英美文学1-introduction
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课程名称：英国文学史及选读 History and Anthology of English Literature
• Lecturer：王金 (Lucy) • Telephone：666845 • E-mail：summertea1999@163.com
An introduction to the course
• Our textbook is arranged in chronological order, but we deal with each period analytically with emphasis on theme.
Goals of The Course
• Appreciate literary works as well as the beauty of human mind • Learn essential knowledge about literature terms, literature schools, etc. • know how to read novels, poems, plays and essays actively and critically • Learn to make comments on literary works • ….
1. What is Literature?
• Literature refers to the practice and profession of writing. It comes from human interest in telling a story, in arranging words in artistic forms, in describing in words some aspects of human experienHale Waihona Puke Baidues. • Literature shows us not only what a society is like in a certain age, but also what people feel about it, what they hope from it, and how they can change it or escape from it.
About group work:
• 1. 内容主要是相关作家介绍，可以从作家的时 代背景，生活经历，主要作品，轶闻趣事等方 面展开 , 也可围绕一中心主题展开，为学期论 文或毕业论文积累素材。
• 2. 形式可多样化，可以是PPt, 自编自导的话剧、 对话等。 • 3. 鼓励从不同角度，用不同的感受诠释相关作 家，进行英中作家作品比较 , 鼓励寻找相关影 片，资源共享。
• 阅读诗歌是一个感悟和欣赏语言的过程， 在这个过程中，我们需要了解一些关于 诗歌阅读的技巧和方法，但是重要的是 要对语词表达情感和想象的过程产生兴 趣，对诗歌所表达的情感和思想产生共 鸣。。
Definition by William Wordsworth (1802)
• Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. • Comments: • This definition is always considered to be a declaration of romanticism. Human feelings, thoughts and perception are highly valued.
• Literature helps us understand and perceive our world in depth. • Literature helps us reach out to different cultures. • Literature helps to cultivate our ability of analysis and creativity. • Through Literature, we are exposed to the works of the people who are the masters of language and mind. • read for pleasure, for relaxation, to acquire knowledge • …
Words used to describe literature:
• artistic emotional imitating informative pleasing … beautiful expressive imaginative instructive valuable
2. What is the function of literature ?
Group 6: William Wordsworth Group 7: Byron/Shelly/Keats Group 8: Jane Austen Group 9: Charles Dickens Group 10: Charlotte Bronte Group 11:Thomas Hardy
3. What’s the relationship between literature, reality,writer and reader ?
• • • • • • • • 1. Relation between literature and reality Imitation mimetic theory 2. Relation between literature and writer Expression expressive theory 3. Relation between literature and reader Function pragmatic theory 4. Study of the text itself Language text-oriented theory
How much do you know about British literature?
• 1. Which one of the following books is not written by William Shakespeare? • A. Hamlet B. The Pilgrim’s progress • C. King Lear D. Macbeth
Learning Targets: 1. What is literature? 2. How to study literature? 3. Outline of British Literature 4. Requirements of the course 5. Poem Appreciation
4. How to study Literature?
• a. analytical approach • The elements of fiction include plot, character, setting, point of view, theme, symbol, style, and tone.
A Christmas Tree --- (William Burford)
• • • • • • A Christmas Tree Star, If you are A love compassionate, You will walk with us this year. We face a glacial distance, who are here • Huddld • At your feet.
• b.thematic approach • What is the story, the poem, the play, or the essay about?
c. historical approach
• It aims at illustrating the historical development of literature. All the Literature exists in time and as such bears the unmistakable imprint of the period and culture in which it is written
• Teaching Schedule • C:\Users\User\Desktop\教学日历--高英？ \（英国文学）-王金-2015-B13英语1.doc • 11 groups （Cf. contents of textbook）：
• • • • •
• • • • • •
Group 1: William Shakespeare Group 2: Francis Bacon Group 3: John Donne Group 4: Daniel Defoe Group 5: William Blake/Robert Burns
Evaluation of this course
• 1. We have no mid-exam • 2. Final score=overall performance+ final exam • 3. overall performance=full presence+ homework (reading diary) + group work
• 2. What is the title of the following excerpt of the poem? Who is the author? • O, my Luve’s like a red, red rose, • That’s newly sprung in June. • O, my Luve’s like the melodie, • That’s sweetly play’d in tune. 3. Can you name some British writers or great works?
d. Other approaches
• • • • • • • • Marxist/sociological criticism psychoanalytical criticism feminist/gender criticism mythic and archetypal criticism reader-response criticism formalist /new criticism Structuralism Deconstructuralism
Outline of British Literature
• • • • • • • • The Middle Ages The Renaissance Revolution and Restoration Enlightenment Romanticism The Victorian Age (Realism/Critical Realism) 20th-century Literature (Modernism) Post-modernism
Textbook: 吴伟仁.《英国文学史及选读》 （很多学校考研的指定书目）. References: • 王守仁.《英国文学选读》 [M]. 北京：高 等教育出版社，2011。
poetry
• 诗歌是抒情的，它述说的是人灵魂深处 的渴求和欲望，记载的是每一个时代无 以言说的时代精神，因此诗歌的表达方 式是超越理性和逻辑的。诗歌用充满意 象、隐喻、象征、节奏、韵律的诗行， 试图冲破有限的语言的牢笼，表达无限 的情感和想象的空间，因此诗的语言是 一种特殊的语言，是人类最为原初的语 言，也是永恒的语言。
• Lecturer：王金 (Lucy) • Telephone：666845 • E-mail：summertea1999@163.com
An introduction to the course
• Our textbook is arranged in chronological order, but we deal with each period analytically with emphasis on theme.
Goals of The Course
• Appreciate literary works as well as the beauty of human mind • Learn essential knowledge about literature terms, literature schools, etc. • know how to read novels, poems, plays and essays actively and critically • Learn to make comments on literary works • ….
1. What is Literature?
• Literature refers to the practice and profession of writing. It comes from human interest in telling a story, in arranging words in artistic forms, in describing in words some aspects of human experienHale Waihona Puke Baidues. • Literature shows us not only what a society is like in a certain age, but also what people feel about it, what they hope from it, and how they can change it or escape from it.
About group work:
• 1. 内容主要是相关作家介绍，可以从作家的时 代背景，生活经历，主要作品，轶闻趣事等方 面展开 , 也可围绕一中心主题展开，为学期论 文或毕业论文积累素材。
• 2. 形式可多样化，可以是PPt, 自编自导的话剧、 对话等。 • 3. 鼓励从不同角度，用不同的感受诠释相关作 家，进行英中作家作品比较 , 鼓励寻找相关影 片，资源共享。
• 阅读诗歌是一个感悟和欣赏语言的过程， 在这个过程中，我们需要了解一些关于 诗歌阅读的技巧和方法，但是重要的是 要对语词表达情感和想象的过程产生兴 趣，对诗歌所表达的情感和思想产生共 鸣。。
Definition by William Wordsworth (1802)
• Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. • Comments: • This definition is always considered to be a declaration of romanticism. Human feelings, thoughts and perception are highly valued.
• Literature helps us understand and perceive our world in depth. • Literature helps us reach out to different cultures. • Literature helps to cultivate our ability of analysis and creativity. • Through Literature, we are exposed to the works of the people who are the masters of language and mind. • read for pleasure, for relaxation, to acquire knowledge • …
Words used to describe literature:
• artistic emotional imitating informative pleasing … beautiful expressive imaginative instructive valuable
2. What is the function of literature ?
Group 6: William Wordsworth Group 7: Byron/Shelly/Keats Group 8: Jane Austen Group 9: Charles Dickens Group 10: Charlotte Bronte Group 11:Thomas Hardy
3. What’s the relationship between literature, reality,writer and reader ?
• • • • • • • • 1. Relation between literature and reality Imitation mimetic theory 2. Relation between literature and writer Expression expressive theory 3. Relation between literature and reader Function pragmatic theory 4. Study of the text itself Language text-oriented theory
How much do you know about British literature?
• 1. Which one of the following books is not written by William Shakespeare? • A. Hamlet B. The Pilgrim’s progress • C. King Lear D. Macbeth
Learning Targets: 1. What is literature? 2. How to study literature? 3. Outline of British Literature 4. Requirements of the course 5. Poem Appreciation
4. How to study Literature?
• a. analytical approach • The elements of fiction include plot, character, setting, point of view, theme, symbol, style, and tone.
A Christmas Tree --- (William Burford)
• • • • • • A Christmas Tree Star, If you are A love compassionate, You will walk with us this year. We face a glacial distance, who are here • Huddld • At your feet.
• b.thematic approach • What is the story, the poem, the play, or the essay about?
c. historical approach
• It aims at illustrating the historical development of literature. All the Literature exists in time and as such bears the unmistakable imprint of the period and culture in which it is written
• Teaching Schedule • C:\Users\User\Desktop\教学日历--高英？ \（英国文学）-王金-2015-B13英语1.doc • 11 groups （Cf. contents of textbook）：
• • • • •
• • • • • •
Group 1: William Shakespeare Group 2: Francis Bacon Group 3: John Donne Group 4: Daniel Defoe Group 5: William Blake/Robert Burns
Evaluation of this course
• 1. We have no mid-exam • 2. Final score=overall performance+ final exam • 3. overall performance=full presence+ homework (reading diary) + group work
• 2. What is the title of the following excerpt of the poem? Who is the author? • O, my Luve’s like a red, red rose, • That’s newly sprung in June. • O, my Luve’s like the melodie, • That’s sweetly play’d in tune. 3. Can you name some British writers or great works?
d. Other approaches
• • • • • • • • Marxist/sociological criticism psychoanalytical criticism feminist/gender criticism mythic and archetypal criticism reader-response criticism formalist /new criticism Structuralism Deconstructuralism
Outline of British Literature
• • • • • • • • The Middle Ages The Renaissance Revolution and Restoration Enlightenment Romanticism The Victorian Age (Realism/Critical Realism) 20th-century Literature (Modernism) Post-modernism
Textbook: 吴伟仁.《英国文学史及选读》 （很多学校考研的指定书目）. References: • 王守仁.《英国文学选读》 [M]. 北京：高 等教育出版社，2011。
poetry
• 诗歌是抒情的，它述说的是人灵魂深处 的渴求和欲望，记载的是每一个时代无 以言说的时代精神，因此诗歌的表达方 式是超越理性和逻辑的。诗歌用充满意 象、隐喻、象征、节奏、韵律的诗行， 试图冲破有限的语言的牢笼，表达无限 的情感和想象的空间，因此诗的语言是 一种特殊的语言，是人类最为原初的语 言，也是永恒的语言。