Unit 4 Exploring literature Welcome to the unit 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语牛津译林版（2020）必修第二册

Exploring Literature Welcome to the Unit 1 What is literature? written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting artistic value. Literature is the mirror of society. Thus a book written in a particular time defines people, their thoughts, and the influences of that era. “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ——Jane Austin Pride and Prejudice 《傲慢与偏见》 Sense and Sensibility 《理智与情感》 Forms of Literature Drama （William Shakespeare） Poetry Novel Essay autobiography Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. —Ezra Pound 伟大的文学只不过是在最大程度上承载意义的语言。 ——埃兹拉·庞德 American poets, literary critic the representative of imagism In a Station of the Metro Ezra Pound The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. 地铁站 人群中那些面孔的魅影； 潮湿阴暗树干上的花瓣。 Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charles Dickens is one of England’s most famous novelists. He described life in the middle of the 19th century, a period that is now called Victorian, as it is when Queen Victoria ruled Britain. Many of Dickens’ novels take place in London. His popular works are: David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend. Dickens’ works My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest. —David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens adj. 非常认真的;真诚的 致力,专心,献身 Sandra Cisneros Sandra Cisneros, (born December 20, 1954, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American short-story writer and poet, best known for her groundbreaking evocation of Mexican American life in Chicago. She is a Latina American novelist who wrote the bestselling novel The House on Mango Street. The House on Mango Street It is comprised of 44 short character sketches, or stories. The