毕设论文--studies on teaching of literature course 英语专业.docVIP

Chapter 1 Introduction Aristotle once defined “literature” as “a branch of art which imitates nature” (1997: 63), which means literature is the basic representative of human emotions, feelings, actions, and thoughts. According to Carter and Long (1991: 3), it is possible to classify the significance of learning literature into three groups namely “linguistic”, “cultural”, and “individual” ones. Linguistically, literature is created from basic materials of linguistic study (Chapman 1973: 44), so it can be used as a perfect means to exemplify structures and vocabulary for EFL. In terms of cultur