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※what's the literature?     Imaginative or creative writing especially of recognized artistic value.

※genre is a "kind" or "sort" and is any category of literatureor other forms of arts or enterainment. 

genre

• poetry
• prose
• performance

※ we use "period" to classify the time in the last semester of western literature.

period emphasize the importance of time

epic   is a lengthy narritive poem,ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significent to a culture or nation.

tragedy is form of drama based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or  pleasure in the viewing.

※Freytag's Pyramid

※Anton Chekhov  -----the lady with the dog

※The Reader

http://youtu.be/8tCqSm4Phug

※oral literature------fable and folktales

※what does literature do?

they bring them to life by representing experience

※genre refers to the largest categories

• fiction (novel/novella/short story)
• poetry
• drama (nonfiction prose)

※fiction

• detective
• gothic
• historical
• science
• remance

※why read literary?

feed and water our passions---by Plato

stimulating our passions    exciting our prejudice---by Jeremy Bentham