文档介绍：English and American Literature
For English Majors
2015 Autumn
Focus
Brief introduction to literary history (literary background and features)
Basic literary terms (common knowledge)
Main figures and their works
Selected readings and movies
Analysis ment making
Advice
to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, e to your own conclusions.
not to fetter that independence which is the most important quality that a reader can possess.
The spirit of freedom
---- to enjoy freedom, we have to control ourselves.
Where are we to begin?
How are we to bring order into this chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?
books --fiction, biography, poetry
what books can give us?
Try to e him, be his fellow-worker.
If you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other.
Soon you will find that your author is giving you, or attempting to give you, something far more definite.
Reading is a longer and plicated process than seeing.
Perhaps the quickest way to understand the elements of a novelist is to write; to make your own experiment with the dangers and difficulties of words.
But when you attempt to reconstruct it in words, you will find that it breaks into a thousand conflicting impressions.
Some must be subdued; othe