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云南师范大学外语学院学院 所 中心 研究生课程教学大纲云南师范大学外语学院学院 所 中心 研究生课程教学大纲 课程中文名称 英美小说研究 课程英文名称 Studies of British and American Novels 课程编号 开课单位外语学院授课对象学术性硕士研究生 教 材英美小说研究 自选 适用专业英语语言文学 课程性质必修课主讲教师原一川 授课总学时 36 学 分 2 教 学 方 式讲授与讨论考 核 方 式课堂报告 课程论文 课 程 目 的 及 教 学 要 求 课程性质 英美小说是英美文学的一个重要组成部分 英美小说研究课程 是英语语言文学专业硕士研究生 英美文学方向 必修的主要专业 课 英美小说选读教学对于提高学生思想政治素质和科学文化素质 对于学生学好英美文学知识 形成综合专业能力 创新研究能力 以及继续学习和发展 具有重要作用 教学目标 英美小说选读教学目标是 在英语专业本科 英美文学简史和 选读 课程的基础上 通过课内外的教学活动 使学生进一步巩固 和扩展必需的英美小说基础知识 进一步提高英美小说阅读 理解 欣赏 评论能力 养成自学英美文学作品的良好习惯 为提高全面 素质 综合专业能力和创新科研能力奠定基础 要求的教学时数为 40 学时 一般安排在第一学年第一学期 每 周安排 2 学时 教学评价 测试是检查学生学习研究水平和获得教学反馈信息的重手段 组织测试时既要考查学生的基础知识 更要考查学生的理解和评论 的能力 测试形成应包括笔试 口试和课程论文 教学中应注意的问题 一 体现学生的主体地位 发挥导师的指导作用 在学习过程中 要始终体现学生的主体地位 应充分发挥学生 的主动性和积极性 激发学生的学习兴趣 营造宽松 和谐的学习 氛围 要帮助学生养好良好的学习习惯 培养学生自主学习和科研 的意识和能力 二 在坚持基本要求的前提下 教学要结合不同学生的实际 情况 使不同程度的学生都能发挥潜能 学有所得 三 充分利用现代化教育资源 开拓学习研究渠道 努力改 善教学环境 借助广播电视 英语报刊杂志 因特网等大众媒体 培养学生自主学习和研究能力 增加教学的开放性 主 要 内 容 及 学 时 分 配 三 教学内容 英国小说部分 18 课时 一 英国小说导论 2 课时 1 笛福以前的英国小说 2 从理查逊到司各特的英国小说 3 狄更斯及以后的英国小说 4 一战和二战及以来的英国小说 二 英国小说批评方法简介 2 课时 1 情节 背景 人物 矛盾冲突 主题 语言风格 结构等 2 心理分析 社会批评 历史批评 伦理批评 神话批评 三 作品选读 12 课时 1 课堂精读 Dickens Oliver Twist Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Hardy Tess of the D Urbervilles D H Lawrence Lady Chatterley s Lover 2 课外泛读 课外阅读 Bunyan The Pilgrim s Progress Defoe Robinson Crusoe Swift Gulliver s Travels Fielding The History of Tom Jones a Foundling Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield Scott Ivanhoe Austen Pride and Prejudice Dickens David Copperfield Bleak House Dombey and Son Great Expectations Hard Times Thackeray Vanity Fair 9 Eliot Adam Bede Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Hardy 10 11 12 The Return of the Native The Obscure The Mayor of Casterbridge Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga The Man of 13 Property Wilde The Picture of Dorien Gray Lawence 14 15 Sons and Lovers The Rainbow The Women in Love 3 英国小说评论写作简介 2 课时 美国小说部分 18 课时 一 美国小说导论 2 课时 1 浪漫主义时期的美国小说 2 现实主义 自然主义时期的美国小说 3 二十世纪美国的小说 二 美国小说批评方法简介 2 课时 1 情节 背景 人物 矛盾冲突 主题 语言风格 结构等 2 心理分析 社会批评 历史批评 伦理批评 神话批评等 三 作品选读 1 课堂精读 12 课时 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter 2 Mark Twain The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn 3 Henry James The Portrait of A Lady 4 William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury 2 课外泛读 课外阅读 1 Washington Erving The Sleepy Hollow 2 Edgar Allen Poe The Fall of the House of Usher 3 Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter 4 Herman Melville Moby Dick 5 James Fenimore Cooper The Last of Mohicans 6 Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom s Cabin 7 Mark Twain The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn 8 O Henry The Cop and the Anthem 8 Henry James The Portrait of A Lady 9 Jack London Martin Eden 10 Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie 11 Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 12 Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea 13 John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 14 William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury 3 美国小说评论写作简介 2 课时 主 要 参 考 书 目 及 文 献 教材名称 编著者姓名 出版社 版次 出版日期 七 参考书目 1 Guerin Wilfred L et al A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press 2006 2 Zhu Gang Twentieth Century Western Critical Theories Shanghai Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press 2003 3 罗选民 主编 英美文学赏析教程 小说 戏剧 北京 清华大 学出版社 2006 4 邵锦娣 白劲鹏编著 文学导论 上海 上海外语教育出版社 2006 5 戴炜栋 21 世纪美国微型小说选读 上海 上海外语教育出版 社 2007 大纲撰写人 原一川 学院审核意见 日 期 2009 8 28 A A SyllabusSyllabus ofof StudiesStudies ofof BritishBritish andand AmericanAmerican NovelsNovels I Course nature British and American novels are an important part of British and American literature Studies of British and American Novels are designed as required principal discipline course for postgraduates majoring in English language and literature especially oriented in British and American literature This course is of importance to the promotion of students ideological and political qualities and scientific and cultural qualities it assists in the mastery of British and American literary knowledge and in the formation of comprehensive discipline ability as well as creativity and innovation II Course Objective On the basis of A Short History and Selected Readings of British and American Literature offered for undergraduates of English major this course through in and out of classroom activities attempts to help students reinforce and expand the basic knowledge of British and American novels and it tries to further promote the students capability of reading understanding appreciating and commenting of the novels and cultivate students good habits of self study Therefore this course is to lay a good foundation for the improvement of comprehensive qualities complete discipline ability and creativity of the students III Teaching Content Part One 1 Introduction to British Novels 1 British novels before Defoe 2 British novels from Richardson to Scott 3 British novels after Dickens 4 British novels since World War I and World War II 2 Introduction to Critical Approaches of British Novels 1 Kinds of novels by distinction By Analysis and Synthesis By length full length novel short novel trilogy tetra logy By subject matter Picaresque Novel Gothic Novel Bildungsroman education Kunstlerroman artist Psychol ogist Novel Sociological Novel Proletariat Novel Novels of the Soil Romance By Technique Epistolary Novel The Novel of Ideas roman Clef based on actual person The New Novel Nonfictional Novel The Historical Novel etc 2 Literary elements plots action settings characters conflict theme style genre structure organization mood tone etc 3 Formalism New criticism psycho analysis Sociological Historical Ethical Mythological Marxism Post colonial feminism etc 3 Selected Readings 1 Classroom Readings Dickens Oliver Twist Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Hardy Tess of the D Urbervilles D H Lawrence Lady Chatterley s Lover 2 Extracurricular readings Bunyan The Pilgrim s Progress Defoe Robinson Crusoe Swift Gulliver s Travels Fielding The History of Tom Jones a Foundling Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield Scott Ivanhoe Austen Pride and Prejudice Dickens David Copperfield Bleak House Dombey and Son Great Expectations Hard Times Thackeray Vanity Fair 9 Eliot Adam Bede Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Hardy 10 11 12 The Return of the Native The Obscure The Mayor of Casterbridge Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga The Man of 13 Property Wilde The Picture of Dorien Gray Lawence 14 15 Sons and Lovers The Rainbow The Women in Love III Hints on the writing of commentary essays on British novels Part Two 1 Introduction to American Novels 1 American Novels in Romantic Period 2 American Novels in Realistic Naturalistic Period 3 American Novels in the 20th Century 2 Introduction to Critical Approaches of British Novels 1 Kinds of novels by distinction By Analysis and Synthesis By length full length novel short novel trilogy tetra logy By subject matter Picaresque Novel Gothic Novel Bildungsroman education Kunstlerroman artist Psychol ogist Novel Sociological Novel Proletariat Novel Novels of the Soil Romance By Technique Epistolary Novel The Novel of Ideas roman Clef based on actual person The New Novel Nonfictional Novel The Historical Novel etc 2 Literary elements plots action settings characters conflict theme style genre structure organization mood tone etc 3 Formalism New criticism psycho analysis Sociological Historical Ethical Mythological Marxism Post colonial feminism etc 3 Selected Readings 1 Classroom Readings 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter 2 Mark Twain The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn 3 Henry James The Portrait of A Lady 4 William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury 2 After class readings 1 Washington Erving The Sleepy Hollow 2 Edgar Allen Poe The Fall of the House of Usher 3 Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter 4 Herman Melville Moby Dick 5 James Fenimore Cooper The Last of Mohicans 6 Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom s Cabin 7 Mark Twain The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn 8 O Henry The Cop and the Anthem 8 Henry James The Portrait of A Lady 9 Jack London Martin Eden 10 Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie 11 Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 12 Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea 13 John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 14 William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury III Hints on the Commentary Essays on American Novels IV Teaching Hours 2 hours each week first term of the first school year Total 36 hours for the course V Teaching Evaluation Students final academic credits are based on classroom participation oral report written paper and course paper VI Requirement for the