本书分为14个单元，每个单元介绍一种题材的文学作品，按照时间的顺序先后进行编排。在体裁方面，这部教材以诗歌和小说为主，同时包括了新编童话故事和游记。同时，本书注重强化文学教学中的文化意识，通过每个单元的导读、作者简介和文学术语解释等，介绍历史与文化背景，帮助学生通过文学来了解和认识英国当代社会文化的发展变化。旨在帮助学生通过交际、交流的方法理解和欣赏文学作品，同时也达到提高英语水平、掌握高层次语言运用能力的目的。本教材主要适用于本科英语专业高年级学生，同时也适合准备参加相关专业研究生考试的读者朋友。

总序

前言

作者简介

Unit 1 Modernist Poetry

  Introduction

  Literary Terms

  The Transition: Two Poems

  T.S. Eliot (1888--1965)

  The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  Supplement

Unit 2 Modernist Fiction

  Introduction

  Literary Terms

  Virginia Woolf ( 1882--1941 )

  Time New Roman

  Supplement

Unit 3 The Colonial Experience

  Introduction

  Literary Terms

  Joseph Conrad (1857--1924)

  An Outpost of Progress

Unit 4 Poets of the Thirties

  Introduction

  Literary Terms

  W.H. Auden (1907--1973)

  The Unknown Citizen

  Cecil Day Lewis (1904--1972)

  Newsreel

  Louis MacNeice (1907--1963)

  The Sunlight on the Garden

  Supplement

Unit 5 Modern Dystopias

  Introduction

  Aldous Huxley (1894--1963)

  Brave New World (Chapter Two)

Unit 6 War Poetry

  Introduction

  Wilfred Owen (1893--1918)

  Dulce Et Decorum Est

  Henry Reed (1914--1986)

  Naming of Parts

  Keith Douglas (1920--1944)

  How to Kill

  Supplement

Unit 7 The Movement Poets

  Introduction

  Philip Larkin (1922--1985)

  Church Going

  Thom Gunn (1929--2004)

  On the Move

Unit 8 Women's Writing: Fiction

  Introduction

  Literary Terms

  Isak Dinesen (1885--1962)

  The Blank Page

Unit 9 Women's Writing: Poetry

  Introduction

  U.A. Fanthorpe (b. 1929)

  From the Third Storey

  Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955)

  Standing Female Nude

  Selima Hill (b. 1945)

  The Ram

  Supplement

Unit 10 Re-writing of Fairy Tales

  Introduction 

  Literary Terms

  Analysis of a Fairy Tale

  Angela Carter (1940--1992)

  The Company of Wolves

  Supplement

Unit 11 Travel Writing

  Introduction

  Literary Terms

  Colin Thubron (b. 1939)

  Behind the Wall and Chinese Characters (extracts)

  Supplement

Unit 12 The Empire Writes Back

  Introduction

  Jean Rhys (1890--1979)

  Wide Sargasso Sea (extracts)

  Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)

  From An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

  Supplement

Unit 13 Irish Writing: Fiction

  Introduction

  Frank O'Connor (1903--1966)

  Guests of the Nation

Unit 14 Irish Writing: Poetry

  Introduction

  Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

  Punishment

  Derek Mahon (b. 1941)

  The Last of the Fire Kings

  Supplement

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