学术英语 人文Academic English for HumanitiesUnit 1 The Art of Literature Lead-in Text A Text B Text C Academic Language and Discourse Listening Speaking WritingUnit Contents Lead-in Lead-in activities Supplementary informationUnit 1 The Art of LiteratureWhat is literature?Choose from the following forms of writing what can be counted as literature: news report novel research paper diary poem letterLead-inActivitiesUnit 1 The Art of LiteratureHow do you make the choice? (What makes you treat something as literature while dismissing others as non-literature? )What is literature?Many college professors, upholding a traditional standard of literary quality, believe that students should read works whose artistic merit has been established over the years. However, some have begun to question the very notion of literary quality and the notion of what is literature. There have been an increasing number of studies of writers mainly for what they have to say rather than how well they say it. Unit 1 The Art of LiteratureLead-inSupplementary informationThe historical and social impact of works is gaining importance, while the once-honored standards such as grace of style and originality of expression have been downgraded.Literature as defined in dictionariesl stories, poems and plays, especially those thatare considered to have value as art and not just entertainment (MacMillan Dictionary)l writings in prose or verse; especially writings having excellence of form or expression and expressing ideas of permanent or universal interest (Merriam-Websters Online Dictionary, 11th Edition)Unit 1 The Art of LiteratureLead-inSupplementary informationLiterature as defined in dictionariesUnit 1 The Art of LiteratureLead-inSupplementary informationl written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting artistic value (Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary)l written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit (Compact Oxford English Dictionary)Unit 1 The Art of Literature Text A The Scope and Content of Literature Classroom activities Supplementary information Suggested answer keyThe Scope and Content of Literaturel Do Task 1 Critical Reading and Thinking P7l Summarize Text A on the basis of your answers to Task 1 Critical Reading and Thinking P7Scope of literature Content of literaturel Work in pairs to compare your answers to the questions in Task 2 Critical Reading and Thinking P8Unit 1 The Art of LiteratureText AClassroom activitiesThe Scope and Content of Literaturel The original article “The Art of Literature” Unit 1 The Art of LiteratureText ASupplementary informationText A is adapted from the article “The Art of Literature”, written by Kenneth Rexroth. The original article consists of seven parts: 1. the scope of literature 2.literary composition 3.content of literature 4.literature and its audience 5.literature and its environment 6.literary genres 7.writings on literatureThe Scope and Content of Literaturel The MusesIn Greek mythology, poetry and literature, Muses are the goddesses who inspire the creation of literature and the arts.Unit 1 The Art of LiteratureText ASupplementary informationCalliope: Muse of heroic or epic poetry (often holding a stylus and wax tablets)Clio: Muse of history (often holding a parchment scroll or a set of tablets)Erato: Muse of lyric and love poetry (often playing a lyre)Euterpe: Muse of music or flutes (often playing a flute)Melpomene: Muse of tragedy (often holding a tragic mask)Polymnia: Muse of sacred song and oratory (often with a pensive look)Terpsichore: Muse of dancing and choral song (often dancing and holding a lyre)Thalia: Muse of comedy (often holding a comic mask) Urania: Muse of astronomy (often holding a globe)The Scope and Content of Literaturel Classic surveys of history as noble examples of the art of literatureUnit 1 The Art of LiteratureText ASupplementary informationThe History of the Peloponnesian War was written by ancient Greek historian Thucydides, who, as an Athenian general, served in the war. Some scholars view the work as an objective and scientific account of the past, written from a purely intellectual point of view. But some understand it as a piece of literature, in which the author is “an artist who responds to, selects and skillfully arranges his material, and develops its symbolic and emotional potential”.One example: History of the Peloponnesian WarThe Scope and Content of Literaturel EssaysUnit 1 The Art of LiteratureText ASupplementary informationan analytic, interpretative, or critical literary compositionFrancis Bacons essays, published in book form in 1597, 1612, 1625, were the first works in English that described themselves as essays. The Scope and Content of Literaturel Dialogues by PlatoUnit 1 The Art of LiteratureText ASupplementary informationPlato (428/427 BC 348/347 BC), the greatest philoso