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1、EnglishLiteratureTheAnglo-SaxonPeriodⅠBasicconceptsandrequirementsofthiscourse1.what’sliterature? InEnglish,weusethewordinatleasttwodifferentsenses:veryoftenitsimplymeansanythingthatiswritten:timetables,catalogues,text-books,travelbrochures(booklet/pamphlet).Inthisbroadsense,anaccountofy
2、esterday’sfootballmatchoranadvertisementofsoappowder,isasmuchliteratureastheDialoguesofPlatoorthenovelsofD.H.Lawrence.ButwhenwetalkaboutEnglishliteratureaswedointhiscourse,weareusingthewordinadifferent,andperhapsmoreserioussense.Herewemayagreethatliteratureiswritingwhichexpresses&communic
3、atesthoughts,feelings&attitudestowardslife.Butsomeonemayask:whataboutadvertisements,travelbooklets,etc?Theycertainlyseemtobeexpressingthoughts&feelings&attitudes,yettheyarenotliteratureinthesenseinwhichwehavehowdecidedtousetheword.Thisisbecausetheylackoneofthequalitiesthatmakeseriousliter
4、aturesodifferentfromadvertisingorjournalism.Thequality,Ihaveinmind,ispermanence.Suchthingsasjournalism,advertising,&evenworksofinformationare“heretoday&gonetomorrow”,butliteratureisintendedtolast.Tosummarizewhathasbeensaid,wemaynowsaythatliteratureisapermanentexpressioninwordsofsomethough
5、tsorfeelingsorideasaboutlife&theworld. 2.Whatistheusefulnessofstudying(English)Literature? (1)Increasingone’sknowledge EnglishliteratureisamirrortothesociallifeatdifferentstagesofEnglishhistory.Itisageneralexpressionoftheideas,feelings&aestheticjudgmentsof writersfromdifferentsocialclas
6、ses.Itisalsoadirectorindirect&vividexpressionoftherelationshipamongpeopleofdifferentsocialclasses,betweenpeople&society,people&nature,andthespirit&psychologicalstateofpeoplethemselves. ThereforestudyingEnglishliterature,isoneofthebestwaysforustogetagoodcommandofEnglishknowledge.(2)Improv
7、ingone’slanguageability.Generallyspeaking,allthatisbestinalanguagefindsexpressioninitsliterature.Dictionariestellusaboutthespellings,pronunciations&definitionsofwords.Thecommonestwaytolearnthemeaningofawordistolookitupinadictionary.Butdictionariescannotshowallthesub
