北美文学选读

Chapter 1 The Literature of the Colorual and Puritan．America
I．Historical Background
II．Literary Background
Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography

Chapter 2 American Romanticism and Transcendentalism
I．Historical Background
II．Literary Background
Unit 1 Waslungton Irving
Rip Van Winkle
Unit 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Unit 3 Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Unit 4 Nathaniel Hawthome
The Scarlet Letter
Unit 5 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
Unit 6 Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
Unit 7 Emily Dickinson
There Is Another Sky
I'm Nobody!

Chapter 3 American Realism and Naturalism
I．Historical Background
II．Literary Background
Unit 1 Mark Twain
The Million Pound Bank Note
Unit 2 Henry James
Daisy Miller
Unit 3 O．Henry
After Twenty Years

Chapter 4 20th Century American Literature Pre-WWII
I．Historical Background
11．Literary Background
Unit 1 Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
Stopping by Woods on， a Snowy Evening
Unit 2 Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro
Unit 3 F．Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Unit 4 William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
Unit 5 Ernest Henungway
A Day's Wait
Unit 6 Eugene O'Neill
The Hairy Ape

Chapter 5 20th Century American Literature Post -WWII
I．Historical Background
II．Literary Background
Unit 1 John Cheever
The Enormous Radio
Unit 2 Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman，
Unit 3 Jerome David Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Unit 4 Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
Unit 5 Joseph Heller
Catch-22

Chapter 6 Canadian Literature
I．Historical Background
II．Literary Background
Unit 1 Margaret Laurence
The Loons
Unit 2 Alice Munro
Runaway

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