本书将文学欣赏和英语学习结合在了一起。其文本选自欧美文学经典,是标准地道的英语。选文具有经典陛、可读性和趣味性,可以让学生在学习英语时有审美享受,在审美享受中消解阅读疲劳,于不经意间了解欧美社会和文化,达到学好语言、扩宽视野和增长知识的目的。
为了让读者对欧美文学发展史有一个粗略的了解,全书按文学发展史的顺序编排。教材每一章起始编有“文学大观园”,简要地介绍了本时期文学流派的特点、其在文学史上的地位、有代表性的作家和他们的主要文学成就。对重点作家提供了“作者简介”和文本选读,使读者能对作者、作品有一定了解。在所节选的文本前面,附有“选文提要”,简要介绍了全文的主要内容。在文本之后,编有“作品赏析”,对作品做了简要分析,以便读者理解文本的要义、精华。
本教材可供有一定英语基础的大学各专业学生和社会上欧美文学爱好者使用,也可供英语专业学生选用。
Chapter 1 Ancient European Literature
Homer (flourished 9th or 8th century BC?)
Iliad
Sophocles (496?--406BC)
Oedipus the King
Chapter 2 European Literature of the Middle Ages
Dante Alighieri (1265--1321)
The Divine Comedy
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313--1375)
The Decameron
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?--1400)
The Canterbury Tales
English Ballads
Get Up and Bar the Door
Chapter 3 European Literature of the Renaissance
Francesco Petrarch (1304---1374)
The Eyes That Drew from Me
Miguel de Cervantes (1547--1616)
Don Quixote
William Shakespeare (1564--1616)
Hamlet
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 29
Francis Bacon (1561--1626)
Of Studies
Chapter 4 Seventeenth-Century European Literature
John Donne (1572--1631)
The Flea
John Milton (1608--1674)
Paradise Lost
Moliere (1622--1673)
Tartuffe, or, The Imposter
Chapter 5 Eighteenth-Century European Literature
Daniel Defoe (]660?--]73 ])
Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift (1667--1745)
A Modest Proposal
Johann Wolfgang yon Goethe (1749--1832)
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Chapter 6 Euro-American Poetry of the Romantic Period
William Blake (1757--1827)
The Chimney Sweeper (II)
Robert Burns (1759--1796)
A Red, Red Rose
My Heart's in the Highlands
William Wordsworth (1770--1850)
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
The Solitary Reaper
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
George Gordon Byron (1788--1824)
She Walks in Beauty
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822)
Ode to the West Wind
John Keats (1795--1821)
Ode to a Nightingale
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)
To Helen
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)
0 Captain/My Captain/
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)
Success
I Died for Beauty
I'm Nobody
Chapter 7 Euro-American Fiction and Drama of the
Nineteenth Century
Jane Austen (1775--1817)
Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens (1812--1870)
Great Expectations
Charlotte Bronte (1816--1855)
Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte (1818--1848)
Wuthering Heights
Thomas Hardy (1840--1928)
Tess of the D 'Urbervilles
George Bernard Shaw (1856--1950)
Pygmalion
Washington Irving (1783--1859)
Rip Van Winkle
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864)
The Scarlet Letter
Mark Twain (1835--1910)
A Matter of Honor
Stendhal (1783--1842)
The Red and the Black
Honore de Balzac (1799--1850)
Father Goriot
Victor Hugo (1802--1885)
Les Miserables
Gustave Flaubert (1821--1880)
Madame Bovary
Guy de Maupassant (1850--1893)
Bel Ami
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821--1881)
Crime and Punishment
Lev Tolstoy (1828--1910)
Anna Karenina
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860--1904)
A Chameleon
Henrik Ibsen (1828--1906)
A Doll "s House
Chapter 8 Euro-American Literature of the Twentieth Century
James Joyce (1882--1941)
Ulysses
Virginia Woolf (1882--1941)
The Mark on the Wall
David Herbert Lawrence (1885--1930)
Women in Love
Samuel Beckett (1906--1989)
Waiting for Godot
William Golding (1911--1993)
Lord of the Flies
Angela Carter (1940--1992)
The Tiger's Bride
David Lodge (1935--)
Small World
William Butler Yeats (1865--1939)
The Second Coming
Ezra Pound (1885--1972)
In a Station of the Metro
E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)
in Just-
Richard Connell (1893--1949)
The Most Dangerous Game
William Faulkner (1897--1962)
A Rose for Emily
Ernest Hemingway (1899--1961)
Hills like White Elephants
Toni Morrison (1931--)
Song of Solomon
Marcel Proust (1871--1922)
Remembrance of Things Past
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905--1984)
The Fate of a Man
GLinter Wilhelm Grass (1927--)
The Tin Drum
Franz Kafka (1883--1924)
The Metamorphosis
Elfriede Jelinek (1946--)
The Piano Teacher
Jorge Luis Borges (1899--1986)
The Garden of Forking Paths
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927--)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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