本教材涵盖20世纪十分具有代表性的优秀英国文学家：J.康拉德、E.M.福斯特、K.曼斯菲尔德、W.叶芝、T.S.艾略特、D.H.劳伦斯、J.乔伊斯、V.伍尔夫、A. 赫胥黎、S.贝克特和W.戈尔丁，其中有小说家、短篇小说家、诗人和剧作家，四位诺贝尔文学奖获得者。教材每篇课文包括作家的“生平”“创作时期及主要作品”“思想观点”“美学原则和创作手法”“选读”（1篇文学代表作和1篇文论）和“思考题”六部分，概括作家的生活哲学、政治观、道德观、美学观、创作手法和艺术风格，结合宏观历史语境研究和微观文学文本分析，探究各个作家批判现代工业异化效应、质疑殖民主义、张扬女性主义，深思传统与现代性、历史与现代文明、东方与西方冲突等多方面的现代主义和后现代主义文学主题意义，分析文学作品中蕴涵的象征主义、反传统叙事、意识流、荒诞派艺术等创新美学观, 系统阐释20世纪英国文学丰富的思想价值和艺术性。

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
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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