Lecture 1 Introduction to Literature

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History and Anthology of English Literature Part IWelcome Back Here, Everyone!

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Lecture 1I. Requirements 1. You are asked to give presentation on each unit. The presentation contains: introduction of historical background, brief introduction of the author and the excerpted one. Use powerpoint to show the presentation. 2. Mid-term presentation 3. book report (3000 words) selection of books + cross reading + the teacher’s reading NB. Presentation, exercises and attendance will take up 40% of final examination.

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II. How to analyze a work: Three layersLanguage: surface of the text Culture: social background and the author Criticism: style, point of view, diction, figures of speech etc.

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大学是什么？1, GPA 2. 身价15亿和月薪5000的区别 http:///s?__biz=MzA5ODA5NT gxMw==&mid=200006666&idx=3&sn=74ca9a4a4 cdcf81365f554233fed9f94&scene=2&from=tim eline&isappinstalled=0&uin=MTg4MDI3NDU0Mg %3D%3D金立集团的老总 刘立容与同窗李盛

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大学是什么？大学就是给你一个安全的地方，让你再慢慢 的长长，让你用四年的时间认清你到底想要的是什么？你 要成为一个什么样的人，走什么样的路？这真的是谈人生 谈理想的地方，那你说这个地方重不重要？不同的大学会 带你走不同的人生之路，看得到的是找工作的难易，看不 到的是文化的熏陶，价值观的引领，人生轨迹的确立。真 的看到，很多学生的人生，就是从大学开始截然不同。曾 经在一个教室里被同一道题难住的兄弟，几年不到就产生 天壤之别你甘心吗？想想你的初中、小学同学，一定有了 你感觉奋力追赶也很难追上的人，也一定有拼尽全力也追 不上你的人，大学，会将这种差距变成人生质的差别。所 以，再怎么努力也不为过。所以，你还舍得将时间和精力 侧漏吗？

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I. Why Literature?1. To widen our experiences with life. 2. To deepen our understanding of life s complexities. 3. To understand our own nature as well as that of others. 4. To develop sensibility and compassion for fellow human beings. 5. To arrive at certain criteria for evaluating the subtleties of human behavior. 6. To achieve intellectual growth and the power to tackle our troubles in a more effective way.

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Moral life rests upon the individual’s ability to imagine and to feel the inner states of others; and George Eliot strove not only to show this ability developing in her characters but also to instill it in her readers… She sought to enlarge our vision and sympathy by vividly and sympathetically presenting the interior states of her characters. In life we are isolated from our fellows, with only a very indirect access to their consciousness. In reading novels in which the psychology of the characters is realistically portrayed we have a direct experience of the inner states of others and an immediate intuition of our common humanity…As a result of this e

xperience, we become far more able to suspend our disbelief in the selfhood of our fellows, and our moral faculties of vision and sympathy are strengthened.

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Beowulf: the responsibility of being a man The Canterbury Tales: sympathy for our fellow beings Hamlet: the meaning of life Robinson Crusoe: ready to overcome the difficulties in life, optimism toward life A Modest Proposal: the structure of scientific articles

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阅读乃是对抗GDP和暴富神话最后的防线，当我们 还拥有阅读，我们就拥有这个社会、这个文化和这 个国家最后的尊严。 在我看来，阅读就是一门功课，用以应对生活永不 间断的考试。即算它无法为我们找到任何的信仰， 以对抗社会进化无目的无方向的碾压，但是，它仍 然给我们以富有温度的生命安慰。

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II. What is Literature?Literature in a broad sense: anything written, including writings that have a factual or informative nature

Literature in a specific sense: imaginative writings communicating life experiences, thoughts and feelings about life, such as stories, poems and plays

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Illustrative Example: the description of the city of London in Encyclopedia Britannica compared with that of the opening of Charles Dickens Bleak HouseThe encyclopedia entry is concerned with facts only, such as its importance as the industrial and political center of Britain, its geographical location, its population, etc.

The opening of Charles Dickens s Bleak House goes beyond that and places these facts in a human context, and thus conveys a certain attitude towards London and the people living in it.

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III. Looking at Characters1. Character in Fiction 2. Different Kinds of Characters 3. Principles of “Characterization” 4. Analysis of Fictional Characters

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1. Character:a term used to refer to imaginary people that novelists or short story writers create in their narratives

2. Different Types of Characters:1). According to E.M. Forster in his Aspects of the Nov …… 此处隐藏：3531字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……