《21世紀(jì)英語專業(yè)系列教程：美國(guó)文學(xué)作品選讀（第2版）》按美國(guó)文學(xué)史的五個(gè)發(fā)展階段簡(jiǎn)略介紹了美國(guó)文學(xué)發(fā)展的時(shí)代背景以及每一個(gè)發(fā)展時(shí)期最重要的作家的生平、代表作及寫作風(fēng)格。
該書精選了18世紀(jì)末至20世紀(jì)80年代美國(guó)22位作家的名篇。這些作品從不同角度反映了美國(guó)社會(huì)不同時(shí)期的某些側(cè)面；作品種類包括長(zhǎng)、短篇小說、詩歌、散文、戲劇等。該書借助西方文論精心設(shè)計(jì)了討論題，以開拓學(xué)生思路。書后所附答案可供學(xué)生自學(xué)時(shí)參考。該書可供教學(xué)時(shí)數(shù)為40課時(shí)的文學(xué)課使用，也可用作大學(xué)英語研究生和本科生輔修課教材或文學(xué)愛好者的讀物。
Chapter One American Transcendentalism and Romanticism
Introduction to the Background
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Minister-s Black Veil
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Walt Whitman
Selected Poems
Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems
Chapter Two American Realism
Introduction to the Background
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Henry James
Daisy Miller
Chapter Three American Naturalism
Introduction to the Background
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Robert Frost
Selected Poems
Chapter Four American Modernism
Introduction to the Background
Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro
Selected Poems
William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow
T.S.E.liot
The Waste Land
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
William Faulkner
That Ecening Sun
Ernest Hemingway
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
John Steinbeck
EugeneO'Neill
The Graene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey into Night
Chapter Five American Literature Since 1945
Introduction to the Background
Ralph Ellison
Selected Reading
Invisible Man
About the Author
Saul Bellow
Selected Reading
Herzog
Key
References
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