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1、学术英语 人文,Academic English for Humanities,Unit 1 The Art of Literature,Lead-in Text A Text B Text C Academic Language and Discourse Listening Speaking Writing,Unit Contents,Lead-in Lead-in activities Supplementary information,Unit 1 The Art of Literature,What is literature?,Choose from the following f
2、orms of writing what can be counted as literature: news report novel research paper diary poem letter,Lead-in,Activities,Unit 1 The Art of Literature,How do you make the choice? (What makes you treat something as literature while dismissing others as non-literature? ),What is literature?,Many colleg
3、e professors, upholding a traditional standard of literary quality, believe that students should read works whose artistic merit has been established over the years. However, some have begun to question the very notion of literary quality and the notion of what is literature. There have been an incr
4、easing number of studies of writers mainly for what they have to say rather than how well they say it.,Unit 1 The Art of Literature,Lead-in,Supplementary information,The historical and social impact of works is gaining importance, while the once-honored standards such as grace of style and originali
5、ty of expression have been downgraded.,Literature as defined in dictionaries,stories, poems and plays, especially those that are considered to have value as art and not just entertainment (MacMillan Dictionary),writings in prose or verse; especially writings having excellence of form or expression a
6、nd expressing ideas of permanent or universal interest (Merriam-Websters Online Dictionary, 11th Edition),Unit 1 The Art of Literature,Lead-in,Supplementary information,Literature as defined in dictionaries,Unit 1 The Art of Literature,Lead-in,Supplementary information,written artistic works, especi
7、ally those with a high and lasting artistic value (Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary),written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit (Compact Oxford English Dictionary),Unit 1 The Art of Literature,Text A The Scope and Content of Literature,Classroom activities
8、 Supplementary information Suggested answer key,The Scope and Content of Literature,Do Task 1 Critical Reading and Thinking P7,Summarize Text A on the basis of your answers to Task 1 Critical Reading and Thinking P7 Scope of literature Content of literature,Work in pairs to compare your answers to t
9、he questions in Task 2 Critical Reading and Thinking P8,Unit 1 The Art of Literature,Text A,Classroom activities,The Scope and Content of Literature,The original article “The Art of Literature”,Unit 1 The Art of Literature,Text A,Supplementary information,Text A is adapted from the article “The Art
10、of Literature”, written by Kenneth Rexroth. The original article consists of seven parts: the scope of literature literary composition content of literature literature and its audience literature and its environment literary genres writings on literature,The Scope and Content of Literature,The Muses
11、 In Greek mythology, poetry and literature, Muses are the goddesses who inspire the creation of literature and the arts.,Unit 1 The Art of Literature,Text A,Supplementary information,Calliope: Muse of heroic or epic poetry (often holding a stylus and wax tablets),Clio: Muse of history (often holding
12、 a parchment scroll or a set of tablets),Erato: Muse of lyric and love poetry (often playing a lyre),Euterpe: Muse of music or flutes (often playing a flute),Melpomene: Muse of tragedy (often holding a tragic mask),Polymnia: Muse of sacred song and oratory (often with a pensive look),Terpsichore: Mu
13、se of dancing and choral song (often dancing and holding a lyre) Thalia: Muse of comedy (often holding a comic mask) Urania: Muse of astronomy (often holding a globe),The Scope and Content of Literature,Classic surveys of history as noble examples of the art of literature,Unit 1 The Art of Literatur
14、e,Text A,Supplementary information,The History of the Peloponnesian War was written by ancient Greek historian Thucydides, who, as an Athenian general, served in the war. Some scholars view the work as an objective and scientific account of the past, written from a purely intellectual point of view.
15、 But some understand it as a piece of literature, in which the author is “an artist who responds to, selects and skillfully arranges his material, and develops its symbolic and emotional potential”.,One example: History of the Peloponnesian War,The Scope and Content of Literature,Essays,Unit 1 The A
16、rt of Literature,Text A,Supplementary information,an analytic, interpretative, or critical literary composition Francis Bacons essays, published in book form in 1597, 1612, 1625, were the first works in English that described themselves as essays.,The Scope and Content of Literature,Dialogues by Plato,Unit 1 The Art of Literature,Text A,Supplementary information,Plato (428/427 BC 348/347 BC), the greatest philosopher and mathematician of ancient Greece, wrot
