新編美國文學史及選讀（簡體書）

《高等學校特色專業建設項目系列教材：新編美國文學史及選讀》是面向英語專業高年級學生開設的專業基礎課，在學科體系中居重要地位。既鞏固提高學生的英語基礎功，又能拓展和延伸其對深層語言和文化的解讀和表達能力。《高等學校特色專業建設項目系列教材：新編美國文學史及選讀》促進學生對西方文化的瞭解，提高學生對文化差異的敏感性、寬容性。．

《高等學校特色專業建設項目系列教材:新編美國文學史及選讀》由陜西師范大學出版總社有限公司出版。

上編 美國文學簡史
Part One A Survey of American Literature
Chapter One Early American Literature and American Romanticism
SeCtion One Early American Literature
Section Two American Romanticism
Section Three Important Writer and Works in Early Romanticism
Section Four Important Writer and Works in Late Romanticism
Chapter Two American Realism and Naturalism
Section One American Realism
Section Two Representatives of Realism:Mark Twain and Henry James
Section Three American Naturalism
Section Four Representatives of Naturalism:Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser
Chapter Three American Literature between the Two World War
Section One Historical Background and Literary Scene
Section Two Imagism
Section Three Important Poets:T.S.Eliot and Robert Frost
Section Four The Lost Generation and Ernest Hemingway
Section Five The Jazz Age and F.Scott Fitzgerald
Section Six 1930s and John Steinbeck
Section Seven Southem Literature and William Faulkner
Chapter Four Contemporary American Literature
Section One Historical Background and Literary Scene
Section Two The Bcat Generation
Section Three Black Humour and Joseph Heller
Section Four Postmodern Fiction and Thomas Pynchon
Section Five Jewish Literature and Saul Bellow
Section Six New Realism in Contemporary Literature
Chapter Five African-American Literature and Chinese-American Literature
Section One African-American Literature
Section Two Representatives of African-American Literature:Wright,Ellison and Morrison
Section Three Chinese-American Literature
Section Four Representatives of Chinese-American Literature:Kingston and Tan
Chapter Six American Drama
Section Onc Introduction to American Drama
Section Two Important Dramatists:O'Neill,Williams and Miller
下編 美國文學選讀
Part Two Selected Readings in American Literature
Chapter Seven American Fiction
Section One Introduction to Fiction
Section Two Fiction in Romantic Period
Section Three Fiction in Realist Period
Section Four Fiction between the Two World Wa
Section Five Contemporary American Fiction
Section Six Muhiethnic Fiction
Chapter Eight American Poetry
Section One Introduction to Poetry
Section Two Important Poets and Their Poems
Chapter Nine American Drama
Section OBe Introduction to Drama
Section Two Important Dramatists and Their Plays
Chapter Ten Practice in Literary Appreciation
Section One Short Stories
Section Two Poetry
Section Three Drama
Selected Bibliography
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In his novels,Crane started the modern tradition of telling the truth at all costs about the elementalhuman situation,and writing about war as a real human experience.This was a revolutionary event bothin theme and technique.It produced a far-reaching influence on later writers:Hemingway,Dos Passos,and in recent history,Kurt Vonnegut and other writers.It is no exaggeration to say that Crane anticipa.ted the chief phenomena of American literature in the first few decades of the 20th century.He was alsoa pioneer in the field of modem poetry.His early poems were brief,quotable,and had unrhymed,unor-thodox conciseness and impressionistic imagery.These put a significant influence off modem poetry.Heand Emily Dickinson are now recognized as the two precursors of Imagist poetry.
3)Introduction to The Red Badge of Courage
(1)Plot Overview
Stephen Crane's way novel,the Red Badge of Courage,is not an ordinary Civil War novel.It is a-bout a young farm boy Henry Fleming's experience in the war.
Henry dreams of becoming a hero in the battlefield.He joins the army,regardless of his mother'swarning.But his dreams disappear when he comes to the real battlefield.In the first attack,Henry isboxed in by his fellow soldiers,realizes that he could not run even if he wants to.He fires mechanical-ly，feeling like a cog in a machine.
A second attack causes his sudden panic and flight.He is driven by shame and wanders on thefringe of the battle field.He seems to be helplessly wandering in a nightmarish atmosphere.He meets a"tattered soldier"whose wounds seem"a red badge of courage"to Henry.He repeatedly asks Henrywhere he is wounded.