On the cultural problems in British and American literature from the perspective of model essay 1
Language and literary works can accurately reflect the customs, beliefs and universal values of a national cultural environment. In the process of studying British and American literature, they will inevitably come into contact with all kinds of cultural knowledge contained in their works. The main purpose of offering English and American literature courses in schools is to cultivate students' reading appreciation and understanding ability in English and American literature reading.
Keywords: British and American literary and cultural issues, historical and cultural background
With the acceleration of economic globalization, British and American literature has gradually become a compulsory course that colleges and universities attach great importance to. The main purpose of offering English and American literature courses in schools is to cultivate students' reading appreciation and understanding ability in English and American literature reading. The emphasis on British and American literature courses in colleges and universities has played a great role in improving students' English level, but some cultural problems have also followed. Many students have gradually lost their interest in reading English and American literature because of their lack of in-depth understanding of English and American literature, which requires us to have a solid grasp of linguistic knowledge and extensive knowledge of English and American culture in the process of reading English and American literature, so as to continuously enhance the positive significance of offering English and American literature courses.
First, the importance of cultural factors in British and American literature
With the increasingly close communication between China and other countries in the world, intercultural competence has gradually become an important part of English teaching, and it has gradually shown great vitality in the teaching of British and American literature. Language itself is a kind of culture, and language and literary works can accurately reflect the customs, beliefs and universal values in a national cultural environment. In the process of learning British and American literature, we will inevitably come into contact with all kinds of cultural knowledge contained in the works. In the process of learning British and American literature, we will learn.
In the traditional teaching of British and American literature, most university literature teachers in China pay too much attention to text reading and research on British and American literary works, ignoring the guidance for students to understand the background of British and American literary creation. This teaching method makes most students lack the basic cultural understanding ability, the cultural factors in British and American literature, and the cultural connotation in the British and American literary works they read, which makes students only superficial when reading British and American literary works and cannot accurately reveal the deep level of literary works.
The study of any literature course requires a strong cultural thought and a certain understanding ability. In order to improve their understanding ability in studying literary works, learners need to have a deep understanding of the background and cultural knowledge produced by such literary works. An excellent literature learner should have strong attainments in cultural experience, cognitive ability and language knowledge. In the process of learning English and American literature, it is very important for learners to master certain knowledge of language and culture, but it is not enough to master only knowledge of language and culture. Really understand the content of British and American literature thoroughly.
We should also constantly strengthen our understanding of British and American cultural background knowledge. Only with the help of British and American cultural background knowledge can learners truly understand the cultural connotation in British and American literature, have a basic grasp of the lifestyle, religious customs, way of thinking, value orientation and historical development in British and American literature, and truly understand the thoughts and feelings in the works. This ability to understand literary works is not cultivated overnight. In this process, students must persevere, and literature teachers should also guide students to master the correct learning methods, form a good habit of reading British and American literary works scientifically, and let students constantly improve their ability to read British and American literary works and improve their literary literacy.
Second, the cultural issues in the study of British and American literature
1. Social and cultural issues in the study of British and American literature.
Any language is actually a kind of culture, and in the process of language development, social culture will also have a certain impact on it. Language is an important element of literary works, and the language and culture formed in different social environments are different, which makes literary works inevitably influenced by social culture in the process of creation. For example, the word "door" in the "photo door" and "donation door" that we often talk about actually represents a kind of "scandal". So how did the meaning of the word "door" come from? This is related to a certain social background. During Nixon's administration, Watergate was a very famous scandal at that time. Since then, people have often associated it with some social scandals.
2. Regional cultural issues in the study of British and American literature.
The regional culture we are talking about is actually a culture with regional cultural characteristics gradually produced in a specific regional environment. If students don't understand these regional cultures in the process of studying British and American literature, it may cause literary obstacles. For example, when studying the poet Shelley's ode to the west wind, if students have an accurate understanding of the climate in Britain, they can't understand why the author writes "west wind" as the image of the wind in the footsteps of spring, because in our country, when it comes to west wind, people usually associate it with the word "cold west wind". In literary works, the west wind not only represents the unsuitability of the climate, but also often sets off a depressed and depressed mood in his works. In Britain, which is located at high latitude, the west wind is very warm and comfortable, which is a cultural difference between regions.
3. Historical and cultural issues in the study of British and American literature.
Historical and cultural factors have a great influence on any kind of literary works. Literary works themselves are the reflection of national history and culture, and they are gradually produced in the process of social and historical development. If students do not understand the history and culture of British and American countries when studying British and American literary works, some cultural obstacles will inevitably appear when understanding the meaning of the works. China is very different from western history in the process of historical development. If we can't accurately grasp the differences in the process of historical development, it is very easy to produce.
4. Religious and cultural issues in the study of British and American literature.
Many literary works in the world involve religious and cultural factors such as Islam, _ _ _ _, Buddhism, etc. Different countries and regions believe in different religious cultures, and the distribution of religious cultures is also different, which makes the culture of each country affected correspondingly in the process of development, and the religious beliefs of different countries can reflect certain cultural taboos in this region. If we don't know enough about this cultural taboo, it is likely to cause obstacles to understanding literary works. For example, in China, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are the religions with more beliefs, which have a far-reaching influence on the thoughts of literary creators and the cultural connotations in China's literary works. For British and American literary works, their inner meaning will naturally be influenced by the religious culture in this region. Most people in Europe believe in Christ. There are great differences in religious and cultural beliefs in China, and these differences often occur.
For example, according to the religious culture of _ _ _ _, "after death" refers to the time after death. Without understanding western religious culture, it is impossible for students to associate this word with "after death" For another example, if a Jew wears a black robe and walks on the road, if other Jews ask him to take off his black robe, it means that this person has betrayed his Jewish faith and is spurned by everyone, because black robes are in the eyes of Jews.
abstract
In view of the cultural problems in the education of British and American literature in China, literature teachers must fully grasp the historical and cultural knowledge and background materials in the creation of literary works, guide students to pay more attention to the cultural problems in British and American literature, enhance students' sensitivity to absorb the cultural knowledge of British and American literature, enable students to master scientific learning methods in the process of learning British and American literature, develop good habits of reading British and American literature, and comprehensively improve students' literary literacy.
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