Literature is a cultural heritage. Its importance can never be exaggerated. First,literature is a key to knowledge and wisdom. We encounter new ideas and concepts inliterary works. Secondly, literature helps us understand people around us and in differentparts of the world by recognizing the diverse points of view. Thirdly, literature can be atool to teach. Socrates believed that the effect of good literature is to lead the youth tofollow the correct path permitted by the laws. Last but not least, literature, when used inlanguage classes, helps us increase our vocabulary, master idiomatic expressions, enhanceour cultural awareness, and promote our intercultural communication.British and American literature are among the best of the world literary heritage. Theyrepresent the imagination and creativity of British and American writers. To master theEnglish language and to inlprove our understanding of its culture, it is necessary to studysome works of British and American literature.
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Volume One Acknowledgements 英美文學(xué)名著賞析上冊: Preface Introduction William Shakespeare John Milton Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift Robert Burns William Wordsworth George Gordon Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats Jane Austen Charles Dickens William Makepeace Thackeray Emily Bronte Thomas Hardy Oscar Wilde George Bernard Shaw D. H. Lawrence Virginia Woolf James Joyce Appendix The Nobel Laureates of the United Kingdom Bibliography 英美文學(xué)名著賞析下冊: Volume Two Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Benjamin Franklin Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper Nathaniel Hawthorne Walt Whitman Herman Melville Mark Twain Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot Robert Frost Henry James John Steinbeck Ralph Waldo Ellison F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway William Faulkner Arthur Miller J. D. Salinger John Updike Appendix The Nobel Laureates of the United States ~ Bibliography