英語文学欣赏 Syllabus （Ⅰ）.pptVIP

英语文学欣赏 Syllabus (Ⅰ) Week1 Introduction Week 2-5 Unit 1 Identity Week 6-8 Unit 2 Spiritual Growth Week 9-14 Unit 3 Love, poetry reading Week 15-18 Unit 4 Family Syllabus (Ⅱ) Poetry Writing and Reading: during this course, you are supposed to write a love poem and read it in class. (poetry reading time is about the middle of the term) Written assignment: you are supposed to write a short story about spiritual growth during this term. Assessment: classroom participation 10% poetry reading 20% written assignment 20% final exam 50% Lecture One How to Read Literature? Read for Meaning Plato only allows the serious poets and story-tellers who will write about virtues only to live in his ideal republic. Aristotle believes that tragedy has the function of catharsis, that is, through watching a great tragedy, people find their violent emotions relieved and themselves purified. Chinese idea “文以明道”（荀子）“ “文以载道”（曹丕） “文以贯道” （韩愈） “文所以再载道也” （周敦颐） Read for Form Poetry is a form of language characterized by an orientation towards its own form. What it first of all allows us to see in a fresh manner is language itself. The form is part of the content. “Art exists that one may recover the sensation of life…The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known” (Shklovsky) An Example of “form is content” l(a Le af fa ll s) one l iness ----e.e.cummings Questions for Pondering What is special about the form of the above poem? How does the form of the poem contribute to the meaning? Please interpret the poem A poem inspired by e. e. cummings(a student’s work) P(a M an fa ll s ) A In ful An extreme form of “form is content”:language poetry L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E P=O=E=T=S by poet Bernadette Mayer in her work, Experiments: Systematically derang