英美經(jīng)典短篇小說(shuō)賞析

前言

要深入地了解一個(gè)民族、一種文化，不能只注意那些五光十色的報(bào)紙、雜志、廣播、電視和互聯(lián)網(wǎng)，而必須讀他們的文學(xué)作品。正是在文學(xué)作品里，可以得到比表面現(xiàn)象要深刻得多的東西：這個(gè)民族真正的思想、感情、性格甚至靈魂。文學(xué)作品是一個(gè)民族骨子深處的反映，是一個(gè)民族歷史的凝聚，是一種博大深厚文化的永恒載體?？墒请S著現(xiàn)代生活節(jié)奏的加快，人們已經(jīng)很少能夠捧起大部頭的長(zhǎng)篇文學(xué)作品來(lái)讀了，短篇小說(shuō)正好可以滿足快節(jié)奏的現(xiàn)代人閱讀文學(xué)作品的這一需求。短篇小說(shuō)在現(xiàn)、當(dāng)代文學(xué)中占有越來(lái)越重要的地位。它以篇幅短小、形式活潑、主題突出、及時(shí)鮮明地反映生活的各個(gè)側(cè)面而見(jiàn)長(zhǎng)。英國(guó)女作家伊麗莎白?包溫有一句名言：“短篇小說(shuō)必備的第一個(gè)條件是它的迫切性，這就是說(shuō)，故事之所以發(fā)生，是因?yàn)樽髡攉@得一種印象或有切膚之感，覺(jué)得非寫(xiě)下來(lái)不可，至于采取什么形式，則可多種多樣，只要它有內(nèi)在統(tǒng)一性就可以了?！痹谶@個(gè)松散的定義中，她實(shí)際上點(diǎn)出了短篇小說(shuō)作為一種獨(dú)立的藝術(shù)形式的根本特點(diǎn)，即它的靈活性。這是一種最有彈性、最靈活的藝術(shù)形式。它可以沒(méi)有人物，沒(méi)有情節(jié)，沒(méi)有對(duì)話，而只是瞬間的感覺(jué)和印象；它可以寫(xiě)感情，也可以全然不動(dòng)感情；可以是戲劇性的，也可以是印象派或詩(shī)意的；它可以是嘲諷的、哲理的、幽默的，也可以是悲切憂傷的。

內(nèi)容概要

文學(xué)作品是一個(gè)民族、一種文化深處的反映，作為文學(xué)的一種體裁，短篇小說(shuō)以其篇幅短小、樣式靈活、主題多樣、風(fēng)格迥異而備受快節(jié)奏的現(xiàn)代人青睞。本書(shū)精選了20篇英美短篇小說(shuō)，它們都出自文學(xué)大家，都對(duì)短篇小說(shuō)的發(fā)展產(chǎn)生了深遠(yuǎn)的影響，都在短篇小說(shuō)發(fā)展史上占有舉足輕重的地位。本書(shū)涉及的英國(guó)作家有：狄更斯、哈代、史蒂文森、王爾德等；美國(guó)作家有：歐文、霍桑、愛(ài)倫·坡、馬克·吐溫等。本書(shū)不僅給讀者提供了原汁原味的英語(yǔ)，并且還可以讓讀者領(lǐng)略英美短篇小說(shuō)絢爛多姿的風(fēng)采。

書(shū)籍目錄

1．RiD Van Winkle2．The Minister’S Black Veil3．The Cask of Amonstillado  4．The Signal—Man5．The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County6．The Three Strangers7．Markheim．8．The Nightingale and the Rose9．A Charming Family10．The Cop and the Anthem11．The Gardener12．Compensation  13．Sredni Vashtar14．The Lost Phoebo15．Love of Life16．I Want to Know Why17．Araby18．The Horse Dealer’S Daughter19．The Man without Temperament20．Babylon Revisite

章節(jié)摘錄

WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudsona must remember the Kaatskill Mountains2. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family3 ,and are seenaway to the west of the river,swelling up to a noble height,and lording it over the sur rounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day,produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains,and they are regarded by all the good wives,far and near,as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled,they are clothed in blue and purple,and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they willgather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun,will glow and light up like a crown of glory.At the foot of these fairy mountains the voyager may have descried the light smokecurling up from a village whose shingle roofs gleam among the trees,just where the bluetints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape. It is a little villageof great antiquity, having been founded by some of the Dutch colonists, in the earlytimes of the province, just about the beginning of the government of the good Peter StuyvesanP (may he rest in peace! ),and there were some of the houses of the original settiers standing within a few years,built of small yellow bricks brought from Holland, havinglatticed windows and gable fronts,surmounted with weathercocks.

編輯推薦

《英美經(jīng)典短篇小說(shuō)賞析》由國(guó)家知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)局知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)出版社出版。

圖書(shū)封面

評(píng)論、評(píng)分、閱讀與下載

---

    英美經(jīng)典短篇小說(shuō)賞析 PDF格式下載

---