出版時間:2008-9 出版社:南開大學出版社 作者:常耀信 頁數:635 字數:643000
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《美國文學簡史(第3版)》是普通高等教育“十一五”國家級規(guī)劃教材,吸收了近年來美國文學研究方面的新發(fā)現、新成果,增補了50余位當代作家作品的評介,論述了后現代主義特征在戰(zhàn)后美國文壇特別是詩歌、小說、戲劇創(chuàng)作當中的表現;此外,新版還注重收入近幾十年來評論界對美國文學的新定義、新解釋,增加了對少數民族作家的介紹,如美國黑人作家、美國印第安人作家、美國亞裔作家、美國拉丁裔作家等,上述群體的崛起使美國文學凸現多樣化格局,增添了藝術背景的真實性?!睹绹膶W簡史》第一版自1
990年問世以來,作為教育部選定的高校文科教材及美國文學研究的重要參考書,在國內廣泛使用,暢銷不衰。全書精述1
7世紀早期至當今時代的美國文學發(fā)展史,評價主要作家及其代表作品,解析引領時代風氣或主導作家創(chuàng)作的重要文學思潮和流派等。
作者簡介
常耀信,教授,博士生導師,任教于中國南開大學及美國關島大學,研究方向為英美文學。著有《希臘羅馬神話》、 《漫話英美文學》、《美國文學簡史》(英文版)、《美國文學史(上)》、 《精編美國文學教程》(中文版);主編有《美國文學選讀》?。ㄉ?、下)、 《美國文學研究評論選》?。ㄉ?、下)及《自選評論文集一一文化與文學中的比較研究》等。此外,還在國內外刊物上發(fā)表過多篇論文,闡述中國文化對美國文學的影響。1
988年被選入英國國際傳記中心編纂的《遠東及太平洋名人錄》,后亦被選人《美國名師錄》。
書籍目錄
Foreword(For the 3rd Edition)
Foreword(For the 2nd Edition)
Prefatory Note(For the 1st Edition)
Foreword By Wu Fu-heng
Introduction
Chapters 1-
1.Colonial America
2.Edwards?Franklin?Crevecoeur
3.American Romanticism?Irving?Cooper
4.New England Transcendentalism?Emerson?Thoreau
5.Hawthorne?Melville
6.Whitman?Dickinson
7.Edgar Allan Poe
8.The Age of Realism?Howells?James
9.Local Colorism?Mark Twain
10.American Naturalism?Crane?Norris?Dreiser?Robinson
11.The 1920s?Imagism?Pound
12.T.S.Eliot?Stevens?Williams
13.Frost?Sandburg?Cummings?Hart Crane?Moore
14.Fitzgerald?Hemingway
15.The Southem Renaissance?William Faulkner
16.Anderson?Stein?Lewis?Cather?Wolfe
17.The 1930s?Dos Passos?Steinbeck
18.Poner?Welty?McCullers?West?The New Criticism
19.American Drama
20.Postwar Poetry?Poets of the 1 940s Generation
21. The Confessional School?The Beat Generation
22. The New York School? Meditative Poetry?The Black Mountain
Poets
23. Postwar American Novel (I)
24. Postwar American Novel (II)
25. Multiethnic Literature (I)
26. Multiethnic Literature (II)
Notes and References
Index
章節(jié)摘錄
American Puritanism The settlement of the North American continent by the English began in the early part of the seventeenth century. The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of them Puritans. They came to America out of various reasons, but it should be remembered that they were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and m or alp rinciples. They carried with them to America a code of values, a philosophy of life, and a point of view, which, in time, took root in the New World and became what is popularly known as American Puritanism. A dominant factor in American life, American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and American literature. It has become, to some extent, so much a state of mind, rather than a set of tenets, so much a part of the national cultural atmosphere that the Americans breathe, that we may state with a degree of safety that, without some understanding of Puritanism, there can be no real under standing of American culture and literature. Although the English government saw the colonization of the North American continent as a means of alleviating its own problems, a large number of the settlers themselves left home in the first years of the seventeenth century in earnest quest of an ideal of their own. It is true that they wished to escape religious persecution——and the English government regarded its American colony as an ideal dumping ground for the undesirables, but they were also determined to find a place where they could worship in the way they thought true Christians should. ……
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常耀信編著的《美國文學簡史》將馬克思主義哲學思想和文學理論與美國的歷史文化發(fā)展聯系起來,從殖民地時期寫到本世紀七十年代。這本簡史對19世紀以前的美國文學從略介紹,突出地介紹清教文學及其代表人物——喬納桑·愛德華茲和本杰明·富蘭克林。 本書為第三版,吸收了近年來美國文學研究方面的新發(fā)現、新成果,增補了50余位當代作家作品的評介,論述了后現代主義特征在戰(zhàn)后美國文壇特別是詩歌、小說、戲劇創(chuàng)作當中的表現;此外,增加了對少數民族作家的介紹等內容。
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