當(dāng)代英語短篇小說選讀

前言

　　走進(jìn)英語文學(xué)的寶庫，如同置身于浩瀚的大海。若想領(lǐng)略其中的美妙，仍需讀者親身去遨游和探索。俗話說，“工欲善其事，必先利其器”，若想充分理解和欣賞英語文學(xué)寶庫中的瑰寶，首先應(yīng)當(dāng)掌握一些最基本的閱讀技能。正是基于這種考慮，本書在第一部分首先以通俗易懂的英語及全新的方式講解英語文學(xué)閱讀的基本技能和方法，幫助讀者提高學(xué)習(xí)及欣賞英語文學(xué)作品的能力和水平?！　≡诘诙糠郑瑸榱俗屪x者將所學(xué)的技能和方法付諸實(shí)踐，本書精選了十篇具有代表性的當(dāng)代著名作家的短篇小說。這些作品內(nèi)涵豐富、寓意深刻，不但用語精辟生動、通俗易懂，而且時代感強(qiáng)，涉及當(dāng)今社會民眾現(xiàn)實(shí)生活的方方面面?！　⊥ㄟ^這些作品，不但可以學(xué)習(xí)真正意義上的現(xiàn)代英語，了解當(dāng)代西方的風(fēng)俗文化及思維方式，還可以管中窺豹，了解當(dāng)今西方作家的流派及各具特色的創(chuàng)作思想、風(fēng)格和藝術(shù)?！　∶科≌f后面不但有作者介紹，而且還提出一些問題來引導(dǎo)和幫助讀者理解、思考、回味與交流，從而激發(fā)閱讀與學(xué)習(xí)英語文學(xué)作品的興趣，取得最佳的學(xué)習(xí)效果。

內(nèi)容概要

本書分兩大部分。第一部分以通俗易懂的英語介紹英語文學(xué)閱讀的基本技能和方法，幫助讀者提高學(xué)習(xí)及欣賞英語文學(xué)作品的能力和水平。第二部分精選了十篇具有代表性的當(dāng)代著名作家的短篇小說，每篇作品不但有作家介紹，而且提出一些問題引導(dǎo)讀者思考、領(lǐng)悟、回味與交流。

書籍目錄

Part One  Skills Needed For Reading Literature  Unit 1  Identifying the Main Idea  Unit 2  Making Inferences  Unit 3  Getting Meaning from Context  Unit 4  Using Ideas in New Contexts  Unit 5  Style and Structure  Unit 6  Figurative Language　Unit 7  Identifying Implications　Unit 8  Identifying Cause & Effect　Unit 9  Drawing Conclusions　Unit 10  Identifying Assumptions　Unit 11  Symbols"　Unit 12  Similes & Metaphors　Unit 13  Imagery　Unit 14  Characterization　Unit 15  Theme　Keys to ExercisesPart Two  Selected Short Stories　A Rose for Emily  William Faulkner　The First Seven Years  Bernard Maiamud　Shot Actress—Full Story  H.E.Bates　Life of Ma Parker  Katherine Mansfield　A Message from the Pig-Man  John Wain　The Dry Rock  Irwin Shaw　Possessions  George Ewart Evans　The Raid  John Steinbeck　Late Night on Wading Street  Bill Naughton　Araby  James Joyoe

章節(jié)摘錄

　　He based his persuasive reasoning on two books which a Missis-sippi clergyman of some erudition had brought to his attention. Thefirst was Philip Gosse， an English writer, who argued simply thatthere were fossils, yes, and there were dinosaur bones, and therewere geological strata, and everything was exactly as Darwin andthe geologists described it. The secret was that in the year 4004 B.C. God had created the world exactly as Genesis said, and had hid-den all these bits of evidence in the rocks and in the dinosaur bonesas a kind of temptation to mans intellectual presumptions. Gosseexplained everything in such simple and beautiful terms that Strabis-mus said, No further discussion is necessary. The record is exactlywhat the atheistic professors at Yale say. It has to be, because Godplaced it there on the day of Creation.　　The second book was extremely useful when arguing with peo-ple from the universities who had a smattering of knowledge. It wasGeorge McCready Prices The New Geology, which Marcia Strabis-mus sold for ten dollars a copy, to those who sought the truth. Itwas a formidable essay, well founded in scientific jargon and difficultto rebut. Its major thesis appealed to all who suffered from thetyranny of science, and when Strabismus translated this into hisown terms it made a persuasive argument:　　‘These here scientists try to tell us that fossils found in rocksalways grow from primitive forms to complex forms like you andme. And to prove this they show us that the primitive forms alwaysappear in the earliest rocks, and the complex forms in later rocks.But how do they date the layers of rock？ You stop right now and tellme how they date the layers of rock.

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