內容簡介
本書精選名家名篇，字字珠璣，篇篇經典，對幫助讀者熟悉美國文學作品。提高文學素養及英語閱讀能力大有裨益。篇後練習採用啟發式，引導讀者進一步抓住作家的主要成就及其作品的主旨及主要特色，同時也為讀者自主學習、探索提供了更多的空間。在各章的開篇，作者還分別撰寫了簡明美國文學歷史發展過程、主要背景、重要作家及其作品，幫助讀者梳理浩瀚的內容，提高讀者的學習效率。
目錄
Chapter One Early Settlements and Puritanism
Rending -A Description of New England
Further Reading - A ModeU of Christian Charity
Chapter Two Enlightenment
Reading - Poor Richard's Almanac
Further Rending - Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Chapter Three Romanticism
Reading i - I Hear America Singing
Reading 2 - "Nature" is what we see
Further Reading 1 - Nature
Further Reading 2 - Moby Dick
Further Reading 3 - The Scarlet Letter
Chapter Four Realism, Regionalism and Naturalism
Reading - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Further Rending 1 - The Awakening
Further Reading 2 - The Red Badge of Courage
Chapter Five Modernism
Reading 1 -Mending Wall
Reading 2 - In a Station of the Metro
Further Rending I - The Red Wheelbarrow
Further Reading 2 - Sea Rose
Further Reading 3 - Tender is the Night
Chapter Six Postmodernism
Reading - Nobel Acceptance Speech
Further Reading - Nobel Acceptance Speech
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