出版時(shí)間:2008-9 出版社:南開大學(xué)出版社 作者:常耀信 頁數(shù):635 字?jǐn)?shù):643000
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《美國文學(xué)簡史(第3版)》是普通高等教育“十一五”國家級(jí)規(guī)劃教材,吸收了近年來美國文學(xué)研究方面的新發(fā)現(xiàn)、新成果,增補(bǔ)了50余位當(dāng)代作家作品的評(píng)介,論述了后現(xiàn)代主義特征在戰(zhàn)后美國文壇特別是詩歌、小說、戲劇創(chuàng)作當(dāng)中的表現(xiàn);此外,新版還注重收入近幾十年來評(píng)論界對(duì)美國文學(xué)的新定義、新解釋,增加了對(duì)少數(shù)民族作家的介紹,如美國黑人作家、美國印第安人作家、美國亞裔作家、美國拉丁裔作家等,上述群體的崛起使美國文學(xué)凸現(xiàn)多樣化格局,增添了藝術(shù)背景的真實(shí)性。《美國文學(xué)簡史》第一版自1
990年問世以來,作為教育部選定的高校文科教材及美國文學(xué)研究的重要參考書,在國內(nèi)廣泛使用,暢銷不衰。全書精述1
7世紀(jì)早期至當(dāng)今時(shí)代的美國文學(xué)發(fā)展史,評(píng)價(jià)主要作家及其代表作品,解析引領(lǐng)時(shí)代風(fēng)氣或主導(dǎo)作家創(chuàng)作的重要文學(xué)思潮和流派等。
作者簡介
常耀信,教授,博士生導(dǎo)師,任教于中國南開大學(xué)及美國關(guān)島大學(xué),研究方向?yàn)橛⒚牢膶W(xué)。著有《希臘羅馬神話》、 《漫話英美文學(xué)》、《美國文學(xué)簡史》(英文版)、《美國文學(xué)史(上)》、 《精編美國文學(xué)教程》(中文版);主編有《美國文學(xué)選讀》?。ㄉ?、下)、 《美國文學(xué)研究評(píng)論選》?。ㄉ?、下)及《自選評(píng)論文集一一文化與文學(xué)中的比較研究》等。此外,還在國內(nèi)外刊物上發(fā)表過多篇論文,闡述中國文化對(duì)美國文學(xué)的影響。1
988年被選入英國國際傳記中心編纂的《遠(yuǎn)東及太平洋名人錄》,后亦被選人《美國名師錄》。
書籍目錄
Foreword(For the 3rd Edition)
Foreword(For the 2nd Edition)
Prefatory Note(For the 1st Edition)
Foreword By Wu Fu-heng
Introduction
Chapters 1-
1.Colonial America
2.Edwards?Franklin?Crevecoeur
3.American Romanticism?Irving?Cooper
4.New England Transcendentalism?Emerson?Thoreau
5.Hawthorne?Melville
6.Whitman?Dickinson
7.Edgar Allan Poe
8.The Age of Realism?Howells?James
9.Local Colorism?Mark Twain
10.American Naturalism?Crane?Norris?Dreiser?Robinson
11.The 1920s?Imagism?Pound
12.T.S.Eliot?Stevens?Williams
13.Frost?Sandburg?Cummings?Hart Crane?Moore
14.Fitzgerald?Hemingway
15.The Southem Renaissance?William Faulkner
16.Anderson?Stein?Lewis?Cather?Wolfe
17.The 1930s?Dos Passos?Steinbeck
18.Poner?Welty?McCullers?West?The New Criticism
19.American Drama
20.Postwar Poetry?Poets of the 1 940s Generation
21. The Confessional School?The Beat Generation
22. The New York School? Meditative Poetry?The Black Mountain
Poets
23. Postwar American Novel (I)
24. Postwar American Novel (II)
25. Multiethnic Literature (I)
26. Multiethnic Literature (II)
Notes and References
Index
章節(jié)摘錄
American Puritanism The settlement of the North American continent by the English began in the early part of the seventeenth century. The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of them Puritans. They came to America out of various reasons, but it should be remembered that they were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and m or alp rinciples. They carried with them to America a code of values, a philosophy of life, and a point of view, which, in time, took root in the New World and became what is popularly known as American Puritanism. A dominant factor in American life, American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and American literature. It has become, to some extent, so much a state of mind, rather than a set of tenets, so much a part of the national cultural atmosphere that the Americans breathe, that we may state with a degree of safety that, without some understanding of Puritanism, there can be no real under standing of American culture and literature. Although the English government saw the colonization of the North American continent as a means of alleviating its own problems, a large number of the settlers themselves left home in the first years of the seventeenth century in earnest quest of an ideal of their own. It is true that they wished to escape religious persecution——and the English government regarded its American colony as an ideal dumping ground for the undesirables, but they were also determined to find a place where they could worship in the way they thought true Christians should. ……
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