义部分，略讲其它部分。二、课程目标与基本要求学生在学习本课程后应该对美国文学史上殖民地时期、浪漫主义、现实主义、现代主义、后现代主义至当代各个时期重要的文学思潮、流派及其发生的社会、文化、哲学背景以及各个时期重要作家的代表性作品有个宏观的了解，能解释相关的名词，熟悉各个时期的主要特点和重要作家及其重要作品，并能结合文学外在与内在因素对文学作品做出初步评论。三、教材及主要参考书教材：童明：美国文学史增订版

2、( A History of American Literature, Revised and expanded edition).北京：外语教学与研究出版社，2010.主要参考书：常耀信：美国文学简史第二版(A Survey of American Literature,2nd edition).天津：南开大学出版社，2003. 四、考核内容与考核目标Part 1 Early American Literature: Colonial Period to 1815Chapter 1 The literature of the New World1. “discoverer” of America: Christopher Columbus, 1492; Amerigo Vespucci ( Hence “America”,1507 world map) （识记，次重点）2.Native (Indian) American Oral literature: origin stories, trickster tales , historical narratives (理解，次重点)

3、Chapter 2 The Literature of Colonial America: 1620-17633. Jamestown: first English settlement in North America（识记，重点）5. Captain John Smith: First author in the history of American literature (about Jamestown) （识记，一般）6.William Bradford: Father of American history, author of Of Plymouth Plantation（识记，一般）7. In 1620, the Bradford party sailed on the Mayflower and came to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. （识记，次重点）8. Anne Bradstreet: the first poetess in the colonial period: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in

4、America（识记，一般）9.Jonathan Edwards: the great thinker of the “Great Awakening” （识记，一般） Chapter 3 Literature and American Revolution:1764181510. American Puritanism (重点，理解)11. The 18th century, in America, as in Europe, is known as the Age of Reason and Enlightenment. （识记，次重点）12. Enlightenment in America （理解，次重点）13. Deism and Unitarianism（理解，一般）14. Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richards Almanacs; Autobiography（理解，重点）15.Thomas Paine: Common Sense; The American Crisis; The Rights of Man（识记，重点）16. Thomas Je

5、fferson: The Declaration of Independence（理解，重点）17. Alexander Hamilton: The Federalist Papers (co-author) （识记，一般）18. Philip Freneau: the poet of “American Revolution”: The Wild Honey Suckle, The Indian Burying Ground（识记，重点）Part 2 American Romanticism 18151865Chapter 4 The Age of American Romanticism1. definition and characteristics of American Romanticism （应用，重点）2. First flowering of American literature（识记，次重点）Chapter 5 Early Romanticism1. The three early romanticists: Washington Irving, James Fe

6、nimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant （识记，重点）3. Washington Irving: The Sketch Book, in which two of Irvings best known stories “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” are included（理解，重点）; A History of New York（识记，一般）; A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus（识记，一般）4. James Fenimore Cooper: The Leather-stocking Tales ( The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer), the mythic hero of this series is Natty Bumppo (理解，重点)5. Willia

7、m Cullen Bryant: Poems : Thanatopsis (meaning meditation on death); To a Waterfowl (about Natures power) (识记，次重点)Chapter 6 Transcendentalism and Symbolic Representation1. The Transcendental Club: 1) published 16 issues of The Dial; 2) established Brook Farm, a utopian community （识记，一般）2. Transcendentalism as a philosophy （应用，重点）3. Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1) the leading spokesman for Transcendentalism (识记，重点). 2) Nature: “the manifesto of American transcendentalism” (理解，重点).;3) Essays (First serirs,

8、1941, Second series,1844): “The Over-soul”, “Compensation”, Self- Reliance ( from which comes the idea “Trust thyself); “The Poet”.（识记，一般）4) Representative Men （识记，一般）5) Address: “The American Scholar”( called Americas “ intellectual Declaration of Independence”); “Divinity School Address”. (识记，次重点)6) His poetry（识记，一般）7) His style（识记，一般）4. Margret Fuller: first editor of The Dial, author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century (advocating for womens rights) （识记，一般）5. Henry David Thoreau:1) today prim

9、ary remembered for two of his works: Walden and the essay “Civil Disobedience”. (识记，重点) 2) Nature and Implications of Thoreaus revolt as revealed in Walden and “Civil Disobedience” （理解，重点）3) Thoreaus style: thinking in imagery （理解，一般）Chapter 7 Hawthorne, Melville and Poe1. Hawthorne, Melville and Poe are masters of “negative capability”. （理解，重点）2. Nathaniel Hawthorne1) Hawthornes moral vision（理解，次重点）2) Hawthornes themes: sin and evil, internal contradiction, male withdrawal from marriage（识记，重点）3) Hawthornes style: 1) elevated in diction and restrained in rhetoric, thus graceful and polished; 2) allegory and symbol; 3) irony and ambiguity（识记，重点）4

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