《走近英美经典短篇小说》选材聚焦于英美现代短篇小说,侧重小说的可读性和艺术性,绝大多数为名家名作。小说选材题材广泛,覆盖现代小说、后现代小说、意识流小说、侦探小说、哥特式小说等,可作为大学英语及研究生英语选修课或拓展课程教材。 本书编著人员是程向莉、邓长慧。
Section One Introduction to Fiction
1. Plot
2. Character
3. Point of View
4. Setting
5. Theme
6. Style, Tone, and Symbol
Section Two In-Class Reading
1. The Black Cat
2. The Last Leaf
3. The Mark on the Wall
4. Araby
5. A Rose for Emily
6. Hills Like White Elephant
7. My Oedipus Complex Section One Introduction to Fiction
1. Plot
2. Character
3. Point of View
4. Setting
5. Theme
6. Style, Tone, and Symbol
Section Two In-Class Reading
1. The Black Cat
2. The Last Leaf
3. The Mark on the Wall
4. Araby
5. A Rose for Emily
6. Hills Like White Elephant
7. My Oedipus Complex
8. Lamb to the Slaughter
9. A Good Man Is Hard to Find
10. The Discus Thrower
11. The Balloon
12. The Ray
Section Three After-Class Reading
1. Dusk / Saki
2. Love of Life / Jack London
3. A Jury of Her Peers / Susan Glaspell
4. Hands / Sherwood Anderson
5. Who Dealt? / Ring Lardner
6. Tape-Measure Murder / Agatha Christie
7. The Raid / John Steinbeck
8, To Room Nineteen / Doris Lessing
Appendix Samples of Students' Writing
1. The Mystic Dream
2. Last Bus
3. Exchange
4. A "Love" Story
References