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《英美文学作品选读》课程教学大纲

课程编号：适用专业：本科二年级学生

学时数：64 学分数：4 开课学期：第4学期

先修课程：英美文化概况

执笔者：李成坚编写日期：2012年6月审核人（教学副院长）：

一、课程性质和目标

授课对象：英语专业本科生

课程类别：专业基础课

教学目标：

1、本课程以文学文类（诗歌、小说、戏剧）框架，选取英美经典文学作品为阅读材料，通过

文本细读，课堂讨论，旨在培养学生的文学文本阅读能力和鉴赏能力。

2、通过本课程的教学，应实现两大教学目标

1）技能目标：依托文学文本的说辩能力和文学评论写作能力；

2）人文素养目标：掌握西方文学鉴赏的人文知识、了解西方人文精神。

二、课程内容安排和要求

（一）教学内容、要求及教学方法

序言（1学时）

第一篇：诗歌篇（5周，20学时）

第1-2周：诗体形式（7学时）

1、14行诗（4学时）

阅读文本：

William Shakespeare’s sonnet 18；

John Milton’s On his Blindness;

Percy Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind

重点掌握：

1、14行术语解释：14行诗歌的起源；英国体14行和意大利体14行的差异；

2、比较以上3首14行体，说明其异同。请再举一首十四行诗例。

3、Sonnet 18的主题是什么？它与文艺复兴思潮有什么关联？

4、归纳和总结西风的意象内涵和象征意义。

2、史诗和自由诗（3学时）

阅读文本：

John Milton’s Paradise Lost

Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself (1-8)

重点掌握：

1、术语：史诗的定义；请再举一首史诗例子，比如Beowulf。

2、术语：自由诗的定义、自由诗的起兴与美国精神。

第3-4周诗歌的意象（8学时）

阅读与讨论：（4学时）

John Donne’s Valediction: Forbidden Mourning (or The Flea)

William Blake’s Tiger,

Alfred Tennyson’s The Eagle

重点掌握：（2位同学陈述）

1、意象与“奇喻”conceit），

2、比较上述4首诗歌中的意象特征。

阅读与讨论：（4学时）

Ezra Pound’s In the State of Metro

T. S. Eliot’s The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Wallace Stevens’ The Anecdotes of Jar

重点掌握：

1、总结3首诗歌中意象的特征（兼与上周4首诗歌中的意象比较）

2、什么叫客观对应物？举例说明。

第5周诗歌的音乐性与修辞手法（4学时）

阅读与讨论

Robert Burns’ A Red Red Rose;

William Wordsworth’s I wondered lonely as a cloud

Emily Dickinson’s I could not stopped for Death

重点掌握：

1、彭斯诗歌中的音乐效果是如何体现出来的？

2、什么叫rhyme, rhythm, stanza, iambic pentameter?

推荐自学材料：

Robert Browning’s My last duchess

Lord Byron’s Ihe Isles of Greece

John Keats’ Ode to Grecian Urn

Yests’ When you are old

Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

第二篇：小说篇（6周，24学时）

第6周小说导论概述：情节、人物、背景、叙述方式、主题

阅读与讨论：

Daniel Defo e’s Robinson Crusoe

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

重点掌握：

1、以上两篇小说的叙述方式的异同

2、鲁宾逊人物形象解读

第7周（4学时）

阅读与讨论：

Charlotte Brote’s Jane Eyre

Thomas Hardy’s Tess

重点掌握：

女性地位、女性意识与女性主义批评

第8周（4学时）

阅读与讨论：

Washington Irving’s Rip Van Wrinkle

Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn

重点掌握：

1、《瑞普》的艺术特色

2、哈利贝克芬人物特征及其意义。

第9周（4学时）

阅读与讨论：

James Joyce’s Araby

Virginal Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

重点掌握：

1、小说为何取名阿拉比？《阿拉比》的主题是什么？技巧上作家是如何表现这一主题的？

2、《达洛维夫人》选段中的叙述方式

3、总结这两篇选段的共同特征。

第10周（4学时）

阅读与讨论

Earnest Hemingways’ A Clear, Well-lighted Place

William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily

重点掌握：

1、总结海明威小说的语言风格、场景设置的意义。

2、总结福克纳小说中的叙述特征、人物特征及其意义。

第11周（4学时）

阅读与讨论

D. https://www.sodocs.net/doc/f8196900.html,wrence’s Rocking-horse Winner

重点掌握：

1、现代主义的基本特征（象征、用典、反讽、意识流、多重叙述角度、自由联想）

2、现代主义与现实主义之比较：什么是真实？

推荐自学阅读材料

Charles Dickens’ Great Expectation

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

Hawthorn’s The Scarlet Letter

D. H. Lawrence’s Son and Lovers

第三篇：戏剧篇（2周，8学时）

第12周：莎士比亚戏剧（4学时）

阅读与讨论：

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Oscar Wilde’s The importance of being Earnest

重点掌握：

1、术语：独白soliloquy, 分析独白形式对于哈姆莱特性格的塑造意义

2、《认真的重要性》的艺术风格

第13周4学时

阅读与讨论：

George Shaw’s Pygmalion

重点掌握：

1、戏剧与小说的文类差异

2、《皮革马利翁》与希腊神话的关系及其意义。

第14-15周：阅读写作周

每位同学选择1篇文学材料（文类、英美国别不限），与老师逐一交流阅读心得。

第16周“我阅读、我分享”读书报告周（4学时）

4位同学分享读书心得。每位同学提交读书心得。

教学方法：

阅读与讨论式教学：强调学生根据教师课前设计的问题预习文本、课堂讨论以深化对文本本身的理解；

研讨式教学：通过文本现象，理解文类特征，深化西方人文精神的理解。

实践性教学：通过阅读周和文学评论撰写，提升学生阅读能力和品鉴能力。

（二）实践性教学环节和要求

实践周：

1、阅读总结周：我阅读、我分享；

2、文学评论：要求每位同学完成1篇500词英文左右、格式规范的文学评论；文学评论选材

可在英美文学范畴内自选。

三、考核方式

考核内容与形式：口头表达能力30%，文评写作20%；系统知识掌握程度50%

1、课堂参与(30%)

课堂讨论与参与20%

课堂出勤10%

2、写作能力20%：（全学期完成3篇500字的文学评论）

3、专业知识考试50%（闭卷考试）

四、建议教材及参考资料

教材：

蒋洪新，《英美文学作品阅读与鉴赏》，长沙：湖南师范大学出版社，2011年版。

王守仁，《英国文学选读》（第二版），北京：高等教育出版社，2005年版。

陶洁，《美国文学选读》，北京：高等教育出版社，2011年版。

参考书

《简明文学术语词典》，上海：上海教育出版社，2002年。

Brooks, Cleanth & Warren, Robert, Understanding Poetry, 北京：外语教育与研究出版社，2004年。

----Understanding Fiction, 北京：外语教育与研究出版社，2004年。

魏建，《英美文学鉴赏导读》，浙江：浙江大学出版社，2008年。

胡家峦，《英美诗歌名篇详注》，北京：人民大学出版社，2008年。

范秀华，朱朝晖，《英美诗歌鉴赏入门》，北京：中国纺织大学出版社，2007年。

林六辰，姚乃强，《英美小说要素解析》（第二版），上海：上海外语教育出版社，2009年。张桂珍，《英美小说与电影》，北京：北京大学出版社，2011年。

张耘，《西方戏剧》，北京：外语教学与研究出版社，2011年。

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