Introduction to English literature英美文学选读张伯香 PPT

v 文学是指以语言文字为工具形象化地反映客观现实的艺 术，包括诗歌、散文、小说、剧本、寓言、童话等，是 文化的重要表现形式，以不同的形式（称作体裁）表现 内心情感和再现一定时期和一定地域的社会生活。
Fiction 小说
❖ Elements of Fiction
❖ Theme ❖ Plot & structure ❖ Character ❖ Point of view ❖ Setting ❖ Tone ❖ Language & style ❖ Irony ❖ Symbol
revolution.
Recommended Novels for Reading
a romantic story a revenge story a tragedy of social inequality
a poor, plain governess struggling for self-dignity and
personal happiness
Recommended Novels for Reading
A Novel Without a Hero
tragic fate of a “pure” young peasant woman at the time of capitalist invasion
into the country in the 19th-century England
Training one’s thinking
Fostering one’s connoisseurship (the ability to appreciate a work of art)
Enjoying oneself
Aims
Course escription
❖ To provide the learners with a brief outline of the history
?文学是指以语言文字为工具形象化地反映客观现实的艺术包括诗歌散文小说剧本寓言童话等是文化的重要表现形式以不同的形式称作体裁表现内心情感和再现一定时期和一定地域的社会生活
What’s Literature?
v The word “literature” came into English from the 14th century in the sense of polite learning through reading. Thus a man of literature, or a man of letters, meant what we would now describe as a man of wide reading. So, this word corresponds mainly to the modern meaning of the word “ literacy精通文学,有文化.”
Questions for previewing
❖ Who were the earliest settlers of Briton/England? What do you know about them (home, language, belief, life style)?
Types of Poetry
❖ Narrative poetry
❖ Epic 史诗 ❖ Ballad 民谣 ❖ Romance传奇
❖ Lyric poetry
❖ Epigram 警句诗 ❖ Elegy 挽歌 ❖ Ode 颂 ❖ Aubade 黎明别歌 ❖ Sonnet 十四行诗
Elements of Poetry
Teaching methods
lectures on the related historical and cultural background
textual study class discussion or presentation reading assignment before each
In A Tale of Two Cities Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel, and the two cities are Paris and London in the time of that
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v Literature comes from human interest in telling a story, in arranging words in artistic forms, in describing in words aspects of our human experiences. This human activity embodies human desire to express and share experiences. At the beginning, the literary impulse exists only in one’s mind. It is a writer’s “ performance in words” as Robert Frost once said. In this way it can be appreciated by others. Therefore, we can define literature as language artistically used to achieve identifiable literary qualities and to convey meaningful messages. Literature is characterized by beauty of experience and form and by university of intellectual and emotional appeal.
❖ Class attendance 40%
Assignment ❖
( class participation, homework,
presentation, book report)
60%
Final-term examination 70%
Requirements for students in this course
❖ Take notes in class and, if necessary, after class from other sources;
❖ Read the parts that the teacher asks to read before class ( usu. The teacher assigns the reading parts one week before discussion.
❖ Voice声音: Speaker & tone ❖ Diction ❖ Imagery ❖ Figures of speech: Simile and Metaphor ❖ Symbolism ❖ Syntax ❖ Sound: Rhyme, Alliteration头韵, Assonance腹韵 ❖ Rhyme节奏 and meter韵律
of British literature up to the first half of the 20th century; ❖ To introduce learners to the imaginative use of English and to help them towards an appreciation of literary language and literature; ❖ To consolidate and extend the learners’ knowledge and fluency in English through interaction with literary texts; ❖ To further develop the learners’ ability to recognize and express emotional and moral attitudes on a higher level than about daily occurrences so as to facilitate their communication with educated native speakers; ❖ To prepare the learners for the study of literature in English at a higher level and to help them develop interest in and, hopefully, the habit of，reading extensively
the vices of his age.
an account of the process of the building of the British Empire in the 18th century; diary-like detailed description and narration;
class group work individual research work for the term
paper
Test after each chapter
大家应该也有点累了，稍作休息
大家有疑问的，可以询问和交流
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Assessment
General performance 30%
Elements of Drama
❖ Plot ❖ Character ❖ Dialogue ❖ Staging 演出 ❖ Theme
purpose of studying English literature
Increasing one’s knowledge
Improving one’s language ability
❖ Students should attend class and actively participate in class discussion.
Recommended Novels for Reading
Swift’s masterpiece, it gives an unparalleled satirical depiction of
Recommended Novels for Reading
Pride and Prejudice, originally drafted as “First Impression” in 1796, is the most delightful of her works. The title tells of a major concern of the novel: pride and prejudice. If to form good relationships is our main task in life, we must first have good judgment. Our first impressions, according to Jane Austen, are usually wrong
❖ Besides doing the exercises that should be handed in, students have to find the related information about the reading parts for discussion in class;
v From the mid-18th century, literature referred to the practice and profession of writing. This appears to be closely connected with the heightened self -consciousness of the profession of authorship. Since the 19th century, literature has been the high skills of writing in the especial context of high imagination.