内容简介
本书为大学英语教材。全书收短篇、长篇小说20多篇,分类就情节、观点、人物、风格做了详尽论述。
目录
Intorduction Reading a Story Chapter One Plot A & P by John Updike A Retrievde Reformation by O. Henry A Rose Four Emily by William Faulkner Chapter Two Point of View The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe Araby by James Joyce Chapter Three Character The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Kathering Anne Porter Everyday Use by Alice Walker Chapter Four Setting The Storm by Kate Chopin The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy Chapter Five Style A Clean, Well-Lighted Palce by Ernest Hemingway Barn Burning by Wiliam Faulkner Chapter Six Theme Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D. H. Lawrence Chapter Seven Symbol The Lottery by Shirley Jackson The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck Chapter Eight Reading Long Stories and Novels The metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, translated by Wila and Edwin Muir Chapter Nine Writing about a Story Appendix Ⅰ Why Do We Read Fiction? by Robert Penn Warren Appendix Ⅱ Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” Historical Imaging and Critical Responses Appendix Ⅲ Samples of MLA Style “Works Cited” in Research Papers Bibliography




