Lesson One HistoricalContext I.The First Half of the Twentieth Century II.The Second Half of the Twentieth Century III.Study Questions Lesson Two Joseph Conrad I.Life II.Literary Career and Major Writings III.Attitudes and Views IV.Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques V.Selected Readings: Heart of Darkness/"Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'" VI.Study Questions Lesson There E.M.Forster I.Life II.Literary Career and Major Writings III.Attitudes and Views IV.Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques V.Commentary: A Passage to India / Aspects of the Novel VI.Study Questions Lesson Four Katherine Mansfield I.Life II.Literary Career and Major Writings III.Attitudes and Views IV.Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques V.Selected Readings: The Garden Party / "Seriousness in Art" VI.Study Questions Lesson Five William Butler Yeats I.Life II.Literary Career and Major Writings III.Attitudes and Views IV.Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques V.Selected Readings: "The lake Isle of Innisfree" / "Easter 1916" / "Sailing to Byzantium" / "Ireland and the Arts" VI.Study Questions Lesson Six D.H.Lawrence I.Life II.Literary Career and Major Writings III.Attitudes and Views IV.Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques V.Selected Readings: The Rainbow/"Sex versus Loveliness" VI.Study Questions Lesson Seven T.S.Eliot I.Life II.Literary Career and Major Writings III.Attitudes and Views IV.Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques V.Commentary: "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" and The Waster Land/"Tradition and the Individual Talent" VI.Study Questions Lesson Eight James Joyee I.Life 141 II.Literary Career and Major Writings III.Attitudes and Views IV.Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques V.Selected Readings: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man/Joyce's Letter to Grant Richards, May 5, 1906 VI. Study Questions Lesson Nine Virginia Woolf I.Life II.Literary Career and Major Writings III. Attitudes and Views IV. Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques V.Selected Readings: Mrs. Dalloway/"Modern Fiction" VI. Study Questions Lesson Ten Aldous Huxley I.Life II.Literary Career and Major Writings III. Attitudes and Views IV. Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques V.Commentary: Brave New World/"Science and Civilization" VI. Study Questions Lesson Eleven George Orweu I.Life II.Literary Career and Major Writings III. Attitudes and Views IV. Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques V.Selected Readings: Nineteen Eighty-Four/ "Why I Write" VI. Study Questions Lesson Twelve Samuel Beckett I.Life II.Literary Career and Major Writings III. Attitudes and Views IV. Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques V.Commentary: Waiting for Godot / "Beckett's Literary Views" VI. Study Questions Lesson Thirteen William Golding I.Life 252 II.Literary Career and Major Writings III. Attitudes and Views IV. Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques V.Commentary: Lord of the Flies / "Golding's Literary Views" VI. Study Questions Lesson Fourteen Doris Lessing I. Life 269 II.Literary Career and Major Writings III. Attitudes, and Views IV. Aesthetic Principles and Writing Techniques V.Commentary: The Golden Notebook/"A Small Personal Voice" VI. Study Questions Appendix 1 The Sources of the Quotations in the Lectures Appendix 2 The Other Writers during the Same Period Appendix 3 A Suggested Course Schedule 后记
