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1、学术英语 人文,Academic English for Humanities,Unit 2 Literary Theory and Criticism,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 2 Literary Theory and Criticism,Discuss the following questions
2、: What is literary theory? What is literary criticism? 3. Why do we need literary theory and literary criticism?,Lead-in,Activities,Unit 2 Literary Theory and Criticism,What is literary theory?,Lead-in,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory and Criticism,In a strict sense: the systematic s
3、tudy of the nature of literature and the methods for analyzing literature In a wider sense: various scholarly approaches to reading texts (These approaches and ideas act as different lenses literary critics use to analyze literature, and they allow critics to focus on particular aspects of a piece o
4、f literary works.) A most fundamental question asked by literary theory: “What is literature?”,What is literary criticism?,Lead-in,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory and Criticism,Literary criticism is the evaluation, analysis or description of a particular literary work or a group of
5、writings as a whole. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory. Criticism is usually in the form of a critical essay. Academic literary critics (teaching in universities, publishing in academic journals, etc.) More popular critics (publishing in newspapers and magazines),Text A
6、The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Classroom activities Supplementary information Suggested answer key,Unit 2 Literary Theory and Criticism,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Discuss the questions in Task 1 and Task 2 Critical Reading and Thinking P7,Come to the front of the class and give
7、 a brief introduction to one of the following major schools of literary criticism: Marxist criticism reader-response criticism New Historicism postcolonialism African American studies gender studies,Text A,Classroom activities,Unit 2 Literary Theory and Criticism,The Reading Process and Literary The
8、ory,Louise M. Rosenblatt and her theory of reading,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory and Criticism,Louise M. Rosenblatt (1904-2005) was Emeritus Professor of English Education at New York University and holds an outstanding position in the fields of Education and Literary Studi
9、es.,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Louise M. Rosenblatt and her theory of reading,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory and Criticism,She outlined a theory of reading as a transactional process. Once in an interview, when asked why she preferred the use of the term “transa
10、ctional/transaction”, she answered:,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Louise M. Rosenblatt and her theory of reading,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory and Criticism,“Reading is transaction, during which each is continuously affecting the other. I suppose ecology is the fi
11、eld in which people understand this best-that human beings are affected by the environment, but they are also affecting it all the time, so that there is a transaction going on. The continuous reciprocal influence of reader and text is similar, for instance, to two people talking to one another. Wha
12、t is said at the beginning of the conversation may take on an entirely different meaning by the end of it. (to be continued),The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Louise M. Rosenblatt and her theory of reading,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory and Criticism,(continued) Whats
13、said affects the person who hears it, who then says something response that affects the first speaker. Rather than two static entities, each person is being affected in the conversation and what comes next depends on what happened so far. The same thing is going on between the reader and these squig
14、gles on the page. Squiggles on the page are just signs. I call my theory the transactional theory because I wanted to emphasis this dynamic relationship. ” - Louise M. Rosenblatt,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Marxist literary criticism,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theor
15、y and Criticism,Based on socialist and dialectic theories Viewing literary works as being originated from the social institutions and reflecting the social institutions Concerning with the social and political meanings of the text (e.g. the ways in which the text reveals ideological oppression of a
16、dominant economic class over subordinate classes),The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Reader-response criticism,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory and Criticism,Focus: the reader and their response to the text Systematic examination of the parts of the text that arouse, shape, and guide a readers response Different from formalist interpretations of literature (which emphasizes objective interpretation of a text on the basis of estab
