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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,本资料仅供参考，不能作为科学依据。谢谢。本资料仅供参考，不能作为科学依据。谢谢,学术英语 人文,Academic English,for,Humanities,第1页,第2页,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,Lead-in,Text A,Text B,Text C,Academic Language and Discourse,Listening,Speaking,Writing,Unit Contents,第3页,Lead-in,Lead-in activities,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,第4页,Discuss the following questions:,What is literary theory?,What is literary criticism?,3.Why do we need literary theory and literary criticism?,Lead-in,Activities,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,第5页,What is literary theory?,Lead-in,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,In a strict sense:,the systematic study of the nature of literature and the methods for analyzing literature,In a wider sense:,various scholarly approaches to reading texts,(These approaches and ideas act as different lenses literary critics use to analyze literature,and they allow critics to focus on particular aspects of a piece of literary works.),A most fundamental question asked by literary theory:“What is literature?”,第6页,What is literary criticism?,Lead-in,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,Literary criticism is the evaluation,analysis or description of a particular literary work or a group of writings as a whole.,Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory.Criticism is usually in the form of a critical essay.,Academic literary critics (teaching in universities,publishing in,academic journals,etc.),More popular critics(publishing in newspapers and magazines),第7页,Text A,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Classroom activities,Supplementary information,Suggested answer key,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,第8页,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Discuss the questions in Task 1 and Task 2,Critical Reading and Thinking,P7,Come to the front of the class and give a brief introduction,to one of the following major schools of literary criticism:,Marxist criticism,reader-response criticism,New Historicism,postcolonialism,African American studies,gender studies,Text A,Classroom activities,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,第9页,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Louise M.Rosenblatt and her theory of reading,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,Louise M.Rosenblatt(1904-)was Emeritus Professor of English Education at New York University and holds an outstanding position in the fields of Education and Literary Studies.,第10页,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Louise M.Rosenblatt and her theory of reading,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,She outlined a theory of reading as a transactional process.Once in an interview,when asked why she preferred the use of the term“transactional/transaction”,she answered:,第11页,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Louise M.Rosenblatt and her theory of reading,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,“Reading is transaction,during which each is continuously affecting the other.I suppose ecology is the field in which people understand this best-that human beings are affected by the environment,but they are also affecting it all the time,so that there is a transaction going on.The continuous reciprocal influence of reader and text is similar,for instance,to two people talking to one another.What is said at the beginning of the conversation may take on an entirely different meaning by the end of it.,(to be continued),第12页,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Louise M.Rosenblatt and her theory of reading,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,(continued),Whats said affects the person who hears it,who then says something response that affects the first speaker.Rather than two static entities,each person is being affected in the conversation and what comes next depends on what happened so far.The same thing is going on between the reader and these squiggles on the page.Squiggles on the page are just signs.I call my theory the transactional theory because I wanted to emphasis this dynamic relationship.”,-,Louise M.Rosenblatt,第13页,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Marxist literary criticism,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,Based on socialist and dialectic theories,Viewing literary works as being originated from,the social institutions and reflecting,the social institutions,Concerning with the social and political meanings,of the text(e.g.the ways in which the text reveals,ideological oppression of a dominant economic class,over subordinate classes),第14页,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Reader-response criticism,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,Focus:the reader and their response to the text,Systematic examination of the parts of the text that arouse,shape,and guide a readers response,Different from formalist interpretations of literature(which emphasizes objective interpretation of a text on the basis of established criteria),One of the earliest proponents of this theory:Louise M.Rosenblatt.,第15页,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,New Historicism,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,Aim:to associate a work with the time period when it was produced,(especially with the cultural and political movements of the time),The underlying basic assumption:(Every work is a product of the historic context.),第16页,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,New Historicism,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,Stephen Greenblatt is regarded as one of the founders of New Historicism,a set of critical practices that he often refers to as Cultural Poetics“.,第17页,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Postcolonialism,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,Concerned with literature produced by colonial powers or those who were/are colonized,Looking at how power,economics,politics,religion,and culture work in relation to colonial hegemony,第18页,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,African American studies,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,African American studies examines,from numerous disciplinary perspectives,the history,literature,religion,culture and politics of Black Americans.,第19页,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Gender studies,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,Aiming to describe how ideas and assumptions about biological sex and gender influence the political,social,and cultural construction of gender identities,Resorting to the concept of gender to analyze a wide range of disciplines,Including womens studies,mens studies,studies on gay,lesbian,bisexual and transgender topics,etc.,第20页,The Reading Process and Literary Theory,Gender studies,Text A,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,第21页,Task 1/,Overview,P28,Text A,Suggested answer key,Suggested answer:,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,Para,Main idea,1,The relationship between the reader and the text is transactional.,2,There is no one overarching literary theory.,3,Various literary theories often ask different questions about a text.,4,Groups of readers and critics will declare allegiance to a similar core of beliefs and band together,thereby founding schools of criticism.,5,By embracing literary theory,we are taught tolerance for other peoples beliefs.,第22页,Task 2/,Points for discussion,P28,Text A,Suggested answer key,Suggested answer to Q1:,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,The relationship between the reader and the text is not linear,but,transactional,.The reader and the text transact and create meaning together.Meaning does not exist solely within the readers mind or within the text,but in the transaction between them.,(See,Supplementary Information,for more detailed interpretation of the term“,transactional,”.),第23页,Task 2/,Points for discussion,P28,Text A,Suggested answer key,Suggested answer to Q2:,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,Literary theory aims to account for the nature of literature and study the methods for analyzing literature.By embracing literary theory,we learn about literature,and we are also taught tolerance for other peoples beliefs.,第24页,Task 2/,Points for discussion,P28,Text A,Suggested answer key,Suggested answer to Q3:,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,According to Text A,metatheory refers to an overarching theory that,encompasses all possible interpretations of a text and exhausts all,legitimate questions to be asked about any text,and such theory does,not exist.,第25页,Task 2/,Points for discussion,P28,Text A,Suggested answer key,Suggested answer to Q4:,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,Literary theory aims to,understand,the nature and functions of literature,and the relation of a text to its author,to its reader,to language,to society,to history,etc.,It is,not judgment;,it is,understanding,of the frames of,judgment,.On the other hand,literary criticism involves the,judgment,of the value of a particular work,and it is often informed by literary theory.,Literary critics are not always and have not always been theorists.,第26页,Text B,The Will Not to Power,but to Self-Understanding,Classroom activities,Supplementary information,Suggested answer key,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,第27页,The Will Not to Power,but to Self-Understanding,Text B,Classroom activities,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,第28页,Text B,Classroom activities,Work in pairs and discuss the questions in Task 2,/,Critical reading and thinking,P35,Give a 2-minute presentation on your findings in,Researching,P35,and relate your summary,to the views expressed in Text B.,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,The Will Not to Power,but to Self-Understanding,Check your answers to Task 1/,Critical reading,and thinking,P34,第29页,Alfred Kazin,Text B,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,The Will Not to Power,but to Self-Understanding,Alfred Kazin(1915-1998)was an American writer and literary critic.He dismissed close textual or formal analysis,and maintained that a critic should understand the writers and their works in relation to the larger society and era in which they lived.Kazin,s sketches of literary personalities reveal a lot about both writers and their times.,第30页,Edmund Wilson and,The Wound and the Bow,Text B,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,The Will Not to Power,but to Self-Understanding,Edmund Wilson(1895-1972)was an American critic and essayist recognized as one of the leading literary journalists of his time.,The Wound and the Bow,his book of literary criticism,was published in 1941.In this book,he used psychological and historical analysis to study the childhood psychological traumas experienced by such writers as Charles Dickens,Ernest Hemingway,James Joyce,Rudyard Kipling and Edith Wharton and the effects of those experiences on their writing.,第31页,Frank Kermode,Text B,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,The Will Not to Power,but to Self-Understanding,Frank Kermode(1919-)was a British literary critic.He was best known for his critical work,The Sense of an Ending:Studies in the Theory of Fiction,(1967).He was also an editor of the popular Fontana Modern Masters series of pocket guides on writers,philosophers,and other thinkers of the 20,th,century,and contributed regularly to,The,London Review of Books,and,The New York Review of Books,.,He bridged the gap between serious literary criticism and reading for pleasure.,第32页,Jonathan Franzen and,Freedom,Text B,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,The Will Not to Power,but to Self-Understanding,Jonathan Franzen(1959-)is an American novelist and essayist,whose novels about contemporary America have elicited critical acclaim.His novel,Freedom,()focuses on a contemporary family of the American Midwest and looks into the family members,relationships with each other and with those around them.,第33页,George Eliot,Text B,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,The Will Not to Power,but to Self-Understanding,George Eliot(1819-1880),pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans,was a British Victorian novelist.She developed the method of psychological analysis,which is characteristic of modern fiction.Her major works include,Adam Bede,(1859),The Mill on the Floss,(1860),Silas Marner,(1861),Middlemarch,(1871-1872),and,Daniel Deronda,(1876).Most of,the novels were set in provincial,England.,第34页,T.S.Eliot,Text B,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,The Will Not to Power,but to Self-Understanding,T.S.Eliot(1888-1965)was an American-born British poet,playwright and literary critic and a leader of the Modernist Movement in literature.His experiments in diction,style,and versification revitalized English poetry.,His masterpieces include,The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock,(1915),The Waste Land,(1922)and,Four Quartets,(1936-1942).,In 1948 he was awarded both the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize for Literature.,第35页,Text B,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,The Will Not to Power,but to Self-Understanding,第36页,Jane Austen,Text B,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,The Will Not to Power,but to Self-Understanding,Jane Austen(1775-1817)was one of,the most widely-read British novelists.,Her major works include,Sense and Sensibility,(1811),Pride and Prejudice,(1813),Mansfield Park,(1814),Emma,(1815),as well as,Northanger Abbey,and,Persuasion,(both published posthumously in 1817).,Her works are characterized by realism and strongly critical social commentary.,第37页,The Kinsey Reports,Text B,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,The Will Not to Power,but to Self-Understanding,The Kinsey Reports are two books on human sexual behavior-,Sexual Behavior in the Human Male,(1948)and,Sexual Behavior in the Human Female,(1953),by Dr.Alfred Kinsey and others.,The publications caused shock and outrage,and the findings were criticized because they were based on 18,500 personal interviews which could be unreliable and irregular.The Kinsey Reports together sold three-quarters of a million copies and were translated in 13 languages.,第38页,William Blake,Text B,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,The Will Not to Power,but to Self-Understanding,William Blake(1757-1827)was a British engraver,artist,poet,and visionary.,In his lifetime,he was neglected or dismissed as mad,but he is now regarded as the earliest and most original of the Romantic poets.,第39页,Matthew Arnold,Text B,Supplementary information,Unit 2 Literary Theory,and Criticism,The Will Not to Power,but to Self-Understanding,Matthew Arnold(1822-1888)was a British poet and critic whose poems,such as,Dover Beach,(1867),express moral and religious doubts.His,Culture and Anarchy,(1869)is a polemic agains