《英美文学》PPT课件 王玉 上海对外经贸大学

 
课件内容： 
An Introduction to English Literature  
Section 1: The History of English Literature: A Brief Survey 
Section 2：Understanding Literature 
Shakespeare  
Section 1: Introduction to the age of Renaissance and Shakespeare’s Sonnets 
Section 2: A Textual Analysis of Hamlet’s Soliloquy  
Section 3: An Ethic Approach to Hamlet’s Dilemma 
John Milton: Paradise Lost  
Section 1: Life and Times 
Section 2: Paradise Lost: textual analysis 
Section 3: Style and Characterization 
Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe 
Section 1: An Introduction to the Age of Enlightenment  
Section 2: On Characterization  
Section 3: From Capitalism to Imperialism:A Cultural Critique of Robinson Crusoe 
William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” 
Section 1: “Tintern Abbey”: General Remarks 
Section 2: Beauty in Nature and Pleasure in the Poet 
Section 3: Sublimity in Nature and Elevation and Love in the Poet 
John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”  
Section 1: A Tormented Soul: The Short and Unfulfilled Life of John Keats 
Section 2: A Textual Analysis of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” 
Section 3 :Romantic Acceptance of Ancient Greek Culture 
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice 
Section 1: Jane Austen and Her “Little Bit of Ivory” 
Section 2: Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice 
Section 3: Jane Austen’s Achievements and Her Legacy  
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre 
Section 1: Life and Times 
Section 2: Jane Eyre: Text and Context 
Section 3: Critical Approaches and Style 
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist  
Section 1: Life and Times 
Section 2: Great Expectations as A Social Critique 
Section 3: Great Expectations: Form and Style 
James Joyce and “Araby” 
Section 1: Key Features of English Modernist Literature  
Section 2: Themes in Araby: Spiritual Paralysis and Disillusioned Love  
Section 3：Artistic Innovations in “Araby” 
An Introduction to American Literature 
Section 1: The History of American Literature: Defining Americanness (I) 
Section 2: The History of American Literature: Defining Americanness (II) 
Section 3: The History of American Literature: Defining Americanness (III) 
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nature (1836)  
Section 1: Emerson and the Fragmentary Life 
Section 2: Emerson’s Transcendentalism and Concept of Self-Reliance 
Section 3: Emerson’s Prose Style: Unity  Flux and Polarity 
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter 
Section 1: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritanism 
Section 2: The Empowering Woman in The Scarlet Letter 
Section 3: Historical Relevance of The Scarlet Letter to the 19th Century Feminism 
hree Ways of Reading Henry David Thoreau’s Walden 
Section 1: Walden as a Nature Book 
Section 2: Walden as a Work of Literary Art 
Section 3: Walden as a Spiritual Guidebook 
Mark Twain: “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”  
Section 1：Mark Twain and Literary Regionalism 
Section 2：Plot and Themes of \The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\ 
Section 3：“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”: Gambling the Identity in the Far West 
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury 
Section 1: William Faulkner and the Southern Renaissance 
Section 2: A textual analysis of The Sound and the Fury  
Section 3: Benjy Compson in Focus: Where Is the Sound? Where Is the Fury? 
Robert Frost: “Love and A Question”  
Section 1: Traditionalism in the Dawn of Modernism 
Section 2: “Love and a Question”: Themes and Context 
Section 3: “Love and a Question”: American Hospitality and New England Shield 
Tennessee William: A Streetcar Named Desire 
Section 1: The Southern Belle in Trouble: Tennessee Williams’s Predicament  
Section 2: A Textual Analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire  Scenes 7 & 8 
Section 3: Two Conflicting Musical Motifs: Music in A Streetcar Named Desire 
Arthur Miller and Death of a Salesman 
Section 1: The Great Arthur Miller: the American Dream “realized” 
Section 2: A Textual Analysis of Death of a Salesman  Act II 
Section 3: The Haunting Weight of the Great Depression 
Toni Morrison: Beloved  
Section 1: Understanding Toni Morrison 
Section 2: Beloved: The Unspeakable Thing Unspoken  
Section 3: Subversion of “Canonicity” by Toni Morrison