內容大鋼
該現代英國文學教材涵蓋20世紀最有代表性的英國現代文學家（康拉德、福斯特、曼斯菲爾德、葉芝、D.H.勞倫斯、T.S.艾略特、喬伊斯、伍爾夫、赫胥黎、貝克特和戈爾丁），盡可能完整地呈現每個作家的思想、美學觀和創作風格，在歷史語境中系統闡釋20世紀英國文學的思想價值和藝術特色。
該英語專業教材有諸多創新之處：以作家為中心，突出重要作家，簡練扼要；突出重要信息，即作家最重要的觀點和最重要的作品，讓學生對現代英國文學的整體風貌、主要作家的創作主題和藝術特質有一個宏觀和微觀的把握；選入作家文論，完整展示作家的文學與文論的相互印證，對於學生正確解讀作家的主題意義和創作風格有直接的幫助，為學生撰寫研究論文提供了理論依據。
該教材獨具特色，適合高校英語專業本科生、研究生、教師以及英國文學研究者閱讀和使用，也是英語專業學生和教師在國內外考碩考博的重要參考書。
目錄
CONTENTS
Lesson One Historical Context
1 The First Half of the Twentieth Century
2 The Second Half of the Twentieth Century
3 Study Questions
Lesson Two Joseph Conrad
1 Life
2 Literary Career and Major Writings
3 Attitudes and Views
4 Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques
5 Selected Readings
Heart of Darkness/「Preface to The Nigger of the 『Narcissus』」
6 Study Questions
Lesson Three E. M. Forster
1 Life
2 Literary Career and Major Writings
3 Attitudes and Views
4 Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques
5 Commentary
A Passage to India/Aspects of the Novel
6 Study Questions
Lesson Four Katherine Mansfield
1 Life
2 Literary Career and Major Writings
3 Attitudes and Views
4 Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques
5 Selected Readings
「The Garden Party」/「Seriousness in Art」
6 Study Questions
Lesson Five William Butler Yeats
1 Life
2 Literary Career and Major Writings
3 Attitudes and Views
4 Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques
5 Selected Readings
「The Lake Isle of Innisfree」/「Easter, 1916」/「Sailing to Byzantium」「Ireland and the Arts」
6 Study Questions
Lesson Six D. H. Lawrence
1 Life
2 Literary Career and Major Writings
3 Attitudes and Views
4 Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques
5 Selected Readings
The Rainbow/「Nottingham and the Mining Country」
6 Study Questions
Lesson Seven T. S. Eliot
1 Life
2 Literary Career and Major Writings
3 Attitudes and Views
4 Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques
5 Commentary
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock/The Waste Land/「Tradition and the Individual Talent」
6 Study Questions
Lesson Eight James Joyce
1 Life
2 Literary Career and Major Works
3 Attitudes and Views
4 Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques
5 Selected Readings
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man/Joyce』s Letter to Grant Richards, May 5，1906
6 Study Questions
Lesson Nine Virginia Woolf
1 Life
2 Literary Career and Major Works
3 Attitudes and Views
4 Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques
5 Selected Readings
Mrs. Dalloway/「Modern Fiction」
6 Study Questions
Lesson Ten Aldous Huxley
1 Life
2 Literary Career and Major Works
3 Attitudes and Views
4 Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques
5 Commentary
Brave New World/「Science and Civilization」
6 Study Questions
Lesson Eleven Samuel Beckett
1 Life
2 Literary Career and Major Writings
3 Attitudes and Views
4 Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques
5 Commentary
Waiting for Godot/「Proust and Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit」
6 Study Questions
Lesson Twelve William Golding
1 Life
2 Literary Career and Major Writings
3 Attitudes and Views
4 Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques
5 Commentary
Lord of the Flies/「Fable,」「Utopias and Antiutopias,」「Belief and Creativity」
6 Study Questions
Appendices
1 The Sources of the Quotations in the Lectures
2 The Other Writers during the Same Period
3 A Suggested Course Schedule
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