美國文學(xué)選讀

前言

　　“美國文學(xué)選讀”是我國高等院校英語專業(yè)高年級教學(xué)大綱中所要求的必修課程之一。本書是筆者根據(jù)多年教授該課程的教學(xué)實踐和授課講義，同時借鑒參考國內(nèi)外多種同類教材，并結(jié)合目前本課程授課時數(shù)的實際情況，反復(fù)篩選、精心編纂而成?！　⊥膶W(xué)相比，美國文學(xué)的歷史不長，即便加上其印第安民族的早期土著文學(xué)，亦僅有三百多余年的光景。因此，從狹義上講，美國文學(xué)曾經(jīng)是“舶來品”或日“殖民地文學(xué)”。然而，隨著時光的推移，尤其是到獨立戰(zhàn)爭結(jié)束之時，美國文學(xué)開始在世界文學(xué)的大格局中已嶄露頭角，異軍突起，逐漸對近現(xiàn)代乃至當(dāng)代文學(xué)產(chǎn)生巨大的影響。它又以其獨特的北美風(fēng)格和海納百川的民族特點，以及引領(lǐng)文學(xué)思潮的時代性，成為世界文學(xué)中最重要的組成部分之一，也最終演變?yōu)椤罢嬲奈膶W(xué)”。在美國文學(xué)發(fā)展的歷史進程中，涌現(xiàn)出許多蜚聲文壇的大作家。從早期的華盛頓·歐文，直到當(dāng)代的索爾·貝簍（一譯索爾·貝洛），可謂是名家輩出，佳作迭現(xiàn)。　　考慮到美國文學(xué)鮮明的多元性，筆者在浩如煙海的名家典籍之中精選了近二十位具有代表性的小說家和詩人及其代表作，試圖以此作為學(xué)習(xí)，以至研究美國文學(xué)的入門藍本之一，盡管筆者清楚地明白該書對更深層次地了解掌握美國文學(xué)發(fā)展的全景式過程依然遠遠不夠，而僅僅是為廣大學(xué)習(xí)者提供一個初級平臺。

內(nèi)容概要

　　《美國文學(xué)選讀》是筆者根據(jù)多年教授該課程的教學(xué)實踐和授課講義，同時借鑒參考國內(nèi)外多種同類教材，并結(jié)合目前本課程授課時數(shù)的實際情況，反復(fù)篩選、精心編纂而成。全書精選了近二十位具有代表性的小說家和詩人及其代表作，試圖以此作為學(xué)習(xí)。在《美國文學(xué)選讀》的體例設(shè)計上，本著將歷史與作品融為一體的原則，文史結(jié)合，雙管齊下，簡明扼要，重點突出。每個章節(jié)均由時代背景、作家生平、選文、注釋及思考題等部分構(gòu)成。

書籍目錄

Unit One The Early American LiteratureChapter Ⅰ The Seventeenth Century LiteratureChapter Ⅱ The Eighteenth Century LiteratureBenjamin Franklin1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingThe Autobiography （excerpts）Unit Two The Age Of RomanticismChapter Ⅰ American Literature of Pro-RomanticismWashington Irving1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingRip Van Winkle （excerpts）Chapter Ⅱ American Literature of Post-RomanticismRalph Waldo Emerson1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingSelf- Reliance （excerpts）Edgar Allan Poe1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingThe Cask of Amontillado （excerpts）Nathaniel Hawthorne1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingThe Scarlet Letter （Chapter 19 ）Walt Whitman1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingI Hear America SingingCome Up from the Fields FatherFrom Song of Myself （ Section 1 ）O Captain ！ My Captain ！Emily Dickinson1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingSuccess Is Counted SweetestTheres a Certain Slant of LightAgain His Voice Is at the DoorIm Nobody！ Who Are You?Unit Three The Age of Realism and NaturalismChapter Ⅰ American Literature of the Middle and Late Nineteenth CenturyMark Twain1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn （ Chapter 11 ）Henry James1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingPasteChapter Ⅱ American Literature at the Turn of the CenturyTheodore Dreiser1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingSister Carrie （ Chapter 1 ）Jack London1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingLove of Life （excerpts）Unit Four The Twentieth Century American LiteratureChapter Ⅰ Between the Two World WarsRobert Frost1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingThe Road Not TakenMending WallStopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningFire and IceEzra Pound1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingIn a Station of the MetroA PactErnest Hemingway1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingIn Another CountryFrancis Scott Fitzgerald1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingThe Great Gatsby （Chapter 3 excerpts）John Steinbeck1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingThe Grapes of Wrath （ Chapter 25 ）William Faulkner1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingA Rose for EmilyEugene ONeill1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingLong Days Journey intoNight （ Act 2， Scene 2）Chapter Ⅱ American Literature Since 1945Saul Bellow1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingThe Adventures of AugieMarch （ Chapter 21 ）Ralph Ellison1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingInvisible Man （ Chapter 1 ）Joseph Heller1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingCatch-22 （Chapter 5 excerpts）Arthur Miller1.About the Author2.Selected ReadingDeath of a Salesman （Act Ⅱ ）References

章節(jié)摘錄

　　The Cask of Amontillado （excerpts）　　I broke and reached him a flagon of De Grave. He emptied it at a breath. His eyes flashed with a fierce light. He laughed and threw the bottle upwards with a gesticulation I did not understand.　　I looked at him in surprise. He repeated the movement —— a grotesque one.　　"You do not comprehend？" he said.　　"Not I," I replied.　　"Then you are not of the brotherhood. "　　"How？"　　"You are not of the masons. "　　"Yes, yes," I said, "yes, yes. "　　"You？ Impossible ！ A mason？"　　"A mason," I replied.　　"A sign, "he said, "a sign. "　　"It is this," I answered, producing from beneath the folds of my roquelaire a trowel.　　"You jest," he exclaimed, recoiling a few paces. "But let us proceed to the Amontillado4. "　　"Be it so," I said, replacing the tool beneath the cloak and again offering him my arm. He leaned upon it heavily. We continued our route in search of the Amontillado. We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.

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