《美国文学大纲(第2版)/普通高等教育“十一五”**级规划教材》在打造完整的英语专业学科体系,全面促进学生的语言技能、学科素养和创新能力的培养,必将为我国培养国际化、创新型、高素质的英语专业人才奠定坚实的基础!
权威性和先进性的体现:按照《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》提出的培养目标、课程设置、教学要求和教学原则精心设计,凝聚海内外英语专业教育界专家学者的智慧,反映英语专业教育、科研的*新成果。
前瞻性和创新性的结晶:
基于广泛的市场调研、详尽的需求分析和严谨的科学判断,梳理现有教程,优化教材结构,更新教学方法和手段,强化学生综合能力的培养。
专业素质和人文素养的同步提升:
专业技能、专业知识、相关专业知识的**匹配,帮助学生打下扎实的语言基本功,增强其分析问题、解决问题的能力,提高专业素质和人文素养,使学生真正成为国际化、创新型、高素质的英语专业人才。 美国文学大纲-第2版_吴定柏_上海外语教育出版社_

Introduction
Chapter 1 Literature of Colonial America
Chapter 2 Early Romantics
Chapter 3 Transcendentalism
Chapter 4 High Romantics
Chapter 5 Realism
Chapter 6 Local Color Fiction
Chapter 7 Naturalism
Chapter 8 Modern Poetry
Chapter 9 Modern Fiction Before 1945
Chapter 10 Postwar Realism in Fiction
Chapter 11 Beat Generation
Chapter 12 Women Writers in America
Chapter 13 Jewish American Writers
Chapter 14 Black Literature
Chapter 15 Southern Literature
Chapter 16 Postmodern Fiction
Chapter 17 Modern Drama
Epilogue
Bibliography

After its republication in 1907, Sister Carrie has been very popular and become one of the key works in the Dreiser canon. This novel focuses on a female character, the new woman. The new woman of the late 19th century implies a woman who had more freedom in society, more independence, more ability to run her own life without being tied to a family, or without being tied to a husband. The emergence of the new woman was the beginning of what is now women's liberation movement. Often the movement goes back to find its roots in this time when women were emerging in their power and in their pafflcipation in everyday life. So Sister Carrie is one of these new women. However, Sister Carrie drifts without judgment of her own. Whatever comes along, she follows. The famous picture from this novel is Sister Carrie sitting in a rocking chair in her room in the evening, rocking back and forth. This is a picture of Came's drifting with the tide. She has no control, no freedom of will. She is a slave to her heredity and to her environment. Therefore, what she does cannot be considered imperative or necessary.
So,Dreiser presented the reader a picture of this woman who drifts in life. He neither condemned her nor praised her. This is the way she has to be. Dreiser once said, "It is not intended as a piece ofliterary craftsmanship, but as a picture of conditions done as simply and effectively as the English language will permit." Now, this sort of presentation, unquestioning, just giving the reader the facts, is very different from the realists, such as Mark Twain or Henry James. They would have examined the ethical basis of this woman's behavior. They would not just have presented her merely as a figure who drifts in life.
Dreiser's career as a full-time writer began in earnest with his second novellennie Gerhardt (1911). Then he produced "The Trilogy of Desire" which includes The Fin.anaer (1912),The Titan (1914) , and The Stoic (1947).They deal with powerful businessmen in society. The Cenius (1915) is an aptly autobiograplucal novel examining the artistic temperament.
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