Stoppng by Woods on a Snowy Evening.ppt

How to help Chinese university students cast off the yoke of exam-oriented education system and to turn Chinese universities into places where students’ intellectual abilities are cultivated, their wisdom is gained and innovative spirit is fostered.The paper holds that British and American literary education plays an important role in improving students’ literary and culturalcompetence; And in the teaching of literature, efforts have been made in combining what is taught with life and reality and students’mind has been opened as they recognize the relevancy of literature to human life. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness（马具） bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Russian formalism Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of highly influential Russian and Soviet scholars such as Viktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynianov, Vladimir Propp, Boris Eichenbaum, Roman Jakobson, who revolutionised literary criticism between 1914 and the 1930s by establishing the specificity and autonomy of poetic language and literature. Russian formalism exerted a major influence on thinkers like Mikhail Bakhtin and Yuri Lotman, and on structuralism as a whole. The movements members had a relevant influence on modern literary criticism, as it developed in the structuralist and post-structuralist periods. Under Stalin it became a pejorative term for elitist art. Formalism The term “formalism” was