重读今日英国

出版时间：2007-6  出版社：上海外语教育  作者：仲伟合  页数：444  字数：655000  
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内容概要

This books features 40 essays carefully selected from the papers submitted to“Rereading Britain Today” (Nov.12-15, 2004), the 2nd internatioial conference organized by the Faculty of English Language and Cultture, GDUFS and co-sponsored by the British Council.Theseessays are grouped into 5 parts, namely “British Fiction: New Readings of Classics”,“British Poetry and Drama: Certainties and Ambiguities”,“British Society: Now and Then”,“British Popular Culture: Strategies visa -vis Changes”, and“British Literature and Culture in　China:Affinities and Differences”.They carry reflecuons on British literary and cultural texts from a variety of perspectives, including gender,　postcolonial,archetypal sociological, linguistic, translation studies and cultural studies.They address such issues as ethnicity, gender relations, identily (political,social and cultural), politics, education, mass media and translation,covering major concerns and debates in the academia on the new understandings of classics and the interpretation of contemporary cultural phenomena in Britain.

书籍目录

PartⅠ. British Fiction: New Readings of Classics　Passions and Betrayals: A Postcolonial Rereading of T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom 　In Search of Lost Romance -- On the Emotional Life of Stevens in The Remains of the Day　The Troubled Self: A Study of Gender Relations in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers　From Mrs. Dalloway to The Hours : Rethinking the Relations Between Women and Feminism　A Comparative Study on "Clay" and "Miss Brill"　Anti-Colonialism in Heart of Darkness　A Metaphorical Reading of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India　Rereading Britain Anthology: Jane Austen, "Englishness" and Authorship-as-sign　An Archetypal Reading of Tess　Desire and Disillusionment -- A Lacanian Reading of Jude the Obscure　Determinism in Eliot's The Mill on the Floss　Australia: a Promising Land in Victorian NovelsPartⅡ. British Poetry and Drama: Certainties and Ambiguities　Being Female and Being a Poet: Unique Territories and Concerns of Women's Poetry　Imagery in Shakespeare's Sonnets　God, Imagination & Crow -- The Revisional God in the Poems of Blake and Hughes　The Dubious Identity of Ruth in Pinter's The Homecoming　The Use of Brecht's A-effect in Churchill's Cloud Nine　The Success of a Non-drama as Drama: The Concrete & Conscious Expression of Existentialism in Waiting for Godot　George Bernard Shaw's Representation of Women -- A Feminist Reading of Mrs. Warren's ProfessionPartⅢ. British Society: Now and Then　Englishness, Hybridity and Postcolonial Britain　Cohabitation in Britain　V.S. Naipaul's Changing England in The Enigma of Arrival　Rereading the Scottish National Identity Through the William Wallace Tales　Strategic Communications -- A Case Study of Labour Victory in the '97 General Election　The Recent Developments in the Teaching and Learning of UK Higher Education InstitutionsPartⅣ. British Popular Culture: Strategies vis-A-vis Changes　The Singularity of the English Sense of Humour　Celebrity, Reality and Surveillance: Contemporary Trends in British Popular Culture with Special Reference to TV　Very Un-British Films: Michael Winterbottom and the Cinema of Incompatibility Bruce Benne　The Full Monty: Reaction to or against Feminism?　Continuity and Change British Working-class Screen Image in the 1990s　BBC's Dilemma in a Globalized Media Market　Internet Censorship in the United Kingdom -- The Role of Self-regulationPartⅤ. British Literature and Culture in China: Affinities and Differences　Teaching Shakespeare in Chinese Universities　The Changing Face of the Teaching Profession:Motivating Students Attending the British Culture Survey Course　An Empirical Study of Teaching English Literature to　Non-English Majors in China　"Accomplished with That We Lack": Female Cross-Dressing　on the Stage  Different Attitudes Towards Life in Endgame and Chinese Works  In Bed with Tracey Emin and Mu Zimei -- Pleasure and Jouissance in the Consumption of Cultural Forms    Translation of Wilde's Salome in the Republic of China (1912 - 1949)-- Investigating Enlightenment    Holmes in China -- Impact of Translated British Detective Fiction on Chinese Literature in Late Qing DynastyAbout the Authors