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1、Course Introduction & Survey of British Literature,Course Introduction Survey of British LiteratureCollege of Foreign StudiesGrace Hu,I. Course Introduction,本课程以英国文学发展历程为特征，跨越英国文学史四百多年，涉及各个时期、流派的代表性作家和作品或作品片断，涵盖了诗歌、戏剧、小说、散文等不同文学体裁，按照编年顺序，从作家的文学生涯、创作思想、艺术特色和其代表作品等方面展示英国文学作品的精髓。与此同时，作品选读的教学与文学史的教学紧密相联
2、，依照选读中所涉及作家的创作时期，简要介绍当时英国的社会政治、经济、文化状况，以及相应的文学思潮与流派，做到点面接合，融会贯通。,Main Contents,1. Course Description 2. Evaluation Criteria & Grading 3. What is Literature? 4. Why we read Literature? 5. How to study Literature? 6. Basic Literary Forms,1. Course Description,The course is a survey of English literatu
3、re from the introduction of Old English by the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century to the present. With this course, students may encounter and enjoy a sampling of important literary works and tradition from the English literature, which may expand their awareness of literature from English culture and
4、values.,2. Evaluation Criteria & Grading,Physical attendance and class participation 15% Assignments and quizzes 15% Final examination 70%,3. 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 artist
5、ic forms, in describing in words some aspects of human experiences. Literature is characterized by beauty of expression and form and by university of intellectual and emotional appeal. e.g. From the Bible: “cast pearls before swine, the shadow of death, an eye for eye, a tooth for tooth”. From Shake
6、speare: “heavy-kissing hill, a pound of flesh”,4. Why we read Literature?,a. read for pleasure Howells observed that the study of Literature should begin and end in pleasure. b. reading for relaxation Modern life is full of pressure. It is peoples common desire to seek temporally relaxation from the
7、 stress in life. c. reading to acquire knowledge. Literature gives readers an insight into the tradition, custom, beliefs, attitudes, folklore, values of the age in which it is written.,5. How to study Literature?,a. analytical approach 分析法 The elements of fiction include plot, character, setting, p
8、oint of view, theme, symbol, allegory, style, and tone. b. thematic approach 主题分析法 What is the story, the poem, the play, or the essay about? c. historical approach历史主义方法,It aims at illustrating the historical development of literature. All the Literature exists in time and as such bears the unmista
9、kable imprint of the period and culture in which it is written d. Other approaches Marxist/sociological criticism 马克斯主义/社会主义批评psychoanalytical criticism 心理分析批评feminist/gender criticism 女权主义/性别批评 mythic and archetypal criticism 神话和原型批评reader-response criticism 读者反映批评 formalist /new criticism 形式主义/新批评
10、 Structuralism结构主义批评 ,6. Basic Literary Forms,Literature has 4 basic forms (genre): (1)poetry 诗歌 (2)novel/fiction小说 (3)prose/essay散文 (4)drama戏剧,II. Survey of British Literature,1. Anglo-Saxon Period 盎格鲁-撒克逊时期(449-1066) 2. Anglo-Norman Period (Middle Ages)盎格鲁- 诺曼时期（10661485） 3.The Renaissance文艺复兴时期（1
11、5世纪后期17 世纪初） 4.The 17th Century (Age of Revolution and Restoration)17世纪文学 5.The Enlightenment 启蒙时期（17世纪后期18世纪中期） 6.The Romanticism浪漫主义时期（1798-1832） 7.The Critical Realism 批判现实主义时期（19世纪30年代-1918） 8.The Modern Period现代主义时期（1918-1945） 9.Contemporary English Literature 当代文学（1945 至今）,Outline of British L
12、iterature,(1)Tribal society (5th-11th, Anglo-Saxon, old English poetry: pagan 世俗诗 Francis Bacon, “Essays”),(4) Period of Revolution & Restoration (17th, Puritan Age) John Donne: Metaphysical poet玄学派诗人, “Sonnet: Death be not Proud”死神，莫骄傲 John Milton: revolutionary poet, “Paradise Lost”失乐园 John Bunyan
13、: prose writer, “The Pilgrims Progress”天路历程 (5) The Enlightenment 启蒙时期(18th, the Age of Prose),realistic novels Daniel Defoe：“Robinson Crusoe”鲁宾逊漂流记 Jonathan Swift： “Gullivers Travels”格列弗游记 Henry Fielding: “Tom Jones”汤姆琼斯 prose Richard Steele & Joseph Addison poetry i. neo-classicism Alexander Pope
14、ii. Sentimentalism Thomas Gray “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”墓园挽歌,iii. Pre-romanticism William Blake “The Tiger” Robert Burns “A Red Red Rose”, “Auld Lang Syne”昔日时光 drama R.B Sheridan “The School for Scandal”造谣学校, “The Rival”对手 (6) English Romanticism (1798-1832) romantic poetry “Lyrical Ba
15、llads”抒情歌谣集 William Wordsworth “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, “The Solitary Reaper” 孤独的割麦女 Samuel Tayler Coleridge “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”古舟子咏,Lord Byron “ She Walks in Beauty” P.B. Shelley “Ode to the West Wind” John Keats “ Ode on a Grecian Urn”希腊古翁颂 novel Walter Scott “Ivanhoe” 艾凡赫 Jan
16、e Austen “ Pride And Prejudice” (7) The Victorian Age (1837-1901) Critical realistic novels Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, “Great Expectations”, “A Tale of Two Cities” George Eliot “ Middlemarch” Charlotte Bronte “Jane Eyre” Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”呼啸山庄,poetry Alfred Tennyson “Break, Break, Break”, “Crossing the Bar”过沙洲 Robert Browning “My Last Duchess” (8) The 20th Century i. novel naturalism Thomas Hardy “Tess of the DUrbevilles”苔丝 aestheticism Oscar Wilde “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” 道林格雷的画像 realism John Galsworthy “The Forsyte Saga”福赛特世家,
