《现代英国文学大家》一书是汕头大学英语系教授朱望20余年的教学经验的集中体现。教材涵盖了20世纪最有代表性的英国文学家，如康拉德、福斯特、艾略特等人，对每一位作家都做了详细的生平介绍、对他们的文学观进行了总结，并对各自的创作手法做出了较充分的分析。

《现代英国文学大家》是以作家为中心的英国文学教材，涵盖了20世纪最有代表性的英国现代和后现代文学家（康拉德、福斯特、曼斯菲尔德、叶芝、T.S艾略特、劳伦斯、乔伊斯、伍尔夫、赫胥黎、奥威尔、贝克特、戈尔丁和多丽丝·莱辛），完整呈现每个作家的思想体系、美学观和创作风格，系统阐释20世纪英国文学丰富的思想价值和艺术性。

作为英语专业教材，《现代英国文学大家》的创新之处在于选入作家文论，旨在揭示每个作家的独特美学观，展示其文学与文论的相互印证，对于学生正确解读作家的主题意义和创作风格有直接帮助。适合高校英语专业学生、研究生、英语专业教师以及英国文学研究者阅读和使用。

本书由朱望编著。

Lesson One HistoricalContext

 I.The First Half of the Twentieth Century

 II.The Second Half of the Twentieth Century

 III.Study Questions

Lesson Two Joseph Conrad

 I.Life

 II.Literary Career and Major Writings

 III.Attitudes and Views

 IV.Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques

 V.Selected Readings: Heart of Darkness/"Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'"

 VI.Study Questions

Lesson There E.M.Forster

 I.Life

 II.Literary Career and Major Writings

 III.Attitudes and Views

 IV.Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques

 V.Commentary: A Passage to India / Aspects of the Novel

 VI.Study Questions

Lesson Four Katherine Mansfield

 I.Life

 II.Literary Career and Major Writings

 III.Attitudes and Views

 IV.Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques

 V.Selected Readings: The Garden Party / "Seriousness in Art"

 VI.Study Questions

Lesson Five William Butler Yeats

 I.Life

 II.Literary Career and Major Writings

 III.Attitudes and Views

 IV.Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques

 V.Selected Readings: "The lake Isle of Innisfree" / "Easter 1916" / "Sailing to Byzantium" / "Ireland and the Arts"

 VI.Study Questions

Lesson Six D.H.Lawrence

 I.Life

 II.Literary Career and Major Writings

 III.Attitudes and Views

 IV.Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques

 V.Selected Readings: The Rainbow/"Sex versus Loveliness"

 VI.Study Questions

Lesson Seven T.S.Eliot

 I.Life

 II.Literary Career and Major Writings

 III.Attitudes and Views

 IV.Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques

 V.Commentary: "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" and The Waster Land/"Tradition and the Individual Talent"

 VI.Study Questions

Lesson Eight James Joyee

 I.Life 141

 II.Literary Career and Major Writings

 III.Attitudes and Views

 IV.Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques

 V.Selected Readings: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man/Joyce's Letter to Grant Richards, May 5, 1906

 VI. Study Questions

Lesson Nine Virginia Woolf

 I.Life

 II.Literary Career and Major Writings

 III. Attitudes and Views

 IV. Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques

 V.Selected Readings: Mrs. Dalloway/"Modern Fiction"

 VI. Study Questions

Lesson Ten Aldous Huxley

 I.Life

 II.Literary Career and Major Writings

 III. Attitudes and Views

 IV. Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques

 V.Commentary: Brave New World/"Science and Civilization"

 VI. Study Questions

Lesson Eleven George Orweu

 I.Life

 II.Literary Career and Major Writings

 III. Attitudes and Views

 IV. Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques

 V.Selected Readings: Nineteen Eighty-Four/ "Why I Write"

 VI. Study Questions

Lesson Twelve Samuel Beckett

 I.Life

 II.Literary Career and Major Writings

 III. Attitudes and Views

 IV. Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques

 V.Commentary: Waiting for Godot / "Beckett's Literary Views"

 VI. Study Questions

Lesson Thirteen William Golding

 I.Life 252

 II.Literary Career and Major Writings

 III. Attitudes and Views

 IV. Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques

 V.Commentary: Lord of the Flies / "Golding's Literary Views"

 VI. Study Questions

Lesson Fourteen Doris Lessing

 I. Life 269

 II.Literary Career and Major Writings

 III. Attitudes, and Views

 IV. Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques

 V.Commentary: The Golden Notebook/"A Small Personal Voice"

 VI. Study Questions

Appendix 1 The Sources of the Quotations in the Lectures

Appendix 2 The Other Writers during the Same Period

Appendix 3 A Suggested Course Schedule

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