One, overview of the development of British and American Literature English literature has a long history, has experienced a long and complex evolution process. In this process, a variety of realistic literature outside the body, historical, political and cultural force in the literary influence, the literature itself, after the Anglo - Saxon, Renaissance, Neo classicism, Romanticism, realism and Modernism in different historical stages. After the war, the British literature generally presents from the realistic to the experiment and the multivariate trend.

Two, the theory of English and American Literature Criticism Twentieth Century is called "the century of criticism". The theory of literary criticism from the "internal research" to "external research". The new criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, new psychoanalysis, reader response criticism, New Historicism and feminism www.fsjct.net, post colonialism, critical thinking and theoretical innovation of literary concepts, fundamentally changed people's literary tradition, building code law, literature and culture, literature and social awareness of the relationship. Open up a new world for the study of literature.

Three, the cognitive function and the artistic value of the British and American Literature

Literature is a cultural symbol of life experience. Literary works implied in the thinking of life, value orientation and specific ideology. Reading English and American www.jich.net literature works is an important way to understand western culture, which can be exposed to the deep culture of supporting surface culture, that is, the basic idea, value judgment, the perspective of the western culture, and the criticism of these perspectives.

British and American literature is the aesthetic expression of the life of the times, is the product of the British people and the American people's creative use of the English language. English ideographic functions, style changes, or elegant, or popular, or implicitly, www.boxuelun.com or lively, or graceful, or rough, the performance of its rich and unique charm of the most incisive play in American writer. Read the excellent literary works, can feel the tone of English music vocabulary and resplendent with variegated coloration aftertaste "overtones".

Four, British and American literature research Research on foreign literature, helps us to understand the foreign culture, broaden their horizons, enrich our knowledge, enlighten our wisdom, literary creation and prosperity of our country's www.sanheshun.net method. To promote the development of Chinese literature, to build our socialist advanced culture www.14se.net, is the significance of the study of foreign literature. In the case of British and American literature, it can be chosen as a specific research www.huayueting1.com object, such as novels, poetry, drama, literary criticism, writer, literary genre, literary history, comparison between Chinese and foreign literature. The research of foreign literature in our country is uneven, and the study of the British and American classics needs to be further studied.

Five, the teaching mode of English and American Literature At present, many schools adopted the Anglo American literature class "of" literary history + mode. On the history of literature class, teachers set out a lot of knowledge of literary history, let students memorize. Students because it is passive to accept the teacher's "repeat", how to form their own views on the literary works can not be talked about. In addition to the traditional literature professor of literary history, often engage in a literature, as a supplement to history. This "quotation" style selection and undermine the integrity of the works. Teachers to deal with these selections, most of the time spent on the interpretation of the meaning of words and phrases. The students tasted, although a two-year literature course, did not come into contact with a complete fiction or a complete script, did not learn how to appreciate and analyze the original literature. Because of the teaching content is the knowledge that some die, a lot of people will think the English and American literature class is boring, useless.

The reform of English Majors in English and American literature: 1, read the complete works. Although the work is to study chapter of the color selected works of the classic, but because the election is only fragments, the works of the inherent destruction of a whole, will inevitably be reduced to fragments of feeling. Only by reading a script, the students can really understand the characteristics of Shakespeare, to say "I read Shakespeare", to discuss with people Shakespeare, also to write a comment on their own views. Reading literary works, from the overall experience of the experience, the students will be shaken, some inspiration.