《英国文学史及选读》编写的体例,除“史”的部分有简明扼要的叙述以外,作家作品部分有:作家生平与创作介绍;作品内容提要(如选文为作品节录时);选文;注释。在教学中每周以四学时计,共两个学期(有的院校是四个学期),课堂以讲授作品为主,“史”的部分由教师掌握,供学生参考,“史”与“选读”结合,进行教学,可事半功倍,收到良好的教学效果。
吴伟仁主编的《英国文学史及选读(重排版1)》涵盖盎格鲁-撒克逊时期至18世纪英国文学。
本教材可供高等院校英语专业作为英美文学史和文学作品选读的教学用书或参考书,也可供广大中学英语教师及具有一定程度的英语自学者和英美文学爱好者作为进修读物。
《英国文学史及选读》是吴伟仁教授编写的一套“史”、“选”结合的文学教材,内容经典,自出版以来,重印四十余次,畅销不衰。本书共两册,涵盖了盎格鲁-撒克逊时期到20世纪的英国文学发展史及重要作家作品,既可作为高等学校英语专业文学课教材,也可供广大英国文学爱好者使用。《英国文学史及选读(重排版1)》特点如下:
结构清晰,扼要展现英国文学各阶段的发展脉络及特点;
内容全面,每章包括作家生平及创作介绍,作品内容提要、作品选读及注释;
选文经典,富有代表性,且注释精炼,有利于学习者深入理解作品。
Part I The Middle Ages
Chapter 1 The Ang|o-Saxon Period
Beowulf
Chapter 2 The Anglo-Norman Period
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Chapter 3 Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Chapter 4 Popular Ballads
Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale
Get Up and Bar the Door
Sir Patrick Spens
Part II The Renaissance
Chapter 5 William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Merchant of Venice
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 29
Sonnet 106
Chapter 6 Francis Bacon
Of Truth
Of Studies
Part III The Period of Revolution and Restoration.
Chapter 7 John Donne
Song CGo and catch a falling star")
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Sonnet: Death Be Not Proud
Chapter 8 John Milton
Paradise Lost
On His Blindness
On His Deceased Wife
Chapter 9 John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress
Part IV The Age of Enligtenment
Chapter 10 Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Chapter 11 Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
A Modest Proposal
Chapter 12 Joseph Addison
Sir Roger at Church
Sir Roger at the Assizes
Chapter 13 Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Chapter 14 Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
Chapter 15 Oliver Goldsmith
The Vicar of Wakefield
Chapter 16 Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The School for Scandal
Chapter 17 William Blake
London
The Tyger
The Chimney Sweeper
Chapter 18 Robert Burns
My Heart's in the Highlands
John Anderson, My ]o
A Red, Red Rose
To a Mouse
Auld Lang Syne