This book selects the famous works of 25 American writers in the 19th and 20th centuries. The types of works include novels and short stories, poetry, prose, literary theory, etc. The selected chapters are all famous articles with critical evaluation. The book is divided into chapters by writer, and each chapter includes three parts: introduction to the writer, analysis of selected works, selected works, and Chinese annotations. The first and second volumes each have an introduction introducing the historical background, various literary schools, etc.
This book can be used as an American literature textbook for senior college English majors, and can also be read by comrades who have studied English and like to study American literature.
Contents
1. American society and American literature in the 20th century
2. Theodore Dreiser
From Sister Carrie(Chapters 1, 27, 47)
3. Willa Cather
Neighbour Rosicky
4. Robert Frost
The Tuft of Flowers
Mending Wall
The Death of the Hired Man
Home Burial
A Servant to Servants
The Road Not Taken
Birches
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Fire and Ice
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Acceptance
Departmental
Design
A Considerable Speck
5. Sherwood Anderson
From Winesburg, Ohio (The Book of the Grotesque, Hands, Paper Pills, Mother, Adventure, Departure)
6. Wallace Stevens
Sunday Morning
Anecdote of the Jar
The Snow Man
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
The Idea of ??Order at Key West
Of Modern Poetry
7. William Carlos Williams
Danse Russe
Smell!
Tract
El Hombre
Queen Ann's Lace
The Widow's Lament in Springtime
To Waken an Old Lady
< p>Spring and AllThe Red Wheelbarrow
The Yachts
St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils
The Young Housewife
Between Walls
The Poor
The Last Words of My English Grandmother
The Yellow Chimney
A Sort of a Song
Burning the Christmas Greens
The Dance
The Descent
To Daphne and Virginia
The Snow Begins
8. Ezra Pound
Salutation
A Pact
The Rest
In a Station of the Metro
L' Art, 1910
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: Life and Contacts
p>From The Cantos
9. T. S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
From The Waste Land (II. A Game of Chess)
10. F. Scott Fitzgerald
From The Great Gatsby (Chapters 1, 2, 3)
11. William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
That Evening Sun
Dry September
12. Ernest Hemingway
Soldier's Home
From The Old Man and the Sea
13. John Steinbeck
From The Grapes of Wrath (Chapter 12, 16, 25, 28)
14. Ralph Ellison
From Invisible Man (Chapter 1)
15. Saul Bellow
From Seize the Day (Part 1)