《小說、詩歌與戲劇探尋之旅:英語文學(xué)導(dǎo)讀》是為學(xué)習(xí)者輕松地跨入英語文學(xué)的殿堂而編寫的。它的目的不僅在于拓展學(xué)習(xí)者的通識(shí)范疇,加深理解力和提高品位,而且在于為學(xué)習(xí)者提供英語小說、詩歌和戲劇的基礎(chǔ)知識(shí)、分析技能、賞析范例,為英語文學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)提供良好的基礎(chǔ)能力訓(xùn)練,有效提升學(xué)習(xí)者的實(shí)力。
作為導(dǎo)讀類教材,《小說、詩歌與戲劇探尋之旅:英語文學(xué)導(dǎo)讀》擬解決的核心問題是:如何閱讀英語文學(xué)作品?圍繞這個(gè)問題,《小說、詩歌與戲劇探尋之旅:英語文學(xué)導(dǎo)讀》系統(tǒng)地介紹和展示了閱讀和批評(píng)英語文學(xué)作品的基礎(chǔ)知識(shí)、解讀過程和分析方法。全書根據(jù)作品體裁的不同分為三個(gè)部分,即:閱讀小說、閱讀詩歌和閱讀戲劇。每一章節(jié)都在簡要介紹和簡要分析某個(gè)特定的基本要素的基礎(chǔ)上,精選優(yōu)秀的英語文學(xué)作品,并對(duì)其進(jìn)行詳盡的分析或賞析。編著者希望通過分層次提供基礎(chǔ)知識(shí)、分析技能、賞析范例,為學(xué)習(xí)者提供閱讀、欣賞、感悟和研究文學(xué)作品的平臺(tái)。
《小說、詩歌與戲劇探尋之旅:英語文學(xué)導(dǎo)讀》的主要特點(diǎn)是: (一)從讀者閱讀的立場(chǎng)出發(fā),用形象的方式,將學(xué)習(xí)、思考和研究放置在同一個(gè)平臺(tái)上,使學(xué)生輕松入門。在綜合英美文學(xué)界對(duì)基本文學(xué)術(shù)語所作的研究的基礎(chǔ)上.對(duì)這些基本術(shù)語作出精練而明確的界定,并對(duì)它們作了簡明扼要的述評(píng),便于學(xué)習(xí)者理解和把握。同時(shí),用多角度的批評(píng)范文揭示英語文學(xué)中的小說、詩歌、戲劇文本的分析過程,讓讀者輕松地理解和掌握閱讀文學(xué)作品的基本技能和方法! 。ǘ⿵奈膶W(xué)欣賞的立場(chǎng)出發(fā),以體驗(yàn)的方式,使學(xué)生在細(xì)讀多篇原汁原味的英語詩歌、小說和戲劇作品的過程中,真正了解文學(xué)作品的精妙。每一個(gè)章節(jié)都圍繞一個(gè)問題展開,力求以生動(dòng)、形象的方式就文學(xué)閱讀和批評(píng)中的主要問題進(jìn)行討論和引導(dǎo),旨在引發(fā)讀者的興趣和更多的問題,為他們進(jìn)一步的研究打開窗戶! 。ㄈ⿵呐u(píng)解惑的立場(chǎng)出發(fā),在解讀詩歌、小說的閱讀過程和閱讀技巧的基礎(chǔ)上,為文學(xué)文本提供西方批評(píng)界普遍采用的多種批評(píng)方法和視角,為學(xué)習(xí)者提高自己的鑒賞和思考能力,增強(qiáng)的文本研究能力提供參考模板。
Section 1 Reading Fiction
Chapter 1 Plot
Katherine Mansfield The Fly
Chapter 2 Character
James Joyce Araby
Chapter 3 Setting
Virginia Woolf Kew Gardens
Chapter4 Point of View
Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants
Chapter 5 Irony
Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour
Chapter 6 Theme
Tillie Olsen I Stand Here Ironing
Chapter7 Stories for Further Reading
William Faulkner A Rose for Emily
Alice Walker Everyday Use
Section 2 Reading Poetry
Chapter 8 What Is Poetry?
William Carlos Williams Poem
Chapter9 Diction and Syntax
William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays
Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee
Chapter 10 Speaker and Tone
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
John Keats Ode to a Nightingale
Robert Browning My Last Duchess
Chapter 11 Poetic Rhetorical Devices
Robert Browning Meeting at Night
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken
Edgar Allan Poe To Helen
Chapter 12 Rhythm and Rhyme
Lynn Johnston A Tiny Cry within the Night
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Chapter 13 Types of Poetry
Anonymous Lord Randal
John Milton Paradise Lost
Samuel Taylor Coleridge What Is an Epigraml
Alexander Pope Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog
Which I Gave to His Royal Highness
Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats On First Looking into Chapmans Homer
WilliamShakespeare Sonnet18
Walt Whitman The Soul, Reaching, Throwing Out for Love
William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow
E. E. Cummings l(a
Chapter 14 Poems for Further Reading
Section 3 Reading Drama
Chapter 15 About Drama
ChaDter 16 Tragedy and Comedy
William Shakespeare Othello, the Moor of Venice, Act I
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Six years ago, six years... How quickly time passed! It might have happened yesterday. The boss took his hands from his face; he was puzzled. Something seemed to be wrong with him. He wasn't feeling as he wanted to feel. He decided to get up and have a look at the boy's photograph. But it wasn't a favorite photograph of his; the expression was unnatural. It was cold, even stern-looking. The boy had never looked like that.
At that moment the boss noticed that a fly had fallen into his broad inkpot, andwas trying feebly but desperately to clamber out again. Help! help! said those struggling legs. But the sides of the inkpot were wet and slippery; it fell back again and began to swim. The boss took up a pen, picked the fly out of the ink, and shook it on to a piece of blotting-paper. For a fraction of a second it lay still on the dark patch that oozed round it. Then the front legs waved, took hold, and, pulling its small sodden body up, it began the immense task of cleaning the ink from its wings. Over and under, over and under, went a leg along a wing, as the stone goes over andunder the scythe. Then there was a pause, while the fly, seeming to stand on the tips of its toes, tried to expand first one wing and then the other. It succeeded at last,and, sitting down, it began, like a minute cat, to clean its face. Now one could imagine that the little front legs rubbed against each other lightly, joyfully. The horrible danger was over; it had escaped; it was ready for life again.
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