内容简介

This books features 40 essays carefully selected from the papers submitted to“Rereading Britain Today” (Nov.12-15, 2004), the 2nd internatioial conference organized by the Faculty of English Language and Cultture, GDUFS and co-sponsored by the British Council.Theseessays are grouped into 5 parts, namely “British Fiction: New Readings of Classics”,“British Poetry and Drama: Certainties and Ambiguities”,“British Society: Now and Then”,“British Popular Culture: Strategies visa -vis Changes”, and“British Literature and Culture in　China:Affinities and Differences”.They carry reflecuons on British literary and cultural texts from a variety of perspectives, including gender,　postcolonial,archetypal sociological, linguistic, translation studies and cultural studies.They address such issues as ethnicity, gender relations, identily (political,social and cultural), politics, education, mass media and translation,covering major concerns and debates in the academia on the new understandings of classics and the interpretation of contemporary cultural phenomena in Britain.