英语短篇小说教程电子教案 Unit1课件

英语短篇小说教程

ShortStoriesinEnglish:AReadingCourse虞建华编写英语短篇小说教程

ShortStoriesinEng1UnitOneIntroduction:TheShortStoryReading:“EarlyAutumn”byLangstonHughesUnitOne2Commentonthefollowingstatement:Doyouagreetothisopinion?“Autobiographyisfiction,forintheprocessofwritingtheauthorwillhaveinevitablycreatedafictitiouscharacter.”

Commentonthefollowingstate3Commentonthefollowingstatement:IsraelZangwill,anEnglishwriter,sayssomethingaboutthe“truth”offiction.Doyouagreetothisopinion?“InLiterature,everythingistrueexceptnamesandplaces;inhistorynothingistrueexceptnamesandplaces.”

Commentonthefollowingstate4TheRandomHouseDictionary

definitionoftheword“fiction”:Theclassofliteraturecomprisingworksofimaginativenarration,esp.inproseform.TheRandomHouseDictionar5Thefourmaincategoriesofliterature:fiction:novel,novella,shortstories,myth,legendfolktale…poetry:ballad,epic,freeverse,psalm,sonnet…drama:play,opera,radio/TV/filmscripts…prose:essay,criticism,literarytheory,(auto)biography…Thefourmaincategoriesofli6SylvanBarnet:AShortGuidetoWritingaboutLiterature

Perhapsthefirstthingtosayisthatitisimpossibletodefineliteratureinawaythatwillsatisfyeveryone.Andperhapsthesecondthingtosayisthatinthelast20yearsorso,someseriousthinkershavearguedthatitisimpossibletosetoffcertainverbalworksfromallothers,andonsomebasisorothertodesignatethemasliterature.Itisanhonorificword,orabodyofworkembodyingeternaltruthandeternalbeauty.SylvanBarnet:AShortGuidet7JohnM.Ellis:TheTheoryofLiteraryCriticism

Thewordliteratureissomethinglikethewordweed.Aweedisjustaplantthatgardenersforonereasonoranotherdon’twantinthegarden,butnoplanthascharacteristicsthatclearlymakeitweedandnotmerelyaplant.JohnM.Ellis:TheTheoryofL8RobertFrostandEzraPound:

RobertFrost:Literatureis“aperformanceofwords.”EzraPound:Literatureis“newsthatstaysnews.”RobertFrostandEzraPound:9Essentialdifferencesbetweenfictionandnon-fictionalwritings:Theformerhastwolevelsofunderstanding,thenarrativelevelandtheauthoriallevel,orthesurfacelevelandthedeeplevelofunderstanding;Theformerallowsdifferentinterpretations;Theformerrequiresimaginativeparticipationonthepartofthereader;Intheformer,theauthor’svoiceisgenerallydisguised,speakingthroughapersona.Essentialdifferencesbetween10Discussion:Isitliterature?Theolddogbarksbackwardwithoutgettingup.Icanstillrememberwhenhewasapup.RobertFrost:“TheSpanofLife”Discussion:Isitliterature?11Discussion:Isitliterature?

坟是白馒头，井像黑窟窿，黄狗身上白，白狗身上肿。Discussion:Isitliterature?12Discussion:Isitliterature?ThirtydayshathSeptember,April,JuneandNovember;Alltheresthavethirty-one,ExceptingFebruaryaloneWhichhastwenty-eightinfine,Tillleapyeargivesittwenty-nine.Discussion:Isitliterature?13ReadingandTextualAnalysis

LangstonHughes:“EarlyAutumn”ReadingandTextualAnalysis14Questions

1.Eventhoughwecallita“shortstory,”istheremuch“story”intheusualsenseoftheword?Is“story”aninevitablepart?3.Isthereaclearmessage?WhatisMary’sproblem?4.Howdoesthestorytouchthereader–ifitisatouchingone?5.Whatpartdoesthesettingplayinthestory?Questions15HenryJames:Thebestfictionwouldnotrelyprimarilyuponplot,instead,wouldderiveitsimpactfromtruthofdetail.HenryJames:16JackLondon:(Goodliterature)transcendsthelimitsofparticularitytoreachuniversality.JackLondon:17IsaraelZangwill:Artdealswithessences,notwithaccidents.IsaraelZangwill:18Chekhov:Itisnotthebusinessofawritertoanswerthegreatquestionsbuttostatethequestionscorrectly.Chekhov:19英语短篇小说教程

ShortStoriesinEnglish:AReadingCourse虞建华编写英语短篇小说教程

ShortStoriesinEng20UnitOneIntroduction:TheShortStoryReading:“EarlyAutumn”byLangstonHughesUnitOne21Commentonthefollowingstatement:Doyouagreetothisopinion?“Autobiographyisfiction,forintheprocessofwritingtheauthorwillhaveinevitablycreatedafictitiouscharacter.”

Commentonthefollowingstate22Commentonthefollowingstatement:IsraelZangwill,anEnglishwriter,sayssomethingaboutthe“truth”offiction.Doyouagreetothisopinion?“InLiterature,everythingistrueexceptnamesandplaces;inhistorynothingistrueexceptnamesandplaces.”

Commentonthefollowingstate23TheRandomHouseDictionary

definitionoftheword“fiction”:Theclassofliteraturecomprisingworksofimaginativenarration,esp.inproseform.TheRandomHouseDictionar24Thefourmaincategoriesofliterature:fiction:novel,novella,shortstories,myth,legendfolktale…poetry:ballad,epic,freeverse,psalm,sonnet…drama:play,opera,radio/TV/filmscripts…prose:essay,criticism,literarytheory,(auto)biography…Thefourmaincategoriesofli25SylvanBarnet:AShortGuidetoWritingaboutLiterature

Perhapsthefirstthingtosayisthatitisimpossibletodefineliteratureinawaythatwillsatisfyeveryone.Andperhapsthesecondthingtosayisthatinthelast20yearsorso,someseriousthinkershavearguedthatitisimpossibletosetoffcertainverbalworksfromallothers,andonsomebasisorothertodesignatethemasliterature.Itisanhonorificword,orabodyofworkembodyingeternaltruthandeternalbeauty.SylvanBarnet:AShortGuidet26JohnM.Ellis:TheTheoryofLiteraryCriticism

Thewordliteratureissomethinglikethewordweed.Aweedisjustaplantthatgardenersforonereasonoranotherdon’twantinthegarden,butnoplanthascharacteristicsthatclearlymakeitweedandnotmerelyaplant.JohnM.Ellis:TheTheoryofL27RobertFrostandEzraPound:

RobertFrost:Literatureis“aperformanceofwords.”EzraPound:Literatureis“newsthatstaysnews.”RobertFrostandEzraPound:28Essentialdifferencesbetweenfictionandnon-fictionalwritings:Theformerhastwolevelsofunderstanding,thenarrativelevelandtheauthoriallevel,orthesurfacelevelandthedeeplevelofunderstanding;Theformerallowsdifferentinterpretations;Theformerrequiresimaginativeparticipationonthepartofthereader;Intheformer,theauthor’svoiceisgenerallydisguised,speakingthroughapersona.Essentialdifferencesbetween29Discussion:Isitliterature?Theolddogbarksbackwardwithoutgettingup.Icanstillrememberwhenhewasapup.RobertFrost:“TheSpanofLife”Discussion:Isitliterature?30Discussion:Isitliterature?

坟是白馒头，井像黑窟窿，黄狗身上白，白狗身上肿。Discussion:Isitliterature?31Discussion:Isitliterature?ThirtydayshathSeptember,April,JuneandNovember;Alltheresthavethirty-one,ExceptingFebruaryaloneWhichhastwenty-eightinfine,Tillleapyeargivesittwenty-nine.Discussion:Isitliterature?32ReadingandTextualAnalysis