Karen

Lecture 1 Can you define literature? What makes a literary writing? 孤灯，青卷，寂夜，香烟 …… 我的每一 天几乎都是这样地开始，然后，又这样 地结束。

Lecture 1 1.What is literature? Writings that are valued as works of art, esp. fiction, drama and poetry. 2.Forms (genres) of literature? Poetry, novel (fiction), drama, prose, essay, epic, elegy, short story, journalism, sermon, (auto) biography, travel accounts, novelette, etc.

Lecture 1 Why Learn Literature? Is it just a course to get scores? To make us more civilized, qualified and knowledgeable To amuse ourselves and others For further study 1.Postgraduate of English and American literature in FL institute 2. Postgraduate of literature of foreign countries in Chinese department research more

Lecture 1 常识不具，难语专攻，集拢 常识，加以条贯，便容易达 到深湛。 毛泽东

Lecture 1 What and How to Learn? Not merely satisfied with the textbook Learning literature is much more than reading famous works or knowing some schools of literature: history, philosophy and theories of literature and art at least Be an active reader: read, think and write sth on an author or work you are interested inmost. History, philosophy, psychology, aesthetics and other disciplines to help learn literature

Lecture 1 Our Aims Knowledge To form a brief outline of the history of the British literature up to the end of the 19th century. To acquire a better understanding of the nation through the cultural and literary study

Lecture 1 Fluency To further develop the ability to recognize and express emotional and moral attitudes on a higher level than about daily occurrences so as to facilitate our communication with educated native speakers;

Lecture 1 Appreciation To introduce the learners to imaginative and creative use of English and to help them towards an appreciation of literary language and literature;

Lecture 1 Preparation and growth To prepare us for the study of literature in English at a higher level and to help us to develop interest in and, hopefully, the habit of ， reading extensively.

Lecture 1 ﹡ one-semester compulsory course ﹡ for the 3 rd year English majors ﹡ to offer a survey of the development of Amer- ican literature ﹡ to gain an insight into the development of Am- erican literature as an important part of the country’s culture Course Description:

Lecture 1 Course book: A Survey of American Literature, the 2nd Edition (good and authoritative one; a little bit difficult and lack in order; so prepare a notebook and copy the outline I provide)

Lecture 1 Suggestions: 左金梅《美国文学》青岛海洋出版社（条理较 好）； 李公昭《 20 世纪美国文学导论》（可以帮助理解 20 世纪美国文学）； 吴伟仁《美国文学史及选读》（很多学校考研的 指定书目，但过于简单）

Lecture 1 Assessment:  Class attendance, participation and presentation, 20%  homework, 20%  Final examination, 60%

Lecture 1 Requirements Reading before class Note-taking, participation and presentation in class Active thinking and Double-entry journal

Lecture 1 Requirements for presentations: minutes 2. Relevancy to research questions 3. website reference 4. PPT 5. Relevancy to literary texts 6. Q/A (5)

Lecture 1 Brief Outline of American literature 1.Colonial period ( ) Anne Bradstreet Edward Taylor 2.Revolutionary period ( ) Thomas paine Benjamin Franklin Philip Freneau Edward Crevecoeur 3.Romanticism ( ) Washington Irving Edgar Allan Poe Cooper Howthorne Melville Whitman & Dickinson * Transcendentalism * (New England Renaissance) Ralph Waldo Emerson Fillip Thoreau

Lecture 1 5.Realism ( ) willam Dean Howells Mark Twain Henry James 6.Naturalism: Stephen Crane Theodore Dreiser Jack London O.Henry 7. The 1920s T.S. Eliot Ernest Hemingway (Lost Generation) Imagism: Ezra Pound Robert Frost Wallace Steves F.Scott Fitzgerald Anderson Lewis 8. The Southern Renaissance William Faulkner 9.The 1930s Steinbeck

Lecture 1 Syllabus: Week 1: Introduction Week 2: Early Am. Lit. (17 th —18 th centuries) Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (excerpts) Images or Shadows of Divine Things (excerpts) Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography (excerpts)

Lecture 1 Week 3: American Romanticism and Transcen- dentalism (1800—1850s) Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (excerpts) “Self-Reliance” (excerpts) Week 4: Edgar Allan Poe “The Raven” Week 5: Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Minister’s Black Veil”

Lecture 1 Week 6: Walt Whitman “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” “Calvary Crossing the Ford” “Come up from the Fields, Father” “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” Week 7: Emily Dickinson “Because I could not stop for Death—” “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—” “A narrow Fellow in the Grass” “I died for Beauty—but was scarce” “A Bird came down the Walk—” “Essential Oils—are Wrung—”

Lecture 1 Week 8: American Realism and American Naturalism (1860s—1890s) Mark Twain “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” Week 9: Jack London “The Law of Life”

Lecture 1 Week 10: American Modernism (1900—1940s) Ezra Pound “In a Station of the Metro” Week 11: May Day Holiday

Lecture 1 Week 12: Robert Frost “Mending Wall” “The Road Not Taken” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” “Fire and Ice” “Nothing Gold Can Stay”

Lecture 1 Week 13: Ernest Hemingway “A Clean, Well-lighted Place” Week 14: William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” Week 15: Eugene O’Neill Desire Under the Elms

Lecture 1 Week 16: Post-war American literature (1940s— ) J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye Review Alice Walker “Everyday Use”

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佳人自在阑珊处 To read,to explore, to learn… What’s your expectation of the course?

Lecture 1 Homework

Lecture 1 For next class: 1.Presentation topics: A Brief Outline About American History Great events in early American history: ? 1492 ? 1607 ? 1620 ? 1776 ? 1778 ? 1789 ? 1791

Lecture 1 Preview: 1.What are the religious doctrines of the Puritans? 2.Anne Bradstreet ( )