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Class Notes

1. textbook: The Norton Introduction to Literature

2. orientation: What is literature?

(1) genre: literary type → 文學作品導讀討論 (ex: epic, tragedy)

(2) period: a length or era of time (斷代史)  → 西洋文學概論討論 (ex: medieval literature)

(3) epic: is associated with God

An epic is traditionally a genre of poetry, known as epic poetry. However in modern terms, epic is often extended to other art forms, such as epic theatre, films, music, novels, plays, television shows, and video games, where in the story has a theme of grandeur and heroism, just as in epic poetry.

(4) works cited 參考資料: 

Bibliography, Reference List or Works Cited?

"Works Cited" pages are generally used when citing sources in an MLA paper, though you may call it a "Works Consulted" list if you are required to name the things you cited and the sources you used as background information.

(5) glossary:

A glossary, also known as a vocabulary, or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms.

(6) plagiarism:

Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work.

(7) 美國文學院最受歡迎的23堂小說課: book, YouTube

→ point of view (the law of getting started)

(8) the reader: official movie trailer

(9) Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18)

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s 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 nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.