素材Module 3 文本 Literature 外研.docx
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素材Module3文本Literature外研
Literature
OldbookbindingsattheMertonCollegelibrary.
Literatureistheartofwrittenworks.Literallytranslated,thewordmeans"acquaintancewithletters"(fromLatinlitteraletter).InWesternculturethemostbasicwrittenliterarytypesincludefictionandnon-fiction.
Definitions
Literature
Majorforms
Novel ·Poem ·Drama
Shortstory ·Novella
Genres
Epic ·Lyric ·Drama
Romance ·Satire
Tragedy ·Comedy
Tragicomedy
Media
Performance(play) ·Book
Techniques
Prose ·Poetry
Historyandlists
Basictopics ·Literaryterms
History ·Modernhistory
Books ·Writers
Literaryawards ·Poetryawards
Discussion
Criticism ·Theory ·Magazines
Theword"literature"hasdifferentmeaningsdependingonwhoisusingit.Itcouldbeappliedbroadlytomeananysymbolicrecord,encompassingeverythingfromimagesandsculpturestoletters.Inamorenarrowsensethetermcouldmeanonlytextcomposedofletters,orotherexamplesofsymbolicwrittenlanguage(Egyptianhieroglyphs,forexample).Anevenmorenarrowinterpretationisthattexthaveaphysicalform,suchasonpaperorsomeotherportableform,totheexclusionofinscriptionsordigitalmedia.TheMuslimscholarandphilosopherImamJa'faral-Sadiq(702-765AD)definedLiteratureasfollows:
"Literatureisthegarmentwhichoneputsonwhathesaysorwritessothatitmayappearmoreattractive."[1]addedthatliteratureisasliceoflifethathasbeengivendirectionandmeaning,anartisticinterpretationoftheworldaccordingtothepercipient'spointofviews.Frequently,thetextsthatmakeupliteraturecrossedovertheseboundaries.RussianFormalistRomanJakobsondefinesliteratureas"organizedviolencecommittedonordinaryspeech",highlightingliterature'sdeviationfromtheday-to-dayandconversationalstructureofwords.Illustratedstories,hypertexts,cavepaintingsandinscribedmonumentshaveallatonetimeoranotherpushedtheboundariesof"literature."
Peoplemayperceiveadifferencebetween"literature"andsomepopularformsofwrittenwork.Theterms"literaryfiction"and"literarymerit"oftenservetodistinguishbetweenindividualworks.Forexample,almostallliteratepeopleperceivetheworksofCharlesDickensas"literature,"whereassomecritics[citationneeded]lookdownontheworksofJeffreyArcherasunworthyofinclusionunderthegeneralheadingof"Englishliterature."Criticsmayexcludeworksfromtheclassification"literature,"forexample,onthegroundsofapoorstandardofgrammarandsyntax,ofanunbelievableordisjointedstory-line,orofinconsistentorunconvincingcharacters.Genrefiction(forexample:
romance,crime,orsciencefiction)mayalsobecomeexcludedfromconsiderationas"literature."
History
OneoftheearliestknownliteraryworksistheSumerianEpicofGilgamesh,anepicpoemdatedaround2700B.C.,whichdealswiththemesofheroism,friendship,loss,andthequestforeternallife.Differenthistoricalperiodshaveemphasizedvariouscharacteristicsofliterature.Earlyworksoftenhadanovertorcovertreligiousordidacticpurpose.Moralizingorprescriptiveliteraturestemsfromsuchsources.TheexoticnatureofromanceflourishedfromtheMiddleAgesonwards,whereastheAgeofReasonmanufacturednationalisticepicsandphilosophicaltracts.Romanticismemphasizedthepopularfolkliteratureandemotiveinvolvement,butgavewayinthe19th-centuryWesttoaphaseofrealismandnaturalism,investigationsintowhatisreal.The20thcenturybroughtdemandsforsymbolismorpsychologicalinsightinthedelineationanddevelopmentofcharacter.
Poetry
Apoemisdefinedasacompositionwritteninverse(althoughversehasbeenequallyusedforepicanddramaticfiction).Poemsrelyheavilyonimagery,precisewordchoice,andmetaphor;theymaytaketheformofmeasuresconsistingofpatternsofstresses(metricfeet)orofpatternsofdifferent-lengthsyllables(asinclassicalprosody);andtheymayormaynotutilizerhyme.Onecannotreadilycharacterizepoetryprecisely.Typicallythough,poetryasaformofliteraturemakessomesignificantuseoftheformalpropertiesofthewordsituses –thepropertiesattachedtothewrittenorspokenformofthewords,ratherthantotheirmeaning.Metredependsonsyllablesandonrhythmsofspeech;rhymeandalliterationdependonwords
Poetryperhapspre-datesotherformsofliterature:
earlyknownexamplesincludetheSumerianEpicofGilgamesh(datedfromaround2700B.C.),partsoftheBible,thesurvivingworksofHomer(theIliadandtheOdyssey),andtheIndianepicsRamayanaandMahabharata.Inculturesbasedprimarilyonoraltraditionstheformalcharacteristicsofpoetryoftenhaveamnemonicfunction,andimportanttexts:
legal,genealogicalormoral,forexample,mayappearfirstinverseform.
Somepoetryusesspecificforms:
thehaiku,thelimerick,orthesonnet,forexample.AtraditionalhaikuwritteninJapanesemusthavesomethingtodowithnature,containseventeenonji(syllables),distributedoverthreelinesingroupsoffive,seven,andfive,andshouldalsohaveakigo,aspecificwordindicatingaseason.Alimerickhasfivelines,witharhymeschemeofAABBA,andlinelengthsof3,3,2,2,3stressedsyllables.Ittraditionallyhasalessreverentattitudetowardsnature.Poetrynotadheringtoaformalpoeticstructureiscalled"freeverse"
Languageandtraditiondictatesomepoeticnorms:
Persianpoetryalwaysrhymes,Greekpoetryrarelyrhymes,ItalianorFrenchpoetryoftendoes,EnglishandGermancangoeitherway(althoughmodernnon-rhymingpoetryoften,perhapsunfairly,hasamore"serious"aura).PerhapsthemostparadigmaticstyleofEnglishpoetry,blankverse,asexemplifiedinworksbyShakespeareandbyMilton,consistsofunrhymediambicpentameters.Somelanguagespreferlongerlines;someshorterones.Someoftheseconventionsresultfromtheeaseoffittingaspecificlanguage'svocabularyandgrammarintocertainstructures,ratherthanintoothers;forexample,somelanguagescontainmorerhymingwordsthanothers,ortypicallyhavelongerwords.Otherstructuralconventionscomeaboutastheresultofhistoricalaccidents,wheremanyspeakersofalanguageassociategoodpoetrywithaverseformpreferredbyaparticularskilledorpopularpoet.
Worksfortheatre(seebelow)traditionallytookverseform.Thishasnowbecomerareoutsideoperaandmusicals,althoughmanywouldarguethatthelanguageofdramaremainsintrinsicallypoetic.
Inrecentyears,digitalpoetryhasarisenthattakesadvantageoftheartistic,publishing,andsyntheticqualitiesofdigitalmedia.
Prose
Proseconsistsofwritingthatdoesnotadheretoanyparticularformalstructures(otherthansimplegrammar);"non-poetic"writing,perhaps.Thetermsometimesappearspejoratively,butprosaicwritingsimplysayssomethingwithoutnecessarilytryingtosayitinabeautifulway,orusingbeautifulwords.Prosewritingcanofcoursetakebeautifulform;butlessbyvirtueoftheformalfeaturesofwords(rhymes,alliteration,metre)butratherbystyle,placement,orinclusionofgraphics.Butoneneednotmarkthedistinctionprecisely,andperhapscannotdoso.Oneareaofoverlapis"prosepoetry",whichattemptstoconveyusingonlyprose,theaestheticrichnesstypicalofpoetry.
Essays
Anessayconsistsofadiscussionofatopicfromanauthor'spersonalpointofview,exemplifiedbyworksbyFrancisBaconorbyCharlesLamb.
'Essay'inEnglishderivesfromtheFrench'essai',meaning'attempt'.Thusonecanfindopen-ended,provocativeand/orinconclusiveessays.Theterm"essays"firstappliedtotheself-reflectivemusingsofMicheldeMontaigne,andeventodayhehasareputationasthefatherofthisliteraryform.
Genresrelatedtotheessaymayinclude:
∙thememoir,tellingthestoryofanauthor'slifefromtheauthor'spersonalpointofview
∙theepistle:
usuallyaformal,didactic,orelegantletter.
Fiction
Narrativefiction(narrativeprose)generallyfavoursproseforthewritingofnovels,shortstories,graphicnovels,andthelike.Singularexamplesoftheseexistthroughouthistory,buttheydidnotdevelopintosystematicanddiscreteliteraryformsuntilrelativelyrecentcenturies.Lengthoftenservestocategorizeworksofprosefiction.Althoughlimitsremainsomewhatarbitrary,modernpublishingconventionsdictatethefollowing:
∙AMiniSagaisashortstoryofexactly50words
∙AFlashfictionisgenerallydefinedasapieceofproseunderathousandwords.
∙Ashortstorycomprisesprosewritingofbetween1000and20,000words(buttypicallymorethan5000words),whichmayormaynothaveanarrativearc.
∙Astorycontainingbetween20,000and50,000wordsfallsintothenovellacategory.
∙Aworkoffictioncontainingmorethan50,000wordsfallssquarelyintotherealmofthenovel.
Anovelconsistssimplyofalongstorywritteninprose,yettheformdevelopedcomparativelyrecently.Icelandicprosesagasdatingfromaboutthe11thcenturybridgethegapbetweentraditionalnationalverseepicsandthemodernpsychologicalnovel.InmainlandEurope,theSpaniardCervanteswroteperhapsthefirstinfluentialnovel:
DonQuixote,thefirstpartofwhichwaspublishedin1605andthesecondin1615.Earliercollectionsoftales,suchastheOneThousandandOneNights,Boccaccio'sDecameronandChaucer'sTheCanterburyTales,havecomparableformsandwouldclassifyasnovelsifwrittentoday.OtherworkswritteninclassicalAsianandArabicliteratureresembleevenmorestronglythenovelaswenowthinkofit –forexample,workssuchastheJapaneseTaleofGenjibyLadyMurasaki,theArabicHayyibnYaqdhanbyIbnTufail,theArabicTheologusAutodida
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