《张立新美国文学史及欣赏》课程教学大纲.pdfVIP

《美国文学史及欣赏》教学大纲 课程中文名称：美国文学史及欣赏 课程英文名称：The History of American Literature and Literature Appreciation 课程号：508030262 课程属性：通识选修课 开课学期：秋季 总学时：32 学分：2 先修课程：英国文学、英国社会文化、美国社会文化 面向对象：全校本科生 开课院部：外国语学院英语语言文学研究所 一、 课程教学目标： 本课程是外国语学院英语语言研究所为全校本科生开设的通识选修课程。 开设本课程，旨在通过理论教学与实践操作训练，使学生了解、认识和掌握美 国文学史上一些较有影响的作家的创作倾向、思想方法、在文学史上的地位和 成就以及对本国文学乃至世界所产生的影响等等。在此基础上，使学生了解一 些名家的代表作品的思想意义、文学价值、写作手法、语言技巧等，为学生毕 业后的教学、研究打下基础。通过对美国各历史段代背景和重要作家及其代表 作品的介绍，使学生了解美国文学发展的历史及各个时期的主要文学流派及其 创作特点。通过文本学习提高学生的文学阅读、理解与鉴赏能力以及口头与书 面表达等语言技能；并且通过大量阅读与讨论加强学生对文学本质的意识，提 高他们的综合人文素质，增强他们对西方文学及文化的理解 二、 课程教学内容与学习目标 （一） 理论教学： 32 学时 知识单元 1：Early American Literature 参考学时：2 学时 学习内容： 1. The literature of exploration Had history taken a different turn, the United States easily could have been a part of the great Spanish or French overseas empires. Its present inhabitants might speak Spanish and form one nation with Mexico, or speak French and be joined with Canadian Francophone Quebec and Montreal. Yet the earliest explorers of America were not English, Spanish, or French. The first European record of exploration in America is in a Scandinavian language. The Old Norse Vinland Saga recounts how the adventurous Leif Eriksson and a band of wandering Norsemen settled briefly somewhere on the northeast coast of America -- probably Nova Scotia, in Canada -- in the first decade of the 11th century, almost 400 years before the next recorded European discovery of the New World. The first known and sustained contact between the Americas and the rest of the world, however, began with the famous voyage of an Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus, funded by the Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella. Columbuss journal in his Epistola, printed in 1493, recounts the trips drama -- the ter