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

Author: Li Zhengshuan
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: The Guide to American Literature (Second Edition) is a study guide 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, Reference Answers, Appendices, and References. The comprehensive exercises cover mainstream examination formats: fill-in-the-blank, true-or-false with correction, multiple-choice, passage analysis, 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 Whole Book. The four appendices are: Chinese Translations of Major Writers and Their Works, Detailed 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, three-communication students, and students preparing to take the postgraduate entrance exam for English majors.