Answer the following:1. What is the world'shortest play?2. What is the world'd shortest poetry form?3. It is a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shonagon during her time as court lady. (Japanese Lit)4. It is a popular novel by Kamala Markandaya (India)

WHO WROTE EACH LITERARY WORK?

A. Hills Like White ElephantsB. The BetC. A Rose for EmilyD. Age of InnocenceE. A Doll's HouseF. Essays in IdlenessG. The Road Not TakenH. Sherlock Holmes

Teaching LiteratureWhy teach Literature? (Duff and Maley, 1990)

1. LINGUISTICIn terms of language acquisition and learning, literary texts offer samples of a very wide range of styles, registers and text types at many levels of difficulty.

2. METHODOLOGICAL-SInce literary texts are open to multiple interpretations, readers can have different opinions and ideas about a variety of topics. This provides learners an opportunity to engage in genuine interaction. The learners can even be taught to develop critical thinking.

Teaching Literature3. MOTIVATIONALLiterary texts are non-trivial since they deal with matters which concerned the writer enough to make him or her write about them. In this they are unlike many other forms of language teaching inputs, which frequently trivialize experience in the service of pedagogy. Literary texts touch on themes to which learners can bring a personal response from their own experience.

Processes involved in studying literature

How do readers respond to literature? How can we make our students respond to literature?

DESCRIPTIONStudents can talk or write about what they read in their own words

DISCRIMINATIONStudents can discriminate among the different literary texts. They can identify them by type, author or theme.

Processes involved in studying literature

How do readers respond to literature? How can we make our students respond to literature?

RELATIONStudents can relate several elements of a litetary text to each other or to other texts

INTERPRETATIONStudents can figure out what they think the author is saying and defend their style

Processes involved in studying literature

How do readers respond to literature? How can we make our students respond to literature?

GENERALIZATIONStudents can draw out the main idea of a piece of literary work or an author's style

EVALUATINGStudents can evaluate the worth of a piece of literature using a set of criteria

Processes involved in studying literature

How do readers respond to literature? How can we make our students respond to literature?

VALUINGStudents can indicate the importance of literature to their own lives or to the world outside of the text

CREATIONStudents can respond creatively by making art projects, composing a musical medley, producing an MTV, writing another stanza for a poem or another chapter or novel etc

What do we teach?FICTION-fiction is any imaginative recreation and reconstruction of life-It includes short stories and novels.

THE ELEMENTS OF FICTION:A. Setting - time and placeB. CharactersC. Plot - Parts of the Plot - exposition, complication, crisis climax, denouement

What do we teach?D. Point of ViewE. Theme

POETRYESSAYDRAMA

What do we teach?D. Point of ViewE. Theme

POETRYESSAYDRAMA

Literary Allusions and Expressions

A. Achilles' heel -the weakest point of one's personality or something that marks the weakes point of a person

B. Herculean task-a great or impossible task; something that is almost impossible to do

C. Apple of discord-the object of conflict

Literary Allusions and Expressions

A. Achilles' heel -the weakest point of one's personality or something that marks the weakes point of a person

B. Herculean task-a great or impossible task; something that is almost impossible to do

C. Apple of discord-the object of conflict

Theatrical StylesArena - the theater style of early Greeks. The actors are surrounded on all sides by the audience and they make entrances and exits through the aisles. This establishes intimate relationship with the audience

Theatrical StylesMedieval Theater - this used staging areas called mansions inside the churches and portable wagons wheeled about outside the churches

Elizabethan theater - this used staging areas called mansions inside the churches and portable wagons wheeled about outside the churches.

Theatrical Styles

Elizabethan Theater

Genres of Drama

Tragedy - a type of drama that shows the downfall and destruction of a noble or outstanding person, traditionally one who possesses a character weakness called a tragic flaw. The tragic hero, through choice or circumstance, is caught up in a sequence of events that inevitably results in disaster.

Genres of Drama

Comedy - a type of drama intended to interest and amuse the audience rather than make them deeply concerned about events that happen. The characters overcome some difficulties, but they always overcome their ill fortune and find happiness in the end.

Genres of Drama

Tragicomedy - a play that does not adhere strictly to the structure of tragedy. This is usually a serious play that also has some of the qualities of a comedy. It arouses thought even with laughter.

Farce - has very swift movements, has ridiculous situations, and does not stimulate thought. Example: Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew

Genres of Drama

Tragicomedy - a play that does not adhere strictly to the structure of tragedy. This is usually a serious play that also has some of the qualities of a comedy. It arouses thought even with laughter.

Farce - has very swift movements, has ridiculous situations, and does not stimulate thought. Example: Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew

Genres of Drama

Farce - has very swift movements, has ridiculous situations, and does not stimulate thought. Example: Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew