本单元具体教学内容、教学基本要求、单元重点与难点

第15次课：二战后美国文学：（2节）

1.教学内容

Section 2 Fiction

I. General Features

1. matter of fact

2. frank, amazingly detailed about war experiences

3. lacking social consciousness

II. Overview

1. Post-war Realism: Cheever, Oates

2. Black Novel: Richard Wlight, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Malcolm, Leroi Jones

3. Jewish Novel: Saul Bellow

III. Post-War Realism

1. Features

2. J. D. Salinger

(1) Life

(2) Point of view

(3) Catcher in the Rye

IV. Black Humour

definition

1. Features

2. Joseph Heller

(1) Life

(2) Catch-22

V. Close Reading

1. Catcher in the Rye

2. Catch-22

VI. Adult world in the eye of the boy in American literature and world literature

      Mark Twain. J.D Salinger.

3.  教学基本要求

1)To make students acquire some general knowledge of post-war fiction including features and representative writers and their works.

2) To develop students’ understanding of the black humor literature and new realistic literature.

3) To improve students’ abilities to interpret and appreciate the fiction of black humor, and new realism.

4) To improve students’ competence of exploring the theme of  initiation world widely.

5) To improve students’ critical thinking on the following topic :Adult world in the eye of the boy in American literature and world literature

3. 单元重点、难点 

重点

1) Black humor; New realism

2)Appreciation of Catcher in the Rye

3)Appreciation of Catch-22

难点

1) . philosophy of existentialism

2) Literary representation of the theme of growing-up

Section 2 Fiction

I. General Features

1. matter of fact

2. frank, amazingly detailed about war experiences

3. lacking social consciousness

II. Overview

1. Post-war Realism: Cheever, Oates

2. Black Novel: Richard Wlight, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Malcolm, Leroi Jones

3. Jewish Novel: Saul Bellow

III. Post-War Realism

1. Features

(1) Naturalistic depiction has become explicit: old-fashioned realism is combined with modernism.

(2) While following the realistic and naturalistic tradition, these writers borrowed various experimental forms and techniques in probing the inner world in detail.

(3) It has been a search for a way to connect an oppressed response to society and history and an awareness of individual loneliness.

2. J. D. Salinger

(1) Life

(2) Point of view

One of his frequent themes is young people longing for simplicity and truth instead of complexity and hypocrisy of the life they observed around them. In his novels, he questions the moral foundations of society and often places innocent idealist characters in setting where a vicious, corrupt society could destroy them. Although his stories are often pessimistic, the characters represent hope rather than despair. They want to affirm truth. They deplore the lies with which the society conceals its own corruption. They withdraw the society, become drop-outs rather than participants in the society.

(3) Catcher in the Rye