Early-Autumn英文讲义
Selected Readings of English Literature
What Is Literature?
The Random Hou Dictionary definition of the word “literature”:
毫不介意•writing regarded as having permanent worth through its intrinsic excellence;
•the entire body of writing of a specific language, period, people etc.;
•writing dealing with a particular subject; Comment on the following statements
Israel Zangwill:
In Literature, everything is true except names and places; in history nothing is true except names and places.
一如既往的近义词>空气化学Ezra Pound:
Literature is “news that stays news.”
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Picasso:
Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth…The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
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Robert Frost:
Literature is “a performance of words.”
怎么让Franz Kafka:
Literature “must be an ice-axe to break the a frozen inside us.”
Jack London:
(Good literature) transcends the limits of particularity to reach universality.
阿房宫Thomas Gray:
Literature is “thoughts that breathe and wo rds that burn.”
Robert Scholes:
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The sources of pleasure in literary discour(叙述) can be defined as matters of communicative capacity. Literary works offer readers a chance to u a fuller range of their interpretive(解释的) abilities than do non-literary texts. Brainstorming activity
•What is behind your choice of the elective, Selective Readings of English Literature?
•What do you think of literature reading? Or
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