当代英语散文

出版时间：2009-7  出版社：上海外语教育出版社  作者：杨金才，舒奇志，张海榕　主编  页数：274  
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前言

　　我国英语专业本科教学与学科建设，伴随着我国改革开放的步伐，得到了长足的发展和提升。回顾这30多年英语专业教学改革和发展的历程，无论是英语专业教学大纲的制订、颁布、实施和修订，还是四、八级考试的开发与推行，以及多项英语教学改革项目的开拓，无不是围绕英语专业的学科建设和人才培养而进行的，正如《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》提出的英语专业的培养目标，即培养“具有扎实的英语语言基础和广博的文化知识并能熟练地运用英语在外事、教育、经贸、文化、科技、军事等部门从事翻译、教学、管理、研究等工作的复合型英语人才。”为促进英语专业本科建设的发展和教学质量的提高，外语专业教学指导委员会还实施了“新世纪教育质量改革工程”，包括推行“十五”、“十一五”国家级教材规划和外语专业国家精品课程评审，从各个教学环节加强对外语教学质量的宏观监控，从而确保为我国的经济建设输送大量的优秀人才。　　跨入新世纪，英语专业的建设面临新的形势和任务：经济全球化，科技一体化，文化多元化，信息网络化的发展趋势加快，世界各国之间的竞争日趋激烈，这对我国英语专业本科教学理念和培养目标提出了新的挑战；大学英语教学改革如火如荼；数字化、网络化等多媒体教学辅助手段在外语教学中广泛应用和不断发展；英语专业本科教育的改革和学科建设也呈现出多样化的趋势，翻译专业、商务英语专业相继诞生——这些变化和发展无疑对英语专业的学科定位、人才培养以及教材建设提出了新的、更高的要求。　　上海外语教育出版社（简称外教社）在新世纪之初约请了全国30余所著名高校百余位英语教育专家，对面向新世纪的英语专业本科生教材建设进行了深入、全面、广泛和具有前瞻I生的研讨，成功地推出了理念新颖、特色明显、体系完备的“新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列教材”，并被列入“十五”国家级规划教材，以其前瞻l生、先进性和创新性等特点受到全国众多使用院校的广泛好评。　　面对快速发展的英语专业本科教育，如何保证专业的教学质量，培养具有国际视野和创新能力的英语专业人才，是国家、社会、高校教师共同关注的问题，也是教材编撰者和教材出版者关心和重视的问题。

内容概要

本书特点：　　权威性和先进性的体现：按照《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》提出的培养目标、课程设置、教学要求和教学原则精心设计，凝聚海内外英语专业教育界专家学者的智慧，反映英语专业教育、科研的最新成果。　　前瞻性和创新性的结晶：基于广泛的市场调研、详尽的需求分析和严谨的科学判断，梳理现有教程，优化教材结构，更新教学方法和手段，强化学生综合能力的培养。　　专业素质和人文素养的同步提升：专业技能、专业知识、相关专业知识的完美匹配，帮助学生打下扎实的语言基本功，增强其分析问题、解决问题的能力，提高专业素质和人文素养，使学生真正成为国际化、创新型、高素质的英语专业人才。

书籍目录

Unit 1  Families  What Is Happiness?Unit 2  Femininity  The Appeal of the Androgynous ManUnit 3  Learning to Listen  The Fine Art of ComplainingUnit 6  The Chase  Bombs Bursting in AirUnit 5  In Defense of Talk Shows  Why We Crave Horror MoviesUnit 6  I Surf, Therefore I Am  A Design for Living on the InternetUnit 7  Less Is More: A Call for Shorter Work Hours  What Is the Point of Working?  The Portraits of My Parents  A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American DreamUnit 9  Of Shopping  Kill 'Era! Crush 'Era! Eat 'Era Raw!Unit 10  But What Do You Mean?  PornoviolenceUnit 11  That Lean and Hungry Look  The Ugly Truth About BeautyUnit 12  On Self-Respect  The Medusa and the SnailUnit 13  The Word Police  Sexism and LanguageUnit 14  The Broken Chain  Ann Wrestling with My FatherUnit 15  What the Great Books Do  The Limits of the Great BooksUnit 16  Love Sick  Love StoryUnit 17  Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir  Safe-Sex LiesUnit 18  The "Values" Wasteland  Student LoansUnit 19  A Fable for Tomorrow  Is Technology Making Us Intimate Strangers?Unit 20  Of Headless Mice... and Men  Study Cloning, Don't Ban ItAppendix: Reading CriticallyReferences

章节摘录

　　Of course, it would be a mistake to sup-pose that there is more blind acceptance of bru-tal practices in organized football than elsewhere.On the contrary, a recent Harvard study has ap-provingly argued that footballs characteristics of"impersonal acceptance of inflicted injury," anoverriding "organization goal," the "ability to turnoneself on and off" and being, above all, "out towin" are of "inestimable value" to bigcorporations. Clearly, our sort of football is nosicker than the rest of our society. Even its orga-nized destruction of physical well-being is notanomalous. Avery large part of our wealth, workand time is, after all, spent in systematically de-stroying and harming human life. Manufacturing,selling and using weapons that tear opponents topieces. Making ever bigger and faster predator-named cars with which to kill and injure oneanother by the million every year. And devotingour very lives to outgunning one another forpower in an ever more destructive rat race. Yet allthese practices are accepted without question bymost people, even zealously defended andhonored. Competitive, organized injuring is in-tegral to our way of life, and football is simplyone of the more intelligible mirrors of the wholeprocess: a sort of colorful morality play showingus how exciting and rewarding it is to Smash ThyNeighbor3.　　Now it is fashionable to rationalize ourcollaboration in all this by arguing that, well,man l/kes to fight and injure his fellows and suchgames as football should be encouraged to dis-charge this original-sin urge into less harmfulchannels than, say, war. Public-show football,this line goes, plays the same sort of catharticrole as Aristotle said stage tragedy does: with-out real blood （or not much）, it releases playersand audience-from unhealthy feelings stored upinside them.

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