1、,An Introduction to English Literature Course,Lecture 1,FOR SS: Todays Expectations,To acquire the sense and main forms of literature; To understand your purpose for taking this course or the functions of literature; To make clear that what benefits you can get from this course; To have, in your min
2、d, an outline of English literature,4 Qs to Answer,Q1: What is literature? Q2: The genres of Literature? Q3: Why do we have to read Western literature ? Q4: What benefits do we get from this course?,Q1: What is literature?,Origin: (latin) littera: 有学问的，学识的 literary adj. 文学(上)的, 从事写作的, 文艺的, 精通文学的, 书本
3、的 eg: literary criticism. 文学批评a literary man 文人 literary works 文学作品 literary film 文艺片 literary report 文学报告 literate: n.（名词） One who can read and write. A well-informed, educated person. 受过教育的博学的人,In the widest sense, literature is just about anything written, but how about guidebooks to Jiuzhaigou,
4、recipe books or telephone directories etc. So in the more specialized sense of the word- literature is the art that uses language as a medium,Definition:,Please define it with your own words. A body of writings in prose or verse. 文学：用散文体或韵文体所写的文字 Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recogn
5、ized artistic value: 文学作品：富有想象力或创造力的作品，尤指具有公认艺术价值的： “Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity”(Rebecca West) “文学必须是对经验的分析和对新发现的综合统一”(丽贝卡韦斯特),The art or occupation of a literary writer. 文学；作家：一个文学作者的艺术或职业 The body of written work produced by scholars o
6、r researchers in a given field: 文献：某一领域内的学者或研究人员所制作的文字 Eg: medical literature. 医学文献 collected all the available literature on the subject. 收集有关这一主题的所有可得的印刷资料 （Music ）All the compositions of a certain kind or for a specific instrument or ensemble: 【音乐】 音乐文献：为某一特定乐器或团体所作的或属于某一种类的所有音乐作品： Eg: the sympho
7、nic literature. 交响文献,Literature in Masters eyes, Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. Cyril Connolly (19031974), British critic Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something mi
8、ssing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. Octavio Paz (b. 1914), Mexican poet, Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (18851930), British a
9、uthor Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.Ezra Pound (18851972), U.S. poet, critic Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world. John Cheever,
10、If literature is not everything, its not worth a single hour of someones trouble. Jean-Paul Sartre (19051980), French philosopher, author Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around. John K. Van De Camp (20th century),attorney general of Cal
11、ifornia Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904), Russian author, playwright,Q2: The genres of Literature?,It contains fiction & non-fiction. Fiction: 4 genres (species) , NOVELS, SHORT STORIES
12、,PLAYS & POEMS.Non-fiction : ESSAY, which has traditionally been classified into 4 categories, the forms of discourse-description, narration, exposition & argumentation.,Q3: What Do We Read for in Western Literature ?,Level 1 For emotional satisfactionTo the readers of this level, novels are recreat
13、ional and therapeutic. Level 2 For hermeneutic (explanatory) functionReaders at this level believe that literature gains access to questions of moral philosophy, so they try to read as many meanings as they can into literary pieces.,Level 3 For rhetoric and philology (linguistics): Readers at this l
14、evel do not allow themselves to be passively manipulated by either moving plots or fascinating characters. Instead, they have an awareness of how authors manipulated readers, of what the mode of narration is, of who the speaker is and what the benefit of the choice is.,Q4: What benefits do we get fr
15、om this course?,A good command of the target languageGeneral knowledge of the culture , literature and history of the country in which the target language is spoken nativeA profound mind and an insight for English literature,FURTHERMORE,Through reading, to sharpen your language awareness and improve
16、 your overall language proficiency. To help to broaden your cultural and intellectual understanding.,An Outline of English Literature,Old English Period (Anglo-Saxon, 449-1066, folk epic) Medieval English Period (Anglo-Norman, 1066-1485):Medieval Romance (1066-1340) The Popular Ballads (The15th-Cent
17、ury) The Age of Chaucer (1343-1400): “The Canterbury tales”,The Period of Renaissance (1485-1603)(The 16th-Century English Literature) : Thomas More, “Utopia” The Age of ShakespeareThe Period of The English BourgeoisRevolution(1603-1700)(The 17th-Century English Literature) : The Puritan Age: Milton
18、, “Paradise Lost” Metaphysical Poets and Cavalier Poets,The Eighteenth-Century English Literature (1700-1798) :Enlightenment Movement 启蒙主义运动 Neo-classicism 新古典主义 Realism 现实主义 Sentimentalism 感伤主义 Gothic Novel 歌特式小说,The Romantic Period (1798-1832):a. desire for the good old times Poetryb. Looking into
19、 the futuree.g. Wordsworth, Coleridge / Byron, Shelley, and Keatsa. Walter Scott Novelsb. Jane Austen,The Victorian Period (1832-1900): Critic Realism 批判现实主义 : Dickens, Thackeray Naturalism 自然主义 : Thomas Hardy Women Novelists: The Bronte Sisters (Charlotte and Emily) Aestheticism 唯美主义 :Oscar Wilde,T
20、he Twentieth-Century English Literature(1900-1970) : Modernism (1900-1950) Post-Modernism (1950- )Novelists: Conrad, Maugham, D. H. Lawrence,James Joyce, Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and William Golding etcPoets: Yeats, T. S. Eliot etcDramatists: Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett etc,After-class Assignment
21、,PREVIEW JOB for Next Week: Read from page 1 to page 15 based on the following points: - the origin of English People - who brought with them the song of Beowulf to England - What does “Saxon” mean? - the style of literature in this period,参考书目,英国文学通史 上海外语教育出版社 侯维瑞 新编简明英国文学史上海外语教育出版社 张定铨 英美文学选读 外语教学与研究出版社 张柏香 英诗详注 外语教学与研究出版社 胡家峦 莎士比亚经典名著译著丛书湖北教育出版社 阮坤 英美文学精华导读 华东理工大学出版社 龙毛忠 英国文学史及选读学习指南湖北教育出版社 张鑫友,very much,Thank you,See you,next week,
