Introduction to English literature英美文学选读张伯香.ppt

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1、BritishLiteratureWhat’sLiterature?Theword“literature”cameintoEnglishfromthe14thcenturyinthesenseofpolitelearningthroughreading.Thusamanofliterature,oramanofletters,meantwhatwewouldnowdescribeasamanofwidereading.So,thiswordcorrespondsmainlytothemodernmeaningoftheword“literacy精

2、通文学,有文化.”Fromthemid-18thcentury,literaturereferredtothepracticeandprofessionofwriting.Thisappearstobecloselyconnectedwiththeheightenedself-consciousnessoftheprofessionofauthorship.Sincethe19thcentury,literaturehasbeenthehighskillsofwritingintheespecialcontextofhighimagination

3、.Literaturecomesfromhumaninterestintellingastory,inarrangingwordsinartisticforms,indescribinginwordsaspectsofourhumanexperiences.Thishumanactivityembodieshumandesiretoexpressandshareexperiences.Atthebeginning,theliteraryimpulseexistsonlyinone’smind.Itisawriter’s“performancein

4、words”asRobertFrostoncesaid.Inthiswayitcanbeappreciatedbyothers.Therefore,wecandefineliteratureaslanguageartisticallyusedtoachieveidentifiableliteraryqualitiesandtoconveymeaningfulmessages.Literatureischaracterizedbybeautyofexperienceandformandbyuniversityofintellectualandemo

5、tionalappeal.文学是指以语言文字为工具形象化地反映客观现实的艺术，包括诗歌、散文、小说、剧本、寓言、童话等，是文化的重要表现形式，以不同的形式（称作体裁）表现内心情感和再现一定时期和一定地域的社会生活。Fiction小说ElementsofFictionThemePlot&structureCharacterPointofviewSettingToneLanguage&styleIronySymbolTypesofPoetryNarrativepoetryEpic史诗Ballad民谣Romance传奇LyricpoetryEpigra

6、m警句诗Elegy挽歌Ode颂Aubade黎明别歌Sonnet十四行诗ElementsofPoetryVoice声音:Speaker&toneDictionImageryFiguresofspeech:SimileandMetaphorSymbolismSyntaxSound:Rhyme,Alliteration头韵,Assonance腹韵Rhyme节奏andmeter韵律ElementsofDramaPlotCharacterDialogueStaging演出ThemepurposeofstudyingEnglishliteratureIncr

7、easingone’sknowledgeImprovingone’slanguageabilityTrainingone’sthinkingFosteringone’sconnoisseurship(theabilitytoappreciateaworkofart)EnjoyingoneselfAimsToprovidethelearnerswithabriefoutlineofthehistoryofBritishliteratureuptothefirsthalfofthe20thcentury;Tointroducelearnerstoth

8、eimaginativeuseofEnglishandtohelpthemtowardsanappreciationofliterary