英语文学欣赏SyllabusⅠ

1、英语文学欣赏Syllabus英语文学欣赏 Syllabus ()wWeek1 IntroductionwWeek 2-5 Unit 1 IdentitywWeek 6-8 Unit 2 Spiritual GrowthwWeek 9-14 Unit 3 Love, poetry readingwWeek 15-18 Unit 4 Family精品课程Syllabus ()Poetry Writing and Reading: during this course, you are supposed to write a love poem and read it in class. (poet

2、ry 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 Pla

3、to 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 id

4、ea “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 sensa

5、tion of lifeThe purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known” (Shklovsky)An Exle of “form is content”wl(a wLew afw faw llw ws)w onew lw iness Questions for PonderingwWhat is special about the form of the above poem?wHow does the form of the poem

6、 contribute to the meaning?wPlease interpret the poem A poem inspired by e. e. cummings(a students work)wP(awMwanwfawllwsw)wAwInwfulAn extreme form of “form is content”:language poetrywL=A=N=G=U=A=G=E P=O=E=T=S by poet Bernadette Mayer in her work, Experiments: wSystematically derange the language,

7、for exle, write a work consisting only of prepositional phrases, or, add a gerundive to every line of an already existing piece of prose or poetry, etc. wGet a group of words (make a list or select at random); then form these words (only) into a piece of writingwhatever the words allow. Let them dem

8、and their own form, and/or: Use certain words in a set way, like, the same word in every line, or in a certain place in every paragraph, etc. Design words. wWrite what cannot be written, for exle, compose an index. (Read an index as a poem). wAttempt writing in a state of mind that seems least conge

9、nial.w wConsider word & letter as formsthe concretistic distortion of a text, for exle, too many os or a multiplicity of thin letters (illftiii, etc.)w wAttempt to eliminate all connotation from a piece of writing & vice versa.w wWork your ass off to change the language & dont ever get famous. Some

10、L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E P=O=E=M=SwSad Boys Sad Boy wBY CHARLES BERNSTEIN wI ruin my hats and all the mat slides glad wI hop my girls and all is skip again wI jump I run you up inside my truck wThe car goes looping out in dark and light wAnd yellow hat slides in wI run my mats and all the girl slides glad wI

11、 hoped you skipped me into luck wAnd jump me black, ruin me glad wI jump I run you up inside my truck w wI jump my slopes and all the dopes slide glad wI glide my luck and all is slip again wI jump my hopes and all the rope glides sad wI skip you jump the way you said wBut I run old and sigh your na

12、me wI ruin my mats and all the girl slides glad wAt least when luck hops it skips back again wA rune my mats and all the girls slide glad wI jump I run you up inside my truck w After Mad Girls Love Song by Sylvia Plathw婚宴w车前子w这一首诗不适合朗读，因为扫雪的声音，沙沙沙沙地太响了。南方人扫雪一把条帚，北方人扫雪一把铲子，其实是铲雪。一个名词嫁给不同的动词，我们正去婚宴的路上

13、，又送了一次礼。犀牛姓犀牛的走到王府井。姓薛的讨厌姓朱的，就把自己租来的公寓，叫“杀猪楼”。w姓朱的讨厌姓薛的，借住在农民房里，称“扫雪庄”。姓车的人好，大家就乘他。姓犀牛的走到王府井，再好的车也不载犀牛。早晨小椿树胡同里的一棵椿树，我摸过一百只乳房。可能是五十对。我已没有了虚荣心。一棵椿树越看越不像椿树，也不像槐树。业余爱好w偏头痛的时候最好自己没有脑袋，或者这脑袋是别人的。有的时候我愿意把脑袋送人，但眼镜要留下来。没什么道理，仅仅是业余爱好。观念艺术我热爱的朋友不会在这时打 ，他们知道我睡觉的天赋。上午十点钟，我被吵醒了：“喂，喂，是烤鸭店吗？”我一下没了脾气，我说：“不，不，烧鸡铺子。”

14、喻体他扫雪，裤管像仅剩的桥墩，剥掉白老虎的皮。作为喻体它是流水浊泥的。Enjoy the Forms!What did You Get From Gazing at the Above Pictures?wBegin to look at things with fresh looks?wBegin to think differently?Does Mere Form Make Good Poetry?w毫无疑问w我做的馅饼w是全天下w最好吃的w-赵丽华wWhat do you think of the poem? It has the form of a poem. Is it a poe

15、m?Political ReadingwMarxist Reading: it is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. Feminist Reading: focus on woman as reader (image and stereotypes of women, omission and misconceptions about women in criticism) a

16、nd woman as writer (female language, psychology, etc.) Race-oriented Reading: read from racial perspective. Is certain race ignored or treated unjustly in the work? Is the image of certain race distorted or stereotyped? Is the tone favorably or unfavorably biased towards a certain race? Etc.Deconstructionist ReadingwThis reading is to overturn traditional assumption that the text has a definite structure therefore a definite meaning. Deconstructive reading is to find “holes”, things that show that a definite interpretation is impossible. wSo according to