2013英美文学导论考试大纲
《英美文学》考试大纲
《英美文学》考试大纲学院（盖章）：负责人（签字）：专业代码： 050201 专业名称：英语语言文学专业考试科目代码：考试科目名称：英美文学根据教育部和国家各专业学位教育指导委员会相关文件精神，我校文法学院英语语言文学专业的研究生，除应具有坚实的英语基础外，还应掌握英美文学基本概念、理论、知识，具有一定的应用分析能力。
为便于考生考试前的学习及考前准备，保证硕士学位研究生的培养质量，特制定本《英美文学》入学考试大纲。
一、考试目的《英美文学》考试旨在全面考察考生是否具有硕士阶段学习所要求的英语水平，是否具有扎实的英语基础，是否掌握英美文学的基本概念、理论、知识，是否具有一定的应用分析能力及写作能力，以保证所招收硕士学位研究生的培养质量。
二、考试性质与范围测试考生掌握英美文学知识的水平考试。
1、1、考试的总体要求? 英语水平：通过英语专业四级考试。
②词汇：要求掌握语言学及英美文学相关专业词汇3500以上，积极词汇6000以上，能够使用以上词汇对英美文学的术语做出解释说明。
③专业知识：能读懂有关英美文学的问题，并能根据要求运用所学相关知识分析和回答问题。
④综合能力：要求考生掌握英美文学的基本概念、理论、知识，具有较好的英语写作能力，具有一定的应用分析能力，能够就相关专业问题表达自己的理解、观点或看法。
2、2、考试形式3、①笔试、闭卷4、②使用英语答题。
③总分为150，考试时间为180分钟。
三、题型与内容1、试题题型①填空题? 判断正误题? 术语解释题④问答题⑤论述题2、考试内容①填空题：考查英美文学的基础知识。
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《英美文学》课程考试大纲[001]
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《英美文学》课程考试大纲
一、基本描述
课程名称：英美文学（English and American Literature）
学分: 3
学时：45+45 （课内实验(践)：上机：课外实践：）
适用专业：英语
开课单位：外国语学院外语系
课程负责人：汤红
教材与主要参考书目：《英美文学选读》张伯香外语教学与研究出版社1999年12月第2版
内容概述：《英美文学》课程的教学内容是根据本课程的性质、学习目的以及英语专业教学的特点确定的。
本课程主要内容包括英国和美国文学史上代表作家的简要介绍和作品选读。
结合英国和美国文学各个历史断代的主要历史背景，文学文化思潮和流派，社会政治、经济、文化等对英国和美国文学史上最具有影响、最具有代表性的作家的作品中的艺术特色、主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格和思想意义等进行深入地分析。
（考核要求：A—重点考核；B—一般考核；C—了解）三、考核方式
试卷考核
四、大纲编写的依据与说明
根据专业培养目标及教学计划，综合该课程权威体系编写。
起草人：汤红审核人：章联日期：2016年11月9日。
英美文学导论考试题及答案
英美文学导论考试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 以下哪部作品是威廉·莎士比亚的悲剧？A.《罗密欧与朱丽叶》B.《威尼斯商人》C.《皆大欢喜》D.《第十二夜》2. 19世纪英国浪漫主义诗人拜伦的全名是什么？A. 乔治·戈登·拜伦B. 威廉·华兹华斯C. 珀西·比希·雪莱D. 约翰·济慈3. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 查尔斯·狄更斯B. 简·奥斯汀C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 托马斯·哈代4. 美国文学中被称为“黑暗浪漫主义”的时期是？A. 浪漫主义时期B. 现实主义时期C. 现代主义时期D. 后现代主义时期5. 以下哪部作品是马克·吐温的代表作？A.《了不起的盖茨比》B.《汤姆·索亚历险记》C.《白鲸》D.《老人与海》二、填空题（每空2分，共20分）6. 英国文学史上的文艺复兴时期，以_______的戏剧创作最为著名。
7. 19世纪美国文学的“现实主义”运动，以_______的《红字》为代表作。
8. 现代主义文学中，_______的《荒原》被认为是现代主义诗歌的里程碑。
9. 20世纪美国文学中，_______的《了不起的盖茨比》描绘了20年代的“爵士时代”。
10. 英国浪漫主义诗人_______的《夜莺颂》是其代表作之一。
三、简答题（每题10分，共30分）11. 简述英国文学中的“哥特式小说”的特点。
12. 描述美国文学中的“自然主义”运动，并举例说明。
13. 简述现代主义文学与后现代主义文学的主要区别。
四、论述题（每题15分，共30分）14. 论述威廉·华兹华斯的“自然主义”观点及其在《抒情歌谣集》中的体现。
15. 分析弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的《到灯塔去》中的女性主义视角。
答案一、选择题1. A2. A3. C4. B5. B二、填空题6. 威廉·莎士比亚7. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑8. T.S.艾略特9. F.斯科特·菲茨杰拉德10. 威廉·华兹华斯三、简答题11. 哥特式小说的特点包括恐怖、神秘、超自然元素，以及对古老建筑或废墟的描写。
英美文学导论
British & American Literature IntroductionClass:Student Name:Student Number:Supervisor:Foreign Language DepartmentⅹⅹⅹⅹⅹUniversityDecember19, 2011An Analysis of the Main Characters in The Great Gatsby（姓名：班级：学号：）Ⅰ. IntroductionF. Scott Fitzgerald was the leader of the Jazz Age and one of the best American writers of the 20th century. The Great Gatsby is considered a correct depiction of that era and is the best novel of F.S. Fitzgerald. The novel shows the disil lusion of “American Dream” in the 1920s and also shows that in the American society of 1920s, the commons were in total depravity. It tells us that there is no way to go from money to love, from material to spirit. It is full of realistic meaning even today. As a novel with strong tragic flavor, it keeps in step with the time and its criticism of America society is really penetrating. This article will to elaborate the inevitability of disllusion of American dream by the analysis of character.Ⅱ. The introduction and analysis of the Main Characters1. Nick Carraway①Nick gets involved in the bonds business and moves to West Egg in the summer of 1922. He is a Yale graduate,a World War I veteran. He becomes intrigued by his next-door neighbor, the enigmatic Jay Gatsby. Nick puts the story of Gatsby's life together for the audience. After more investigation into Gatsby's life, Nick realizes that Gatsby attained his wealth and possessions not only to impress Daisy but also to attempt to fulfill the American Dream of rising from rags to riches. While Nick nonetheless admires his optimism, ambition, and grand schemes.②Because Nick is the narrator of the story, we actually learn very little about his personality except for the few tidbits that Fitzgerald purposely allows to slip out. He tells us at the beginning of the book that he is inclined to reserve making judgments about people, a habit which encourages many people to confide in him and tell him secrets that they are too afraid to tell anyone else.2.Jay Gatsby①The protagonist of the work, Jay Gatsby attempts to live out the American Dream but instead meets a tragic death because he cannot survive without his dream. Gatsby's goal is to attain as much money as he can because money has limitless power. He believes that money can buy him friends, social status, and even love. He is a young, mysterious millionaire later revealed to be a bootlegger, originally from North Dakota, with shady business connections and an obsessive love for Daisy .When Daisy and Gatsby drive away in the "death car" that kills Myrtle Wilson, Gatsby to take the blame.Gatsby is unique - one of the most memorable characters. Always addicted himself in the past;He didn’t realized the reality around him—the society is full of hypocrisy and cheating.②In an era flooded with the pursuit of material wealth and social intolerance. When Daisy made the accident, he just try to protect her and shoulder the responsibility.3.Daisy Buchanan Angel or devil? （天使还是恶魔？）The object of Gatsby's limitless love, Daisy Buchanan is nothing more than a combination of unimaginable wealth and unattainable beauty - and that is why Gatsby loves her.①Since I have seen this work, I thought she is a devil.Because she was believed to be a typical represen tative of the “Jazz Age”;and she is greedy, empty pursuit of pleasure, worshipper of money, cold-hearted.Daisy was stained by the worship of money, despite the beauty .②while some people thought he is a angel, because she is an attractive and effervescent, shallow young woman;in the movie,Daisy always put a white dress,which seems a angel. Daisy is believed to have been inspired by Fitzgerald's own youthful romance with Chicago heiress Ginevra King.1.Tom Buchanan a representive of upper class of capitalismTom is an intimidating, powerful hulk of a man who tries to prove to any individual he meets that he has both brains and brawns, but his mind definitely doesn't match his muscles. An extremely wealthy and privileged ex-athlete who attended Yale with Nick, he proclaims to love Daisy but has had extramarital affairs throughout their relationship. Tom tries to make himself seem intelligent and well-read, but in reality, he is quite ignorant. He believes that the white raceshould always possess power over all minority races and worries that African-Americans have gained too much standing in society. After Gatsby and Daisy run over Myrtle in a car, he and Daisy, lacking moral scruples and any sense of responsibility, leave New York.III. ConclusionAbove on these, we know the failure of Gatsby imple the failure of “American Dream".His struggle is the embodiment of the spirit of the United States, his failure to declare the callapsed of the American spirit.His tragedy is put the ideal based on the illusions and unreality .He is eager for success, but when he gained he had fallen into in a spiritual crisis. He would escape from the reality rather than bravely to face. Gatsby and Tom contend for not only rival in battle, but also thecontest of two class representatives. So his failure is inevitable. Nick and Jordan the lovers are the the viewers of the story, they witnessed this dirty, evil history. The high prosperity of Material civilization brought enormous emptiness and confusion of spiritual. The whole society is subjected to this mental illness disease. So far, the callapsed of "American Dream" become an inevitability.。
英美文学选读自学考试大纲
英美文学选读自学考试大纲一、考试简介英美文学选读自学考试旨在测试考生对于英美文学的基本概念、发展历程、重要作家及其作品的掌握程度，以及对于英美文学的基本理论和分析方法的了解和运用能力。
考试形式为闭卷笔试，考试时间为180分钟，满分为100分。
二、考试内容1、英美文学基本概念及发展历程（20%）测试考生对于英美文学的基本概念、发展历程和重要时期的了解和掌握程度。
2、英美文学重要作家及其作品（30%）测试考生对于英美文学的重要作家及其代表作品的了解和掌握程度，包括但不限于莎士比亚、简·奥斯汀、托尔斯泰、海明威等。
3、英美文学的基本理论和分析方法（30%）测试考生对于英美文学的基本理论和分析方法的了解和掌握程度，包括但不限于新批评、结构主义、后现代主义等。
4、阅读理解与写作能力（20%）测试考生的阅读理解能力和写作能力，包括对于所给文本的理解、分析、评价和论述能力。
三、考试形式及题型1、单项选择题（20分）要求考生从四个选项中选择一个最符合题意的答案。
2、多项选择题（20分）要求考生从五个选项中选择两个或以上的答案。
21、简答题（20分）要求考生用简短的语言回答问题，考查考生的理解和概括能力。
211、分析题（30分）要求考生对所给的文学作品进行分析、评价和论述，考查考生的分析能力和语言表达能力。
2111、写作题（10分）要求考生根据给定的题目和要求进行写作，考查考生的写作能力和语言表达能力。
四、自学建议系统学习英美文学基本知识：了解英美文学的发展历程、重要时期和流派，掌握基本概念和理论。
阅读重要作家作品：选择一些经典作家及其代表作品进行阅读和研究，深入了解作家的创作风格和思想内涵。
培养阅读和分析能力：通过阅读和分析文学作品，提高自己的阅读能力和分析能力，掌握基本的文学分析方法。
加强写作训练：通过写作练习，提高自己的写作能力和语言表达能力，为考试做好准备。
英美文学选读复习资料一、英国文学1、文艺复兴时期：代表人物：莎士比亚、培根、哈姆雷特等。
自考英语本科 英美文学选读 考试大纲
《英美文学选读》考试大纲全国考办在组织全国考委外语类专业委员会研究论证后，决定对高等教育自学考试英语语言文学专业“英美文学选读”（课程代码：0604）自学考试大纲的部分内容进行调整:具体调整如下：《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》的考核知识点与考核要求（一）关于考核知识点的调整考核知识点中的各章概述内容仍为考核内容；对知识点中的作家只保留对如下主要作家的考核。
英国文学：Chapter 1III. William ShakespeareVI. John MiltonChapter 2III. Daniel DefoeIV. Jonathan SwiftV. Henry FieldingChapter 3I. William BlakeII. William WordsworthV. Percy Bysshe ShelleyVII. Jane AustenChapter 4I. Charles DickensII. Charlotte BronteVI. Thomas HardyChapter 5I. George Bernard ShawIV.T. S. EliotV.D. H. Lawrence美国文学：Chapter 1III. Nathaniel HawthorneIV. Walt WhitmanV. Herman MelvilleChapter 2I. Mark TwainII. Henry JamesIII. Emily DickinsonIV. Theodore DreiserChapter 3II. Robert Lee FrostIV.F. Scott FitzgeraldV. Ernest HemingwayVI. William Faulkner二、关于考核要求的调整考核要求中每章概述内容不作调整：“该时期的重要作家”只包含对考核知识点中保留的重要作家的相关内容的考核原大纲如下：上篇英国文学第一章文艺复兴时期一、学习目的和要求通过本章的学习，了解文艺复兴运动和人文主义思潮产生的历史、文化背景，认识该时期文学创作的基本特征和基本主张，及其对同时代及其对同时代及后世英国文学乃至文化的影响；了解该时期重要作家的文学生涯、创作思想、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构、人物刻画、评议风格、思想意义等；同时结合注释，读懂所选作品，了解其思想内容和写作特色，培养理解和欣赏文学作品的能力。
英美文学考试题型及大致范围
一、根据作品写作家。
（20%）要求：必须写作家全名且不能写错，如Charles Dickens。
二、单选题。
（20%）全部在英国文学选择题和美国文学选择题上。
三、名词解释（20%）transcendentalism,超越论，先验论naturalism,自然主义，本能行动，自然论romanticism,浪漫主义，浪漫精神sonnet,十四行诗，商籁诗renaissance, 文艺复兴the Byronic Hero,拜伦式英雄lyrical ballad,抒情歌谣the lost generation,迷惘的一代beat generation,垮了的一代local color,乡土特色，地域色彩critical realism批判现实主义，批判实在论四、诗歌评论与翻译（20%）The Road Not Taken五、小说评论（20%）Tess of the D’urbervilles.Two days ago, I have read Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Tess is so miserable. She is really a tragic figure in the book TESS of the d’Urberwilles.She was seduced by a so-called gentleman—Alec. And from then on her life totally changed. People looked down on her and respected her no more. Actually she did nothing wrong because before she was seduced she knew nothing of men. She was justa girl when she first met that terrible man. She was forced by thegossips and the church to blame herself for this accident. In order to get rid of the past she decided to go to a distant dairy farm. Maybe God didn’t agree with t hat, because Angel Chare came into her life. Angel is the man Tess loved with her whole heart and life. After their wedding, Tess told everything to Angel, hoping he would forgive her as he was forgiven .But she was wrong. She was not forgiven. Angel left her.Tragedy didn’t stop. Alec found her again. Tess was deceivedagain. She lost Angel for the second time!She forgot the difference between right and wrong. The only thing in her mind is her love to Angel. She lost control! She killed Alec!I was so sad to read the tragic ending. I wanted to ask why the ending is that.Tess’s whole character was honest and faithful. She was always hurt by those people who said they love her. She was so unsophisticated that she trusted everyone else.She loved Angel very much. And she trusted Angel. So she was on her mettle to tell her husband her past. Why didn’t she get Angel’s forgive?It’s unfair. Men are always easy to get forgive. Women are always easy to be hurt.In old China there was a culture, which didn’t think of women as human beings. If you asked one if he was the oldest in his family, he would probably answer “yes” even if he had some elder sisters. If you asked why then he would say, “Ha, they are not included!” People gave birth to many girls in order to ha ve only one boy to keep the family name going. They thought girls had no use for the family.Nowadays women’s situations have become much better. Some are because of the change of society and some are because of civilization.Just let those poor painful women like TESS be just a memory. 《德伯家的苔丝》是哈代著称于世的“威塞克斯系列”中的一部力作。
《英美文学》复习纲要
《英美文学》复习纲要I. Define the following terms1. Lake poets:2. Pre-romanticism:3. Romanticism:4. Byronic heroes5.: Critical Realism:6. Dramatic monologue7. Neo-romanticism8. Naturalism9. Aestheticism10 Stream of consciousness11. .Imagism12. American PuritanismII. Reading comprehension：Passage1O my luve is like a red, red rose,That‟s newly sprung in June;O my luve is like the melodieThat‟s sweetly played in tune.2As fair thou art , my bonie lass,So deep in luve am I;And I will luve thee still, my dear,Till a‟ the seas gang dry.3Till a‟ the seas gang dry, my dear ,And the rocks melt wi‟ the sun;And I will luve thee still , my dear,While the sands o‟life shall r un.4And fare thee weel,my only luve,And fare thee weel awhile;And I will come again, my luve,Tho‟it were ten thousand mile!Questions:1.The poem is entitled____________, written by ______________.2.The theme of the poem is about ________.3.The poem is written in _________dialect.4.The rhythm used in the odd-numbered lines is ______ while that used in the even-numbered lines is __________.5.The rhyme scheme employed in the first two stanzas of the poem is ____ and that employed in the last two stanzas is ___6.List two rhetorical devices used in the poem with one example each.Passage 2For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude,And then my heart with pleasure fillsAnd dances with the _______.…”Questions:1. Identify the poet and the title of the poem. (2 points)2. What is the last word at the end of the line? (1 points)3. What is the metrical pattern and rhyme scheme of the above excerpt? (4 points)4. Please paraphrase this stanza. (3 points)Passage 3She lived unknown, and few could knowWhen Lucy ceased to be;But she is in her grave, and oh,The difference to me!1) Who was the writer?2) What is the name/ title of the poem?3) What does “and oh, /The difference to me!” imply?4) Why the writer use “unknown” and “know” in the same line?Passage 4I heard the merry grasshopper then sing,The black-clad cricket bear a second part;They kept one tune and played on the same string.Seeming to glory in their little art.Small creatures abject thus their voices raise,And in their kind resound their Maker' s praise,Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays?Questions:1.This is the ninth of the "Contemplations" written by an early American womanwriter. What is her name?2.Make a brief comment on this short poem.Passage 5HuswiferyMake me, O Lord, thy spinning wheel complete.Thy holy word my distaff make for me.Make mine affections thy swift flyers neat,And make my soul thy holy spool to be.My conversation make to be thy reel,And reel the yam thereon spun of thy wheel. Questions:1. Identify the poet of this poem.2. Make a brief comment on this poemPassage 6Sunset and evening star,And one clear call for me!And may there be no moaning of the bar,When I put out to sea,But such a tide as moving seems asleep,Too full for sound and foam,When that which drew from out the boundless deepTurns again home.Twilight and evening bell,And after that the dark!And may there be no sadness of farewell,When I embark;For though from out our bourne of Time and PlaceThe flood may bear me far,I hope to see my Pilot face to faceWhen I have crossed the bar.Questions:1.Who is the author and what is the title of the poem?2. What are the images of the end of life in the poem?3. What is the theme of the poem?Passage 7"Standing on the bare ground—my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted in to infinite space—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparenteye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal being circulatethrough me; I am part or particle of God. "1. Which work is this selection taken from?2. How do you understand the philosophical ideas in these words?Passage 8The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Questions:1.Who is the writer of this poem? _______________2.What is the title of this poem? _______________3.What images in this poem suggest Haiku poetry and what images are “modern”?4.What is the effect of the parallel between lines one and two of the poem? And whatfeeling and meaning does the poem express to you?III. Questions and Answers.1. What is the significance of Preface to Lyrical Ballads?(In the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth set forth his principles of poetry. He based his own poetical theory on the premise that good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. He appealed directly to individual sensation as the foundation in the creation and appreciation of poetry. Ordinary peasants and children may be used as subjects in the poetic creation. As to the language used in poetry, Wordsworth endeavored to bring language near to the real language of men.)2. What does “She” (referring to Lucy) in“She Dwelt Among the Untroden Ways” imply?3. What is the theme of “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”?4. “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!/ A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed/ One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.” The a bove quotation is taken from Shelley‟s poem …Ode to the West wind”. What does the underlined part mean?5. Why did Shelley wish to be “a dead leaf”, “a swift cloud” and asked the West wind to “lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud”?6. What is the image of “nightingale” in Keats‟“Ode to a Nightingale”?7. What are Austen‟s writing features Jane Austen?(She is one of the realistic novelists. She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels. Austen‟s work has a very narrow literary field. She confines herself to small country parishes, whose simple country people became the characters of her novels, but within her own field, she is unrivaled. Her novels show a wealth of humor, wit and delicate satire. Her pots are straight-forward; there is little action. Her characters are like real living creatures, with faults and virtues mixed as they are in real life. Her prose flows easily and naturally. Her dialogue is admirably true to life.)8. Why does William Makepeace Thackeray give one of his novels the title Vanity Fair and the subtitle “Novel without a Hero”?9. What is the character Rebecca Sharp?What is your opinion on the character Rebecca Sharp?10. What are the major contributions made by the 19th century critical realists?(The major contribution is their perfection of the novel. Like the realists of the 18th century, the 19th century critical realist made use of the form of novel of full and detailed representations of social and political events, and of the fate of individuals and of whole social classes. However, the realistic novels of the 19th century went a step further than those of the 18th century in that they not only pictured the conflicts between individuals who stood for definite social strata, but also showed the broad social conflicts over and above the fate of mere individuals. Their artistic representation of vital social movements such as Chartism, and their vivid description of the dramatic conflicts of the time make the 19th century realistic nov el “the epic of the bourgeois society”.)11. What is the significance of American Puritanism in American literature?12. Please make a brief statements of English critical realism.13. Please summarize the main principles of Mathew Arnold‟s literary criticism .14.Pease make a brief summary of the principles of Imagist movement .15.What are the main features of New England Transcendentalism.IV. Topic Discussione examples from Oliver Twist to illustrate the major themes of the novel.2.Please retell the story of The Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens , andthen make comments on it on the terms of its theme and characterization.3.Please retell the story of Vanity Fair written by W. M. Thackeray , and then makecomments on it on the terms of its theme and characterization.4.Please retell the story of Jane Eyre, and then make comments on it on the termsof its theme and characterization.5.Please retell the story of Wuthering Height, and then make comments on it on theterms of its theme and characterization.6.Please retell the story of Scarlet Letter, and then make comments on it on theterms of its theme and characterization.。
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《英美文学导论》课程考试大纲
一、课程性质和设置目的
本课程是英语专业的专业选修课。
授课时数：32 学时，计 2 学分。
学习基础：英美国家概况，英美文学简史，西方国家社会、历史、文化背景知识。
设置本课程的目的：本课程旨在使学生对英美两国文学形成与发展的全貌有一个大
概的了解；并通过阅读与赏析具有代表性的英美文学作品，理解作品的内容及其作家的
主要思想，学会分析作品的艺术特色，了解不同的文学思潮及流派的特点，努力掌握正
确评价文学作品的标准和方法。
同时希望通过仔细阅读文学原著，学生能够提高语言水
平和培养他们的英语语感，促进语言运用能力和人文素质的提高，加强对文学本质的认识，拓展学生的知识面，同时增强他们对西方文化及文学的了解。
二、课程内容
本课程由英国文学和美国文学两个部分组成。
主要内容包括英美文学发展史及代表作家的简要介绍和作品选读。
从英美两国历史、语言、文化发展的角度，简要介绍英美两国文学各个历史断代的主要历史背景，文学文化思潮，文学流派，社会政治、经济、文化等对文学发展的影响，主要作家的文学生涯、创作思想、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格、思想意义等；选读部分主要是针对英美文学史上各个时期重要作家的代表作品，包括诗歌、戏剧、小说、散文等的理解与赏析。
三、考试主要内容及考试要求
Part A. British Literature
本篇知识点：
Chapter One : Literature of Old English and Middle English
Geoffrey Chaucer
Chapter Two: Literature of the Renaissance
William Shakespeare; Francis Bacon; John Milton
Chapter Three: Literature of the Seventeenth Century
Calvalier and Metaphysical Poetry--Ben Jonson; John Donne
Chapter Four: Literature of the Eighteenth Century
1. the Rise of the Novel-- Daniel Defoe; Henry Fielding
2. Neo-Classicist Literature--Jonathan Swift; Alexander Pope
Chapter Five: Literature of the Nineteenth Century
1. Romantic Poetry: William Blake; William Wordsworth; George Gordon Byron;
Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats
2.Women's Literature in the 19th Century: Jane Austen
3.Realistic Novels: Charles Dickens; Thomas Hardy
4.Victorian Poetry: Alfred Tennyson; Brober Browning; Matthew Arnold
Chapter Six Literature of the Twentieth Century
1.English Drama at the Turn of the 20th Century--Oscar Wilde; George Bernard Shaw
2.Modernist Novels--Joseph Conrad; James Joyce; Virginia Woolf; D.H. Lawrence
3.The 20th-Century Poetry-- William Butlers Yeats; T.S. Eliot; W.H.Auden; Dylan Thomas; Philip Larkin; Ted Hughes
4.Novels in the Postmodern Period--William Golding; Doris Lessing; John Fowles
Part B. American Literature
本篇知识点：
Chapter One : the Period of Colonialism and the Revolutionary Period
Chapter Two：The Period of Romanticism
1.Romantic Novels: Washington Irving; Herman Melville
2.Transcendentalist Essays--Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry David Thoreau
3.Dark Romanticist Literature-- Edgar Allan Poe; Nathaniel Hawthorne
4.American Romantic Poetry--Walt Whitman; Emily Dickinson
Chapter Four The Period of Realism
1.Realistic and Naturalistic Novels--Mark Twain; Theodore Dreiser
2.American Modern Novels: Henry James; Stephen Crane
3.The Rise of Women Literature--Kate Chopin; Edith Newbold Wharton
4.The Lost Generation Literature-- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway
Chapter Five The Period from 1920s to 1940s
1.American Modern Poetry--Ezra Pond; William Carlos Williams; Robert Frost
2.Southern Literature--William Faulkner; Robert Penn Warren
3.American Drama-- Eugene O'Neil
Chapter Six The Period since the 1950s
1.Postmodern Literature--Joseph Heller; Allen Ginsberg; Sylvia Plath
2.Ethnic Literature--Langston Hughes; Saul Bellow; Toni Morrison; Maxine Hong Kingston
考核要求：
（1）识记：学生应该掌握一定的文学常识，包括流派、思潮、作家作品等；要求学生能够识别有代表性的选文出处及作者。
（2）领会：学生能根据所学的文学基本常识对特定选文的语言特点进行初步分析。
（3）简单应用：学生应能够在对特定作家的时代有所了解的情况下，分析作品内容所传达的思想理念等；
（4）综合应用：要求学生能综合多方面的文学常识和概念等知识，结合具体的文本，参考前人的研究成果对作家作品提出初步的个人见解，能用英语表述观点。
考核知识点：
该课程成绩考核包括期末考试和平时考核两部分。
考试除测试文学常识外，重点测试学生对文学作品理解和欣赏方面。
笔试分数占学期总成绩的70%。
平时成绩占30%：出勤（10%）、作业（10%）、课堂表现（10%）等。
a. 英美文学发展史各时期的社会、政治、经济背景
b. 各时期文学流派和文学思潮的创作主张、文学作品风格和写作特点
c. 各阶段的代表作家、作家的代表作及其创作思想、人物塑造、艺术手法、社会意义等。
d. 选读作品的理解和赏析
四、大纲说明
1．考试教材：《英美文学欣赏》，罗良功、刘芳主编，华中师范大学出版社，2012
参考教材：
英国文学史及选读第一、第二册外语教学与研究出版社吴伟仁1998
美国文学史及选读第一、第二册外语教学与研究出版社吴伟仁1998
美国文学简史常耀信南开大学出版社1987
英国文学简史刘炳善上海外语教育出版社1981
英美文学赏析教程（散文与诗歌）罗选民清华大学出版社，2011
英美文学赏析教程（小说与戏剧）罗选民清华大学出版社，2011
英美文学欣赏（第二版）刁克利中国人民大学出版社，2011
英国文学与文化李成坚、邹涛中国人民出版社，2009
2．试题类型及比例：Multiple choice10%；Blank Filling 5%；True or false 5%；Short answer questions 20%; Reading Comprehension 30%; Essay writing 30%。
难度等级：试题的难度等级分为简单，中等难度，较难或难三个等级，大致的比例是40：35：25。
3．考试方式、时间：闭卷，100分钟。
五、制（修）订单位：外语系
制订人：
执笔人：
批准人：
制（修）定日期：2013年6月1日。