Study Guide for American Literature - Comprehensive Practice on American Literary History and Selected Readings (Second Edition)

Author: Li Zhengshuan
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Publishing Date: 2006-03-01
Features: The Guide to American Literature (Second Edition) is a study aid for American literary history and selected readings. Since its publication in 1998, it has been widely popular with readers and has been reprinted over ten times. This book is a carefully revised edition based on the previous version. It consists of four parts: Comprehensive Exercises on American Literary History and Selected Readings, Reference Answers, Appendices, and Bibliography. The comprehensive exercises cover mainstream examination formats in literature: fill-in-the-blanks, true/false and error correction, multiple-choice, passage-based questions, and literary analysis. The exercises are divided into nine major sections: The Literature of Colonial America, The Literature of Reason and Revolution, The Literature of Romanticism, The Literature of Realism, Twentieth-Century Literature (I), Before WWII, Twentieth-Century Literature (II): After WWII, American Drama, Multi-ethnic Literature, and Comprehensive Guide to the Whole Book. The four appendices are: Chinese Translations of Major Authors and Their Works, Detailed Explanations of American Literary Terms, Basic Literary Knowledge, and Literary Criticism Knowledge. The second edition adds 300 questions and supplements two appendices. This book is very useful for reviewing and organizing knowledge of American literature. Target Audience: Undergraduate English majors, self-study candidates, correspondence students, three-communication students, and students preparing to take the postgraduate entrance exam for English majors. The Guide to American Literature (Second Edition) is a study aid for American literary history and selected readings. Since its publication in 1998, it has been widely popular with readers and has been reprinted over ten times. This book is a carefully revised edition based on the previous version. It consists of four parts: Comprehensive Exercises on American Literary History and Selected Readings, Reference Answers, Appendices, and Bibliography. The comprehensive exercises cover mainstream examination formats in literature: fill-in-the-blanks, true/false and error correction, multiple-choice, passage-based questions, and literary analysis. The exercises are divided into nine major sections: The Literature of Colonial America, The Literature of Reason and Revolution, The Literature of Romanticism, The Literature of Realism, Twentieth-Century Literature (I), Before WWII, Twentieth-Century Literature (II): After WWII, American Drama, Multi-ethnic Literature, and Comprehensive Guide to the Whole Book. The four appendices are: Chinese Translations of Major Authors and Their Works, Detailed Explanations of American Literary Terms, Basic Literary Knowledge, and Literary Criticism Knowledge. The second edition adds 300 questions and supplements two appendices. This book is very useful for reviewing and organizing knowledge of American literature. Target Audience: Undergraduate English majors, self-study candidates, correspondence students, three-communication students, and students preparing to take the postgraduate entrance exam for English majors.