《英国文学》教案.doc

教 案 课 程 名 称 ： 英国文学 授 课 班 级 ： 授 课 教 师 ： 院 系 ： 外国语学院 2010年 2月28日  Table of Contents Introduction Lecture 1 William Shakespeare Lecture 2 John Milton Lecture 3 Daniel Defoe Lecture 4 William Wordsworth Lecture 5 Jane Austen Lecture 6 George Gordon, Lord Byron Lecture 7 Charles Dickens Lecture 8 James Joyce Lecture 9 Thomas Stearns Eliot Lecture 10 Conclusion Introduction Literature in the widest sense is just about anything written. But in the more specialized sense, it is the art that uses language as a medium. Literature contains fiction and non-fiction. Under fiction there are four genres: novels, short stories, plays, and poems. Fiction is referred to as creative or figurative expression of life. Non-fiction is called a literal expression of life or discursive writing. Non-fiction is essay, which has traditionally been classified into 4 categories: description, narration, exposition and argumentation. Robert Frost says literature is a performance in words. It is the work of men who are specially sensitive to the language of their time and who use the skill of language to make their vision of life. Literature helps us to better understand the nature of the real. And it also makes us readers take delight in the way that the work has been constructed, take delight in the performance in words. Literature offers both pleasure and illumination. It enriches our lives and increases our capacities for understanding and comprehension. For the first-level readers, literature is read for emotional satisfaction, for excitement as well as for entertainment. For The second-level readers, literature is read for its didactic function. Advanced readers of literature have a distinctive concern over matters beyond didacticism. They look for “how it is said”. In other words, sophisticated readers do not allow themselves to be passively manipulated by either moving plots or fascinating characters. Ins