《文学与文化读本》是一套以英语经典文学原著为主要内容，使学生从进入大学伊始就可接触到英语世界文化的系列教材。旨在促进其语言学习，开阔其人文视野，丰富其想象力，深化其认知能力，训练其思维能力，培养其欣赏能力以及提升其人文素养乃至生活质量。编者希望本教材及课程将有助于提高大学英语专业学生的语言表达水平、跨文化理解和研究能力以及人文素养的博雅境界。这套教材不但适合阅读赏析，也适用于跨文化学习与研究。

Preface

Unit One

 Section A Focus Reading

Language

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Section B Supplementary Reading

Ⅰ　Fable

Ⅱ　The Rhodora on Being Asked，Whence　Is the Flower?

Ⅲ　Each and All

Ⅳ　I Become a Transparent Eyeball

Ⅴ　Maxims of Emerson

Ⅵ　The Pen and the Inkstand

Ⅶ　The American Scholar(Excerpt)

Ⅷ　Great Minds Think Alike

Ⅸ　Two Jokes

 Section C Suggested Reading

Unit Two

 Section A Focus Reading

The Story of Mankind(Excerpt)

By Hendrik Willem van Loon

 Section B Supplementary Reading

Ⅰ　Some Chinese Legends

Ⅱ　The Tower of Babel

Ⅲ　Chinese Calligraphy

Ⅳ　A Joke

 Section C Suggested Reading

Unit Three

Unit Four

Unit Five

Unit Six

Unit Seven

Unit Eight

Unit Nine

Unit Ten

Reference

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