《英语诗歌选读》课程教学大纲.doc

英语诗歌选读课程教学大纲课程编号：01130120 学分：2 学时：34（其中实践学时：0） 授课学期：6 学期一、课程的性质、地位、作用及与其他课程的联系 本课程是英语专业本科高年级选修课之一，它以“英国文学史及选读”和“美国文学史及选读”为先修课程。想对英语诗歌进行更深入的同学可以选修“英语诗歌选读”。以英美诗歌发展史为线索，使学生掌握英国和美国诗歌的主要品种及其源流，重要诗歌流派及其理论，总体风格和影响，重要诗人及其作品的风格与成就；使学生了解英国诗歌的民族特性和美国诗歌的民族特性。通过学习诗歌体裁、格律、主题、意象、修辞等方面的基础知识，培养学生欣赏英美诗歌能力，增加语言的输入量，从而增加实际运用语言的能力，为今后进一步的语言学习和文学研究奠定基础。使学生具有独立研究简单题目的能力。二、课程的教学内容与要求Part One: British VerseChapter 1 The Canterbury Tales and 16th-Century Poetry【教学目标】1. General understanding of writers 2. Appreciation of the tone and the rhyme 3. Appreciation of the poems 【教学内容】1. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) 2. William Shakespeare (1564- 1616)【教学重点与难点】Appreciation of the style and image of the poemsChapter 2 The Civil War and Early 17th-Century Poetry【教学目标】1. General understanding of writers 2. Appreciation of the tone and the rhyme 3. Appreciation of the poems【教学内容】John Donne (1572-1631)【教学重点与难点】Appreciation of the poem: Forbidding MourningChapter 3 Neoclassicism and 18th-Century Poetry【教学目标】1. General understanding of writers 2. Appreciation of the tone and the rhyme 3. Appreciation of the poems【教学内容】Thomas Gray (1716-1771)【教学重点与难点】Appreciation of the poem: Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardChapter 4 Romanticism and Early 19th-Century Poetry【教学目标】1. General understanding of writers 2. Appreciation of the tone and the rhyme 3. Appreciation of the poems【教学内容】William Blake (1757-1827) William Wordsworth (1770- 1850) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)【教学重点与难点】Appreciation of the poems during RomanticismChapter 5 Social Progress and Late 19th-Century Poetry【教学目标】1. General understanding of writers 2. Appreciation of the tone and the rhyme 3. Appreciation of the poems【教学内容】Robert Browning (1812- 1889) Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)【教学重点与难点】Appreciation of the poems during the 19th centuryChapter 6 Modernism and Early 20th-Century Poetry【教学目标】1. General understanding of writers 2. Appreciation of the tone and the rhyme3. Appreciation of the poems【教学内容】Thomas Hardy (1840- 1928)William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)【教学重点与难点】Appreciation of the poems during ModernismChapter 7 World War II and Late 20th-Century Poetry【教学目标】1. General understanding of writers 2. Appreciation of the tone and the rhyme 3. Appreciation of the poems【教学内容】Philip Larkin (1922-1985) Tony Harrison (1937-) Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913-2000) Ted Hughes (1930-1998) Thom Gunn (1929-2004)【教学重点与难点】Appreciation of the poems in 20th centuryPart Two: American VerseChapter 8 Transcendentalism and 19th-Century American Poetry【教学目标】1. General understanding of writers 2. Appreciation of the tone and the rhyme 3. Appreciation of the poems【教学内容】Edgar Alan Poe (1809-1849) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)【教学重点与难点】Appreciation of the poems during TranscendentalismChapter 9 Modernism and American Poetry between the World Wars【教学目标】1. General understanding of writers 2. Appreciation of the tone and the rhyme 3. Appreciation of the poems【教学内容】Robert Frost (1874-1963) Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) Ezra Pound (1885-1972)【教学重点与难点】Appreciation of the poems during ModernismChapter 10 Post-Modernism and American Poetry After World War 【教学目标】1. General understanding of writers 2. Appreciation of the tone and the rhyme 3. Appreciation of the poems【教学内容】Marianne Moore (1887-1972) Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Randall Jarell (1914-1965) Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)【教学重点与难点】Appreciation of the poems after world war 基本要求：1. 掌握英美诗歌体裁、格律、修辞、主题等方面的基础知识。2能够独立地阅读欣赏不同作家，不同题材，不同风格的诗歌作品。3通过与汉语诗歌的比较，掌握英语诗歌与汉语诗歌在创作风格和表现手法等方面异同，为今后的文学研究打下基础。三、课程实践、实习要求在课程进行到诗歌基础知识结束的时候，要求学生完成一篇1000词的作业，阐释自己对英汉诗歌异同的比较。在讲述英语诗歌名篇赏析的过程中，组织学生进行诗歌朗读与翻译比赛，以增强学生对诗歌深层意义的理解。四、学时分配单元教 学 内 容教学时数授课课时实践课时实习课时Chapter 1The Canterbury Tales and 16th-Century Poetry400Chapter 2The Civil War and Early 17th-Century Poetry200Chapter 3Neoclassicism and 18th-Century Poetry200Chapter 4Romanticism and Early 19th-Century Poetry400Chapter 5Social Progress and Late 19th-Century Poetry600Chapter 6Modernism and Early 20th-Century Poetry200Chapter 7World War II and Late 20th-Century Poetry400Chapter 8Transcendentalism and 19th-Century American Poetry400Chapter 9Modernism and American Poetry between the World Wars400Chapter 10Post-Modernism and American Poetry After World War 200五、考核方法本课程为考查课程。课程学期总评成绩以平时成绩60%（口笔头分析练习）、期末考试40%（要求学生写1000-1500英文的课程论文）计入成绩册。六、教材及主要参考书目1建议教材杨金才，于建华主编.2008.英美诗歌：作品与评论.上海：上海外语教育出版社.2主要教学参考书目 王佐良.1997.英国诗选.上海：上海译文出版社.John Strachan & Richard Terry. 2009.诗歌入门.上海：上海外语教育出版社.Abrams M.H., ed.