现代西方文学理论与批评.doc

现代西方文学理论与批评Modern Western Literary Theory and Criticism　　分：2学分主讲教师：李勇指定教材：教学目的：　　帮助中文专业高年级本科生进一步拓展文学理论知识，掌握现代西方文学理论的基本特点和理论观点，使学生受到初步的理论研究训练帮助学生阅读西方文学理论的基本文献，掌握基本概念的来源和语境通过英文资料的阅读，达到对理论的准确理解帮助学生掌握运用理论进行文本分析的技巧，学会从具体文本中发现理论问题第一章：Introduction课时：2周，共4课时教学内容第一节 Concepts1.Criticism:The reasoned discussion of literary works, an activity which may include some or all of the following procedures, in varying proportions: the defence of literature against moralists and censors, classification of a work according to its genre, interpretation of its meaning, analysis of its structure and style, judgment of its worth by comparison with other works, estimation of its likely effect on readers, and the establishment of general principles by which literary works can be evaluated and understood.(Oxford concise Dictionary of Literary Terms)2.Literary Theory literary theory is “speculative discourse on literature and on practice of literature.” It may include reflections on or analysis of general principles and categories of literature, such as its nature and function; its relation to other aspects of culture; the purpose, procedures and validity of literary criticism; relation of literary text to their authors and historical contexts; or the production of literary meaning.(Zhu Gang )3.Modern:historical period from Renaissance to 20th century20th century4.Western:Geographical meaning: Europe and AmericaCultural meaning: Cultural community of develop capitalism countries, especially based on Christian tradition.5.Conclusion: Modern western literary theory and criticism are reasoned activities of discussion about literature in Western world in 20th century.第二节 Approaches, schools and groups1.Scientism ApproachesRussian FormalismAnglo-American New CriticismCzech StructuralismFrench StructuralismPost Structuralism2.Humanism ApproachesExistentialismPsychoanalysis CriticismPhenomenological CriticismHermeneutics CriticismReader-Response CriticismFeminism Criticism3.Historical ApproachesMarxist CriticismNew HistoricismCultural StudiesPost-Colonial Criticism第三节 Characters1.Theorized: almost all of the schools of criticism have their particular theory.2.Adapting theories or principles from their disciplines.3.Understanding literature in terms of its relations to history, politics gender, social class, race, mythology or psychology.4.Critical tendency: many schools of criticism seek to influence on the social reality with in their historical context.思考题：1、 现代西方文论有哪些主要流派？2、 谈谈你对现代西方文论批判性倾向的理解。

第二章 The New Criticism课时：3周，共6课时教学内容第一节 Times and outline 1. There are four periods: the initiative(1910-1930),the formative(1930-1945), the dominant(1945-1957), and normalization(1960s to the present). If we take T.E. Hume, a British aesthetician, or American poet Ezra Pound as the initiator of the New Criticism, then this school started in the 1910s.But the New Criticism rose formally in the 1930s when some critics established their theory in America, and it became dominant criticism system in college and university English departments in the 1950s.2.Members:Founders:I.A.Richards(1883--1981)T.S.Eliot(1888--1965)W.Empson.(1906--1984)Masters:John Crowe Ransom (1888--1974)Allen Tate (1888--1979)Robert Penn Warren (1905--)Cleanth Brooks (1906--1994)W.K.Wimsatt (1907--1975)Rene Wellek (1903--1995)3.Works:I.A Richards:Principles of Literary Criticism (1924)Practical Criticism: A sturdy of Literary Judgment.(1929)T.S.Eliot:Tradition and the Individual Talent.(1917)William Empson:Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)John Crowe Ransom:Poetry: A Note in Ontology.(1934)The New Criticism (1941)Allen Tate:Tension in Poetry (1938)Cleanth Brooks:The Language of Paradox (1942)The Well-wrought Urn.(1947)Understanding Poetry. (1938,with Robert Penn Warren)Understanding fiction.(1943,with Robert Penn Warren)Understanding Drama(1945,with Robert B.Heilman)W.K.Wimsatt:The Verbal Icon(1954)The Intentional Fallacy(1946,with M.C. Beardsley)The Affective fallacy(1949,with M.C. Beardsley)R.Wellek:Theory of Literature(1949,with Austin Warren)History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950(1986)第二节 Ideas 1．The New Critics read the individual work of literary art as an organic form.They articulated the concept that in an organic form there is a consistency and an internal vitality that we should look for and appreciate. 2． One of the most salient considerations of the New Critics was emphasis on form, on the work of art as an object. 3．The New Critics sought precision and structural tightness in the literary work; they favored a style and tone that tended toward irony; they insisted on the presence within the work of everything necessary for its analysis; and they called for an end 。