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My Lectures Notes
on ENGL 233 : Approaches to Literary Studies
University of Otago
Course Outline 2012 Semester 1
Lecturer: Dr Josie Carter
Lecture 1:28,Feb
Lecture 2:1 Mar
-on ENGL 233 : Approaches to Literary Studies
University of Otago
Course Outline 2012 Semester 1
Lecturer: Dr Josie Carter
Lecture 1:28,Feb
Lecture 2:1 Mar
What
is Literature?
1. Literature as the foregrounding of lge (not usual used everyday lge)
2. Literature as fiction
3. Literature as aesthetic object(enjoy for pleasure sake)-aesthetic intentions
4. Literature as procedure
5. Literature as intertexual construct
Literature
-Meaning dates from Romantic period (late 18th c)
-Rise of English studies in 19th c
-'civilizing mission' of English
-Literature/culture from mid-19th c
Literature's 'civilizing mission'
1.a replacement of religion, universal, moral instruction
Literary educations in Jane Eye
At Lowood institution ---encouraged to read Bible
2 -serves an ideological function
-communicates morality
-instil
reservence for mid-class achievments
-curb collective political activity
-provide self-fulfilment (Eagleton,Literary
theory 22-23)
3 reaffirms cultural superiority
4. An antidote to WWI
'Therefor, I say, it has become important and in
a far higher degree than it ever was before the war, that our
countrymen grow up with a sense of what I may call the soul of
Europe'.
Rise of English Studies:
-first become legitimate area of study at workmen's colleges
-also considered suitable subject for women's education
-English Literature, added to exams for civil servants in Victorian period
-Resistance of study of Literature at Oxford and Cambridge into the 20th c
-but gained new legitimacy after impact of WWI,esp. at Cambridge (influence of F.R. Leavis)
Terry Eagleton:
-in early 1920s,unclear why English worthy studying
1930s,a subject worth
studying and pursuit
Leavis's 'Great Tradition '(book, 1948)
-repository of moral values and true
-English culture and community
-stood in oppositions to modern culture(film,radio,TV,popular Literature and journalism)
-modern mass culture=immoral, life-denying
-elitist
game:guess who are the top 5 great writers in Leavis's book?(prize: chocolate)
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Henry James
Joseph Conrad
D.H. Lawrance
1. Literature as the foregrounding of lge (not usual used everyday lge)
2. Literature as fiction
3. Literature as aesthetic object(enjoy for pleasure sake)-aesthetic intentions
4. Literature as procedure
5. Literature as intertexual construct
-Meaning dates from Romantic period (late 18th c)
-Rise of English studies in 19th c
-'civilizing mission' of English
-Literature/culture from mid-19th c
1.a replacement of religion, universal, moral instruction
Literary educations in Jane Eye
At Lowood institution ---encouraged to read Bible
2 -serves an ideological function
3 reaffirms cultural superiority
4. An antidote to WWI
Rise of English Studies:
-first become legitimate area of study at workmen's colleges
-also considered suitable subject for women's education
-English Literature, added to exams for civil servants in Victorian period
-Resistance of study of Literature at Oxford and Cambridge into the 20th c
-but gained new legitimacy after impact of WWI,esp. at Cambridge (influence of F.R. Leavis)
Terry Eagleton:
-in early 1920s,unclear why English worthy studying
Leavis's 'Great Tradition '(book, 1948)
-repository of moral values and true
-English culture and community
-stood in oppositions to modern culture(film,radio,TV,popular Literature and journalism)
-modern mass culture=immoral, life-denying
-elitist
game:guess who are the top 5 great writers in Leavis's book?(prize: chocolate)
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Henry James
Joseph Conrad
D.H. Lawrance
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