Approach to Literature week1

l   Allusion： A figure of speech, in which one refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance from an external context. It is left to the audience to make the connection; where the connection is directly and explicitly stated (as opposed to indirectly implied) by the author, an allusion is instead usually termed a reference. In the arts, a literary allusion puts the alluded text in a new context under which it assumes new meanings and denotations. It is not possible to predetermine the nature of all the new meanings and inter-textual patterns that an allusion will generate. Literary allusion is closely related to parody and pastiche, which are also "text-linking" literary devices.

l  when we learn literature：

l  What is genre?

Genre is any category of literature, music, or other forms of art or entertainment, whether written or spoken, audio or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria.

Genre began as an absolute classification system for ancient Greek literature. Poetry, prose, and performance each had a specific and calculated style that related to the theme of the story. Genre became a dynamic tool to help the public make sense out of unpredictable art. The use of genre as a tool must be able to adapt to changing meanings. In fact as far back as ancient Greece, new art forms were emerging that called for the evolution of genre, for example the tragicomedy.

l   Epic：long, narrative, related to the Gods or heroes’ adventure

l   The importance of literature → what is the complicit?

l  Death of a salesman (tragedy)

→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Salesman

l  Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,

Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.

     So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

     So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Sonnet：十四行詩

3 quatrains：3 個四行詩

l  Simile vs metaphor 

l  prefix & suffix：

Ø  Sub ：under

1.          Subgenre

2.          Submarine：a ship that can travel both on the surface of the water and under water

3.          Subway：a tunnel that people can walk through to go under a street

4.          Subject

Ø  Nov：new

1.          Novel：a long written story about imaginary or partly imaginary characters and events

2.          Renovate：to make something old look new again by repairing and improving it, especially a building

3.          Renovation

l  New words：

Trim 修剪 → I have my hair trim.

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