TJU Syllabus for Foreign Literature

1. Course Description

Foreign literaturecourse is one of the basic courses of Chinese language and literature major trunk. This course focuses on, reviewedthe historyof the process of European and American literature, an important literary phenomenon and representative writers, this course requires students to raise awareness of the phenomenon of foreign literature, especially theappreciation ofspecific works, analytical skills. This course teaching, learning, doing integrated teaching mode, effectively develop practical and innovative ability of students.

2. Requirements

Requires students to read the representative works of famous writers, based on understanding the works of the plot and content, students should analyze the ideas and character of the works. According to students’ actual situations, the teacher teaches knowledge properly with the form of free discussion, so students can receive a deep understanding about the work.

3. Topics

The first chapter ancient literature

SectionⅠ ancient Greek literature (epic, drama, poetry, literary theory)

SectionⅡ Roman Literature (Epic)

ChapterⅡ Medieval Literature

Chapter III The 16th century Renaissance Literature

SectionⅠ Italian Renaissance literature (Boccaccio)

SectionⅡ Spanish Renaissance Literature (Cervantes)

Section III French Renaissance literature (Rabelais)

SectionⅣ English Renaissance literature (Shakespeare)

ChapterⅣ The 17 century literature

SectionⅠ French classical literature (Moliere)

SectionⅡ 17 Century English Literature (Milton)

ChapterⅤ The 18 century Enlightenment Literature

SectionⅠ French Enlightenment literature (Rousseau)

Section II German Enlightenment literature (Goethe, Schiller)

Chapter VI Romantic literature

SectionⅠ English Romantic literature (Byron, Shelley)

Section II French Romantic literature (Hugo)

Section III Russian Romantic literature (Pushkin)

SectionⅣ American Romantic literature (Hawthorne, Whitman)

Chapter VII the mid-19th century literature, critical realism

SectionⅠ French realistic literature (Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert)

Section II British Realism (Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens)

Section III Russian realistic literature (Gogol, Turgenev,Dostoyevsky)

Chapter VIII The late 19th century literature

SectionⅠ the late 19th century France, Russia critical realism literature ( Maupassant, Tolstoy)

Section II the main current of the late 19th century non-literary (naturalism, symbolism early)

ChapterⅨ The 20 century realism literary

SectionⅠ Sholokhov

Section II Lawrence

？ Section III Romain Rolland

SectionⅣ Hemingway

ChapterⅩ The 20 century modernist literature

SectionⅠ The late Symbolism and Eliot

Section II Expressionism and Kafka

Section III Existentialism and Sartre, Camus

SectionⅣ The Absurd Theatre and Beckett

Section V The black humor and Heller

Section VI The magic realism and Marquez

4. Time Distribution