英美文学史及选读(一)课程教学大纲

英美文学史及选读(一)课程教学大纲

《英美文学史及选读（一）》课程教学大纲

（适用于外语系英语专业本科）

（英国文学部分）

课程编码：120413030

学时：64学分：3

开课学期：第五学期

课程类别：专业方向课

先修课程：英语国家社会与文化

教学手段：多媒体课件、课堂讲授、讨论

考核方式：笔试（闭卷）

成绩构成：总成绩== 平时成绩*30%+期末考试成绩*70%

一、课程的性质、目的与任务:

本课程是英语专业本科高年级学生的专业必修课。本课程的目的在于使学生对英国文学形成发展全貌及其主要内涵有一个大致了解：通过阅读具有代表性的重点作品，理解作品的内容，学会分析作品的艺术特色，掌握正确评价文学作品的标准和方法，提高文学欣赏水平及其文学批评能力；通过了解英国文学创作的社会背景和文学思潮及其他们之间的相互关系来把握文学作品的文化内涵，提高对英国文化的认知能力；与语言教学相结合，增强学生语言表达能力。

二、课程的基本内容：

Part One Medieval English Literature

教学内容：The Anglo-Saxon Literature

The Anglo-Norman Literature

Age of Chaucer

Literature in the 15th century

重点：The Anglo-Saxon Literature; The Anglo-Norman Literature; Age of Chaucer

难点：romance, ballad, epic, Chaucer

Part Two The English Renaissance

教学内容: Background information

English Renaissance

Literature in Renaissance period

重点：English Renaissance; Spenser; Shakespeare

难点：drama; heroic couplet; sonnet

Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution

教学内容: The English Revolution and the Restoration

Milton, Bunyan

Metaphysical poets and Cavalier Poets

Restoration Literature

重点：Milton; Bunyan; Metaphysical poets and Cavalier Poets; Restoration Literature 难点：Conceit; Carpe Diem; Miltonic style

Part Four The Eighteenth Century

教学内容: The Enlightenment and Classicism in English Literature

Pope

Novel writing in the 18th century

18th Century and Sheridan

Sentimentalism and Pre-Romanticism in Poetry

重点：Classicism; Pope; Novel writing in the 18th century; 18th Century and Sheridan;

Sentimentalism and Pre-Romanticism in Poetry

难点：Classicism; Realism; Conceit; Sentimentalism; Pre-Romanticism

Part Five Romanticism in England

教学内容:The Romantic Period

Romanticists

Lamb

Scott

重点：Wordsworth；Byron；Shelley；Keats；Scott

难点：Romanticism；Byronic hero

Part Six English Critical Realism (1832~1901)

教学内容: The Rise of Critical Realism in England

Charles Dickens

William Makepeace Thackerary

Some Women Novelists

重点：Critical Realism; Dickens; Thackerary; Bronte Sisters

难点：Critical Realism

Part Seven Literature in the mid and late 19th century 教学内容: Prose writers in this period

Victorian poetry

Literary trends at the end of the Century

重点：Victorian poetry; Literary trends at the end of the Century

难点：Naturalism; Neo-Romanticism; Aestheticism

Part Eight The 20th Century Literature

教学内容: Social and Historical Background

English Novel of Early 20th Century

The Irish Dramatic Movement

Some poets of Early 20th Century

Modernism in poetry

The Psychological Fiction

重点：The Realists of Early 20th Century；poets of Early 20th Century；Modernism 难点：Modernism；Imagism; Stream of Consciousness

三、课程的教学要求：

通过本课程学习，使学生对英国文学的形成发展的全貌及其主要内涵有一个大致了解：通过阅读具有代表性的重点作品，提高学生的文学鉴赏能力。鼓励学生多做课外阅读，通过文学作品，提高学生对英国文化的认知能力并增强学生的语言表达能力。

四、课程学时分配：

根据本科教师教育专业教学计划安排，本课程共32学时，每周2学时。各章具体教学内容及学时分配如下：

章次内容学时分配

Part One Medieval English 8

Part Two The English Renaissance 8

12

Part Three The Period of the English bourgeois

revolution

Part Four The Eighteenth Century 8

Part Five Romanticism in England 12

Part Six English Critical Realism 8

Part Seven the mid and late 19th century 4

Part Eight The 20th Century Literature 4

总学时64

五、课程习题要求：

本课程的习题主要包括两个目的，一是巩固每次课的知识要点，二是为下次课的

学习进行必要的知识和思维的准备。在形式上主要包括两种类型，一是针对教材上的相关知识点进行必要的复习和巩固，二是要有一些开放式的题目，以拓宽视野，启发思维，达到更好的学习效果。

六、课程主要参考书：

刘炳善编著《英国文学简史》，河南人民出版社，1993年

王佐良何其莘著《英国文艺复兴时期文学史》,外语教学与研究出版社,1996年

吴景荣刘意青主编《英国十八世纪文学史》,外语教学与研究出版社,2000年

钱青主编《英国十九世纪文学史》,外语教学与研究出版社

侯维瑞主编《英国文学通史》，上海外语教育出版社，1999年

王佐良李赋宁等主编《英国文学名篇选注》，商务印书馆，1999年

执笔人：申玉革审核人：张少娟《英美文学史及选读（二）》课程教学大纲

（适用于外语系英语专业本科）

（美国文学部分）

课程编码：120413050

学时：32 学分：2

开课学期：第六学期

课程类别：专业方向课

先修课程：英语国家社会与文化

教学手段：多媒体课件、课堂讲授、讨论

考核方式：笔试（闭卷）

成绩构成：总成绩== 平时成绩*30%+期末考试成绩*70%

一、教学目的与任务

本课程是英语专业本科本科学生的专业必修课程，是为培养和检验学生美国文学

的基本理论知识和理解、鉴赏美国文学原著的能力而设置的专业理论基础课程。本课程的教学目的是使学生对美国文学形成与发展的全貌有一个大概了解；并通过阅读具有代表性的美国文学作品，理解作品的内容，学会分析作品的艺术特色并努力掌握正确评价文学作品的标准和方法。通过阅读原著，努力提高学生英语语言水平，增强对美国文学原著的理解，特别是对作品中表现的社会生活和人物思想感情的理解，提高他们阅读文学作品的能力和鉴赏水平。本课程的教学任务是使学生了解美国文学史的发展，熟悉美国文学的全貌，掌握文学批评的基本知识和方法以及不同文学流派的主要特征。在此基础上培养学生阅读、欣赏、理解美国文学原著的能力。在授课过程中，通过阅读和分析名家名作，提高学生对英语的敏感性，促进其语言基本功和人文素质的提高。

二、课程的基本内容

第一章美国文学绪论

教学目的：通过本章教学，使学生明确美国文学的性质、学习目的和任务，以及教学方式，让学生对美国文学的4 大时期的概况有所了解。了解美国文学发展的历史及阶段的划分，美国文学的特点，为后续的学习奠定基础。

教学内容：回顾英国文学的发展史；对应英国文学史的不同阶段；简介美国文学发展史

重点：美国文学史各阶段的划分；各阶段的文学思潮和著名作家、作品。

难点：英国文学史和美国文学史阶段的划分与英美文学各时期文学背景、重要作家作品对比。

第二章殖民时期的文学

教学目的：通过本章的教学，了解美国17 世纪初至18 世纪末殖民时期文学产生的历史、宗教、文化背景、其基本文学形态和特征；概要了解该时期的主要作家和他们的创作思想，艺术特色和主要作品的主题思想和语言风格等.

教学内容：（一）美国殖民时期文学概述和美国殖民主义时期代表诗人

1、北美拓殖的开始及拓殖传统在文学上的表现

2、美国清教主义思想

（二）独立革命时期的文学

1、托马斯·潘恩

2、本杰明·富兰克林

3、乔纳森·爱德华兹

重点：殖民时期文学的形态与特征;

难点：清教主义思想在文学中的体现; 清教主义思想

第三章浪漫主义时期的文学

教学目的：通过本章的教学，了解美国19 世纪初浪漫主义时期文学产生的社会背景、外国的影响和其基本文学形态和特征；概要了解该时期的主要作家和他们的创作思想，艺术特色和主要作品的主题思想和语言风格等。同时结合注译，读懂所选作品，了解其思想内容和写作特色，培养理解和欣赏文学作品的能力。

教学内容：

（一）美国浪漫主义时期概述

1、浪漫主义文学产生的社会及文化背景

2、美国浪漫主义在文学上的特色

（二）美国早期浪漫主义时期主要作家的生平、创作生涯及其主要作品

1、华盛顿·欧文

2、詹姆斯·芬尼莫·库伯

（二）新英格兰超验主义主要作家的生平、创作生涯及其主要作品

1、拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生

2、亨利·大卫·梭罗

（三）后期浪漫主义时期主要作家的生平、创作生涯及其主要作品

1、纳撒尼尔·霍桑

2、赫尔曼·麦尔维尔

3、爱德格·阿伦·坡

（四）浪漫主义诗人

1、沃尔特?惠特曼

2、艾米莉?狄金森

重点：1. 浪漫主义文学产生的历史、文化背景，该时期文学创作的基本特征、基本主张及欧洲浪漫主义文学对美国浪漫主义文学的影响;2. 超验主义文学产生的历史、文化背景，该时期文学创作的基本特征、基本主张及对美国浪漫主义文学的影响；3. 霍桑的家庭背景对其创作的影响，以及清教主义思想对其文学作品（《红字》等）的基本特征、基本主张的影响；麦尔维尔的代表作中象征的理解；4. 惠特曼诗歌的独特性，爱默生对其创作的影响，以及其作品的时代特征及主题；狄金森诗歌的独创性及其死亡主题。

难点：指导学生结合注释读懂该时期著名作家作品；理解并分析其作品中蕴含的丰富内涵、主题和象征意义。

第四章现实主义时期的文学

教学目的：通过本章的教学，概要了解美国现实主义时期的主要作家及主要作品和他们的创作思想，艺术特色和主要作品的主题思想和语言风格等. 同时结合注译, 读懂所选作品, 了解其思想内容和写作特色, 培养理解和欣赏文学作品的能力。

教学内容：

（一）现实主义时期概述

1、美国现实主义文学产生的社会和文化背景

2、美国现实主义时期的文学

（二）美国地方主义文学及其杰出代表——马克·吐温

1、马克·吐温的生平及创作生涯

2、马克·吐温的主要代表作品介绍

3、马克·吐温的创作思想与作品风格

（三）世界性的小说家——亨利·詹姆斯

1、詹姆斯的生平与创作生涯

2、詹姆斯主要作品介绍

3、詹姆斯的创作思想与艺术风格

（四）自然主义和对阴暗的揭露

1、美国自然主义文学及其主要代表

2、克莱恩、西奥多·德莱塞的生平与创作生涯、主要代表作品介绍、创作思想与艺术风格

重点：现实主义文学产生的历史、文化背景，该时期文学创作的基本特征、基本主张及欧洲达尔文主义和法国自然主义作家的主张以其对现实主义时期美国文学的影响。

难点：指导学生结合注释读懂该时期著名作家作品；理解并分析其作品中蕴含的丰富内涵、主题和象征意义。以及现实主义、自然主义、地方色彩主义等名词的解释。

三、课程的教学要求

本课程是英语专业的必修课程，是构成学生人文素养的基础。在该课程的教学过程中，要求教师对有关作家作品以画龙点睛式的介绍，针对性地引介国内外尤其是近期的研究成果，引导学生细读作品，课堂上给学生以尽可能多的时间和自由进行思考和讨论，最大限度地调动学生的积极性和主动性，重点培养他们的文学阅读能力和评析能力。在教学方法上，要将讲授和讨论、多媒体课件等多种方法结合起来，充分发挥学生的学习主动性。

本课程的考核，采取闭卷考试形式，卷面成绩占期末总评成绩的100%。

在以上教学要求的基础上，本课程的考核内容分为两个层面，一是基本概念、各时期的文学思潮的理解和把握；二是对名家名作的分析和理解。总的的目的是考察学生是否具有一定的分析欣赏能力。

四、课程学时分配

根据英语专业本科教学计划安排，本课程共16学时，每周1学时。各章具体教学内容及学时分配如下：

章次内容学时分配

第一章美国文学绪论 4

第二章殖民时期的文学 4

第三章浪漫主义时期的文学12

第四章现实主义时期的文学12

总学时32

五、课程习题要求

本课程的习题主要包括两个目的，一是巩固每次课的知识要点，二是为下次课的学习进行必要的知识和思维的准备。在形式上主要包括两种类型，一是针对教材上的相关知识点进行必要的复习和巩固，二是要有一些开放式的题目，以拓宽视野，启发思维，达到更好的学习效果。

六、课程主要参考书

1、《美国文学新编》胡荫桐主编，外语教学与研究出版社，2001年10月。

2、《英美诗歌教程》李正栓主编，清华大学出版，2004年9月。

3、《美国文学学习指南》李正栓主编，清华大学出版，2006年2月。

4、《英国文学通史》侯维瑞主编，上海外语教育出版社。

5、《英国文学学习指南》李正栓主编，清华大学出版社。

6、《美国文学阅读教程》程爱民主编，南京师大出版社，1999年。

执笔人：张少娟审核人：刘彦芬

2009年09月1日修订

自考英美文学选读要点总结整理出考点26位作家完整教学内容

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