| 开课平台 | 爱课程（中国大学MOOC） |
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| 开课高校 | 广东外语外贸大学 |
| 开课教师 | 张欣、付晶晶、张兰、庄晴、Robert Tindol、Kyle Steven Muntz |
| 学科专业 | 文学外国语言文学类 |
| 开课时间 | 2026/03/15 - 2026/06/14 |
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| 课程周期 | 13 周 |
| 开课状态 | 开课中 |
| 每周学时 | - |
对于英语专业来说，学习语言并非为了掌握一种交际工具，实现信息传递而已。语言作为人类保存认识成果的载体，具有稳固性和民族性，因此文学以戏剧、诗歌、小说、散文等体裁表现了人内心的情感，再现了一定地域的社会生活，对一个时代所发生的事情具有一种奇妙的洞察。优秀的文学作品是民族文化的瑰宝，往往对语言的发展、运用、表达产生一系列影响。
广东外语外贸大学英文学院的《英美文学》课程是英语专业的核心必修课程，为想提高英语水平的学生提供文学阅读、理解与鉴赏的平台，通过加强学生对文学本质的意识，提高他们的综合人文素质，增强他们对西方文学及文化的理解，在实现语言交际的基础上，进而引发思想的交流和碰撞。
课程共13个单元，分为英国文学和美国文学两个部分，英国文学按时期分为中世纪文学、文艺复兴时期、启蒙运动时期、19世纪浪漫主义时期、19世纪维多利亚时代小说和二十世纪短篇小说。美国文学部分包括早期美国文学、美国浪漫主义与超验主义文学、美国现实主义与自然主义文学、美国现代主义文学和战后美国文学。
课程的独特之处在于不仅仅把文学欣赏停留在理解优美的词藻，而是梳理出英美文学发展的历史背景、讲解文学知识，以积累学生的文学常识，拓宽学生的审美路径，进而帮助学生发现英语文学文本的语言美，关注作品中人物、情节、情境背后的历史、文化、政治、性别缘由，增强对西方文化的理解。
课程依托国家级一流英语专业建设点、广东省教学团队和精品资源共享课程，采用全英教学，教学团队国际化，无疑可以为学生提供一个领略英美文学奥妙的新视角。
1. The Early and Medieval Age
1.1 Early History and Literature of Ears
1.2 Beowulf: National Epic of Anglo-Saxons
1.3 Chaucer: “Of old the bard who struck the noblest strains”
1.4 The Canterbury Tales: “ALSO there was a nun, a PRIORESS”
Discussion Session
Test for Unit 1 (The Early and Medieval Age)
2.The English Renaissance
2.1 Drama: From Religious Play and Low Comedy to Mighty Plays
2.2 Shakespeare: “Leaves living art but page to serve his wit”
2.3 Love and Knowledge: Renaissance Lyric
2.4 Language and Politics: Renaissance Prose
2.5 “Of Studies”: "Studies serve for Delight, for Ornament, and for Ability."
Discussion Session
Test for Unit 2 (The English Renaissance)
3.The Early 17th Century
3.1 Jacobean Literature: Cavaliers v.s. Metaphysical School
3.2 Milton: The Last Renaissance Man
3.3 Art Epic: Paradise Lost
Discussion Session
Test for Unit 3 (The Early 17th Century)
4.The Restoration and the 18th Century
4.1 Age of Reason: Ignorance is the Vice
4.2 Jonathan Swift: "He Served Human Liberty"
4.3 Alexander Pope: "The Proper Study of Mankind is Man"
Test for Unit 4 (The Restoration and the 18th Century）
5. The Romantic Period
5.1 Introduction to the Romantic Period
5.2 William Wordsworth and His Works
5.3 Byron and His Works
5.4 Shelley and His Works
Discussion Session
Test for Unit 5 (The Romantic Period)
6. The Novel: 1720-1880
6.1 From Prose Fiction to Fiction
6.2 Novelistic Fiction
Test for Unit 6 (The Novel:1720-1880)
7. The Victorian Age
7.1 Dramatic Monologue
7.2 Robert Browning
7.3 Victorian novels
Discussion Session
Test for Unit 7 (The Victorian Age)
8. Into the 20th Century
8.1 An Introduction
8.2 A Short Story: James Joyce\'s "Eveline"
Test for Unit 8 (Into the 20th Century)
9. Colonial American literature
9.1 Colonial American literature
9.2 Jonathan Edwards and his “Sinners”
Discussion Session
Test for Unit 9 (Colonial American literature)
10. American Romanticism and Transcendentalism
10.1 American Romanticism and Transcendentalism
10.2 Emerson and “Self-reliance”
10.3 Thoreau and “Walden”
10.4 Edgar Allan Poe and “The Raven”
10.5 Hawthorne and “Black Veil”
10.6 Whitman and "Song of Myself"
10.7 Emily Dickinson and Her Death & Nature Poems
Discussion Session
Test for Unit 10 (American Romanticism and Transcendentalism)
11. American Realism and Naturalism
11.1 American Realism
11.2 Mark Twain and “The Jumping Frog”
11.3 American Naturalism
11.4 Jack London and “The Law of Life”
Discussion Session
Test for Unit 11 (American Realism and Naturalism)
12. American Modernism
12.1 American Modernism
12.2 Ezra Pound and Imagism
12.3 Robert Frost and His Poems
12.4 Modern and Postmodern Literature
12.5 William Faulkner and “A Rose for Emily”
12.6 Ernest Hemingway and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
12.7 The Poetry of William Carlos Williams
Discussion Session
Test for Unit 12 （American Modernism）
13. Post-war American Literature
13.1 The Poetry of Charles Bukowski
13.2 "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" by Raymond Carver
13.3 "The Enormous Radio" by John Cheever
13.4 "The Glass Mountain" by Donald Barthelme
13.5 "My Life" by Joe Wenderoth
Discussion Session
Test for Unit 13 ( Post-war American Literature)
