西方经典文学著作选读 春季学期 课程手册.docx

1、西方经典文学著作选读 春季学期 课程手册Selected Reading of Western Classics in Literature西方经典文学著作选读2016春季学期Course Handbook课程手册 Name _教学内容与安排Poetry: 古希腊文学1 _ 伊利亚特 Poetry: 古希腊文学2_ 奥德赛 Poetry:作业：1） 每人创作短诗一首（内容、形式、语言不限），并用图片的格式上传至班级QQ群。2） 每人至少点评3首其它同学的诗歌。 Poetry:用自己的语言翻译Sonnet 18。Drama: 哈姆雷特小组1&2若哈姆雷特最后没有选择复仇，该故事将如何发展？请以此

2、问题为题材拍摄一部微电影。时长：6-8分钟。Drama: 威尼斯商人小组3&41) 戏剧的结尾对夏洛克是否公平? 它是否显示出基督徒的仁慈? 为什么? 2) 你认为莎士比亚为何将故事安排为夏洛克受罚，安东尼奥获胜?3) 基于上述问题，你认为莎士比亚是否有“排犹主义”情节? Novels: 摸彩Novels: 哈克贝利费恩历险记 小组5&6哈克与吉姆在流浪途中还遇到什么有趣的事？请阅读小说，用微电影的方式展现其中2-3个你认为有趣的故事。Novels: 追逐者Novels: 红字小组7&8请仔细阅读小说，论述海斯特的丈夫奇灵渥斯为何选择这种隐忍的复仇方式？这与小说的写作背景、作者、和人物本身性格

3、是否有关？Novels: 竹林中Novels: 伟大的盖茨比小组9&10请仔细阅读小说，论述盖茨比的伟大之处在哪里？Novels: 项链Novels: 简爱小组11&12请仔细阅读小说，论述简爱的一生是否幸福？Evaluation 1) 平时成绩（占总成绩40%）A. 出勤 15B. 小组报告 55C. 发言（要求发3次言，每次5分：5*3=15） 15D. 平时作业一次 152）期末考试（占总成绩60%）发言分数记录表发言时间发言次数以及具体涉及课程内容或话题发言方式（主动，被动发言）发言记录（课堂发言，请自行记录发言要点）助教认定签名(没有具体发言内容不予认定)第3周第4周第5周第6周第7

4、周第8周第9周第10周第11周第12周第13周第14周I. PoetryUnit 1 IliadThe story of the Iliad is, in fact, is the story of Achilles, and of his quarrel with Agamemnon. At the opening of the Iliad the Greeks had already been at Troy for nine years. They had sacked much of the surrounding countryside but never score a decis

5、ive victory over Troy.Agamemnon, in one of the battles in which Achilles had played the leading part, caught a girl of the Troy, Chryseis, who is the daughter of Chryses, priest of Apollo. Chryses offered Agamemnon a fine ransom for her release but Agamemnon refused. So Chryses prayed to Apollo, who

6、 sent a plague upon the Greek camp. The Greeks prophet Calchas revealed that it would be lifted only if Agamemnon gave Chryseis back. Achilles was all in favor of Calchas, but Agamemnon was reluctant. They quarreled. Agamemnon eventually agreed to do so, but in order to assert his leadership and aut

7、hority over Achilles and compensate himself for the loss of Chryseis, he took away from Achilles his slave-girl, Briseis. Achilles was enraged. Not only was it an insult to his honor, but it was unfair, as he, Achilles, had done most of the fighting necessary to gain all the treasure that the Greeks

8、 had. So, Achilles withdrew to his tent, and took no more part in the fighting. The fighting grew fiercer and the Greeks lost one battle after another without their greatest fighter. Agamemnon was eventually forced to make overtures to Achilles, offering him riches along with the return of Briseis.

9、Achilles, however, rejected all appeals, declaring that even of Agamemnons gifts were “as many as the grains of sand or the particles of dust” he would never come back to fighting again.Seeing the failures of the Greeks, Achilles beloved companion,Patroclus, begged Achilles to do something to help t

10、heir fellow soldiers. He asked that he be allowed to put on Achilles armor, so that the Trojans would think that Achilles had returned. Achilles granted his request, but warned Patroclus to return once he had driven the Trojans back from their ships. Patroclus drove the Trojans back all the way to t

11、heir own city walls, but there Hector killed him with the help of Apollo.Achilles was overcome by grief and rage. His mother, the sea-nymph Thetis warned him that if he killed Hector, he would die soon afterward. Achilles accepted his own life as the price for revenge. He reconciled himself to Agame

12、mnon, receiving new armor, via his mother, made by the smith of the gods,Hephaestus. He joined into battles, met Hector, and chased him around the city. Three times they ran the circuit of the walls of Troy before Hector stopped. Achilles spear lodged in Hectors throat and he fell to the ground. Bar

13、ely able to speak, Hector begged that Achilles should allow his body to be ransomed after his death. But Achilles, angry with the man who had killed Patroclus, spurned his appeal and proceeded to insult his body. First he dragged it in front of the Gates of Troy. Then he took the body back to the Gr

14、eek camp.Unit 2 OdysseyThe Cyclopes were a race of huge, one-eyed giants who occupied a fertile country where the soil bore bountiful crops of its own accord and provided rich pasturage for fat sheep and goats with shaggy fleeces. Eager to meet the inhabitants of such a land, Odysseus took one ship

15、into the harbor and, disembarking, walked up with his crew to the cave of the Cyclops Polyphemos, a son of Poseidon. Polyphemos was out tending his sheep, so Odysseus and his crew made themselves at home until he returned with his flocks at dusk. The Cyclops was huge, monstrous and terrible, and aft

16、er a few perfunctory inquiries into the origins and business of his unexpected guests, he picked up a couple of them and dashed their brains out on the floor before devouring them whole. The Cyclops then fell heavily asleep; Odysseus contemplated stabbing him to death, but gave up the idea when he r

17、ealized that escape would then be impossible, since the mouth of the cave was blocked with a boulder, which the Cyclops could lift with one hand, but which the combined strength of Odysseus and his companions was unable to shift. The next morning, the Cyclops had two more of Odysseuss men for breakf

18、ast and then went out, taking care to replace the huge stone at the cave entrance. The resourceful Odysseus was not slow to think up a plan of action. He sharpened a great wooden stake which lay in the cave and hardened its tip in the fire. When evening came and Polyphemos returned home, Odysseus of

19、fered him a bowl of strong wine to wash down his ration of Greek sailors. The Cyclops swallowed the wine with enthusiasm and asked for three refills. Then, in a drunken stupor, he lay down to sleep. Before he nodded off, he asked to know the name of his guest, and Odysseus replied that it was “Outis

20、”, the Greek for “Nobody”; the Cyclops promised that in return for the wine he would eat “Nobody” last. As the monster lay asleep, Odysseus heated the tip of the stake in the fire; when it was red hot he and four of his best men drove the point straight into the Cyclopss one eye. The eye hissed and

21、sizzled, like “the loud hiss that comes from a great axe or adze when a smith plunges it into cold water to temper it and give strength to the iron”. The Cyclops, rudely awakened by the terrible pain, bellowed and raged, calling out for his neighbors, the other Cyclops, to come and help. But when th

22、ey gathered outside his cave and asked who was disturbing him, who had hurt him, he could only reply that Nobody was disturbing, Nobody was hurting him, upon which they lost interest and went away.At dawn Odysseus and his men prepared to make their escape from the cave; each man was tied beneath thr

23、ee big woolly sheep, while Odysseus himself clung under the leader of the flock, a huge ram with a magnificent fleece. The blinded Cyclops rolled aside the boulder an sat at the door of his cave, trying to catch Odysseuss crew slipping out with the sheep, but they passed safely beneath his hands, Od

24、ysseus last of all. Driving the sheep down to their ship, they quickly set sail, although Odysseus was unable to resist taunting the Cyclops, who responded by hurling bits of cliff in the direction of his voice, some coming rather too close to the vessel for comfort. So Odysseus rejoined the rest of

25、 the fleet, and while the crews mourned their lost companions, they consoled themselves by feasting on the very sheep that had assisted their escape from the cave.Unit 3 Modern Poetry Text A O my luve is like a red, red rose, Thats newly sprung in June; O my luve is like the melodie, Thats sweetly p

26、layed in tune. As fair thou art, my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a the seas gang dry. Till a the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi the sun; And I will luve thee still , my dear, While the sands o life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only l

27、uve, And fare thee weel a while; And I will come again, my luve, Thoit were ten thousand mile!Text B The apparition of these faces in a crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Text CSo much dependsUponA red wheelBarrow Glazed with rainWaterBeside the whitechickensText DHe clasps the crag with crooked han

28、ds,Close to the sun in lonely lands,Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls,He watches from his mountain walls,And like a thunderbolt he falls.Text ESonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the

29、darling buds of May, And summers 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 natures changing course untrimmed;But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of th

30、at fair thou owst;Nor shall death brag thou wanderst in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou growst, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. II. DramaUnit 1 HamletTo be, or not to beAct III, Scene 1To be, or not to be: that is the question

31、,Whether its nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them. To die,to sleep;No more; and by a sleep to say we endTheheartache, and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, its a consummationDevoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep.To sleep, perchance to dream: ay, theres the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause. Theres the respectThat