Children's literature(Fantasy/Adventure ,Life & death, lost & found.)

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.
Aesop`s fable(short animal tale with maoral lessons)

Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media.

A detail of the 13th-century Fontana Maggiore in Perugia with the fables of The Wolf and the Crane and The Wolf and the Lamb

A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor, and pencil, among others. Two of the earliest books with something like the format picture books still retain now were Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter from 1845 and Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit from 1902.

Peter Rabbit with his family, from The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, 1902

Paradise Lost 

Paradise Lost is an epic poem( a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.)in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674).The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men".

Title page of the first edition (1667)

補充資料

1. 中英文介紹：米爾頓《失樂園》(Paradise Lost)

http://blog.udn.com/Dalloway68/1609933

2. Sparknotes_Paradise Lost

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/paradiselost/summary.html 


Allegory

As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. Allegory has been used widely throughout history in all forms of art, largely because it can readily illustrate complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible or striking to its viewers, readers, or listeners.

Writers or speakers typically use allegories as literary devices or as rhetorical devices that convey hidden meanings through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, and/or events, which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey.

補充資料(老師的信件內容)

莎莎老師的Syllubus內寫道

It is designed for college classroom audience of mature students who expect to work with children. Children, like adults, read to explore the world, to escape the confining present, to discover themselves, to become someone else. Only by reading thoughtfully a variety of stories, poems, biographies, and informational books for children does a student come to be acquainted with children’s literature. And by applying critical criteria to these works, the student comes to evaluate them. Being steeped in the literature, written for children, however, reminds us of their natures and their concerns, and helps us direct them toward pleasurable literary experiences, even to make of them lifetime readers. Setting standards for literature addressed to children and applying these standards to each selection sharpens students’ critical skills at the same time as it familiarizes them with what’s out there.

讀英文系要幹嘛?

http://rayduenglish.com/engfuture/ 

What is Literature for?

https://tw.voicetube.com/videos/21112 

1.閱讀古今中外聖賢經典，就像是站在巨人的肩膀看世界。

It gives us access to a range of emotions and events.

2.透過另一雙眼睛看的世界，你可以經歷人生不同的觀點並且反思自己。

Literature performs the basic magic of showing us what things look like from someone else’s point of view.

3.It’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness and sanity.

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