当代西方文艺赏析

　　考虑到课堂教学的实际情形，教材以不同西方文化相关主题为脉络，从文理之分、脑与心、性别的差异、东方与西方、历史的版本、全球民族等议题切入，以辩论、小组讨论与故事新编等活动为依托，结合课后包括影视剧、纪录片、小说与文献在内的文化文本赏析，形成对文化从表层现象到深层原理的把握。

　　本书作者陈博，南京航空航天大学外国语学院讲师，文学博士，研究领域当代英国文学。从事非英语专业大学英语教学十年，编撰英语专业教材《口语教程》第三册。本书作者梁道华，长期从事非英语专业本科教学，主要研究英文写作与翻译。

Unit One Three Key Terms for Western Literature & Art 1

I Culture 2

II Western 8

III Contemporary 11

Unit Two Science and the Humanities 19

I Defi ning Human Knowledge 20

II The Rise of Western Humanism 25

III Humanism in Crisis 30

Unit Three Brain and Mind 41

I The Field of Psychology 42

II Sigmund Freud 46

III From Freud Onward 49

Unit Four Ethics and Aesthetics 61

I Ethics Since Antiquity 62

II Aesthetics in Theory and Practice 67

III The Postmodern Ethical and Aesthetical Turns 72

Unit Five Sex and Gender 83

I Interpreting the Difference 84

II The Feminist Movements 90

III Gender Troubles 95

Unit Six East and West 103

I Approaching China 104

II Politicizing the Orient 111

III A Case of Encounter: The Chinese American 115

Unit Seven History and Histories 123

I The Traces of History 124

II Historicism 127

III Small Narratives and New Historicism 130

Unit Eight Nations and the Globe 141

I Formation of Nations 142

II Going Global 146

III Beyond Globalization 151