美国文学经典教程

《美国文学经典教程》借鉴了当代两本重要的美国文学选集：《诺顿美国文学选集》和《西斯美国文学选集》的编写体例，把选文的范围上溯到早期印第安人的民间口头文学。下延至近年来的美国当代文学名著。教材共选编了45位作家的文学作品，按年代把这些作家及选文分为六个部分共45课加以组合。每个部分前面有简明扼要的中文概述，每课再分为短评、选文、题解、关键词和思考题五项内容，并加上了一些必要的生词注释。

Part One From the Native to the National
Lesson 1 American Indian Legend
Lesson 2 Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
Lesson 3 American Indian Oral Poetry
Lesson 4 William Bradford (1590-1657)
Lesson 5 Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Lesson 6 Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Lesson 7 James Fennimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Part Two From Romanticism to Realism
Lesson 8 Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
Lesson 9 Ralph Waldo Emeon (1803-1882)
Lesson 10 Henry David Thoreau (1817 1862)
Lesson 11 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Lesson 12 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Lesson 13 Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Lesson 14 Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Lesson i5 Emily Dickion (1830-1886)
Lesson 16 Samuel L. Cleme (Mark Twain, 1835-1910)
Lesson 17 Henry James (1843-1916)
Part Three Fiction and Drama in the 20th Century (1)
Lesson 18 Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Lesson 19 Jack London (1876-1916)
Lesson 20 Sherwood Andeon (1876-1941)
Lesson 21 F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Lesson 22 Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Lesson 23 Eugene Gladstone O’Neill (1888-1953)
Lesson 24 William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Part Four American Poetry in the 20th Century
Lesson 25 Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Lesson 26 Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Lesson 27 Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Lesson 28 William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Lesson 29 Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
Lesson 30 Allen Giberg (1926-1997)
Lesson 31 Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
Lesson 32 John Ashbery (1927-)
Part Five Fiction and Drama in the 20th Century (2)
Lesson 33 Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
Lesson 34 Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
Lesson 35 Edward Albee (1928-)
Lesson 36 Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
Lesson 37 John Updike (1932-2009)
Lesson 38 Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
Part Six Postmodernism and Ethnic Literature
Lesson 39 John Barth (1930-)
Lesson 40 Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
Lesson 41 Toni Morrison (1931-)
Lesson 42 Maxine Hong Kingston (1940- )
Lesson 43 Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )
Lesson 44 E.L. Doctorow (1931-)
Lesson 45 Cormae McCarthy (1933-)
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