爲 “文學道路” 正名

• 영문명: Let “The Road of Literature” Be Rehabilitated
• 발행기관: 부경대학교 인문사회과학연구소
• 저자명: 은기평(YIN Qi-ping) 진주파(CHEN Shu-bo)
• 간행물 정보: 『인문사회과학연구』인문사회과학연구 제6권, 195~204쪽, 전체 10쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 사회과학일반
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2006.02.28

영문 초록

"The road of literature" has recently become a pejorative term. Behind such a phenomenon lurks a prevalent assumption: that English education is a matter of ingesting information, of mastering technique, of acquiring facts and know-how, whereas literature is a soft option, an indulgence or a mere trimming to decorate the hard center of the market-oriented syllabus. In order to counter such a trend, we need first of all to address the following theoretical issues: What is the primary task of an English department in China? Is the teaching of English literature relevant to the Chinese market economy today? If yes, in what way is it relevant? How does one persuade a member of modern Chinese society that there is a profit in reading, say, Chaucer and Shakespeare in harkening to any non-Chinese and, "worse", non-modern non-Chinese voices? While re-examining those questions, we need to improve some of our teaching methods that are still prevalent today, in order to make sure that literature is given its due status in English teaching programmes.