HISTORY AND ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 英国文学史及选读 English Literature College of Foreign Languages China Three Gorges University

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE Lecture One  1 About this courseAbout this course  (beginners/rudimentary knowledge/planning /useful and easily accessible/teaching purpose)  2 About your final gradeAbout your final grade  3 About some rules and regulationsAbout some rules and regulations  4 The brief introduction to English Literature studyThe brief introduction to English Literature study  5 How to study English poetry

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE About this course  (1) Textbook: History and Anthology of English Literature (Volume I & II)  (2) Reading masterpieces of the major English writers  a. Poetry: Chaucer, Milton, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, and Eliot  b. Drama: Marlowe, Shakespeare, Shaw, and Beckett  c. Fiction: Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, Bronte sisters, Eliot, Hardy, Forster, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, and Golding  Back Back

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE Three Parts of Your Final Grade  Final exam 60%.  Quiz;Presentation;Attendence:20% assignment (preview and review) in-class activities (extra points for the volunteers)  Workshop on Language Center: 20% Back

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE About Some Rules and Regulations  3.1.Some rules:  About Class Participation/Attendance  About your mobile phone  3.2.Ways of teaching:  a. Lectures: providing essential background knowledge  b. Seminars: discussing on given topics  C. Assignments  Learn how to do research work:  *Find reference materials  *Make notes while reading critical works  *Prepare for discussions Back

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE 4 The Brief Introduction to English Literature Study  4.1 What is literature?.1 What is literature?  4.2 How do we learn English Literature efficiently? Literary periods.2.1 Literary periods A Brief Introduction to English Literature 4.3 Literary terms.3 Literary terms

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE What is literature?  It is an art that uses language as a medium. This art is something imaginative, fictional and created to reflect life or record human dreams or human ideas.  To express the truth of life:e.g. Shakespeare says: “The whole world is a stage, we are all actors.”  To study human nature :Angel—man—animal  To preserve the human values  Such as: love, faith, duty, friendship, and freedom Back

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE Literary periods The Old (Anglo-Saxon) and Medieval (Middle) English Literature English Literature in the Renaissance Period English Literature in the Seventeenth Century English Literature in the Eighteenth Century English Literature in the Romantic Period English Literature in the Victorian Age English Literature of the Twentieth Century more

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE A Brief Introduction to English Literature  1. Old English Literature （ 449A.D. ~ 1066 ）  1 ） History background ：  2) Main literature: poetry  3) Main writers: Caedmon, Cynewulf, Venerable Bede and Alfred the Great.  4) Main work: The Song of Beowulf >  2. Medieval English Literature ( th century)  1 ） History background ：  2) Main literature: poetry, Romance, Popular ballad  3) Main writers and their works: Back

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE Literary terms  Example :  genre---a type or class of literature  In English literature, the main generic division today is into poetry, drama and the novel, but in earlier times the major genres were recognized as epic, tragedy, lyric, comedy and satire. (Literary Terms and Criticism by John Peck and Martin Coyle)  mode---a recognized type or kind of work within a genre, such as the sonnet or the realistic novel.

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE Literary terms  Another popular division.  1 Fiction: it is referred to as creative or figurative expression of life. four genres ---novels, short stories, plays and poems.  2 non-fiction (essay): it is referred to a literal expression of life or discursive writing. description, narration, exposition, and argumentation.

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE 5 Three kinds of literature: fiction, poetry, and drama.  I. Fiction  Definition: fiction created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may base on a true story or situation.  Elements  1.Plot: a sequence of interrelated actions and events.  Five stages of plot: exposition, complication, crisis, falling action and resolution.  2.Characters: the people in fiction  Types of characters: protagonist vs. antagonist  Flat vs. round characters  Dynamic vs. static characters  3.Setting: place and objects in fiction  Types: natural, manufactured

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE  4.Point of view: the angle or perspective from which the author observes and tells the story.  5.Theme: what the author is to say in his story.  6.Style: the author’s particular way of telling his story.  7.Tone: the author’s attitude toward his subject or audience.  8.Symbolism: a key to extended meaning  9.Allegory: the author’s attempt to reinforce his theme by making his characters represent some specific abstract ideas or qualities.

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE Poetry  Definition: classified as narrative or lyric.  Elements  Imagery  An image is a concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea.  Symbolism  A symbol is any object or action that means more than itself, any object or objection that represents something beyond itself.  Sound: Rhyme, alliteration and assonance

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE Drama  Definition: a dialogue performed by actors on a stage before an audience.  Elements  Dialogue  Staging  Genres: comedy, tragedy and tragic-comedy.

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE 6 How to study English poetry  6.1 What is poetry?  Poetry is a kind of writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through its meaning, sound, and rhythm.

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE 6.2 Types of Poetry  lyric poetry It expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet elegies, odes, and sonnets  Narrative Poetry It tells a story or presents a narrative  Dramatic Poetry It is written in the form of a speech of an individual character to an imaginary audience

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE 6.3 How do we read a poem?  The process of reading a poem  read the poem once straight through, with no particular expectations.  read for the exact sense of all the words. read the poem aloud--discover meanings you didn’t perceive in it before.  try to paraphrase the poem as a whole.

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE 6.3 How do we read a poem?  6.3.2Two main ways of thinking about poetry.  The first approach: concentrate on the poet shortcomings of the first approach: can’t see what the feeling are /more concerned with the mind and personality behind the poem than with the text itself  The second approach: concentrates on discussing the poem itself.

College of Foreign Languages, CTGU College of Foreign Languages, CTGU H ISTORY AND A NTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH L ITERATURE Reading List for This Course  1 《英国文学简史》刘炳善 郑州：河南人民出版社  2 《现代英国文学简介》， Booz,E 上海：上海外语教育出 版社  3 《英国文学教程》 ( 上下册 ) ，张伯香 武汉：武汉大学出 版社， 《英国文学选读》，王守仁，北京：高等教育出版社， 2001 。  5 The Norton Anthology of English Literature, M.H. Abrams, London: W.W. Norton & Company Ltd.

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