上編 英國部分 Section A English Fiction During the First Half of the Twentieth Century Chapter 1 Social Background 1.1 Early twentieth century: partition of Ireland 1.2 The period between the two world wars : Great Depression Chapter 2 Trends of Fiction 2.1 The fiction trends between 1900 - 1930 2.2 The fiction trends between 1930 - 1950 Chapter 3 Major Authors and Selected Readings 3.1 Joseph Conrad 3.2 Henry James 3.3 Virginia Woolf 3.4 D. H. Lawrence 3.5 James Joyce 3.6 E.M. Forster 3.7 H.G. Wells 3.8 Arnold Bennett 3.9 Wyndham Lewis 3.10 Evelyn Waugh 3.11 Christopher Isherwood 3.12 Graham Greene Section B English Fiction During the Second Half of the Twentieth Century Chapter 1 Social Background 1.1 From the end of World War II to the 1960s: rebuilding 1.2 From 1960s to 1980s: some troubles 1.3 Late twentieth century: growth of modem Britain Chapter 2 Trends of Fiction: 1950 to the End of the Twentieth Century 2.1 The awareness of fictionality 2.2 Morality and art 2.3 Feminist writing 2.4 Realism, satire, social comedy 2.5 Commonwealth writers Chapter 3 Major Authors and Selected Readings 3.1 Samuiel Beekett 3.2 John Fowles 3.3 William Golding 3.4 Iris Murdoch 3.5 Doris Lessing 3.6 Angela Carter 3.7 John Wain 3.8 Kingsley Amis 3.9 Chinua Achebe 3.10 Patrick White References 下編 美國部分 Section A American Fiction Before World War II Chapter 1 Background Knowledge 1.1 The social background 1.2 The cultural background Chapter 2 Trends of Fiction 2.1 Trends of fiction 2.2 Two "renaissance" Chapter 3 Major Authors and Selected Readings 3.1 Sherwood Anderson 3.2 Willa Cather 3.3 Jack London 3.4 Theodore Dreiser 3.5 F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.6 Ernest Hemingway 3.7 William Fauikner 3.8 John Steinbeck Section B American Fiction After World War II Chapter 1 Social Background 1.1 The Cold War 1.2 Civil Rights Movement 1.3 Women's Lib 1.4 Counterculture 1.5 Generation X 1.6 The state of religious thought 1.7 Developing of science and technology Chapter 2 Trends of Fiction 2.1 Fiction by different writing groups 2.1.1 Southern fiction 2.1.2 Women fiction 2.1.3 The Beat fiction 2.1.4 Jewish fiction 2.1.5 African American fiction 2.1.6 Hispanic American fiction 2.1.7 Native American fiction 2.1.8 Asian American fiction 2.2 Trends of fiction 2.2.1 Fiction of manners——neo - realism 2.2.2 Postmodern fiction 2.2.3 Nonfiction Novel 2.2.4 War novel 2.2.5 Science fiction 2.2.6 Crime fiction Chapter 3 Major Authors and Selected Readings 3.1 J.D. Salinger 3.2 San] Bellow 3.3 Ralph Ellison 3.4 Norman Mailer 3.5 Jack Kerouac 3.6 Joseph Heller 3.7 Flannery O' Comaor 3.8 Joyee Carol Oates 3.9 Toni Morrison 3.10 Amy Tan 3.11 Rudolfo Anaya 3.12 N. Seott Momaday References