英美短篇小说精粹

出版时间：2009-8  出版社：武汉大学出版社  作者：朱宾忠　主编  页数：381  
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前言

　　短篇小说（the short story）是用散文创作的虚构类叙事作品，通常只限于写单一背景下的一个事件，牵涉到一两个人物的活动，一般认为长度应在l000-20000字，少于l000字的叫做小小说（short short fiction，short shorts或者flash fiction）。多于20 000字的就是中篇小说或者长篇小说了。但有人认为纯粹以字数来分类没有道理，爱伦·坡就提出短篇小说作为一个文类区别于中、长篇小说的应该有其自身的美学特征，他在《创作的哲学》（“The Philosophy of Composition”）一文中指出短篇小说应该具备这样一个特征：要人坐在那里一口气可以读完（One should be able to read it one sitting），要具有一种长篇小说所不可能具备的“印象的统一性”。有人认为短篇小说做到了法国古典戏剧未能真正实行的三一律：表现一天之内一个地方所发生的一个行动，短篇小说处理的是单一人物、单一事件、单一情感，或者由单一情境所引发的一连串情感。

内容概要

　　本书选材突出经典，选文全是英美短篇小说大师的作品，有的作品几乎是所有短篇小说集必不可少的选文，特别适合初涉文学的英语专业学生学习。    选文内容丰富，可读性强，既可作为文学教材使用，也可作为语言训练的阅读教材。每篇小说后面都附有阅读思考题，便于教师上课使用或学生自学。另外，本书主编还可提供教学课件供广大教师朋友参考。    作家介绍部分尽量涉及作家在短篇小说发展史上的贡献，从理论上强化读者阅读小说时所获得的关于短篇小说发展脉络的感性认识。    本书设定的阅读对象为全日制英语专业大学二、三年级学生，英语专业自考生，已经通过大学英语四级考试的非英语专业学生，以及相当程度的其他英语文学爱好者。

书籍目录

Unit Ⅰ Sir Walter ScottUnit Ⅱ Washington IrvingUnit Ⅲ Nathaniel HawthorneUnit Ⅳ Edgar Allan PoeUnit Ⅴ Charles DickensUnit Ⅵ Herman MelvilleUnit Ⅶ Mark TwainUnit Ⅷ Robert Louis StevensonUnit Ⅷ Oscar WildeUnit Ⅹ Joseph ConradUnit Ⅺ O. HenryUnit Ⅻ Stephen CraneUnit ⅩⅢ Virginia WoolfUnit ⅩⅣ James JoyceUnit ⅩⅤ Katherine MansfieldUnit ⅩⅥ William Faulkner

章节摘录

　　Poe was a complex person， tormented and alcoholic yet also considerate andhumorous， a good friend， and an affectionate husband. Indeed， his painful life，his neurotic attraction to intense beauty， violent horror， and death， and his senseof the world of dreams contributed to his greatness as a writer. In the practicalaffairs of everyday life， in many of the common amenities， in the domestic circle，and in the general give and take of earthly existence， Poe was greatly lacking andfrequently a complete failure. He could not and did not in any sense of the words"get along" with his fellow men. But he certainly was a charm and fascination， amagnetism and a reverse power of antagonism which caused him to be greatly lovedby a few， hated by many， and memorable to everybody.　　As a man Poe wasabnormal， and as a genius unique.Poe was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living throughwriting alone and he was one of the earliest American practitioners of the shortstory and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre.　　He alsocontributed to the emerging genre of science-fiction. His skillfully wrought talesand poems convey with passionate intensity the mysterious， dreamlike， and oftenmacabre forces that pervaded his sensibility. His characters are either grotesquesor the inhabitants of another world than this. Being a master hand at writing theshort story， he is especially "clever at dropping foreshadowing hints at what wouldhappen later and keeping the reader in suspense for as long as possible. He likesto use learned words， which makes reading his stories a little difficult for theaverage reader. But the fulfillment of gaining insight into human psychology givesthe reader enough compensation for the hard labour of "cracking the nut" of hislanguage.

用户评论 (总计19条)

•   小说精粹很不错，选文很好，用词很标准~
•   很详细，适合专业学生看
•   纸质挺薄的，封面有点瑕疵，但不影响阅读。
•   因为要考试所以买的，里面的内容蛮好的，很经典。
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  当时在找考研的资料，因为自身口语的欠缺，想着找些既能看又能读的材料。
  这本书拿到的时候挺喜欢的，不是很厚，每天读一小篇，量不大，却会有收获。
  
  买值了~
•   是正品，内容好，正是我想用的。
•   帮同学买的专业课本，不错
•   啊啊，要看好久了！
•   还没看呢！~~希望有用！~~
•   嗯 很好 正是我需要的
•   当当网上的还是便宜啊
•   翻了哈，觉得很好~~
•   名家名篇，不错，可是，没翻译，只能慢慢啃了……
•   质量不错，很清晰。正版书
•   书到了，翻了下很新，支持当当
•   非常适合英语文学专业的同学购买
•   这个价格还可以 书本身不错 就是印刷的纸张感觉暗暗的 应该是正版吧……
•   比较好，就是纸张有点差
•   字有点小，看的时间久了有点晕……