总序

前言

Introduction  What Is Literature and How to Read Literature

Unit One  Identity

  I. I'm Nobody! Who are you ? by Emily Dickinson

  II. Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

  III. Theme for English B by Langston Hughes

  IV. Two Songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

  V. Dumplings by Yi Sha

  VI. "Hamlet's Soliloquy" from Hamlet (Act III, Scene 1) by William Shakespeare

  VII. A Clean, Well-lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway

  VIII. A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

  IX. Rice by Mary Loh Chieu Kwuan

  X. Luck by Mark Twain

Unit Two  Spiritual Growth

  I. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth

  II. Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens

  III. lncident by Countee Cullen

  IV. When I Was One-and-Twenty by A. E. Housman

  V. Araby by James Joyce

  VI. A Handful of Dates by Tayeb Salih

  VII. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

  VIII. Three Days to See by Helen Keller

Unit Three  Love

  I. "Guan Ju" from Shijing (Book of Verse)

  II. La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats

  III. The Lorelei by Heinrich Heine

  IV. A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

  V. SONNET 130 by William Shakespeare

  VI. When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats

  VII. How Do ILove Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  VIII. Variations on the Word Love by Margaret Atwood

  IX. Under the Willow Tree by Hans Christian Andersen

  X. "Balcony Scene" from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

  XI. The Blue Jar by Isak Dinesen

  XII. The Beggar by Anton Chekhov

Unit Four  Family

  I. The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson

  II. From "On Children" of The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

  III. My Father's Song by Simon J. Ortiz

  IV. A Story Wet as Tears by Marge Piercy

  V. The Victims by Sharon Olds

  VI. The Photos by Diane Wakoske

  VII. My Oedipus Complex by Frank O'Connor

  VIII. "Chapter 1" from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

  IX. A Selection from A Doll's House (Act III) by Henrik Ibsen

Unit Five  Man and Society

  I. Two Poems by W. H. Auden

  II. Mending Wall by Robert Frost

  III. Trust by Andy Rooney

  IV. The Man Who Married Himself by Charlie Fish

  V. Dead Men's Path by Chinua Achebe

  VI. The Bad Zouave by Alphonse Daudet

  VII. Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant

  VIII. The Law of Life by Jack London

Unit Six  Contemplations

  I. The Lamb by William Blake

  II. God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins

  III. Design by Robert Frost

  IV. Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer

  V. To Hell with Dying by Alice Walker

  VI. Allegory of the Cave by Plato

  VII. How Much Land Does a Man Need by Leo Tolstoy

  VIII. "Solitude"from Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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