作为导读类教材,本书拟解决的核心问题是:如何阅读英语文学作品?围绕这个问题,本教材系统地介绍和展示了阅读和批评英语文学作品的基础知识、解读过程和分析方法。全书根据所论作品体裁的不同分为三个部分,即:阅读小说、阅读诗歌和阅读戏剧。每一章节都在简要介绍和简要分析某个特定的基本要素的基础上,精选优秀的英语文学作品,并对其进行详尽的分析或赏析。
Section 1 Reading Fiction
Chapter 1 What Is Novel?
Chapter 2 Plot
Katherine Mansfield The Fly
Chapter 3 Character
James Joyce Araby
Chapter 4 Setting
Virginia Woolf Kew Gardens
Chapter 5 Point of View
Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants
Chapter 6 Irony
Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour
Chapter 7 Theme
Tillie Olsen I Stand Here Ironing
Chapter 8 Stories for Further Reading
Section 2 Reading Poetry
Chapter 1 What Is Poetry?
Chapter 2 Diction and Syntax
William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
William Wordsworth Composed upon
Westminster Bridge, September 3, 18 02
Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays
Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee
Chapter 3 Speaker and Tone
Robert Browning My Last Duchess
Chapter 4 Poetic Rhetorical Devices
Robert Browning Meeting at Night
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken
Edgar Allan Poe To Helen
Chapter 5 Rhythm and Rhyme
Lynn Johnston A Tiny Cry within the Night
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Chapter 6 Types of Poetry
Anonymous Lord Randal
John Milton Paradise Lost
Samuel Taylor Coleridge What Is an Epigram?
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 Chapman's Homer
William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 e.e.cummings L(a
Chapter 7 Poems for Further Reading
Section 3 Reading Drama
Chapter 1 What Is Drama?
Chapter 2 Tragedy and Comedy
Chapter 3 Drama for Further Reading