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1、SyllabusCourse Description:a course designed to help you1.learn basic information about different periods in English and American literary history 2.understand important writers of different schools of English and American literature 第1页/共38页Content of LecturesEach lecture will include:1.an overall

2、introduction about a certain period in either English or American literatures:historical,social&cultural background of;features and literary achievements of this literary period2.a detailed study on certain important writers in a certain period:biography,representative literary works,literary career

3、&literary achievements3.a brief introduction about certain literary terms第2页/共38页Course Requirement1.To attend class regularly2.To do a considerable amount of reading(to finish the reading assignment in our textbooks before each reading)3.To do a careful note-taking4.To keep a journal log:to write d

4、own anything you think important or interesting while doing your reading assignments or attending class&to write your comments on or response to what you read第3页/共38页Reading Materials(I)Compulsory Reading:1.Liu Bingshan.A Short History of English Literature.Zhengzhou:Henan People Press,2007.2.Tongmi

5、ng.A History of American Literature.Nanjing:Yilin Press,2002.第4页/共38页Reading Materials(II)Suggested Reading:1.Zhang Boxiang.Selected Readings In English And American Readings.Beijing:Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press,1999.2.Wu Weiren.History and Anthology of English Literature.Beijing For

6、eign Language Teaching and Research Press,1988.3.Wu Weiren.History and Anthology of American Literature.Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press,1990.第5页/共38页Reading Materials(III)Further Reading:1.Chang Yaoxin.A Survey of English Literature.Tianjin:Nankai University Press,2006.2.Hu Yint

7、ong,Liu Shusen.Course in American Literature.Tianjin:Nankai University Press,1995.3.Chang Yaoxin.A Survey of American Literature,the 2nd Edition.Tianjin:Nankai University Press,2003.第6页/共38页Grading PolicyFinal Exam(60%)Attendance(10%)Class Performance(10%)Note-taking(20%)第7页/共38页Warming QuestionsWhy

8、 should we learn literature?What is the use of learning literature?How shall we study literature?第8页/共38页为何学习文学为何学习文学?熟读唐诗三百首，不会作诗也会吟。熟读唐诗三百首，不会作诗也会吟。学习语言需要多读，借以培养语感，缩短学习者与语言间的距离细雨潇潇赏宋词，人生佳境莫如此。细雨潇潇赏宋词，人生佳境莫如此。文学可以陶冶情操，提高修养世事洞明皆学问，人情练达即文章。世事洞明皆学问，人情练达即文章。文学让人体味百态人生，领悟生活真谛第9页/共38页Importance of Learni

9、ng LiteratureHistories make men wise;poets,witty;the mathematics,subtle;natural philosophy,deep;moral,grave;logic and rhetoric,able to contend.Francis Bacon历史使人明智，诗歌使人灵秀，数学使人缜密，物理使人深刻，伦理学使人庄历史使人明智，诗歌使人灵秀，数学使人缜密，物理使人深刻，伦理学使人庄重，逻辑使人善辩重，逻辑使人善辩 第10页/共38页Each good fiction is a history of its characters o

10、r its times.Each good poem is an expression of the genius wit.Each good essay is full of logic and rhetoric.Each good drama has its thorough influence on peoples morality.Every excellent literary works is wise,witty,subtle,deep,grave,logical at the same time.读书可以改变人的气质读书可以改变人的气质。培根第11页/共38页文学的丰富多彩文学

11、的丰富多彩There is no Frigate like a BookThere is no frigate like a book To take us lands awayNor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetryThis traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll:How frugal is the chariot That bears the human soul!Emily Dickinson第12页/共38页文学的激励作用文学的激励作用圣火的实例往往比千言万语的说教

12、更有力量，它能够激发或者缓和人类的激情。所以在我当面给了你一些安慰之后，我就决定把自己的苦难经历写给你，来安慰你，希望你拿我的苦难同你的比较一下，你就会觉得你的苦难毕竟是微乎其微，你也就有勇气来面对人生的一切磨难。阿贝拉尔（12世纪法国神学家）第13页/共38页如何学习文学“三不分”文史不分 the connection between the history and the general literary features 作家与其所处时代不分 the connection between the author and its times作品与其作者不分 the connection be

13、tween the work and its author第14页/共38页文学与悟性文学与悟性To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the Palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour一沙一天国一沙一天国一花一世界一花一世界君掌盛无边君掌盛无边刹那含永劫刹那含永劫 William Blake第15页/共38页文学包罗万象文学包罗万象the inseparability of literature,history&philosophyClo

14、se connection between literature,music,painting&photographyTo learn literature well,you must be a person who are interested in many things and who can use the knowledge in other spheres to interpret literary codes.第16页/共38页如何学好文学如何学好文学学而无思则罔，学而无思则罔，思而不学则殆。思而不学则殆。文学与生活密切相关。从生活中汲取灵感来理解文学；从文学中吸取智慧来感悟人生

15、。在“悟”中把握人生的真谛。非学无以置疑，非问无以广识。非学无以置疑，非问无以广识。勤读书，多思考，善提问，多讨论 第17页/共38页How to Read Literary Works?“Books are the best of things,well used;abused,among the worst.What is the right use?What is the one end which all means go to effect?They are for nothing but to inspire.I had better never seen a book than

16、to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit,and made a satellite instead of a system.The one thing in the world,of value,is the active soul.”Ralph Waldo Emerson“尽信书不如无书。尽信书不如无书。”Be an active and critical reader.第18页/共38页Divisions in English Literature第19页/共38页Division in Our Textbook1.E

17、arly and Medieval English Literature2.The English Renaissance3.The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution4.The Eighteenth Century5.Romanticism in England6.English Critical Realism7.Prose-Writers and Poets of the Mid and Late 19th Century8.Twentieth Century English Literature9.Poets and Novelists

18、 Who Wrote Before and After the Second World War第20页/共38页An Overview:Six Periods In English Literature1.Old and Medieval Period(450 1066；1066 14th century)2.The Renaissance Period(14thcentury mid-17th century)3.The Neoclassical Period(1660 1798)4.The Romantic Period(1798 1832)5.The Victorian Period(

19、1836 1901)6.The Modern Period(20th century )第21页/共38页Important Dates In English Literary History1066:the Norman Conquest1660:the Restoration of King Charles II1798:the publication of Lyrical Ballads1832:Sir Walter Scotts death1836 1901：the reign of Queen Victoria第22页/共38页Important Writers in Differe

20、nt Periods(I)1.Old and Medieval Period:BeowulfChaucer&his The Canterbury Tales2.The Renaissance Period:Drama&Poetry-WritingMarlowe Shakespeare3.The Neoclassical Period Milton(Epic)Bunyan,Swift,Defoe&Fielding:the Rise of English NovelMetaphysical Poetry:John DonnePope:Summit of Heroic Couplet第23页/共38

21、页Important Writers in Different Periods(II)4.The Romantic Period:Sentimentalism&Pre-Romanticism:Thomas Gray,Blake&BurnsPassive-Romanticism:the Lake-Side Poets(Wordsworth,Coleridge&Southey)Active-Romanticism:Byron,Shelley&Keats第24页/共38页Important Writers in Different Periods(III)5.The Victorian Period

22、:Rise of Critical Realism:Dickens,Thackeray&Women Novelists(Jane Austen,The Bronte Sisters&George Eliot)Poetic Revolution:Tennyson&The Brownings 6.The Modern Period:Hardy,Galsworthy&D.H.LawrenceOverview of some representative writers in later period:E.M.Forster,Aldous Huxley,George Orwell,William Go

23、lding&Doris Lessing第25页/共38页Division in American Literature第26页/共38页Division in Our Textbook1.Early American Literature:Colonial Period to 18152.American Romanticism:1815-18653.American Realism:1865-19144.American Modernism:1914-19455.American Literature Diversified:From 1945 to the 21st Century第27页

24、/共38页2nd Version1.Colonial Period(1607-1765)2.Age of Reason and Revolution(1765-end of 18th century)3.Romantic Period(1800-1865)4.Realistic Period(1865-1918)5.Modern Period(1918-1945)6.Contemporary Period(1945-)第28页/共38页Age of Reason&RevolutionColonial PeriodContemporary PeriodCommon Features in Dif

25、ferent Divisions第29页/共38页The War of IndependenceYears as British ColonyFive Historical Events to Remember these Different Divisions第30页/共38页Important Writers in Different Periods(I)1.Colonial Period:no writer2.Age of Reason and Revolution:Benjamin Franklin3.Romantic Period:Edgar Allan PoeRalph Waldo

26、 Emerson&Henry David Thoreau(transcendentalism)Nathaniel Hawthorne&Herman Melville19th-Century American Poets第31页/共38页Important Writers in Different Periods(II)4.Realistic Period:Mark Twain:local color writingHenry James:psychological realismStephen Crane:naturalism第32页/共38页Important Writers in Diff

27、erent Periods(III)5.Modern Period:Realistic Literature:Willa Cather&Sherwood AndersonSouthern Literature:Katherine Ann Porter&William FaulknerModernist Literature:F.Scott Fitzgerald&Ernest Hemingway The lost Generation20th century American poetsEugene ONeil第33页/共38页Important Writers in Different Per

28、iods(IV)6.Contemporary PeriodEssayist:Elwyn Brooks WhitePlaywright:Tennessee Williams&Arthur MillerBlack Literature:Ralph Waldo Ellison&Toni MorrisonJewish Literature:Saul BellowBlack Humor:Joseph Heller第34页/共38页ScheduleWeek 1:Introduction to the CourseWeek 2-3:English RenaissanceWeek 4-5:English Ne

29、oclassicismWeek 6-7:English RomanticismWeek 8-9:Victorian Literature Week 10:English Modern PeriodWeek 11-12:American RomanticismWeek 13-14:American RealismWeek 15-16:American Modern PeriodWeek 17:American Contemporary PeriodWeek 18:Examination Week第35页/共38页“净净”：努力保持文化环境的纯净努力保持文化环境的纯净“静静”：让人宁静下来思考静修

30、：让人宁静下来思考静修“敬敬”：心存敬畏，心存感恩：心存敬畏，心存感恩“境境”：善用其心，善待一切，用心做事，提：善用其心，善待一切，用心做事，提升自我，升华自我。升自我，升华自我。道德经道德经说说“五色令人目盲；五音令人耳聋五色令人目盲；五音令人耳聋”。不追逐声色之娱，摒弃物欲的诱惑，还要。不追逐声色之娱，摒弃物欲的诱惑，还要沉下心学习实在不易。不易而能去做才会成才。沉下心学习实在不易。不易而能去做才会成才。读书从未成名，人品究竟高雅。读书从未成名，人品究竟高雅。行善不求回报，终归梦稳心安。行善不求回报，终归梦稳心安。摘自摘自 冀星冀星 多读书多读书 勤勤修身修身第36页/共38页Thanks for your attention!第37页/共38页感谢您的观看！第38页/共38页