PART Ⅲ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE MODERN PERIOD(1900—1945) 227
Modernism:A Historical Introduction 227
The Development of Literature 230
Modernism 236
Terms of Modernist Literature 238
Unit 19 Ezra Pound 244
Biography 244
In a Station ofthe Metro(1913) 246
A Pact(1913) 247
The River-Merchant's Wife:A Letter(1915) 248
Unit 20 Robert Frost 250
Biography 250
The Road Not Taken(1916) 252
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening(1923) 254
Mending Wall(1914) 255
Unit 21 Wallace Stevens 258
Biography 258
Anecdote of the Jar(1923) 260
The Emperor ofIce-Cream(1922) 261
Peter Quince at the Clavier(1915) 263
Unit 22 T.S. Eliot 267
Biography 267
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock(1915) 268
The Waste Land(1922) 274
Unit 23 F. Scott Fitzgerald 285
Biography 285
The Great Gatsby(1925) 287
Unit 24 Ernest Hemingway 298
Biography 298
The Sun Also Rises(1926) 300
The Old Man and the Sea(1952) 313
Unit 25 William Faulkner 327
Biography 327
The Sound and the Fury(1929) 329
Unit 26 Eugene O'Neill 341
Biography 341
The HairyApe(1922) 342
Unit 27 Arthur Miller 353
Biography 353
Death ofa Salesman(1949) 354
PART Ⅳ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE POSTMODERN PERIOD(1945—) 369
Postmodernism:A Historical Introduction 369
Postmodernism 380
Postmodernist Fiction 382
Metafiction 385
Terms of Postmodernist Literature 388
Unit 28 Robert Lowell 399
Biography 399
For the Union Dead(1964) 401
Skunk Hour(1958) 405
Unit 29 Charles Olson 408
Biography 408
Maximus to Gloudester,Letter 27(1968) 410
The Kingfishers(1949) 413
Unit 30 Joseph Heller 422
Biography 422
Catch-22(1961) 423
Unit 31 Kurt Vonnegut 432
Biography 432
Slaughterhouse-Five(1969) 434
Unit 32 John Barth 445
Biography 445
The Sot-Weed Factor(1967) 446
Unit 33 Donald Barthelme 458
Biography 458
Snow White(1967) 460
Unit 34 Thomas Pynchon 469
Biography 469
Gravity's Rainbow(1969) 471
Unit 35 Vladimir Nabokov 482
Biography 482
Pale Fire(1962) 483
Unit 36 Toni Morrison 496
Biography 496
Song of Solomon(1978) 497
后记 509