甘文平编著的《美国文学教程--欣赏与评析(第2版)(汉英)》特别重视文学作品文本的分析，从解题、主题赏析到延伸阅读与批评，都紧紧结合文本进行详尽而中肯的解读，为读者提供了文本细读的范例。它从作品的题目人手，深入章节，联系人物的言行，到细节描写和遣词造句的微妙之处，无不加以细致入微的评析。它使读者对不同作家、不同作品的特点和难点更容易把握和接受。这是一般美国文学选读不容易做到的。

Part One Topic
Chapter 1 The Law of Life by Jack London.
Chapter 2 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Chapter 3 The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
Chapter 4 A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Chapter 5 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Excerpts)
Part Two Environment
Chapter 1 A Cask of Amontillado by Adgar Allan Poe
Chapter 2 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
( Excerpts )
Chapter 3 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (Excerpts)
Chapter 4 In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway
Part Three Character
Chapter 1 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
( Excerpts )
Chapter 2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
( Excerpts )
Chapter 3 Billy Budd by Herman Melville
( Excerpts )
Chapter 4 A Father-To-Be by Saul Bellow
Chapter 5 A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
Part Four Theme
Chapter 1 The Great Gatsby by Francis Fitzgerald
(An Excerpt)
Chapter 2 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
(An Excerpt)
Chapter 3 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (An Excerpt)
Chapter 4 Everyday Use by Alice Walker
Chapter 5 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
(An Excerpt)
Part Five Figure of Speech
Chapter 1 To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant
Chapter 2 Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Chapter 3 The American Scholar by Ralph W. Emerson
(An Excerpt)
Chapter 4 I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
Chapter 5 Riprap by Gary Snyder
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