《美国文学选读》是根据国家教委教材编写计划而编写的教科书。全书共分2册:上册从17世纪至第一次世界大战前;李宜燮、常耀信主编的《美国文学选读(下)》从第一次世界大战迄今。它的对象是大专院校英文系本科高年级学生和社会上有相当英语基础的美国文学爱好者。
本书在编选作家及作品的过程中一直恪守重点突出的原则。每位作家项下都有作者介绍、作品介绍、原文和注释四部分。作者介绍力求简短明了;作品介绍力求画龙点睛;原文的选择力求有代表性;注释力求深入浅出。所附评语尽量利用国内外评论界数十年来的研究成果,尤其重视介绍美国文学评论界近些年来的研究状况,但决不断章取义,不拘一人之见,不守一家之说。
李宜燮、常耀信主编的《美国文学选读(下)》是根据国家教育部(原国家教委)教材编写计划而精心打造的高等院校文科教材,历经廿余年常销不衰,广受欢迎并频获奖誉;现为南开英美文学精品教材分册之一。全书精选美国文学史上著名作家的经典名篇共72部(节选),配以作家简介、作品简析和词语难点注释,是大专院校英语系高年级本科生及研究生的必备课本,也是南开版十一五规划教材《美国文学简史》的最佳配套读物。
上册共有选篇24部,时期为17世纪至第一次世界大战前;《美国文学选读(下)》共有选篇48部,时期为第一次世界大战至今。作者介绍简明扼要、作品介绍画龙点睛、词语注释深入浅出;原文的选择力求有代表性,以其对同时代及后世的影响为衡量标准;所附评语充分吸收当代国内外评论界的新观点、新方法,反映了学术研究的最新成果。
前言
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory
Miniver Cheery
Mr.Flood's Party
Willa Cather
Neighbour Rosicky
Amy Lowell
Patterns
Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Mending Wall
The Road Not Taken
Design
After Apple-Picking
Sherwood Anderson
from Winesburg , Ohio
Carl Sandburg
Chicago
Fog
The Harbor
Wallace Stevens
Anecdote of the Jar
The Idea of Order at Key West
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Sunday Morning
William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelhrrnw
Spring and All
from Paterson
Ezra Pound
A Pact
In a Station of the Metro
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
from Cantos
Sinclair Lewis
from Babbitt
Hilda Dooiittle (H. D. )
Oread
Heat
Eugene ONeill
from Long Day's Journey into Night
T. S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
from The Waste Land
e. e. cummings
in Just
O sweet spontaneous
Langston Hughes "."
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
As I Grew Older
Ballad of the Landlord
F. Scott Fitzgerald
from The Ceat Gatsby
William Faulkner
from Light in August
Ernest Hemingway
from A Farewell to Arms
John Dos Passos
from U.S.A.
Hart Crane
from The Bridge
Allen Tote
Ode to the Confederate Dead
John Steinbeck
from The Grapes of Wrath
Thomas Wolfe
from "The Lost Boy"
Katherine Anne Porter
Flowering Judas
Richard Wright
from Native Son
Eudora Welty
Death of a Traveling Salesman
Tennessee Williams
from The Glass Menagerie
Arthur Miller
from Death of a Salesman
Charles Olson
Maximus, to Gloucester, Sunday, July 19
Robert Lowell
For the Union Dead
Skunk Hour
Saul Bellow
from Herzog
Norman Mailer
from The Naked and the Dead
Ralph Ellison
from Invisible Man
J. D. Salinger
from The Catcher in the Rye
John Cheerer
The Swimmer
Bernard Malamud
from The Assistant
James Baldwin
from Go Tell It on the Mountain
Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
AUen Ginsberg
Howl
Kurt Vonnegut
from Slaughterhouse-Five
Joseph Heller
from Catch-22
Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus
Daddy
Edward Albee
from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
John Barth
from The End of the Road
John Updike
from Rabbit, Run
Ken Kesey
from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Joyce Carol Oates ,
from Them
Toni Morrison
from Sony of Solomon