English & American Literature 课程列表：

Unit 1 An Introduction to English Literature

-1-1 The History of English Literature: A Brief Survey

--The History of English Literature: A Brief Survey

-1-2 Understanding Literature

--Understanding Literature

-Discussion 1

-test 1

Unit 2 Shakespeare

-2-1 Introduction to the age of Renaissance and Shakespeare’s Sonnets

--An Ethic Approach to Hamlet’s Dilemma

-2-2 A Textual Analysis of Hamlet’s Soliloquy

--A Textual Analysis of Hamlet’s Soliloquy

-2-3 An Ethic Approach to Hamlet’s Dilemma

--An Ethic Approach to Hamlet’s Dilemma

-Discussion 2

-test 2

Unit 3 John Milton: Paradise Lost

-3-1 Life and Times

--Life and Times

-3-2 Paradise Lost: textual analysis

--Paradise Lost: textual analysis

-3-3 Style and Characterization

--Style and Characterization

-Discussion 3

-test 3

Unit 4 Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe

-4-1 An Introduction to the Age of Enlightenment

--4-1 An Introduction to the Age of Enlightenment

-4-2 On Characterization

--4-2 On Characterization

-4-3 From Capitalism to Imperialism:A Cultural Critique of Robinson Crusoe

--4-3 From Capitalism to Imperialism:A Cultural Critique of Robinson Crusoe

-Discussion 4

-test 4

Unit 5 William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”

-5-1 “Tintern Abbey”: General Remarks

--5-1 “Tintern Abbey”: General Remarks

-5-2 Beauty in Nature and Pleasure in the Poet

--5-2 Beauty in Nature and Pleasure in the Poet

-5-3 Sublimity in Nature and Elevation and Love in the Poet

--5-3 Sublimity in Nature and Elevation and Love in the Poet

-Discussion 5

-test 5

Unit 6 John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

-6-1 A Tormented Soul: The Short and Unfulfilled Life of John Keats

--6.1 Ode on a Grecian Urn

-6-2 A Textual Analysis of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

--6.2 A Textual Analysis of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

-6-3 Romantic Acceptance of Ancient Greek Culture

--6.3 Romantic Acceptance of Ancient Greek Culture

-test 6

Unit 7 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

-7-1 Jane Austen and Her “Little Bit of Ivory”

--7.1 Pride and Prejudice in Pride and Prejudice

-7-2 Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice

--7.2 A textual analysis of Pride and Prejudice

-7-3 Jane Austen’s Achievements and Her Legacy

--7.3 Chance and the Hierarchy of Marriages in Pride and Prejudice

-test 7

Unit 8 Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

-8-1 Life and Times

--8-1 Life and Times

-8-2 Jane Eyre: Text and Context

--8-2 Jane Eyre Text and Context

-8-3 Critical Approaches and Style

--8.3 Jane Eyre Controversy and Legacy

-test 8

Unit 9 Nine Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist

-9-1 Life and Times

--9.1 Life and Times

-9-2 Great Expectations as A Social Critique

--9.2 Great Expectations as A Social Critique

-9-3 Great Expectations: Form and Style

--9.3 Great Expectations Form and Style

-test 9

Unit 10 James Joyce and “Araby”

-10-1 Key Features of English Modernist Literature

--10.1 Key Features of English Modernist Literature

-10-2 Themes in Araby: Spiritual Paralysis and Disillusioned Love

--10.2 Themes in Araby Spiritual Paralysis and Disillusioned Love

-10-3 Artistic Innovations in “Araby”

--10.3 Artistic Innovations in Araby

-Discussion 10

-test 10

Unit 11 An Introduction to American Literature

-11-1 The History of American Literature: Defining Americanness (I)

--11.1 The History of American Literature Defining Americanness (I)

-11-2 The History of American Literature: Defining Americanness (II)

--11.2 The History of American Literature Defining Americanness (II)

-11-3 The History of American Literature: Defining Americanness (III)

--11.3 The History of American Literature Defining Americanness (III)

-test 11

Unit 12 Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nature (1836)

-12-1 Emerson and the Fragmentary Life

--12.1 Emerson and the Fragmentary Life

-12-2 Emerson’s Transcendentalism and Concept of Self-Reliance

--12.2 Emerson’s Transcendentalism and Concept of Self-Reliance

-12-3 Emerson’s Prose Style: Unity, Flux and Polarity

--12.3 A Textual Analysis of “Self-Reliance”

-test 12

Unit 13 Three Ways of Reading Henry David Thoreau’s Walden

-13-1 Walden as a Nature Book

--13.1 Thoreau’s Nature Book(1)

-13-2 Walden as a Work of Literary Art

--13.2Walden as a Work of Literary Art

-13-3 Walden as a Spiritual Guidebook

--13.3 Walden as a Spiritual Guidebook(1)

-Discussion 13

-test 13

Unit 14 Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

-14-1 Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritanism

--14-1 Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritanism

-14-2 The Empowering Woman in The Scarlet Letter

--14-2 The Empowering Woman in The Scarlet Letter

-14-3 Historical Relevance of The Scarlet Letter to the 19th Century Feminism

--14-3 Historical Relevance of The Scarlet Letter to the 19th Century Feminism

-test 14

Unit 15 Mark Twain: “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

-15-1 Mark Twain and Literary Regionalism

--15.1. Mark Twain and Literary Regionalism

-15-2 Plot and Themes of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

--15.2 Plot and Themes of -The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

-15-3 “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”: Gambling the Identity in the Far West

--15.3 “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”- Gambling the identity in the Far West-

-Discussion 15

Unit 16 William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury

-16-1 William Faulkner and the Southern Renaissance

--16.1 William Faulkner and the Southern Renaissance

-16-2 A textual analysis of The Sound and the Fury

--16.2 A textual analysis of The Sound and the Fury

-16-3 Benjy Compson in Focus: Where Is the Sound? Where Is the Fury?

--16.3 Benjy Compson in Focus Where Is the Sound Where Is the Fury

-Discussion 16

-test 16

Unit 17 Robert Frost: “Love and A Question”

-17-1 Traditionalism in the Dawn of Modernism

--17.1 Traditionalism in the Dawn of Modernism

-17-2 “Love and a Question”: Themes and Context

--17.2 “Love and a Question” Themes and Context

-17-3 “Love and a Question”: American Hospitality and New England Shield

--17.3 “Love and a Question” American Hospitality and New England Shield

-Discussion 17

-test 17

Unit 18 Tennessee William: A Streetcar Named Desire

-18-1 The Southern Belle in Trouble: Tennessee Williams’s Predicament

--18.1 The Southern Belle in Trouble- Tennessee Williams’s predicament

-18-2 A Textual Analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire, Scenes 7 & 8

--18.2 A Textual Analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire, Scenes 7 & 8

-18-3 Two Conflicting Musical Motifs: Music in A Streetcar Named Desire

--18.3 Two Conflicting Musical Motifs- music in A Streetcar Named Desire

-Discussion 18

-test 18

Unit 19 Arthur Miller and Death of a Salesman

-19-1 The Great Arthur Miller: the American Dream “realized”

--19-1 The Great Arthur Miller the American Dream “realized”

-19-2 A Textual Analysis of Death of a Salesman, Act II

--19-2 A Textual Analysis of Death of a Salesman, Act II

-19-3 The Haunting Weight of the Great Depression

--19-3 The Haunting Weight of the Great Depression

-Discussion 19

-test 19

Unit 20 Toni Morrison: Beloved

-20-1 Understanding Toni Morrison

--20.1 Understanding Toni Morrison

-20-2 Beloved: The Unspeakable Thing Unspoken

--20.2 Beloved：The Unspeakable Thing Unspoken

-20-3 Subversion of “Canonicity” by Toni Morrison

--20.3 Subversion of “Canonicity” by Toni Morrison

-test 20

Achievement Test

-Achievement Test

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