内容提要 赵文书编著的《新编美国文学教程(新经典高等学校英语专业系列教材)》以作品选读为主,辅以简明的文学史概述。全书甄选了40位作家及其作品,适当增加了现当代作家的分量,以增强学习者对现当代美国文学的理解和思考;对文学论文的三种写作类型进行了讲解,并提供范文和论文写作话题,指导千字左右课程论文的写作;用中文注释具有文化历史意义的背景知识以及早期文本中的特殊语言现象,帮助学习者深入理解作品,拓宽文化视野。 目录 Part I The Origin and Development of American Literature (Beginnings to 1860) Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) The Autobiography (excerpt) Unit 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) The American Scholar (excerpt) Unit 3 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) Young Goodman Brown Unit 4 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) The Tell-Tale Heart Unit 5 Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) Where I Lived, and What I Lived For Unit 6 Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (excerpt) Unit 7 Herman Melville (1819–1891) Bartleby, the Scrivener Unit 8 19th Century American Poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) / A Psalm of Life Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) / Annabel Lee Walt Whitman (1819–1892) / Song of Myself (excerpt) Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) / Because I Could Not Stop for DeathPart II American Literature Between the Civil War and the FirstWorld War(1860–1914) Unit 9 Mark Twain (1835–1910) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Unit 10 Henry James (1843–1916) The Real Thing Unit 11 Kate Chopin (1851–1904) A Respectable Woman Unit 12 Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) Sister Carrie (excerpt) Unit 13 Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) The Jungle (excerpt)Part III American Literature Between the Two World Wars (1914–1945) Unit 14 Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953) Desire Under the Elms (excerpt) Unit 15 Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) Sweat Unit 16 F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) The Great Gaty (excerpt) Unit 17 William Faulkner (1897–1962) A Rose for Emily Unit 18 Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) Soldier’s Home Unit 19 John Steinbeck (1902–1968) The Grapes of Wrath (excerpt) Unit 20 20th Century American Poets (I) Robert Frost (1874–1963) / The Road Not Taken Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) / Chicago Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)Part IV Modern and Contemporary American Literature(1945-Present)Part V Writing Through LiteratureLiterary Terms 作者介绍 赵文书,博士,南京大学外国语学院教授,现任英语系副主任、南京大学翻译硕士教育中心主任。兼任北京外国语大学英语学院华裔美国文学研究中心客座研究员、全国美国文学研究会副秘书长、中国外国文学学会英语文学研究分会常务理事。曾在香港中文大学及美国的格林奈尔学院和哈佛大学等地访学。主要研究方向为华裔美国文学、英美诗歌和计算机辅助英语教学,发表了文学和语言教学论文10余篇,专著1部,译著10余部;主编、参编教材3种,主持或参与开发计算机辅助教学课件2种。在华美文学研究方面的主要成果有:专著Positioning Contemporary Chinese American Literature in Contested Terrains,论文10篇;译著有汤亭亭的《孙行者》和赵健秀的《甘加丁之路》。 序言