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John Bunyan
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John Bunyan(1628—1688)
John Bunyan: a Puritan poet
• His Works:
• 1.Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinner(written in prison)
• 《罪人受恩记》《功德无量》
• 2.Pilgrim’s Progre(masterpiece)
• 《天路历程》
John Bunyan: a Puritan poet
3.The Life and Death of Mr.Badman 《恶人先生的生平和死亡》 《贝德曼先生的一生》 4.The Holy War《神圣战争》
Analysis: The Pilgrim’s Progre
Analysis: The Pilgrim’s Progre
1.The Pilgrim’s Progre is a religious allegory. 2.Though an allegory, its characters impre the reader like real persons. In reality, the Celestial City in The Pilgrim’s Progre is the vision of an ideal happy society dreamed by a poor tinker in the 17th century, through a veil of religious mist（迷雾）
Analysis: The Pilgrim’s ProgreAnalysis: The Pilgrim’s Progre
3.“Vanity Fair” is a remarkable paage.It is an epitome of the English society after the Restoration. Everything can be sold or bought in this fair and the persecution of Christian and Faithful is described.Analysis: The Pilgrim’s Progre
• 4.Bunyan cherished a deep hatred of both the king and his government.• 5.Bunyan’s prose is admirable.• It is popular speech ennobled by the solemn dignity and simplicity of the language of the English Bible.John Bunyan
6.Symbolism is another feature in The Pilgrim’s
Progre.Bunyan’s language:
1.Bunyan’s language is chiefly plain and colloquial and quite modern in comparison with that of the writers of the Renaiance. 2.His language is clear, vivid, natural, homely(朴实的), fluent, musical and powerful.Bunyan’s language:
3.He paved the way not only in language style but also in writing technique of novels, for the novelists of the 18th century as Swift and Defoe.Group Discuion
• Try to compare and contrast Piers the Plowman and The Pilgrim’s Progre.• Write a short eay to compare the two books, Piers the Plowman and The Pilgrim’s Progre.• Try to find out some information about Metaphysical Aignment
poets, especially John Donne.Elements of Reading Fictions
Read the following:Why do you think it is a story?
1)It tells us something imagined rather than real.2)It has something to do with an image of people we meet in our daily life.3)It has a character and the character does something in a certain place at a certain time.Suspense, wonder, deep thought:
(1)Who rang the bell?(2)Why is the character a woman rather than a man?(3)Why is the house old and shuttered?(4)Who is recounting the story?
Suspense, wonder, deep thought:
(5)What effect is produced by the word “knows”?
(6)Why does the author select the word “dead” in ending the paragraph?
(7)Why does the author arrange another paragraph with just three words? Suspense, wonder, deep thought:
(8)What is characteristic of the wording and of the sentence structure?
(9)What is the moral sense of the story?Ways of Analysis of a Literary Works
• Literature often refers to imaginative literature, that is, the writer makes full use of his imagination to relate the story, to expre his thoughts, emotion, making the readers feel pleasant, simulated and moved, and gaining more knowledge, enlarging wider vision, and purifying feelings.Ways of Analysis of a Literary Works
Literature has many forms.And for “genre”体裁,
poetry, fictions and drama are the main literary forms.Fictions are easier to be accepted for the learners for they have lots of plots, rich language and are close to life.In writing, fictions include description, narration,emotionalizing as well as dialogues and comments.Plot
Plot:
Five Stages of Plot
The Order of Plot
A.Chronological Plotting
B.Flashback
C.Interleaving片段倒叙
D.Cliffhanger连续的悬念插曲
The Order of Plot
Plot brings order out of life and it focuses and clarifies(explain解析)life.Characters
Types of Characters:
(1)Protagonist & Antagonist
Protagonist: central character;
Antagonist: rival, opponent. Without them, there will be no plot.Types of Characters:
(2)Flat & Round Characters
Flat characters: embody or represent a single characteristic, trait, or idea. Round characters are just the opposite, and they embody a number of qualities and traits.Types of Characters:
•(3)Dynamic(可变人物)& Static（不变人物，小人物）Characters
• Dynamic characters exhibit a capacity to change;• Static characters do not.Methods of Characterization
(1)Direct Characterization: Telling
Methods of Characterization
(2)Indirect Characterization: Showing
Methods of Characterization
(2)Indirect Characterization: Showing
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