文档介绍：The Survey of English Literature
Course Description
This course considers English literature chronologically from Anglo-Saxon to modern times.
The emphasis will be on social and political backgrounds as well as the form and content of English literature.
We will cover most representative authors in our textbooks and some additional others, but we will not read all of their works.
Course Objectives
To study a ession of writers and their works in order to learn the tradition in which each individual author and text plays a part.
To approach texts historically and study how writers responded to the political, social, religious, and intellectual movements of their times and how these writers have helped shape and articulate these movements.
To study the interpretation of great themes which pare and contrast writers and their literary periods.
Course Focus
The historical, social background and literature characteristics of each period.
Writing features of each writer and his or her works.
Some literary terms.
Course Benefits
A mand of the target language
General Knowledge of the culture, literature and history of the country in which the target language is spoken native.
A profound mind and an insight for English literature.
Requirements
A. regular attendance – 10%
regular assignments – 20%
Final examination – 70%
B. For each absence from the class, 2 marks will be subtracted from your total marks.
For each leave on an excuse in written form, and permitted by the teacher in charge of students work, no mark will be subtracted.
If you are absent from the class for five times, or if you fail to hand in your assignment for 3 times, you will lose 30 points or 30% of the final grade.
Three stages of English language
Old English (about 449 – 1100)
Middle English (about 1100-1500)
Modern English (about 1500-present)
An Outline of English Literature
1. Old English Period (Anglo-Saxon, 449-1066)
pagan and religious poem; folk epic
2. Medieval English Period