美国散文选读 本书特色
《美国散文选读》21世纪英语专业系列教材，由北京大学出版社出版。
美国散文选读 内容简介
简介
本书是以英语专业本、专科学生为读者对象的教材，精选18位著名的美国散文作家，每个作家为1个单元，18个授课单元均以历史背景概述、有关散文家情况简介、所选散文、注释、赏析、讨论与思考问题、推荐书目、参考书目等模块，使学生全面系统地掌握散文这一美国文学中的重要文类。
美国散文选读 目录
概论**单元Benjamin Franklin（1706—1790）本杰明·富兰克林Autobiography第二单元Hector StJohn de Crbvecoeur（1735—1813）赫克托·圣约翰·德·克雷夫科尔What Is an American? 第三单元Ralph Waldo Emerson（1803——1882）拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生Self-Reliance第四单元HenryDavid Thoreau（1817——1862）亨利·大卫·梭罗To HG0BlakeWalden第五单元Herman Melville（1819—1891）赫尔曼·梅尔维尔Hawthome and HiS Mosses第六单元Margaret Fuller（1810——1850）玛格丽特·富勒The Great Lawsuit第七单元Frederick Douglass（1818——1895）弗雷德里克·道格拉斯Whatto the Slave Is the Fourth ofJuly?第八单元Mark Twain（1835—1910）马克·吐温On William Dean Howells第九单元Henry James（1843—1916）亨利·詹姆斯From“The Art ofFiction” 第十单元HenryAdams（1838—1918）亨利·亚当斯The Education ofHenry Adams第十一单元Gertrude Stein（1874—1946）格特鲁德·斯泰因The Autography ofAlice BToklas第十二单元ShenⅣood Anderson（1876—1941）舍伍德·安德森A Story Teller’S Story第十三单元Sinclair（Harry）Lewis（1885——1951）辛克莱·刘易斯The American Fear of Literature：Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech（1930）第十四单元James Thurber(1894—1961)詹姆斯瑟伯8 University Days第十五单元ElwynBrooks White(1899m1985)埃布怀特Walden 第十六单元EudoraWelty(1909——2001)尤多拉韦尔蒂Finding a Voice(1983)第十七单元Tillie(Leme0 Olsen(1912／1913m2007)蒂莉奥尔森Silences in Literature r1962)第十八单元James Baldwin(1924—1987)詹姆斯鲍德温Notes ofaNative Son第十九单元Susan Sontag(1933～2004)苏珊桑塔格Against Interpretation第二十单元Joan Didion(1934一)琼狄迪恩Why I Write第二十一单元Alice Walker(1944一)艾丽斯沃克The Black Writer and the Southern ExperienceLooking forZora
美国散文选读 节选
《美国散文选读》是以英语专业本、专科学生为读者对象的教材，精选18位著名的美国散文作家，每个作家为1个单元，18个授课单元均以历史背景概述、有关散文家情况简介、所选散文、注释、赏析、讨论与思考问题、推荐书目、参考书目等模块，使学生全面系统地掌握散文这一美国文学中的重要文类。
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插图：I walked about the city of New York looking at people. I was not too young any more andcould not make myself over to fit a new city. No doubt certain characteristics of my own naturehad become fixed. I was a man of the mid-western towns who had gone from his town to themid-western cities and there had gone through the adventures common to such fellows as myself.Was there some salt in me？ To the end of my life I would talk with the half slovenly drawl of themiddle-westerner, would walk like such a middle-westerner, have the air of something between alaborer, a man of business, a gambler, a race horse owner, an actor. If I was, as I then fullyintended, to spend the rest of my life trying to tell such tales as I could think and feel my waythrough, I would have to tell the tales of my own people. Would I gain new power and insight fortelling by having come East, by consorting with other story-tellers？ Would I understand better myown people and what had made the tragedies, the comedies and the wonders of their lives？ I was in New York as a guest, as an onlooker, wondering about the city and the men of thecity and what they were thinking and feeling. There were certain men I wanted to see, who hadwritten things I thought had given me new lights on my own people, the subjects of my tales. I dare say there was a good deal of a certain half-rural timidity in me. There was Mr. Van Wyck Brooks, whose book "America's Coming-of-Age," had movedme deeply. He with Mr. Waldo Frank, Paul Rosenfeld, James Oppenheim and others had juststarted a magazine, The Seven Arts （that after its death was to be replaced by The Dial, publishedby a quite different group）, and the magazine had not only offered to publish some of my thingsbut its editors had asked me to come to see them. I wanted to go and was at the same time a little afraid. At that time there was a good deal oftalk abroad as to a new artistic awak
