英语短篇小说赏析
教学大纲与教学计划
英美短篇小说赏析是一门专业素质教育任选课，供英语专业高年级学生选读。通过阅读和分析英语小说，促进学生语言基本功和人文素养的提高，增强学生对英语文学和西方文化的了解。
David LIN – Associate Prof, Master of ARTS 2014/2/23
目录
Cour Introduction (1)
Cour Objectives (1)
Cour Related Information: (1)
Teaching Schedule: (2)
Recommended Text Book (3)
Asssment Summary (3)
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Asssments (7)
Asssment 1. Contrast Two Short Stories (7)
Stories Analysis Worksheet (8)
Marking Guide (9)
Asssment 2 Read, study and analy short Stories (10)
Asssment 3. Story Writing (14)
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Cour Introduction
A short story is usually a brief fictional narrative in pro concentrated on a single effect, for example, the creation of mood rather than the telling of a story, which is conveyed in a single significant episode or scene and involving a limited number of characters, sometimes even only one, with words of 3000 to 20000 in general.
Whether long or short, a work of fiction is usually made up of certain identifiable devices or elements, each of which contributes to the making of an integrated and
unified whole. In relation to the major elements of fiction, we generally refer to plot, character, tting, point of view, theme, style, tone, symbolism and allegory.
This cour is designed to introduce the fundamental elements to the students
who major in English Literature in detail with illustrative readings provided so that
they may be better able to analy, understand and appreciate what they are reading.
Cour Objectives
-Apply Fiction approaches to contrast two different short stories. The approaches may include but not limited to: plot, characters, tting, point of view, theme,
style, tone, symbolism, and allegory.
-Apply Fiction approaches to analy a short story.
-Write a short story (a slice of life) applying the approaches.
Cour Related Information:
Cour Code 41070103 Cour Name: Appreciation of English Short Stories Credits 1.5 Teaching Hours 24
Major English Cour Feature Elective
Revid Feb 2014
1英语名词
Teaching Schedule:
Week Content
Fiction Studies
Home Readings Title Author(s)
研究生报名费用
1 Plot The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Stephen Crane Christmas Day in the morning (Pearl S. Buck)
2 Characters Two Kinds Amy Tam The Catbird Seat (James Thurber)
3 Setting To Build a Fire Jack London A Horman in the Sky (Ambro Bierce)
4 Point of view A Clean, Well-lighted Place Ernest Hemingway The Broken Globe (Henry Kreil)
5 Theme Yellow Woman Leslie Silko Rain (W. Somert Maugham)
6 Asssment 1: Contrast two short stories from the home readings by analysing plot, characters, ttings, point of view and themes. 30%
7 Style My Oedipus Complex Frank O’Connor Haircut (Ring Lardner)
8 Tone The Hor Dealer’s Daughter D. H. Lawrence Luck (Mark Twain)
homa9 Asssment 2. Analysing Mark Twain’s story – Luck. Write an analysis essay discussing the story’s plot characters, tting, point of view,
theme, style and tone. Word limit: 1200 (30%)
10 Symbolism The Chrysanthemums John Steinbeck The Egg (Sherwood Anderson)
颜色搭配 英文11 Allegory Old Rogaum and his Theresa Theodore Dreir Everything that Ris must converge (F. O’Connor)
12 Asssment 3. Write a short story bad on your own slice of life, applying the fiction approaches of plot characters, tting, point of
view, theme, style, tone, symbolism, and allegory. Length: two pages of A4 size, 40%
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Recommended Text Book
Liuchen, LIN (2009) An Approach to Fiction (2nd Edition), Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press
Asssment Summary
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作业号：311632Contrast two short stories in analysing five
approaches: plot, characters, ttings,
point of view, and themes.
gudrunComplete the worksheet in no less than
1000 words
30% Week 6
4月4日
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Two
作业号：311636Analy one given short story, and write an
essay discuss about plot, characters,
tting, point of view, themes, style, and
tone.
Word limit: 1200高中英语手抄报
30% Week 9
4月25日
23:59
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作业号：311638Write your own short story (slice of your
life), applying the fiction approach by plot,
characters, tting, point of view, themes,
style, tone, symbolism, and allegory.
U MS Word processor to complete your
descriptive writing. Your work should be no
less than two A4 size pages, using the font
of Time and New Roman in font size of 12,
by 1.5 spacing line.
40% Week12
5月16日
23:59
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