文学导论

Unit One Fiction

1.1 Understanding Fiction

1.2 Plot

David Herbert Lawrence and Tickets， Please.

1.3 Character

Sherwood Anderson and The Egg.

1.4 Point of View and Tone

Margaret Atwood and Rape Fantasies .

1.5 Theme

James Joyce and The Dead.

1.6 Style

Ernest Hemingway and In Another Country.

1.7 Selected Commentaries

Mark Savin： Coming Full Circle： Sherwood Andersons The Egg.

L.J.Morrissery： Inner and Outer Perceptions in Joyces The Dead.

1.8 Further Reading

Luigi Pirandello and War.

Student Paper： Defining War .

Unit Two Poetry

2.1 Understanding Poetry

2.2 Voice： Speaker and Tone

Robert Browning and Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister.

2.3 Diction

William Blake and London.

2.4 Imagery

Williams Shakespeare and Sonnet 130

2.5 Figures of Speech

Emily Dickinson and I like to see it lap the Miles.

2.6 Sound and Rhythm

E.E.Cummings and anyone lived in a pretty how town.

2.7 Selected Commentaries

Heather Glen： The Stance of Observation in wilham Blakes London.

William Freedman： Dickinsons I lille to see it lap the Miles.

2.8 Fmlher Reading i

Robert Frost and Design .

Student Paper： An Unfolding of Robert Frosts Design.

Unit Three Drachma

3.1 Understanding Drama

3.2 ShakespeareanComedy

William Shakespeare and A Midsummer Nights Dream

3.3 The Problem Play

George Bernard Shaw and Widowers Houses

3.4 The Feminist Theater

Susan Olaspell and Trifles

3.5 The Theater of the Absurd

Samuel Beckett and Krapps Last Tape.

3.6 Selected Commentaries

Kate Kellaway： Shaw-ly Some Mistake.

Robert Brustein： Krapps Last Tape.

3.7 Furthcr Readlng

Sophocles and Antigone

Student Paper： Antigone A Struggle between Human and Divine Powers

Unit Four Literary Criticism

4.1 Understanding Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism

4.2 Marxist Criticism

Raymond williams and Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory.

4.3 Psychoanalytical Criticism

Sigmund Freud and Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming .

4.4 Feminist Criticism

Sandra M.Gilbert， Susan Gubar and The Madwoman in the Attic： The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination.

4.5 Postcolonial Criticism

Edward Said and Introduction to Orientalism.

4.6 Selected Commentaries

Maggie Humm： Feminist Futures：

Leela Gandhi： The Limits of Postcolonial Theory.

4.7 Further Reading

Margaret Atwood and Spelling.

Student Paper： A Feminist Critique of Margaret Atwoods Spelling

Appendixes

1.Glossary of Literary Terms

2.Literary Background Information

3.Sample Papers

4.Websites for Further Studies

References

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