本书是2004年广东外语外贸大学主办、英国文化处协办的“重读今日英国”国际研讨会的论文集。精选论文40篇，共分为5个部分，分别为“英国小说：经典新解”、“英国诗歌和戏剧：确定性与含糊性”、“英国社会：过去与现在”、“英国流行文化：策略与转变”和“英国文学与文化在中国：契合与分歧”。这些论文从性别、后殖民时期、原型观念、社会学、语言学、翻译研究和文化研究等多方面反映了英国的文学与文化，涵盖了学术界对于古典文学的新解和英国当代文化现象的阐释等问题的关注和争论。

This books features 40 essays carefully selected from the papers submitted to“Rereading Britain Today” (Nov.12-15, 2004), the 2nd internatioial conference organized by the Faculty of English Language and Cultture, GDUFS and co-sponsored by the British Council.Theseessays are grouped into 5 parts, namely“British Fiction: New Readings of Classics”,“British Poetry and Drama: Certainties and Ambiguities”,“British Society: Now and Then”,“British Popular Culture: Strategies visa -vis Changes”, and“British Literature and Culture in China:Affinities and Differences”.They carry reflecuons on British literary and cultural texts from a variety of perspectives, including gender, postcolonial,archetypal sociological, linguistic, translation studies and cultural studies.They address such issues as ethnicity, gender relations, identily (political,social and cultural), politics, education, mass media and translation,covering major concerns and debates in the academia on the new understandings of classics and the interpretation of contemporary cultural phenomena in Britain.

PartⅠ. British Fiction: New Readings of Classics

Passions and Betrayals: A Postcolonial Rereading of T. E.

  Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom

In Search of Lost Romance -- On the Emotional Life of

  Stevens in The Remains of the Day

The Troubled Self: A Study of Gender Relations in D. H.

  Lawrence's Sons and Lovers

From Mrs. Dalloway to The Hours : Rethinking the

  Relations Between Women and Feminism

A Comparative Study on "Clay" and "Miss Brill"

Anti-Colonialism in Heart of Darkness

A Metaphorical Reading of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India

Rereading Britain Anthology: Jane Austen, "Englishness"

  and Authorship-as-sign

An Archetypal Reading of Tess

Desire and Disillusionment -- A Lacanian Reading of Jude

  the Obscure

Determinism in Eliot's The Mill on the Floss

Australia: a Promising Land in Victorian Novels

PartⅡ. British Poetry and Drama: Certainties and Ambiguities

Being Female and Being a Poet: Unique Territories and

  Concerns of Women's Poetry

Imagery in Shakespeare's Sonnets

God, Imagination & Crow -- The Revisional God in the

  Poems of Blake and Hughes

The Dubious Identity of Ruth in Pinter's The Homecoming

The Use of Brecht's A-effect in Churchill's Cloud Nine

The Success of a Non-drama as Drama: The Concrete &

  Conscious Expression of Existentialism in Waiting for Godot

George Bernard Shaw's Representation of Women -- A

  Feminist Reading of Mrs. Warren's Profession

PartⅢ. British Society: Now and Then

Englishness, Hybridity and Postcolonial Britain

Cohabitation in Britain

V.S. Naipaul's Changing England in The Enigma of Arrival

Rereading the Scottish National Identity Through the William

  Wallace Tales

Strategic Communications -- A Case Study of Labour Victory

  in the '97 General Election

The Recent Developments in the Teaching and Learning of

  UK Higher Education Institutions

PartⅣ. British Popular Culture: Strategies vis-A-vis Changes

The Singularity of the English Sense of Humour

Celebrity, Reality and Surveillance: Contemporary Trends

  in British Popular Culture with Special Reference to TV

Very Un-British Films: Michael Winterbottom and the

  Cinema of Incompatibility Bruce Benne

The Full Monty: Reaction to or against Feminism?

Continuity and Change  British Working-class Screen

  Image in the 1990s

BBC's Dilemma in a Globalized Media Market

Internet Censorship in the United Kingdom -- The Role

  of Self-regulation

PartⅤ. British Literature and Culture in China: Affinities and Differences

Teaching Shakespeare in Chinese Universities

The Changing Face of the Teaching Profession:

  Motivating Students Attending the British Culture Survey Course

An Empirical Study of Teaching English Literature to

  Non-English Majors in China

"Accomplished with That We Lack": Female Cross-Dressing

  on the Stage

Different Attitudes Towards Life in Endgame and Chinese

  Works

In Bed with Tracey Emin and Mu Zimei -- Pleasure and

  Jouissance in the Consumption of Cultural Forms

Translation of Wilde's Salome in the Republic of China

  (1912 - 1949)-- Investigating Enlightenment

Holmes in China -- Impact of Translated British Detective

  Fiction on Chinese Literature in Late Qing Dynasty

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