《英語散文：鑒賞與寫作》的另一目標是通過培養(yǎng)學生的2C（Critical & Creative）能力，激發(fā)其親手嘗試英語散文創(chuàng)作的興趣。每課之后的“寫作指南”結(jié)合本篇課文的寫作特點、篇章結(jié)構(gòu)、行文風格、創(chuàng)作技巧等，為學生梳理、總結(jié)英語散文創(chuàng)作的要點，然后再通過每課最后設(shè)計的開放或半開放式的寫作任務(wù)，讓學生有機會嘗試英語散文的創(chuàng)作，并在這樣的嘗試中感受散文之美、追求散文之美、創(chuàng)造散文之美。 《英語散文：鑒賞與寫作》編者長期擔綱大學本科學生的文學課教學，對文學鑒賞教學有著自己獨到的見解和體會。 《英語散文：鑒賞與寫作》在編者所在學校面向選修文學類通識課程的非英語專業(yè)學生試用，受到學生的廣泛好評。有同學反映，英語散文鑒賞課讓他們領(lǐng)略到了英語原汁原味的音韻美、修辭美和意境美，英語不再作為獲取信息的工具而學得那么功利、無趣，而是作為審美的對象而學得那么感性、生動；也有學生反映，通過大學英語四級或六級考試之后，自己的英語學習似乎進入了一個進步遲緩、成效不彰的漫長時期，即人們常說的“高原現(xiàn)象”，英語散文鑒賞課課時雖少，但內(nèi)容豐富，涉及詞匯、句法、修辭、語篇，以及閱讀、寫作等方方面面的知識和技能，學習強度很大，所傳授的學習方法也非常獨特，能幫助學習者有效地克服英語學習的“高原現(xiàn)象”，對進一步提高自己的英語能力和人文素養(yǎng)大有裨益。
Unit One "On Doors"
Unit Two "On Going a Journey"
Unit Three "A Piece of Chalk"
Unit Four "A Relic"
Unit Five "On Lying Awake at Night"
Unit Six "Rude Am I in My Speech"
Unit Seven "About Face"
Unit Eight "La Paz"
Unit Nine "Grieving"
Unit Ten "Trivia"
Unit Eleven "Thomas Hobbes"
Unit Twelve "Disaster Always Waits on Early Wit"
Appendix
《英語散文：鑒賞與寫作》：
There is a strange and profound and unknowable reality to these abandoned houses where jealously guarded, even prized possessions have become mere trash: windowpanes long ago smashed, and the spaces where they had been festooned with cobwebs, and cobwebs brushing against your face, catching in your hair like caresses. The peculiar, dank smell of wood rot and mildew, in one of the houses I most recall that had partly burned down, the smell of smoke and scorch, in early summer pervading even the lyric smell of honeysuckle - these haunting smells, never, at the time of experiencing, given specific sources, names.
Where a house has been abandoned - unworthy of being sold to new tenants, very likely seized by the county for default on taxes and the property held in escrow - you can be sure there has been a sad story. There have been devastated lives. Lives to be spoken of pityingly. How they went wrong. Why did she marry him, why did she stay with him? Just desperate people. Ignorant. Poor white trash. Runs in the family. A wrong turn.
Shall I say for the record that ours was a happy, close-knit, and unextraordinary family for our time, place, and economic status? Yet what was vividly real in the solid-built old farmhouse that contained my home (my family consisted of my father, mother, younger brother, grandfather, and grandmother, who owned the property - a slow-failing farm whose principal crop had become Bartlett pears by the time I was a girl) was of far less significance to me than what was real elsewhere. A gone-to-seed landscape had an authority that seemed to me incontestable: the powerful authority of silence in houses from which the human voice had vanished. For the abandoned house contained the future of any house - the lilac tree pushing through the rotted veranda, hornets' nests beneath eaves, windows smashed by vandals, human excrement left to dry on a parlor floor once scrubbed on hands and knees.
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