內容簡介
《21世紀英語專業系列教材:美國文學選讀》由西安外國語大學編著。
圖書目錄
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Young Goodman Brown
Edgar Allan Poe (1809——1849)
The Raven
Henry David Thoreau (1817——1862)
From Walden
Walt Whitman (1819——1892)
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Had I the Choice
O Captain! My Captain!
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame
I Saw in I.ouisiana a Live-Oak Growing
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
A Noiseless Patient Spider
From Song of Myself
Emily Dickinson (1830——1886)
This is my letter to the World
I heard a Fly buzz——when I died
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
Because I could not stop for Death
There is no Frigate like a Book
Success is counted sweetest
Much Madness is divinest sense
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
The Lightning is a yellow Fork
I taste a liquor never brewed
Mark Twain (1835——1910)
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Henry lames (1843——1916)
The Tree of knowledge
Theodore Dreiser (1871——1945)
From Sister Carrie
Jack London (1876——1916)
The Law of Life
Robert Frost (1874——1963)
Mending Wall
Birches
After Apple-Picking
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Oven Bird
Design
The Road Not Taken
Acquainted with the Night
Never Again Would Bird's Song Be the Same
Wllla Cather (1873——1947)
From My Antonia
Eugene O'Neill (1888——1953)
Bound East for Cardiff
William Carlos Williams (1883——1963)
Tract
The Red Wheelbarrow
Spring and All
Portrait of a Lady
Love Song
Danse Russe
Queen-Anne's Lace
This is just to say
Willow Poem
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896——1940)
From The Great Gatsby
William Faulkner (1897——1962)
Barn Burning
Ernest Hemingway (1899——1961)
Hills Like White Elephants
John Steinbeck (19{}2——1968)
The Chrysanthemums
Tennessee Williams (1911——1983)
From The Glass Menagerie
Arthur Miller (1915——2005)
From Death of a Salesman
Saul Bellow (1915——2005)
From Seize the Day
Edward Albee (1928——)
The Sandbox
Toni Morrison (1931——)
From Sula
Maxine Hong Kingston (1940——)
From The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Appendices
Chronology of Significant Events in the History of American Literature
Pulitzer Prize Winners
American Winners of Nobel Prize in Literature
References
文摘
Hawthorne showed his mastery of history and tradition of the region he lived in. Most of his characters and settings are puritan and he deals a lot with witchcraft, the Puritan persecution of Quakers, and the theocratic society in his works. However, the Puritan religion has its influence on him in turn. Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved because man had broken the Covenant of Works when Adam had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge, and God offered a new covenant to Abraham's people which held that election to Heaven was merely a possibility. In the Puritan religion, believers recognized the negative aspects of the4r humanity rather than the gifts they possessed.
Hawthorne wrote over a hundred stories, essays and sketches, among which The Scarlet Letter was undoubtedly the first great American novel. However, he was also well known for his short stories. "Young Goodman Brown" was one of the best.
"Young Goodman Brown" is the dream experience of Goodman Brown who is, young, innocent and, as his name suggests, an average man. He leaves his wife, Faith, to meet with somebody in the forest, who was hinted to be the Devil, and the journey is to join in an unspecified but unholy ritual. As they proceed, Goodman meets an oJd woman named Goody Cloyse. He recognizes her as a teacher and a spiritual guide but begins to realize she is part of the evil that surrounds him. The same is true with Deacon Gookin and the Minister and Goodman realizes that these men are both in league with evil. Therefore, he hesitates and then is determined to go back. However, as he moves out of the darkness, he hears his wife's voice, and a pink ribbon blows down next to him and he sees that Faith, his wife, is part of the "communion" that is taking place in the woods.
序言
新世紀之初，隨著英語教育的快速發展，高等學校英語專業學生的入學英語水平在不斷提高，這對英語專業教材的時效性和適用性是一種挑戰。隨著新世紀的到來，中國在文化和經濟等領域變化巨大，國際交往越來越多，網路套用不斷普及，知識更新周期不斷縮短。社會的種種變化也對英語專業的教學與教材建設提出了新的任務。為了順應時代的進步，滿足不斷發展的社會對英語人才知識結構的新要求，高等學校英語專業應在繼承優秀教材編寫傳統的前提下，不斷創新，推出能夠反映新的教學理念、體現新的教學改革成果、富有時代氣息和豐富內容、符合英語專業教學實際需要的新教材。基於以上思路，西安外國語大學英文學院將“21世紀英語專業系列教材”列為“十一五”規劃教材建設項目，統一策劃並組織富有教學經驗的教師參與編寫。
“21世紀英語專業系列教材”包括英語語音、口語、聽力、閱讀、寫作、翻譯、英美文學、語言學、英語國家社會與文化等英語專業必修課程和選修課程使用的教材。本系列教材的編寫以高等學校英語專業教學大綱為依據，在全面分析我國中西部地區英語專業學生實際水平和需要的前提下，對每門課程的教材內容進行精心篩選，有針對性地對教材的編排體例進行合理設計。專業基礎課程的教材做到有利於學生英語基本功的訓練和語言技能的全面發展；相關專業知識課程的教材旨在拓寬學生的知識範圍，提高他們的人文素養，培養分析問題、解決問題的能力。
“21世紀英語專業系列教材”在選材方面依據知識性、科學性、時代性的總原則，力圖反映該教材涉及學科新的教學與研究成果。專業基礎課程的教材選取語言知識豐富、內容生動活潑、能夠反映現當代社會特徵、啟迪思想並能夠調動學習自覺性的材料。
