An Introduction to English Literature
Section 1: The History of English Literature: A Brief Survey
Section 2：Understanding Literature
Shakespeare
Section 1: Introduction to the age of Renaissance and Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Section 2: A Textual Analysis of Hamlet’s Soliloquy
Section 3: An Ethic Approach to Hamlet’s Dilemma
John Milton: Paradise Lost
Section 1: Life and Times
Section 2: Paradise Lost: textual analysis
Section 3: Style and Characterization
Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe
Section 1: An Introduction to the Age of Enlightenment
Section 2: On Characterization
Section 3: From Capitalism to Imperialism:A Cultural Critique of Robinson Crusoe
William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”
Section 1: “Tintern Abbey”: General Remarks
Section 2: Beauty in Nature and Pleasure in the Poet
Section 3: Sublimity in Nature and Elevation and Love in the Poet
John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Section 1: A Tormented Soul: The Short and Unfulfilled Life of John Keats
Section 2: A Textual Analysis of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Section 3 :Romantic Acceptance of Ancient Greek Culture
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Section 1: Jane Austen and Her “Little Bit of Ivory”
Section 2: Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice
Section 3: Jane Austen’s Achievements and Her Legacy
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Section 1: Life and Times
Section 2: Jane Eyre: Text and Context
Section 3: Critical Approaches and Style
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
Section 1: Life and Times
Section 2: Great Expectations as A Social Critique
Section 3: Great Expectations: Form and Style
James Joyce and “Araby”
Section 1: Key Features of English Modernist Literature
Section 2: Themes in Araby: Spiritual Paralysis and Disillusioned Love
Section 3：Artistic Innovations in “Araby”
An Introduction to American Literature
Section 1: The History of American Literature: Defining Americanness (I)
Section 2: The History of American Literature: Defining Americanness (II)
Section 3: The History of American Literature: Defining Americanness (III)
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nature (1836)
Section 1: Emerson and the Fragmentary Life
Section 2: Emerson’s Transcendentalism and Concept of Self-Reliance
Section 3: Emerson’s Prose Style: Unity, Flux and Polarity
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Section 1: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritanism
Section 2: The Empowering Woman in The Scarlet Letter
Section 3: Historical Relevance of The Scarlet Letter to the 19th Century Feminism
hree Ways of Reading Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
Section 1: Walden as a Nature Book
Section 2: Walden as a Work of Literary Art
Section 3: Walden as a Spiritual Guidebook
Mark Twain: “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
Section 1：Mark Twain and Literary Regionalism
Section 2：Plot and Themes of ”The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
Section 3：“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”: Gambling the Identity in the Far West
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Section 1: William Faulkner and the Southern Renaissance
Section 2: A textual analysis of The Sound and the Fury
Section 3: Benjy Compson in Focus: Where Is the Sound? Where Is the Fury?
Robert Frost: “Love and A Question”
Section 1: Traditionalism in the Dawn of Modernism
Section 2: “Love and a Question”: Themes and Context
Section 3: “Love and a Question”: American Hospitality and New England Shield
Tennessee William: A Streetcar Named Desire
Section 1: The Southern Belle in Trouble: Tennessee Williams’s Predicament
Section 2: A Textual Analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire, Scenes 7 & 8
Section 3: Two Conflicting Musical Motifs: Music in A Streetcar Named Desire
Arthur Miller and Death of a Salesman
Section 1: The Great Arthur Miller: the American Dream “realized”
Section 2: A Textual Analysis of Death of a Salesman, Act II
Section 3: The Haunting Weight of the Great Depression
Toni Morrison: Beloved
Section 1: Understanding Toni Morrison
Section 2: Beloved: The Unspeakable Thing Unspoken
Section 3: Subversion of “Canonicity” by Toni Morrison