001 進攻堡壘 The Attack on the Fort by Francis Parkman
002 艾賽亞·塞勒斯船長 Captain Isaiah Sellers by Mark Twain
003 格拉米格納的情人 Gramigha's Lover by Giovanni Verga
004 沃爾特·米蒂的隱秘生活 The Secert Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
005 年輕的布朗大爺 Youngman Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
第二章 情節 What Plot Reveals
006 帶家具出租的房間 The Furnished Room by O.Henry
007 萬卡 Vanka by Anton Chekhov
008 埋葬 De Mortuis by John Collier
009 鷹溪橋上 An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
010 進入波蘭 Crossing Into Poland by Isaac Babel
011 項鍊 The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
012 戰爭 War by Luigi Pirandello
013 國王迷 The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
第三章 人物性格 What Character Reveals
014 田納西的夥伴 Tennessee's Partner by Bret Harte
015 阿拉比 Araby by James Joyce
016 縣城的醫生 The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev
017 僑民 The Sojourner by Carson McCullers
018 醉漢 The Drunkard by Frank O'Connor
019 請買票 Tickets, Please by D.H.Lawrence
020 理髮 Haircut by Ring Lardner
第四章 主題 What Theme Reveals
021 愛情:某獵人筆記上的三頁 Love:Three pages from a Sportsman's Book by Guy de Maupassant
022 愛情 Love by Jesse Stuart
023 殺手 The Killers by Ernest Hemingway
024 林中之死 Death in the Woods by Sherwood Anderson
025 人,差點兒 The Man Who Was Almost by Richard Wright
026 紀念愛米麗的一朵玫瑰花 A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
027 好人難尋 A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
第五章 新小說 What Theme Reveals
028 花園余影 Continuty of Parks by Julio Cortazar
029 相遇 The Meeting by Jorge Luis Borges
030 密室 The Secret Room by Alain Robbe-Grillet
031 二十九條臆想 29 Inventions by Joyce Carol Oates
032 愛瑪琴的手 The Hand of Emmagene by Peter Taylor
033 氣球 The Ballon by Donald Barthelme
第六章 小說與人生經驗 Fiction and Human Experience
034 沒有你的位置,我的愛 No Place for You, My Love by Eudora Welty
035 我怎樣寫作?How I Write by Eudora Welty
036 中午酒 Noon Wine by Katherine Anne Porter
037 《中午酒》的源流 "Noon Wine":The Sources by Katherine Anne Porter
038 春寒 Blackberry Winter by Robert Penn Warren
039 《春寒》:一段回憶 "Blackberry Winter": A Recollection by Robert Penn Warren
第七章 閱讀材料 Stories for Reading
040 芙恩 Fern by Jean Toomer
041 拳擊大賽 The Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison
042 遠和近 The Far and the Nearby Thomas Wolfe
043 狗 The Bitch by Colette
044 魔桶 The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
045 戴米合 Dermuche by Marcel Ayme
046 黑聖母 The Black Madonna by Doris Lessing
047 A和P A&P by John Updike
048 伊凡·伊里奇之死 The Death of Ivani Ilych by Leo Tolstoi
049 新娘來到黃天鎮 The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
050 冬夢 Winter Dreams by F.Scott Fitzgeraid
051 岩石 The Rockpile by James Baldwin
重要辭彙 Glossary
出版後記
作者簡介
克林斯·布魯克斯(Cleanth Brooks, 1906—1994),美國著名的文學批評家、新批評派的代表人物之一,創立形式主義批評理論。任教於耶魯大學,為美國高等教育詩歌教學變革做出貢獻。代表作有《現代詩歌與傳統》(Modern Poetry and the Tradition, 1939)和《精製的瓮》(The Well Wrought Urn, 1947)。與沃倫合著《詩歌鑑賞》(Understanding Poetry, 1938)和《小說鑑賞》(Understanding Fiction, 1943),共同創辦當時美國最有影響力的文學雜誌《南方評論》(Southern Review, 1935—1942),推動新批評理論盛極一時。
羅伯特·潘·沃倫(Robert Penn Warren, 1905—1989),美國著名詩人、小說家和評論家,新批評派成員,任教於耶魯大學。創作並發表大量詩歌和9部長篇小說,其作品經常針對南方傳統鄉村價值腐蝕下的道德困惑。長篇小說《國王的人馬》(All the King’s Men, 1946)和詩集《許諾》(Promises, 1957)均獲得普利茲獎。《國王的人馬》為新批評派的扛鼎之作。短篇小說集《閣樓馬戲團》(The Circus in the Attic, 1948)包括著名的《春寒》(Blackberry Winter)。獲得美國國家圖書獎和博林根詩歌獎等多種獎項,1986年成為美國第一位桂冠詩人。