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English Literature
2º Idiomas – 2018
Lorenzo VAEZ ROCA
OBJECTIVES:
• Read and interpret a variety of literary works.
• Read and understand literature representative of various societies, eras
and ideas.
• Communicate ideas in writing to accomplish a variety of purposes.
• Use the language arts to acquire, assess and communicate
information.
• Speak effectively using language appropriate to the situation and
audience.
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List of books to read this semester

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ACTIVITY 1: Observe and answer the questions

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Answer

What can you infer from the previous picture?

What is it about?
Does it look familiar? How so?

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Topics:

1. What is literature?

2. Literature definition

3. Why study literature?

4. What is English Literature?
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Questions
•After watching the images…How would you
define literature?

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GENERAL TRAITS
• anything written
• (or published – published = approved)
• holds interest, gives pleasure
• fictional, non-fictional
• imaginative, biographical
• makes readers see, feel, hear, love,…
• has structure, form
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What is literature?

Literature is the product of

imagination, originality, style of

expression, thought emotions

and feelings, ideas, etc.

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WHAT AUTHORS SAY

• Ezra Pound:
▫ “Literature is news that stays news.”
• Robert Frost:
▫ “a performance in words.”
▫ not just “meaning”
• Lady Murasaki
▫ has a significance, something that
the author thinks is invaluable, “so
important that one cannot bear to
let it pass into oblivion.”
GENRE

◦ Tragedy, Comedy, Tragi-Comedy

◦ sonnet, lyric, ode
◦ Shakespearean, Petrarchan sonnets
◦ Short Story, Play, Poem
◦ myth, legend, fairy tale, allegory

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STRUCTURE & FORM
• FORM
▫ any length
▫ any form
▫ lack of form
 blank verse
 Theatre of the Absurd
 stream-of-consciousness

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 STORY
•PLOT
•narrative
•tells a story
•beginning, middle, end
•even the lack of a plot is significant

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 CHARACTERIZATION
has a character
someone in the plot
human, animal, other
narrator
protagonist, antagonist

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 GREATNESS
• allows us to
▫ appreciate excellence
▫ admire achievement
• so, not only do the authors demonstrate a usage or skill with
the aforementioned “Structure & Form”
• but they also exhibit a mastery of it
▫ and we admire it as we would a virtuoso’s performance
 athletic, musical, technological, mechanical, pedagogical
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 PROVOCATIVE
• THOUGHT-PROVOKING
▫ makes readers think, discuss, argue, disagree
 communication
 with ourselves
 with each other
▫ allows us to see some issue from a different, perhaps unique,
perspective
 expands our viewpoints
 beyond our personal experiences
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ENFOQUE COMUNICATIVO
Enfásis………….

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ACTIVIDAD HUMANA

NEGOCIACIÓN

INTERACCIONES

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REFLEXIONANDO….

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QUOTE o FRASE Final

REFERENCIAS
Por ejemplo
• HARMER, J (2015) How to teach English. Cambridge University Press.

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