科目代码：845
科目名称：英美文学
适用专业：外国语言文学
制订单位：沈阳师范大学
修订日期：2019年9月
《英美文学》考试大纲
一、科目简介：
英国文学和美国文学课程是关于英国和美国文学史、文学作品方面的知识以及文学的赏析和研究。该课程的目的是使学生从深层上了解英国和美国文学的形成与发展、英国和美国文学各时期的特点，同时对英国和美国民族与文化的形成有较深的了解；提高学生的文学修养、审美品味、深度阅读理解能力、形象思维能力和批评思维能力。该课程的具体教学任务是，使学生系统了解英国和美国文学各时期的形成与特征、各时期的代表作家、其创作特点、作品风格、历史地位和各时期的文学流派的成因与发展等。英国文学和美国文学课程是必修课，是本专业教学计划中的重要部分之一。
二、考试内容及要求：
第一部分 考核知识点：
英国文学部分：
1. The Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066)
Old English poetry: The Song of Beowulf
2. The Period of Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)
The Canterbury Tales
3. The Renaissance Literature (1500-1660)
English renaissance
William Shakespeare (1564-1616):
Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, sonnets, etc.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626): Essays
4. The 17th Century Literature
John Milton (1608-1674):
Paradise Lost
John Bunyan (1628-1688):
The Pilgrim’s Progress
5. The 18th Century Literature
Enlightenment:
Daniel Defoe (1661-1731): Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): Gulliver’s Travels
Henry Fielding (1707-1754): The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Richard B. Sheridan (1751-1816): The School for Scandal
Sentimentalism:
Thomas Gray (1716-1771): “Elegy: Written in a Country Churchyard”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Vicar of Wakefield
Gothic Novel:
Horace Walpole (1727-1797): The Castle of Otranto
Pre-Romanticism & Poetry:
William Blake (1757-1821) and Robert Burns (1759-1796):
6. Literature in the Romantic Period (1798-1832)
Romantic Poetry:
William Wordsworth (1770-1850): “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”;
“The Solitary Reaper”
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824): “When We Two Parted”;
Don Juan
Percy B. Shelley (1792-1822): “A Song: ‘Men of England’”
“Ode to the West Wind”
John Keats (1795-1821): “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Novel:
Jane Austen (1775-1817): Pride and Prejudice
7. Literature in the Victorian Age (1837-1901)
Novels of Critical Realism:
Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Oliver Twist
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855): Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte (1818-1848): Wuthering Heights
Poetry:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892): “Break, Break, Break”
Robert Browning (1812-1889): “My Last Duchess”
8. Literature in the Twentieth Century
Novel in Transition:
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Novel of “Art for Art’s Sake”:
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): The Picture of Dorian Gray
Modernist Fiction:
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930): Sons and Lovers
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): Mrs. Dalloway
James Joyce (1882-1941): A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man;
“Araby”
William Golding (1911-1993): Lord of the Flies
John Fowles (1926-2005): The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Drama:
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989): Waiting for Godot
Poetry:
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965):
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
美国文学部分：
1. The literature of Colonial America
John Winthrop and Roger Williams
Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
2. The literature of Reason and Revolution
Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine: “The American Crisis”
Philip Freneau: “The Wild Honey Suckle” and “The Indian Burying Ground”
3. The literature of Romanticism
Washington Irving: The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow
James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
William Cullen Bryant: “To a Waterfowl” and “Thanatopsis”
Edgar Allan Poe: “To Helen”, “The Raven”, “Annabel Lee” and “The Fall of
the House of Usher”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Nature” and “Self-Reliance”
Henry David Thoreau: “Walden”
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
H. W. Longfellow: “A Psalm of Life”, “My Lost Youth”, “The Slave’s Dream”
and “The Song of Hiawatha”
4. The Literature of Realism
Walt Whitman: “Song of Myself”, “I Sit and Look Out”, and “Beat! Beat!
Drums”
Emily Dickinson: “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed”, “I Felt a Funeral, in My
Brain”, “A Bird Came down the Walk－”, “ I Died for Beauty－But was
Scarce”, “I Heard a Fly Buzz－When I Died－”, and “Because I Could not
stop for Death－”
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
O. Henry: “The Cop and the Anthem”
Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady
Jack London: The Sea Wolf and Martin Eden
Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
5. The 20th Century Literature
Ezra Pound: “A Virginal”, “A Pact”, “In a Station of the Metro”, and “The
River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
E. A. Robinson: “The House on the Hill”, “Richard Cory”, and “Miniver
Cheevy”
Robert Frost: “After Apple Picking”, “The Road Not Taken”, and “Stopping by
Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Carl Sandburg: “Chicago”, “The Harbor”, “Fog”, and “The People, Yes”
Wallace Stevens: “Peter Quince at the Clavier”, “Anecdote of the Jar ”, and
“The Emperor of Ice-Cream”
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily”
第二部分 考核要求：
1、了解英美文学史的划分以及每个时期的特征、主要作家及主要作品；
2、掌握文学术语的基本概念；
3、了解主要作家的生活背景、创作思想、作品特征；
4、对文学作品有一定的欣赏和鉴赏能力；
5、能够比较有深度地分析一部或一段文学作品；
6、了解一定的文学批评知识。
三、考试题型：
第一题：选择题（本题共30分）
第二题：对作家及其作品予以简要评述 (本题共30分)
第三题：阅读英美文学作品选段并根据要求做出评述 (本题共30分)
第四题：简要回答问题（本题共30分）
第五题：文学术语解释（本题共20分）
第六题：文学批评流派评述：综合论述其主要特征、主要代表人物、主要代表作品 (本题共10分)
四、参考书目：
1. Abrams, M. H. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Norton, 1987.
2. Baym, Nina. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Norton, 2012.
3. Birch, Dinah. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford UP, 2009.
4. Hart. The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Oxford UP, 1953.
5. 吴伟仁《英国文学史及选读》（英语）外语教学与研究出版社，2013年.
6. 吴伟仁《美国文学史及选读》（英语）外语教学与研究出版社，2013年.
7. 王建会：《英美文学辞典》，辽宁人民出版社，2001年.
