美国散文选读

出版时间：2009-3  出版社：北京大学出版社  作者：陶洁 主编  页数：256  
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前言

　　北京大学出版社自2005年以来已出版《语言与应用语言学知识系列读本》多种，为了配合第十一个五年计划，现又策划陆续出版《2l世纪英语专业系列教材》。这个重大举措势必受到英语专业广大教师和学生的欢迎。　　作为英语教师，最让人揪心的莫过于听人说英语不是一个专业。只是一个工具。说这些话的领导和教师的用心是好的，为英语专业的毕业生将来找工作着想，因此要为英语专业的学生多多开设诸如新闻、法律、国际商务、经济、旅游等其他专业的课程。但事与愿违，英语专业的教师们很快发现．学生投入英语学习的时间少了，掌握英语专业课程知识甚微，即使对四个技能的掌握也并不比大学英语学生高明多少，而那个所谓的第二专业在有关专家的眼中只是学到些皮毛而已。　　英语专业的路在何方？有没有其他路可走？这是需要我们英语专业教师思索的问题。中央领导关于创新是一个民族的灵魂和要培养创新人才等的指示精神，让我们在层层迷雾中找到了航向。显然。培养学生具有自主学习能力和能进行创造性思维是我们更为重要的战略目标，使英语专业的人才更能适应21世纪的需要．迎接21世纪的挑战。　　如今，北京大学出版社外语部的领导和编辑同志们。也从教材出版的视角探索英语专业的教材问题，从而为贯彻英语专业教学大纲做些有益的工作，为教师们开设大纲中所规定的必修、选修课程提供各种教材。《21世纪英语专业系列教材》是普通高等教育“十一五”国家级规划教材和国家“十一五”重点出版规划项目《面向新世纪的立体化网络化英语学科建设丛书》的重要组成部分。这套系列教材要体现新世纪英语教学的自主化、协作化、模块化和超文本化，结合外语教材的具体情况，既要解决语言、教学内容、教学方法和教育技术的时代化，也要坚持弘扬以爱国主义为核心的民族精神。因此，今天北京大学出版社在大力提倡专业英语教学改革的基础上。编辑出版各种英语专业技能、英语专业知识和相关专业知识课程的教材，以培养具有创新性思维的和具有实际工作能力的学生，充分体现了时代精神。

内容概要

本书是以英语专业本、专科学生为读者对象的教材，精选18位著名的美国散文作家，每个作家为1个单元，18个授课单元均以历史背景概述、有关散文家情况简介、所选散文、注释、赏析、讨论与思考问题、推荐书目、参考书目等模块，使学生全面系统地掌握散文这一美国文学中的重要文类。

书籍目录

概论第一单元  Benjamin Franklin（1706—1790）本杰明·富兰克林  Autobiography第二单元  Hector StJohn de Crbvecoeur（1735—1813）  赫克托·圣约翰·德·克雷夫科尔  What Is an American?  第三单元  Ralph Waldo Emerson（1803——1882）拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生  Self-Reliance第四单元  HenryDavid Thoreau（1817——1862）亨利·大卫·梭罗  To HG0Blake  Walden第五单元  Herman Melville（1819—1891）赫尔曼·梅尔维尔  Hawthome and HiS Mosses第六单元  Margaret Fuller（1810——1850）玛格丽特·富勒  The Great Lawsuit第七单元  Frederick Douglass（1818——1895）弗雷德里克·道格拉斯  Whatto the Slave Is the Fourth ofJuly?第八单元  Mark Twain（1835—1910）马克·吐温  On William Dean Howells第九单元  Henry James（1843—1916）亨利·詹姆斯  From“The Art ofFiction”  第十单元  HenryAdams（1838—1918）亨利·亚当斯  The Education ofHenry Adams第十一单元  Gertrude Stein（1874—1946）格特鲁德·斯泰因  The Autography ofAlice BToklas第十二单元  ShenⅣood Anderson（1876—1941）舍伍德·安德森  A Story Teller’S Story第十三单元  Sinclair（Harry）Lewis（1885——1951）辛克莱·刘易斯  The American Fear of Literature：  Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech（1930）第十四单元第十五单元第十六单元第十七单元第十八单元第十九单元第二十单元第二十一单元

章节摘录

　　I walked about the city of New York looking at people. I was not too young any more andcould not make myself over to fit a new city. No doubt certain characteristics of my own naturehad become fixed. I was a man of the mid-western towns who had gone from his town to themid-western cities and there had gone through the adventures common to such fellows as myself.Was there some salt in me？ To the end of my life I would talk with the half slovenly drawl of themiddle-westerner, would walk like such a middle-westerner, have the air of something between alaborer, a man of business, a gambler, a race horse owner, an actor. If I was, as I then fullyintended, to spend the rest of my life trying to tell such tales as I could think and feel my waythrough, I would have to tell the tales of my own people. Would I gain new power and insight fortelling by having come East, by consorting with other story-tellers？ Would I understand better myown people and what had made the tragedies, the comedies and the wonders of their lives？　　I was in New York as a guest, as an onlooker, wondering about the city and the men of thecity and what they were thinking and feeling. There were certain men I wanted to see, who hadwritten things I thought had given me new lights on my own people, the subjects of my tales.　　I dare say there was a good deal of a certain half-rural timidity in me.　　There was Mr. Van Wyck Brooks, whose book "Americas Coming-of-Age," had movedme deeply. He with Mr. Waldo Frank, Paul Rosenfeld, James Oppenheim and others had juststarted a magazine, The Seven Arts （that after its death was to be replaced by The Dial, publishedby a quite different group）, and the magazine had not only offered to publish some of my thingsbut its editors had asked me to come to see them.　　I wanted to go and was at the same time a little afraid. At that time there was a good deal oftalk abroad as to a new artistic awakening in America. Mr. Waldo Frank s " Our America" musthave been in preparation at just about that time and it could not have been much later that Mr.William Allen White~ wrote in The New Republic, an article the import of which was that "TheKing is dead！ Long live the King！" If there were new things in the land, I wanted to see andconsort with them ifI could.　　As for The Seven Arts magazine, there had been rumors of its coming birth, even in Chicago.

用户评论 (总计4条)

•   英语老师推荐的英语阅读的文章翻译和学习都很好！
•   能了解很多常识，
•   看起来很赞
•   这本书的内容挺好，我就是因为内容而去买的。里面的英文，我还没细看，不过读起来的感觉很不错。