常耀信美国文学 的笔记.doc

Brief Introduction Hi! Boys Girls. You are all warmly welcome to my class. From now on, we’ll take up a new course, to be more exact, American Literature. I’m in no doubt that you all have great expectation of this course, right? OK, I’ll make my uttermost efforts to guide you over the sea of American Literature just as a captain of a ship does. One thing I’d like to remind you, that is, a rich education can buy you a lot of words that other people cannot understand. But first of all, please consider these questions: What is literature? 2. Why do we learn literature? 3. How can we learn this