I.
Literature?
[p. 1-9, bold and grey]
A.
Literature
is not things but a way to comprehend things.
[P.1, author’s aspect]
1.
Comprehensive
University 綜合大學
2.
Comprehensive
examination 考com, 學科考
3.
Contest
to find yourself better
B.
Writing
is not literature unless it gives to the reader a pleasure which arises not only from the things said, but from the way in which they are said. [P.1 reader’s
aspect]
C.
[P.
3, grey
part] [P.4, “On first looking into Chapman's Homer” by John Keats]
D.
The
framework of genre… is, when used well, like a comfortable old coat, into which you slip with an anticipatory sigh
of comfort. [P.5]
E.
Literature
is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of
variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. [P. 7]
F.
Literature
is language charged with meaning…Literature is newsthat stays news. [P. 9]
i.
--William
Shakespeare’s sonnet “Shall I Compare Thee to a
Summer’s Day” [P.756]
ii.
--John
Keats’ “On
first looking into Chapman's Homer” [P.4] *Keats ode
II.
William
Shakespeare’s
(1) “the poet’s pen / Turns them to shapes and gives to
airy nothing /A local habitation and
a name.” (No Fear Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 5, Scene 1)
(2) “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By
any other word would smell as sweet.” (No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet: Act 2, Scene 2, Page
2)
(3) “How
many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! O brave new
world / That has such people in’t!” (SparkNotes: The Tempest: Act V, scene i & Epilogue)
III.
Fiction:
subgenre [types, P.48]
6 elements [viii, P.15,
P.38]
Key points, highlight
[P.17, P.18]
i.
Plot
[P. 50-53], conflict [P. 52], summary [P.56]
ii.
POV
[Third, first, P. 97-98]
iii.
Character
[P.123, Jane Eyre – “No strings attached”；poor plain and little]
c.f. week 9
iv.
Settings
[P. 169,P. 203] sample paper [P. 41, P. 43]作業修正
v.
Symbol,
figurative language [P. 210-211]: irony, paradox
vi.
Theme
and Moral [P. 251-253]
IV.
Poetry,
What’s poetry? [P. 828, P. 850]
i.
Bios,
E.E. Cummings
ii.
Tyger,
William Blake [P. 1007]
To see a World in
a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a
Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in
the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an
hour.
iii.
Anecdote
of the Jar, John Crowe Ransom [P. 1043]
iv.
Imagination
*c.f. A Midsummer night’s dream at II. (1)
v.
浪漫時期五大詩人
1.
William Wordsworth
2. Percy Bysshe Shelley
3. John Keats
*la belle dame sans merci (the beautiful woman without mercy)
4. George Gordon Byron
5.
Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
vi.
Ode
& Ballad [lyrical/ story]
V.
More
information
i.
Journalist:
someone who keeps the journal
ii.
Contrast
to find yourself better.
v.
Mimesis
Aristotle poeticsà representation