Last Semester: western
literature
We learn
about allusion: biblical,
literary, classical using period way
This Semester: Approaches
to literature
We are
using genre way
Genre: is any category of literature, music, or other forms of
art or entertainment, whether written or spoken, audio or visual, based on some
set of stylistic criteria. Genres form by conventions that change over time as new genres are
invented and the use of old ones is discontinued. Often, works fit into
multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.
Textbook: The Norton
Introduction of literature
Discussion
What is literature? What does literature do?
This
semester we will learn about
Fiction: is the
classification for any story created in the imagination, rather than based
strictly on history or fact. Fiction can be expressed in a variety of formats, including writings,
live performances, films, television programs, video games, and role-playing
games, though the term originally and most commonly refers to the major
narrative forms of literature (see literary fiction), including the novel,
novella, short story, and play. Fiction constitutes an act of creative
invention, so that faithfulness to reality is not typically assumed
Poetry: narrative, lyrical
Drama: is the specific mode of narrative, typically fictional,
represented in performance. The term comes from the Greek word δρᾶμα,
drama, meaning action, which is derived from the verb δράω, draō, meaning to do
or to act.
The term
"the drama" refers to "the dramatic branch of literature; the
dramatic art". The term "drama" can
refer to any kind of dramatic performance, including film, radio play,
television play, and closet drama, however, this article is concerned solely
with the enactment of a play in a theatre, performed by actors, on a stage,
before an audience. Unlike other forms of literature the structure of
dramatic texts is directly influenced by this collaborative mode of production
and a collective form of reception.
Orientation
Epic: is a lengthy narrative
poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic
deeds and events significant to a culture or nation
Glossary
is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of
knowledge with the definitions for those terms. Traditionally, a
glossary appears at the end of a book and includes terms within that book that
are either newly introduced, uncommon, or specialized. While glossaries are
most commonly associated with non-fiction books, in some cases, fiction novels
may come with a glossary for unfamiliar terms.
A
bilingual glossary is a list of terms in one language defined in a second
language or glossed by synonyms (or at least near-synonyms) in another
language.
In a
general sense, a glossary contains explanations of concepts relevant to a
certain field of study or action. In this sense, the term is related to the
notion of ontology. Automatic methods have been also provided that transform a
glossary into an ontology or a computational lexicon.
