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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Taking as its point of departure recent insights about the performative nature of genre, The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic challenges the critical tendency to accept at face value that gothic literature is mainly about fear. Instead, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that the American Gothic, and gothic literature in general, is also about judgment: how to judge and what happens when judgment is confronted with situations that defy its limits. Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Gilman, and James all shared a concern with the political and ideological debates of their time, but tended to approach these debates indirectly. Thus, Monnet suggests, while slavery and race are not the explicit subject matter of antebellum works by Poe and Hawthorne, they nevertheless permeate it through suggestive analogies and tacit references. Similarly, Melville, Gilman, and James use the gothic to explore the categories of gender and sexuality that were being renegotiated during the latter half of the century. Focusing on "The Fall of the House of Usher," The Marble Faun, Pierre, The Turn of the Screw, and "The Yellow Wallpaper," Monnet brings to bear minor texts by the same authors that further enrich her innovative readings of these canonical works. At the same time, her study persuasively argues that the Gothic's endurance and ubiquity are in large part related to its being uniquely adapted to rehearse questions about judgment and justice that continue to fascinate and disturb.   Publisher Summary 2 While many critics have argued the American gothic literary genre is primarily about the pleasure of fear, Monnet (American literature, U. of Lausanne, Switzerland) suggests that American gothic is primarily about the pleasures of (often ambiguous) judgment. In other words, American gothic engages with the problems of judgment when there is the lack of a shared paradigm. Furthermore, this engagement with judgment is often simultaneously an indirect intervention into major political issues of the day. Having defined the genre thusly, Monnet engages with the works of canonical literary authors as American gothic, partly in order to demonstrate the value of bringing genre studies to bear on well known and often studied works. She discusses the ways Edgar Allan Poe's short stories demonstrate his interest in ethical issues, particularly focusing on the "The Fall of the House of Usher" as resonant of anxieties about slave revolt. She reads Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun as concerned with the ethical crisis posed by slavery wherein the physical movement of a dark travel narrative becomes a trope for the operations of denial. Herman Melville's Pierre is read as "a masterpiece of epistemological and moral skepticism," an exploration of "the nexus of shame, secrecy, and epistemological issues related to socially prohibited forms of desire," and one of America's earliest queer texts. Finally, she compares Henry James's The Turn of the Screw to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" through explorations of issues of female madness and queer complicities. Annotation 漏2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)  

Scarlet letter

作者：  (美)纳撒尼尔·霍桑(Nathaniel Hawthorne)著;贺广贤注释

出版社：世界图书出版西安公司,2007

简介： 《红字》是美国浪漫主义小说家纳撒尼尔·霍桑的代表作品。描写有夫之妇少丝特·普琳被一青年牧师狄梅斯迪尔诱骗怀孕。在远离社会，远离人群，受尽屈辱的处境中，海丝特孤苦顽强地生活着，她唯一的支柱是女儿珠儿。海丝特这种忍辱负重、代人受过和不屈不挠的精神，曾一度感动了狄梅斯迪尔。她丈夫突然归来，并不择手段追查奸夫身份欲加报复。最后，饱受良心的谴责的狄梅斯迪尔在自己就任新市的那天，当众宣布了自己诱骗海丝特的事实，并死在海丝特怀抱中。小说揭露了19世纪资本主义发展时代美国社会法典的残酷、宗教的欺骗和道德的虚伪。该小说不仅是美国浪漫主义小说的代表作，同时也被称作是美国心理分析小说的开创篇。

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简介：Includes short stories by Katherine Mansfield, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, V.S. Pritchett, E.M. Forster, Henry James, Carson McCullers, Rudyard Kipling, Alexander Poushkin, John O'Hara, Anatole France, Thomas Wolfe, Max Beerbohm, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, O. Henry, William Saroyan, Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter, J.D. Salinger, Frank O'Connor, Edmund Wilson, Aldous Huxley, Stephen Vincent Benet, Clarence Day, James Joyce, John Steinbeck, E.B. White, Anton Chekhov, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Virginia Woolf, James Thurber, "Saki" (H.H. Munro), Arthur Schnitzler, George Milburn, Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Faulkner, Robert M. Coates, Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken, Irwin Shaw, Lord Dunsany, Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. Somerset Maugham, Ring Lardner, H.G. Wells, Francis Steegmuller, Robert Louis Stevenson, and John Collier.

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简介：Includes short stories, poems, plays, and essays by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Frank O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Cade Bambara, Sandra Cisneros, William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.E. Housman, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Graves, Stevie Smith, Countee Cullen, Dylan Thomas, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Larkin, Anthony Hecht, Peter Meinke, Robert Mezey, June Jordan, Bruce Bennett, Deborah Pope, Molly Peacock, Katherine McAlpine, Jill Bialosky, Nick Flynn, Sophocles, Tennessee Williams, Langston Hughes, Joan Didion, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Herman Melville, Franz Kafka, James Thurber, Richard Wright, Shirley Jackson, Ursula K. LeGuin, Harlan Ellison, Amy Tan, Tennyson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Claude McKay, Bertolt Brecht, W.H. Auden, Muriel Rukeyser, Richard Wilbur, Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, Marge Piercy, Stephen Dunn, Rober t Pinsky, Nikki Giovanni, Carolyn Forche, Henrik Ibsen, August Wilson, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Jefferson, Emma Goldman, Martin Luther King Jr., William Faulkner, James Baldwin, Chinua Achebe, Bharati Mukherjee, Alice Walker, Barry Lopez, Jamaica Kincaid, Louise Erdrich, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, E.E. Cummings, Anne Sexton, Etheridge Knight, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Wole Soyinka, Linda Hogan, Taslima Nasrin, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, Athol Fugard, Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, George Orwell, Maya Angelou, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Irwin Shaw, Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Sappho, Shakespeare, Thomas Campion, John Donne, Edmund Waller, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, Matthew Arnold, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, May Sarton, Robert Hayden, Anthony Hecht, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Audre Lord, Lucille Clifton, Seamus Heaney, Billy Collins, Sharon Olds, Gary Soto, Susan Glaspell, Erich Fromm, Maxine Hong Kingston, Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Anne Porter, Bernard Malamud, Bessie Head, Tim O'Brien, Leslie Marmon Silko, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Antonio Machado, Wilfred Owen, Pablo Neruda, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Maxine Kumin, Mary Oliver, Samuel Beckett, Woody Allen, Harvey Fierstein, Mark Twain, Jessica Mitford, and others.

Roger Malvin’s burial

作者：  (美)霍桑(Hawthorne,Nathaniel)著;(美)帕拉托(Paratore,Angela)改编;尉小龙,霍建强注释

出版社：北京师范大学出版社,1994.5

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M纹身的猫--康咪咪警员的故事

作者：  （加）Nathaniel Scobie　著，王莹　译

出版社：外文出版社 2014-7-1

简介：1920年的上海，冒险者的天堂。这里有傲慢的旧帝国绅士，游街串巷的恶棍，嗜钱如命的金融大鳄，以及各种秘密社团、地下帮派……还有一位普通的猫警官，随着一连串神秘事件的发生，他的生活不再平静。康咪咪是20世纪20年代上海花鸟市场的警员。他只有三天的时间去查出一只身上印有“谋杀”字样的奇怪的猫是来自哪里，并且找到卖这只猫的算命先生。他也只有三天的时间来判定为什么当时上海最富有的人会知道所有事件背后的真相。

Scarlet letter

作者：  纳撒尼尔·霍桑(Nathaniel Hawthorne)著;梁金叶译

出版社：小知堂文化事业有限公司,2001

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简介：Includes writings by Dylan Thomas, Margaret Laurence, Wallace Stegner, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Bruno Bettelheim, Joan Didion, Joyce Maynard, Fredelle Maynard, Loren Eiseley, E.B. White, Anatole Broyard, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, May Sarton, Woody Allen, Ned Rorem, Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, David McCullough, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, Annie Dillard, Margaret Mead, N. Scott Momaday, Benjamin Franklin, William Golding, Desmond Morris, Jacob Bronowski, M.F.K. Fisher, Isaac Asimov, Paul Theroux, Scott Russell Sanders, Oliver Sacks, Malcolm Cowley, Lewis Thomas, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Stephen Jay Gould, Eudora Welty, Thurber, Adrienne Rich, William Zinsser, H.L. Mencken, Gloria Naylor, Maxine Hong Kingston, Erich Fromm, George Orwell, Francis Bacon, John Donne, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, John Henry Newman, Abraham Lincoln, Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, Hemingway, Faulkner, Updike, Anthony Burgess, Russell Baker, Jessica Mitford, Tom Wolfe, Alistair Cooke, Gloria Steinem, James Baldwin, Konrad Z. Lorenz, Carl Sagan, Edward Abbey, Chief Seattle, Joseph Wood Krutch, Gary Soto, Samuel L. Clemens, W.H. Auden, Ambrose Bierce, Blake, Barbara Tuchman, Barry Lopez, Hannah Arendt, Daniel J. Boorstin, Oscar Lewis, Jonathan Swift, Martin Luther King Jr., Machiavelli, Edith Hamilton, Arthur Koestler, Vladimir Nabokov, Northrop Frye, Alice Munro, Carl Jung, Robert Frost, S.I. Hayakawa, Aaron Copland, Joyce Carol Oates, Plato, Aesop, Robert Graves, Langston Hughes, PaulTillich, Gilbert Highet, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others.

红字hong zi

作者：  (美)纳撒尼尔·霍桑(Nathaniel Hawthorne)著

出版社：外文出版社,2009

简介： 霍桑（1804-1864），美国作家，十九世纪后期美国浪漫主义文学的重要代表。其代表作《红字》一经问世便引起巨大轰动，时至今日仍是不朽的经典。 《红字》描写了二百多年以前发生在新英格兰殖民时期一个浪漫的爱情悲剧。小说以深邃的主题，以象征、隐喻等艺术手法形成独特的风格，对美国文学史上一批卓有成就的作家如梅尔维尔、海明威、菲茨杰拉德、福克纳等都产生过影响。 本书为《世界名著佳段阅读》丛书之一。

THE SCARLET LETTER 红字

作者：  Nathaniel

出版社：北京科文图书业信息技术有限公司 2004年04月

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Hawthorne's classic treatise on morality, judgment, and exile in Puritan America.
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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 The past few years have witnessed an explosive increase in our collective knowledge of the biology of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Researchers have acquired new understanding of the virus's biochemistry, molecular biology, pathogenesis, genetics, and immunobiology. Resulting therapeutic advances have significantly prolonged the lives of thousands. Yet, the need to develop better therapies is ever more acute and--given the virus's continued spread through the human population--the need for an effective vaccine is urgent.These goals can be accomplished only through the experienced synthesis of information from the many disciplines participating in HIV research and through the insights of new investigators. This volume is designed to lower the barriers imposed on investigators by the sheer volume of available information--information that often can be found only in far-flung and specialized journals. It provides, in a single resource, an in-depth overview of the diverse areas that constitute HIV research. The result is a broad introduction for students and researchers new to the field as well as an integrated overview for researchers specialized in particular areas of HIV investigation. The volume will also benefit those seeking technical understanding of the virus's biology, including physicians treating HIV-infected patients.Each chapter is a comprehensive presentation of one area of current AIDS research--including work on the virus life cycle, epidemiology, genetics, protease and reverse transcriptase inhibitors, receptor and co-receptor interactions, therapeutic targets, clinical treatment, immunobiology, and vaccines--written by a leading researcher in that area. The contributors are Jon P. Anderson, Jan Balzarini, Elana Cherry, Thomas J. Coates, Chris Collins, Jon H. Condra, Mark B. Feinberg, Richard B. Gaynor, Matthias G枚tte, Daria J. Hazuda, Spyros Kalams, Nathaniel R. Landau, Gerald H. Learn, Norman L. Letvin, James I. Mullins, Willscott E. Naugler, David Nickle, Matthew Rain, Allen G. Rodrigo, Daniel Shriner, Shalom Spira, Mario Stevenson, Todd Summers, Catherine Ulich, Joseph P. Vacca, Mark A. Wainberg, Bruce D. Walker, and Yang Wang.  

Dream bible

作者：  (瑞士)海因里希·贝尔格(Heinrich Berg)著;马至译

出版社：江西教育出版社,2010

简介：一本值得使用一辈子的解梦宝典 在西方，《圣经》中便有最初关于梦境的解析与梦中预言的验证；而古希腊时期，亚里士多德则提出了梦的成因是外部刺激的说法。 进入20世纪以后，随着心理科学的逐步完善，精神分析、神经生物科学的全面发展，对梦的研究取得了飞速进展。特别到进入60年代后，梦的研究跨入了现代生物实验室，人们开始通过脑电波精确记录睡眠中大脑的状态，千载以来，那些关于梦众说纷纭的说法，终于获得了更加科学的佐证。 现代研究表明： 睡眠不是一个完全连续的过程，一夜的睡眠实际上可以分为四五个相对完整的睡眠周期，每个周期间有短暂的觉醒。 人们根据睡眠中脑电图、肌电图和眼动电图的变化特征，把睡眠分为慢波睡眠和异相睡眠两种类型。在整个睡眠过程里，这两种情况交替出现，循环反复。在慢波睡眠中，又要经过朦胧期（几分钟）、浅睡期（约30——40分钟），和深睡期阶段（70——90分钟）。其中，浅睡期是整夜睡眠中时间最长的一个阶段，会占到睡眠总时间的50%。 在慢波睡眠后，常会进入异相睡眠。这时，睡眠中的人肌肉完全呈松弛状态，甚至肌肉电活动也消失，对外界刺激的感觉进一步降低。与行为变化相反，这一时期的脑电活动却呈现出极不规律的快波，脑的温度、血液流量、耗氧量迅速增加，非常接近清醒期和浅睡期的脑电变化。 1953年，美国生理学家内森黑尔•克莱特曼（Nathaniel Kleitman1895-1999）发现，人处于这个睡眠阶段时，眼球会在眼皮下飞快转，当人在这个阶段被唤醒时，95%的人能回忆他们做的梦。于是这个阶段被称为快速眼动睡眠（Rapid Eye Movement），简称REM睡眠阶段。人们相信，梦正是在这个阶段产生的，REM睡眠因此又被人称为梦眠。 随后的研究表明，在非快速眼动睡眠时被叫醒的人中，只有7％的人能记起自己曾经做过梦。如果快速眼动睡眠后又进入非快速眼动睡眠8分钟以上才醒，梦的记忆多会完全消失。这就是为什么我们有时醒来时，能依稀感到昨夜梦境缤纷，可是脑子里却又似乎什么都记不起来。 从入睡到快速眼动睡眠结束，就形成了睡眠的一个周期。随后睡眠者会再次进入浅睡阶段，重复从浅睡到深睡、到快速眼动睡眠的过程。这样，一整夜的睡眠中约有4—5个睡眠周期反复交替。 实际上，大部分深度睡眠都出现在前面的2—3个周期，即入睡后3—4小时深度睡眠已经完成，这是恢复机体最有效的睡眠时间。而越到后面的周期里，快速眼动睡眠持续的时间就越长，通常第一个周期的快速眼动持续时间只有5到10分钟，而醒前最后一个周期的快速眼动睡眠，却可能长达30—40分钟。它对前面短暂的梦，形成了强烈的干扰。这也就是说，为什么有时我们醒来，只记得最后一个梦了。 与睡眠周期同步，通常来说，一整夜，我们大约会做4-6个梦，一般人的第一个梦，大约出现在入睡后90分钟。梦境的平均持续时间约有5—15分钟。 这其中，每夜睡眠中第一、二两次快速眼动睡眠中的梦多以重现白天的活动内容为主，研究者分析，这似乎是大脑在对当天和近期经历进行重新整理和编码；第三、四次快速眼动睡眠的梦，则多重现过去的经历，甚至童年体验；第五次快速眼动睡眠的梦则既有近期记忆又有往事内容。可见，梦境的内容，与快速眼动睡眠中大脑的工作状态，蛋白合成用以处理信息编码，以及短时记忆、长时记忆储存等大脑工作规律密切相关。 与此同时，通过对梦者脑电波的监控，人们发现，做梦时，梦者的海马体、杏仁核、边缘系统及处理情绪的脑皮层区最为活跃。生理心理学的研究还发现，做梦同一种叫多巴胺的神经介质有关。多巴胺是脑内分泌的一种神经传导物质，用来帮助细胞传送脉冲的化学物质，它主要负责大脑的情欲、感觉、兴奋及开心的信息传递，因而与人的心理动机系统及心理愿望系统密切相关。研究因此证实，梦是由情绪系统激发的，对信息的编码，和对短期记忆、长期记忆的筛选处理；除此以外，也和潜意识的活动、愿望相关，从某个角度验证了佛洛依德的潜意识理论。 人在清醒时，有意识控制我们的思想和行为，当睡着时，大脑内的各种情绪和能量并没有消失，在对信息进行处理同时，还会有一部分用于侦测外界的危险，也就是说，人的预警机制在睡梦中依然在保持工作。它能感受到周围刺激的变化，甚至体内刺激的变化，检索危险的信号。 实际上，人睡着后，对周围一些常规刺激的反应会变得异常迟钝，而某些白天不易察觉的微弱刺激信号，却会得到放大和加强。而大脑中各种信息的处理是互相牵连的，预警机制的工作，同样也会掺入到大脑信息编码与记忆处理等工作，这其中包括短期记忆、长期记忆信息，也包括个体潜意识的信息，甚至集体潜意识的信息——它是包括祖先在内的世世代代的经验库，通过遗传存在大脑中的信息，包含了对危险的预防。预警机制、放大的微弱信号和大脑的信息处理工作三者交互作用，就会形成有关的梦境。这同样也证实了为什么有时个别人的个别梦，会突如其来地具有难以置信的预测性和对危险的警示性。 因此，总结地来说，形成的梦的主要因素包括： 1）睡梦时对外界环境和身体自身刺激的反应； 2）当天与近期生活现实，以及近期思考焦虑的问题； 3）过往经验。包括童年经历，过去经验中爱恨等强烈情绪，内心和精神上的长期焦虑、压抑等； 4）最后一个因素就是大脑的处理活动，或者说梦中大脑的工作状态。 现在，研究已经证实，梦的主要作用包括： 1）对日常生活信息进行整理。做梦是人正常的、必不可少的生理和心理现象，长期无梦可能是大脑有损伤的体现，长期噩梦，常是身体虚弱或患病的征兆。 2）缓解焦虑，调节人体身心平衡。现在，专家经常利用梦的这一作用，对一些易于发泄的个体，或是有变态行为、神经症等患者，采用诱导梦幻的方法进行治疗，发泄疏导。 3）体现身体健康状态，反映疾病。梦能传递疾病的信号，这是因为白天人处于繁忙的工作生活中，机体接受的外部刺激信号强烈，因而不容易察觉体内的细微变化；而睡着后，体内病变形成的微弱刺激信号，则得到相对放大和逐渐加强，传递到大脑中就会形成有关的梦境。 4）认知功能。梦能够帮助认识现实，甚至启迪现实，挖掘潜意识，拓展潜能。所谓的“日有所思，夜有所梦”就体现了梦的这个作用。化学家门捷列夫在睡梦中发现了元素周期表的排列方式，是这个作用最典型的例子之一。梦更成为无数艺术家灵感的源泉，这已经成为艺术圈中的共识。另外，有时梦还体现了一定的预知作用。 总体说来，人的一生中，大约会做15万个梦，约有1／10的时间是在梦中。 梦中的世界是如此玄妙神奇。那么，这1／10的生命中，我们究竟遗落了什么呢？发现梦中世界的隐秘，对我们自我认知与自我完善又会有怎样的帮助呢？如何发现梦境中的秘密？这也就是梦境的解析。 《解梦工具书》这本书就是按照心理学规律，以辞典形式，解析了上千条梦象的含义。内容涵盖：自然、天象、动植物、各种人物、物品、活动行为、生活细节等梦境可能涉及到的方方面面。作为心理学的大众通俗读物，既具答疑解惑的实用性、指导性、趣味性，更是洞悉自己心灵密码，更好了解自我、完善自我的一面镜子。此书系心理学大师荣格的学生所著，他有26年的心理诊疗临床经验，对梦境的分析科学严谨，代表当代梦境分析的最高水平。 此书配以久翻不烂的精美书衣，是枕边最适宜常备的工具书。

Scarlet letter

作者：  Nathaniel Hawthoren[著]

出版社：中国对外翻译出版公司,2011

简介： 《红字》描写女主人公海斯特·白兰冲破没有爱情基础的婚姻的束缚，同年轻牧师狄姆斯台尔秘密相爱，生一女名叫珠儿，从而犯了清教严禁的通奸罪，被判处示众和终生佩戴象征通奸的红色A字。她坚不交代她的同犯，受罚后离群索居，忍辱含垢，以针线活谋生，养活自己和女儿珠儿。狄姆斯台尔牧师怀着隐蔽的罪行，心灵一直得不到安宁，不久他因心力交瘁而病倒。白兰的丈夫改名换姓，乔装成医生，发誓要找出奸夫报仇雪恨。他用旁敲侧击的办法，刺探狄姆斯台尔牧师内心的秘密。白兰眼看牧师承受着莫大的痛苦，被折磨得奄奄一息，便在森林中和他相会，两人相约带着珠儿一同乘船出逃。但她的丈夫料到了这一着，使其计划无法实现。于是，牧师携白兰和珠儿走上示众台，在大庭广众之下承认自己畏避了七年的罪责，随后倒在白兰的怀抱中死去。白兰带着珠儿远走他乡。一年以后，白兰的丈夫死了。若干年后，珠儿长大成人，安家立业，而白兰却一人再回到波士顿，仍带着那个红色的A字，用自己“崇高的道德和助人精神”，把耻辱的红字变成了道德与光荣的象征，直到老死。作者细致地描写了经过长期赎罪而在精神上自新的海斯特·白兰，长期受到信仰和良心的责备而终于坦白承认了罪过的狄姆斯台尔牧师，以及满怀复仇心理以致完全丧失人性的罗杰医生，层层深入地探究有关罪恶和人性的各种道德、哲理问题。小说以监狱和玫瑰花开场，以墓地结束，充满丰富的象征意义。

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简介：该书是根据美国纽约哥伦比亚大学口述历史部教授裴斐（Nathaniel Peffer）和韦慕庭（Martin Wilbur）1960年11月1日至11日采访吴国桢的英文稿翻译而成。虽然它是口头访谈，文字较松散，也不乏累赘，而且问答者的立场、观点和思想与我们不尽相同，我仍觉得这是一本值得一读的书。所谓好书似乎就应该如此，要么让我们读到些什么，要么让我们想到些什么。 　　从读到的内容方面看，这本书内容

Moby-Dick /

作者：  Herman Melville, edited and with an introduction by Charles Child Walcutt

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简介：Book Description "What's the use of elaborating what, in its very essence, is so short-lived as a modern book? Though I wrote the Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter." — Herman Melville, in a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851 One hundred-fifty years have passed since Herman Melville wrote his masterpiece. Yet Moby-Dick endures as an indisputable literary classic that continues to speak to readers today. Join Captain Ahab, an eerily compelling madman, as he pursues an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. In his monomaniacal quest, Ahab focuses his distilled hatred and suffering — and that of generations before him — against one single creature, and pursues it relentlessly. More than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, this is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature. Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception. Synopsis: No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental "Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead of its own time, "Moby Dick was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville's contemporaries. Today, however, it is indisputably a classic. As D.H. Lawrence wrote, "Moby Dick "commands a stillness in the soul, an awe . . . [It is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." Amazon.co.uk Arguably Herman Melville's greatest work, and hailed as a classic American novel, Moby Dick tells the tale of one man's fatal obsession and his willingness to sacrifice his life and that of his crew to achieve his goal. The story follows the fortunes of Captain Ahab and the culturally and spiritually diverse crew of the Pequod, a 19th century whaling ship. The Pequod is on its last voyage out of New Bedford, Mass, in pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale which has been Ahab's obsessional quarry and bitter adversary for many years. Narrated by sole survivor Ishmael, the tale forms a complex fictional fusion, combining a wealth of literary symbolism, hidden meaning and philosophical debate with adventure narrative and a detailed historical account of the 19th century whaling trade. --Emily Lowson From Library Journal In a sense, this work is the piece de resistance of the textual revolution in American scholarship of the past generation. The first half is the final MLA "Approved Text" of the classic novel, prepared under the auspices of the Center for Editions of American Authors. The second half consists of an Historical Note detailing background, genetic composition, publication, and ensuing critical reception; a discussion of its textual history; and some relevant marginalia. The work is not only thorough and rigorous, but, considering the scholarly grittiness of the endeavor, surprisingly lucid and graceful in its exposition. Highly recommended for special collections. Earl Rovit, City Coll., CUNY From School Library Journal Grade 5 Up-Opening with the classic line, "Call me Ishmael," the narrator's New England accent adds a touch of authenticity to this sometimes melodramatic presentation. The St. Charles Players do a credible job on the major roles, but some of the group responses, such as "Aye, aye Captain," sound more comic than serious. This adaptation retains a good measure of Melville's dialogue and key passages which afford listeners a vivid connection with the lengthy novel. Background music and appropriate sound effects enhance the telling of the story about Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of the malevolent white whale. The cassettes are clearly marked, and running times are noted on each side of the tapes. Announcements at the beginning of each side and a subtle chime signal at the end make it easy to follow the story, but a stereo player must be used to hear some dialogue. The lightweight cardboard package is inadequate for circulation. Done in a radio theatre format, the recording does a nice job of introducing the deeper themes of the book and covering the major events. For school libraries that support an American literature curriculum, this recording offers a different interpretation of an enduring classic. Barbara Wysocki, Cora J. Belden Library. Rocky Hill, CT About Author Herman Melville (1819-1891) was born in New York City and became a seaman at a young age. His works include Typee, The Confidence Man, and Pierre. Andrew Delbanco is the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Tom Quirk is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Book Dimension:

The house of the seven gables / Bantam classic ed.

作者：  by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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简介：In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house.This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive old Pyncheon family.Mysterious deaths threaten the living.Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family’s salvation - - or its downfall. Hawthorne called THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES "a Romance." and freely bestowed it with many fa更多>>

The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne

作者：  Leland S. Person　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2012-1-1

简介：As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne hasbeen established as a major writer of the nineteenth century andthe most prominent chronicler of New England and its colonialhistory. This introductory book for students coming to Hawthornefor the first time outlines his life and writings in a clear andaccessible style. Leland S. Person also explains some of thesignificant cultural and social movements that influencedHawthorne's most important writings: Puritanism, Transcendentalismand Feminism. The major works, including The Scarlet Letter, TheHouse of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance, as well asHawthorne's important short stories and non-fiction, are analysedin detail. The book also includes a brief history and survey ofHawthorne scholarship, with special emphasis on recent studies.Students of nineteenth-century American literature will find this arewarding and engaging introduction to this remarkable writer.

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简介：The text of this Norton Critical Edition contains twenty-one of Hawthorne's most noteworthy tales and sketches, reprinted from the best collections available. Each tale is fully annotated. 　　"The Author on His Work" contains the prefaces Hawthorne wrote for the three collections of tales published during his lifetime, relevant selections from his American Notebooks, and selected letters. Notebook excerpts and letters are reprinted from The Centenary Edition of the Worrks of Nathaniel Hawthorne.更多>>

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 The dazzling, romantic fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald manages to captivate each new generation of readers. This critical introduction, written specifically for students, offers insightful yet accessible literary criticism for five novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and The Last Tycoon. A full chapter is devoted to examining each of these works, with an indepth discussion of character development, thematic concerns and plot structure. The introduction to each novel traces its genesis and the critical reception it received at the time it was written. The historical context sections examine the ways visionary works like The Great Gatsby offer both a chronicle and a critique of the attitudes, dreams, and illusions of American society during the period between the First and Second World Wars. Students will also get a vivid sense of how life and art converged in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the man who christened the Jazz Age.   Publisher Summary 2 Greenwood's series, Companions to Classic Writers, is geared toward high school and college students, and has already featured Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Miller, George Orwell, and Richard Wright. Like other companions, this one on Fitzgerald by Pelzer (English, Wesley College) begins with a biography and overview of the author's literary career. Next are analyses of This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and The Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, and The Last Tycoon . Each analysis is divided into sections on the work's genesis and critical reception, point of view, plot and character development, symbolism or figurative language, and one reading in a particular style (e.g., mythological, feminist, Marxist). An ample bibliography of primary and secondary sources concludes the volume. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 3 Examines the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald as critique and chronicle of American society during the Jazz Age.  

Omoo

作者：  (美)赫尔曼·麦尔维尔(Herman Melville)著;艾黎译

出版社：文化艺术出版社,2011

简介：　　赫尔曼·麦尔维尔(herman melville.1819—1891)是19世纪美国文学的重要作家。他不仅是小说家，而且还是一位卓越的哲学家、诗人，以极其敏锐的目光关注着自己生活的时代及其社会变迁。 　　 麦尔维尔生于纽约的一个英荷裔家庭，父母双方都出身于名门大户，生活较为安逸。麦尔维尔兄妹八人，他排行老三。1830年，他父亲因经营不善而破产，全家只好前往奥尔巴尼。1832年，父亲又因过分劳累和精神疲惫而卧病不起，不幸早逝。之后，麦尔维尔一家的生活更无着落，他不得不早早弃学，协助母亲兄长养家糊口，先是当雇员，干农活，做小学教员，最后还当了水手。1839年，麦尔维尔应征随“圣劳伦斯”号船去了英国利物浦，从此开始了他的航海生涯。在漫长而又充满浪漫奇异的航海生涯中，麦尔维尔游历了利物浦、西印度群岛和南太平洋群岛等地。1844年回到美国后开始创作小说。 　　 麦尔维尔1847年结婚后，携妻儿搬到马萨诸塞州，在那儿生活了13余年。在那里，他有幸结识了当时早巳享誉文坛的霍桑(nathaniel hawthollle ，1804—1864)。其《白鲸》(moby dick，1851)就是那时写就并题献给这位文坛益友的。继《白鲸》之后，麦尔维尔声誉每况愈下。失望中，他再度游历欧洲，足迹几乎遍及伦敦、巴黎、意大利、希腊和近东的巴勒斯坦等地。这些经历构成了他晚期作品的素材和背景，如《皮埃尔》(pierre，1852)、《伊滋莱尔·波特》(israel potter，1855)、《骗子》(the confidence— man，1857)和《克拉莱尔》(clarel，1876)等。《比利·巴德》(billy budd,1924)是他的最后作品，直到他去世后20多年才得以问世。 　　 麦尔维尔的作品可以分成三大类：第一类是他早期的小说。这些作品大都是依据某些史实和作者本人的海上经历而创作的，如《泰比》(typee，1846)、《奥穆》( omoo，1847)和《雷德伯恩》(redburn，1849)，其中也包括寓言性很强的《玛迪》(mardi，1849)，以及《皮埃尔》和《骗子》等。第二类是《白鲸》，这是作者的登峰造极之作。第三类是他的后期作品，其中有不少堪称大手笔的短篇和诗作，如他的《贝尼托·塞莱诺》(benito cereno，1856)、《书记员巴特尔比》(bartleby,the scrivener，1856)、《比利·巴德》和诗集《克拉莱尔》、《战事集》(battle—pieces and aspects of the war， 1866)等。这里选译其早期作品“波里尼西亚三部曲”：《泰比》、《奥穆》和《玛迪》。