A Brief History and Selected Readings of British Literature,Course Description,Our courses emphasize interpretive thinking and creative writing, examining the dynamics of literary and cultural history, the structures of literary form and genre, and the practice of reading, writing, and critical analysis.,Around 36 lectures are to be given in the hope of enriching students understanding of the British Literature, as well as broadening and deepening their mental and spiritual powers. Also Classroom discussions will be conducted. Teamgroup is to be organized to conduct the classroom seminar. Each member of the group is to share the work and get invovled in the classroom discussion.,Teaching Programme (I),Week 1. the Old and middle English period. Beowulf Week 2. Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas More. Week 3. The Elizabethan Period. William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon Week 4. 17th-Century British Poets: John Milton, John Donne Week 5. 18th-Century British Fiction Writers: Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift Week 6. Romantic Poets (I): William Blake, Robert Burns, Week 7. Romantic Poets (II): William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Teaching Programme (II),Week 8. Romantic Poets (III): George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats. Week 9. Semiar Week 10. 19th century Women Writers (I):,Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte Week 11. 19th Century Women Writers(II): Jane Austin, George Eliot Week 12. Victorian Writers: Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy Week 13. Victorian Poets: Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Mathew Arnold,Teaching Programme (III),Week 14: Victoria Drama: Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw Week 15: 20th Century Poets: William Butler Yeats Week 16: Modernist Novelists (I): James Joyce, Virginia Woolf Week 17: Modernist Novelists (II): D. H. Lawrence, Doris Lessing Week 18: Modernist Novelists (III): V.S. Naipaul, Kazuo Ishiguro,Reading List,1. The Canterbury Tales 2. Hamlet 3. Romeo and Juliet 4. King Lear 5. Othello 6. New Instrument 7. Paradise Lost 8. Robinson Crusoe 9. Gullivers Travels, 1726 10. Pride and Prejudice,11. Jane Eyre 12. Wuthering Heights 13. Oliver Twist 14. David Copperfield 15. Great Expectations 16. Vanity Fair 17. Tess of the DUrbervilles 18. The Return of the Native 19. Far from the Madding Crowd 20. Jude the Obscure,21. The Picture of Dorian Gray 22. The Importance of Being Earnest 23. Man and Superman 24. Pygmalion 25. Heart of Darkness 26. Dubliners 27. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 28. Mrs. Dalloway 29. Sons and Lovers 30. The Rainbow,31. Lady Chatterleys Lover 32. Howards End 33. A Passage to India 34. Lord of Flies 33. The Golden Notebook 34. The Grass is Singing 35. The French Lieutenants Woman 36. Possession 37. Miguel Street 38. A Bend in the River 39. Last Orders 40. The Remains of the Day 公共邮箱：lsxyenglishliter126.com 密码: literature,100 Points Distribution,10 points: attendance, classroom questions and discussion. 10 points: teamwork organnization and participation ppt presentation 10 points: two term papers (nonfiction &fiction Oct, Nov.) 10 points: homework online 60 points: final exam,Literature and Human,Problems and Crisis of our times? Values and Hopes of Our Times?,Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities English novelist (1812 - 1870),It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.,The 1980 United States Rockefeller Commission on the Humanities described the humanities in its report, The Humanities in American Life: Through the humanities we reflect on the fundamental question: What does it mean to be human? The humanities offer clues but never a complete answer. They reveal how people have tried to make moral, spiritual, and intellectual sense of a world in which irrationality, despair, loneliness, and death are as conspicuous as birth, friendship, hope, and reason.,description of human problems,Problems of our times,Man and Nature 人与自然 Man and Society 人与人群 Man and Self 人与灵魂 Man and Artificial Intelligence 人与人工智能：人在信息时代的机械化倾向,the Decline of Human Spirit,Opportunities to infuse your day-to-day life with humanistic knowledge can be found almost anywhere. If youve ever appreciated the architecture of a building, gazed at a painting in a museum, seen a movie, read a poem or thought about the meaning of life, you have already taken part in the shared human experience that defines the humanities.,Humanities: Liberal Arts,the Humanities: disciplines focusing on what it is to be a Huma