翻开这本《当代英语散文:阅读与欣赏》,我们从中感受到的不仅仅是英语散文内容的清新、语言的魅力和审美的梯度,更有作家们对当代社会生活百科全书式的描摹及其文化心态次第更新的历程。该书展示的是一面折射内心情感、世事光影的多棱镜。为了方便教学,编者还特意为每一篇选文提供作家概况、作品赏析、词汇注释、文化点解析、问题探讨以及参考网页,旨在引导学生对选文进行阅读与欣赏。
Unit 1
Families
What Is Happiness?
Unit 2
Femininity
The Appeal of the Androgynous Man
Unit 3
Learning to Listen
The Fine Art of Complaining
Unit 6
The Chase
Bombs Bursting in Air
Unit 5
In Defense of Talk Shows
Why We Crave Horror Movies
Unit 6
I Surf, Therefore I Am
A Design for Living on the Internet
Unit 7
Less Is More: A Call for Shorter Work Hours
What Is the Point of Working?
The Portraits of My Parents
A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American Dream
Unit 9
Of Shopping
Kill 'Era! Crush 'Era! Eat 'Era Raw!
Unit 10
But What Do You Mean?
Pornoviolence
Unit 11
That Lean and Hungry Look
The Ugly Truth About Beauty
Unit 12
On Self-Respect
The Medusa and the Snail
Unit 13
The Word Police
Sexism and Language
Unit 14
The Broken Chain
Ann Wrestling with My Father
Unit 15
What the Great Books Do
The Limits of the Great Books
Unit 16
Love Sick
Love Story
Unit 17
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Safe-Sex Lies
Unit 18
The "Values" Wasteland
Student Loans
Unit 19
A Fable for Tomorrow
Is Technology Making Us Intimate Strangers?
Unit 20
Of Headless Mice... and Men
Study Cloning, Don't Ban It
Appendix: Reading Critically
References