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

Author: Li Zhengshuan
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2006-03-04
Features: The American Literature Study Guide (Second Edition) is a learning aid for the history of American literature 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 version based on the previous edition. It consists of four parts: Comprehensive Exercises on the History of American Literature and Selected Readings, Answer Key, Appendices, and References. The comprehensive exercises cover mainstream exam question types: fill-in-the-blank, 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, and Multi-ethnic Literature, as well as a Comprehensive Guide to the Entire Book. The four appendices are: Chinese Translations of Major Authors and Works, Explanations of American Literary Terms, Fundamentals of Literature, and Fundamentals of Literary Criticism. The second edition adds 300 new questions and includes two additional appendices. This book is very useful for reviewing and organizing knowledge of American literature. Target Audience: Undergraduate English majors, self-study candidates, correspondence students, students in three-way communication programs, and those preparing to take the postgraduate entrance exam for English majors.