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文学导论

1. Intro

Literature: written works, especially those considered to have artistic or intellectual value

  • Mainly focus on individual works, exploring themes, styles, narrative technique and historical contexts
  • Within a single cultural and linguistic context
  • Goal: understand how authors use language and narrative to reflect and shape human experience and culture

Comparative literature

  • An academic field concerned with the study of literature across cultural, linguistic
    • Interact with other fields like history, philosophy and cultural studies
  • Goal: understand how do literary themes, forms, and styles transcend cultural and linguistic boundaries

Why?

  • Understand ourselves and others
  • Connect with the past and other cultures
  • Challenge and enrich our thinking

2. Basics on Literature

Element

  • Plot: the sequence of events in a story.
    • Introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution
  • Character: complex, multi-dimensional being
    • Developement is crucial to the plot
  • Theme: a central idea or message in a story
  • Setting: time and place in which a story is et
  • Style: author’s unique way of writing. Like words choice, sentence structure,

Genres and forms

  • Poetry
  • Drama, primarily for performance
  • Fiction: created from imagination
  • Non-fiction: involve factual accounts

Historical context

  • Reflecting the Era
  • Influencing and influenced by society
  • Evolving forms and themes

Narrative technique

  • Point of view
  • Stream of consciousness: depicts the many thoughts and feeling pass through mind
  • Flashback and foreshadowing
  • Dialogue and monologue
  • Symbolism and imagery: use symbols and vivid descriptions to represent ideas and qualities

3. Comparative Literature

Definition and scope

  • Definition: an academic field, examine literature across cultural, linguistic and national boundaries
  • Multilingual and multicultural: often require reading and understanding literature in original language

Cross-cultural themes

  • Common themes: universal themes live love, death, heroism and conflict
    • Comparing these themes in different cultural contexts
  • Cultural specificity and universality: explore the balance between
    • Cultural specific experiences and
    • Universal human conditions

Literary theory

  • Structuralism: understanding the underlying structure of literary texts
  • Post-colonialism: study in the context of colonial
  • Feminism: analyze through the lens of gender
  • Other: Marxism, psychoanalytic theory, deconstruction, and ecocriticism.

3.1. Common Rule

Common forms and themes

  • Love, conflict, heroism
    • Why? Since its the common experiences shared by human

Common purpose for writing

  • Expression of personal feeling and thought
  • Social and political commentary
  • Artistic exploration, experimentation with language and form
  • Entertainment and storytelling

Famous conclusion

  • Literature can shape societal value and norm
  • Universality themes are shared human experience

Best practices

  • Authenticity in voice and style, distinctive voice
  • Rich character development, multi-dimensional and undergo significant growth or change
  • Craft language, strong command of language
  • Engaging and coherent plot
  • Innovation: innovation plots, narrative structure, unique thematic