美國(guó)文學(xué)簡(jiǎn)史

出版時(shí)間:2003-12  出版社:南開(kāi)大學(xué)出版社  作者:常耀信  頁(yè)數(shù):654  
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前言

  文學(xué)史是文學(xué)史科、哲學(xué)思想、文學(xué)理論缺一不可的統(tǒng)一體,沒(méi)有充足的史料會(huì)流于教條,空疏;沒(méi)有哲學(xué)思想則會(huì)成為現(xiàn)象的羅列;沒(méi)有文學(xué)理論則無(wú)法對(duì)一切材料、一切現(xiàn)象加以分析。美國(guó)文學(xué)史當(dāng)然也不例外。我們歡迎的是以馬克思主義哲學(xué)思想和文學(xué)理論為指導(dǎo)思想與分析準(zhǔn)則,把美國(guó)文學(xué)簡(jiǎn)短的歷史產(chǎn)生的并不貧乏的諸多現(xiàn)象按發(fā)展順序加以分析、介紹的文學(xué)史。這樣一本美國(guó)文學(xué)史做為大專院校教材或是作為美國(guó)文學(xué)愛(ài)好者的讀物都是佳作?! 〕R磐揪帉?xiě)的《美國(guó)文學(xué)簡(jiǎn)史》恰是這樣的佳作。在全書(shū)有限的篇幅中包含著豐富的內(nèi)容。它與美國(guó)的歷史文化發(fā)展聯(lián)系起來(lái),從殖民地時(shí)期寫(xiě)到本世紀(jì)七十年代?! ∵@本簡(jiǎn)史對(duì)19世紀(jì)以前的美國(guó)文學(xué)從略介紹,突出地介紹清教文學(xué)及其代表人物——喬納桑?愛(ài)德華茲和本杰明?富蘭克林。從多方面看,這兩人都是清教思想的代表人物。前者憧憬來(lái)生,后者著眼今世?! ?9世紀(jì)以后對(duì)文學(xué)的概念來(lái)看,有許多殖民地時(shí)期的作品不能說(shuō)是文學(xué)。它們有的只是一些信息的報(bào)導(dǎo)和宗教的或政治的宣傳。但是正如作者在“前言”中說(shuō)的,清教思想對(duì)美國(guó)文學(xué)產(chǎn)生過(guò)持久的影響。可以這樣說(shuō),殖民地時(shí)期許多作品盡管文學(xué)性不強(qiáng),但它們都為19世紀(jì)的美國(guó)文學(xué)奠定了基礎(chǔ)。美國(guó)文學(xué)的主題、美國(guó)文學(xué)的形式都有從那時(shí)起的歷史根源。例如愛(ài)默生的自立自強(qiáng)哲學(xué)可以追溯到殖民地時(shí)期的司多達(dá)牧師的某些著作。梭羅的個(gè)人主義也不能說(shuō)與殖民地時(shí)代的約翰?吳勒門(mén)沒(méi)有聯(lián)系。

內(nèi)容概要

  第一版自1990年問(wèn)世以來(lái),作為教育部選定的高校文科教材及美國(guó)文學(xué)研究的重要參考書(shū),在國(guó)內(nèi)廣泛使用,暢銷不衰。全書(shū)精述17世紀(jì)早期至當(dāng)今時(shí)代的美國(guó)文學(xué)發(fā)展史,評(píng)價(jià)主要作家及其代表作品,解析引領(lǐng)時(shí)代風(fēng)氣或主導(dǎo)作家創(chuàng)作的重要文學(xué)思潮和流派等?!睹绹?guó)文學(xué)簡(jiǎn)史》第二版吸收了近年來(lái)美國(guó)文學(xué)研究方面的新發(fā)現(xiàn)、新成果,增補(bǔ)了50余位當(dāng)代作家作品的評(píng)介,論述了后現(xiàn)代主義特征在戰(zhàn)后美國(guó)文壇特別是詩(shī)歌、小說(shuō)、戲劇創(chuàng)作當(dāng)中的表現(xiàn); 此外,新版還注重收入近幾十年來(lái)評(píng)論界對(duì)美國(guó)文學(xué)的新定義、新解釋,增加了對(duì)少數(shù)民族作家的介紹,如美國(guó)黑人作家、印第安人作家、美國(guó)亞裔作家、美國(guó)拉丁裔作家等,上述群體的崛起使美國(guó)文學(xué)凸現(xiàn)多樣化格局,增添了藝術(shù)背景的真實(shí)性。

作者簡(jiǎn)介

  常耀信:教授,博士生導(dǎo)師,任教于中國(guó)南開(kāi)大學(xué)及美國(guó)關(guān)島大學(xué),研究方向?yàn)橛⒚牢膶W(xué)。著有《希臘羅馬神話》、《漫話英美文學(xué)》、《美國(guó)文學(xué)簡(jiǎn)史》(英文版)、《美國(guó)文學(xué)史(上)》(中文版);主編有《美國(guó)文學(xué)研究選讀》(上、下)、《美國(guó)文學(xué)研究評(píng)論選》(下、下)及《自選評(píng)論文集——文化與文學(xué)中的比較研究》等。此外,還在國(guó)內(nèi)外刊物上發(fā)表過(guò)多篇論文,闡述中國(guó)文化對(duì)美國(guó)文學(xué)的影響。1988年被選入英國(guó)國(guó)際傳記中心編纂的《遠(yuǎn)東及太平洋名人錄》,后亦被選入《美國(guó)名師錄》。

書(shū)籍目錄

Foreword(For the 2nd Edition)Prefatory Note(For the 1st Edition)Foreword By Wu Fu-hengPermissions AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapters 1-261.Colonial America2.Edwards·Franklin·Crevecoeur3.American Romanticism·Irving·Cooper4.New England Transcendentalism·Emerson·Thoreau5.Hawthorne·Melville6.Whitman·Dickinson7.Edgar Allan Poe8.The Age of Realism·Howells·James9.Local Colorism·Mark Twain10.American Naturalism·Crane·Norris·Dreiser·Robinson11.The 1920s·Imagism·Pound12.T.S.Eliot·Sandburg·Cummings·Hart Crane·Moore13.Fitzgerald·Hemingway14.Fitzgerald·Hemingway15.The Southern Renaissance·William Faulkner16.Anderson·Stein·Lewis·Cather·Wolfe17.The 1930s·Dos Passos·Steinbeck18.Porter·Welty·McCullers·West·The New Critism19.American Drama20.Postwar Poetry·Poets of the 1940sGeneration21.The Confessional School·The Beat Generation22.The New York School·Meditative Poetry·The Black Mountain Poest23.The Postwar American Novel(Ⅰ)24.The Postwar American Novel(Ⅱ)25.Multiethnic Literature(Ⅰ)26.Multiethnic Literature(Ⅱ)Notes and ReferncesIndex

章節(jié)摘錄

  CHAPTER 7  Edgar Allan Poe  We are not placing Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) at the bottom of the list of nineteenth-century American romantics because he was the last in the chronological order or the least in importance. It is because he stands alone, representing a category very difficult to pigeonhole. We also want to emphasize Poes unique position in the history of American literature.  Poes childhood was a miserable one. He lost both of his parents when still very small, and was taken care of by John Allan, a wealthy merchant of Virginia. The Allans failed to offer the orphan a normal home as father and son enjoyed nothing but an unhappy relationship together. At 17 Poe entered the University of Virginia but did not finish. He went to West Point as a cadet but was dismissed because of misbehavior. A man of literary genius, Poe wrote and worked as editor most of his short life. His first book of poetry appeared in 1827, his second in 1829, to be followed by his third in 1831. Five of his tales came out in 1832. One of his best tales, "MS. Found in a Bottle," won first prize in a short story contest run by a Baltimore newspaper in 1833. In 1838 he published his one full-length novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, and the next year saw in print his Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. The tale, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), an ingenious detective story, became the ancestor of the genre, influencing, among others, Conan Doyle. His poem, "The Raven" (1844), was an immediate success and has remained one of his most enduring works. Poes literary output (some seventy short stories and a dozen poems) is small, but it is immensely interesting and influential as a literary inheritance. We need to mention here that Poes only longer narrative, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, is a critical failure despite the fact that it has been the subject of one interesting .

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  作者常耀信教授,長(zhǎng)期潛心于美國(guó)文學(xué)研究,任教于大洋兩岸,主講英美文學(xué)逾20年; 始終孜孜以求,在研究中不斷吸收、融匯美國(guó)文學(xué)創(chuàng)作及文學(xué)批評(píng)最新發(fā)展,故該書(shū)既體現(xiàn)了作者本人數(shù)年的教學(xué)、研究成績(jī),又薈萃了中外多家學(xué)者的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)?!  睹绹?guó)文學(xué)簡(jiǎn)史》一直被用作高校英語(yǔ)專業(yè)美國(guó)文學(xué)教材,新版仍適用于大專院校英專學(xué)生,還可作英??佳斜刈x書(shū)和學(xué)術(shù)研究參考書(shū),最佳配套課本為常銷不衰的《美國(guó)文學(xué)選讀》(上、下)系常教授攜其優(yōu)秀同事合力編著,該系列還將有考研復(fù)習(xí)伴侶讀要及中文版精華縮編本奉獻(xiàn)給廣大讀者!

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