英国文学乔叟时期ppt

• 可是在我叙述故事之前， 让我占用诸位一点时间， 依我之见似乎还很必要， 把每人的情况作些介绍。 谈谈他们从事什么行业， 社会地位属于哪个阶层， 容貌衣着举止又是如何， 那么我就先把骑士说说。
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骑士的人品出众而且高尚， 自从军以来就驰骋于疆场， 待人彬彬有礼，大度而豪爽， 珍惜荣誉节操和骑士风尚。 为君主效命创辉煌战绩， 所到国家之远无人能比， 转战于基督和异教之邦， 因功勋卓著缕缕受表彰。 他攻打过亚历山大利亚； 在普鲁士庆功宴上有他， 这位佼佼者多次坐首席； 从立陶宛直打到俄罗斯， 同级的骑士都大为逊色； 攻克阿给西勒有他一个， 还出征到过柏尔玛利亚； 夺取烈亚斯和萨塔利亚； 他还多次游弋于地中海， 跟随登陆大军将敌战败。 十五次比武他大显身手， 为捍卫信仰而浴血奋斗； 在战场上三次杀死敌将， 高贵的武士美名传四方
• B. the theme--- he presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life in it.
那是个初夏方临的日子， 我到泰巴旅店投宿歇息； 怀着一颗虔诚的赤子心， 我准备翌日出发去朝圣。 黄昏前后华灯初上时分， 旅店院里涌入很多客人； 二十九人来自各行各业， 不期而遇都到旅店过夜。 这些香客人人虔心诚意， 次日要骑马去坎特伯雷。 客房与马厩宽敞又洁净， 店主的招待周到而殷勤。 夕阳刚从地平线上消失， 众人同我已经相互结识； 大家约好不等鸡鸣就起床， 迎着熹微晨光干燥把路上。
• （5） the Canterbury Tales and The Decameron ---connection and loose. • (6). Reading---how/ what effect? / Why?
• Heroic couplet• Heroic couplet is a rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter, It is Chaucer who used it for the first time in English in his work The Legend of Good Woman.
• 3. theme--• To praise the fairness and honesty. Different people has their own duty. To criticize the luxury and rottenness. • To support the equality and the honest work.
• What does the character the wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales represent? And how does the author develop his characterization? • Why he is called “the father of English poetry”? •
Topic II. The Age of Chaucer
• I. Social Background---a transitional period. • 2. the awakening of national consciousness in England.
II. John Wycliff(1324?-1384) • Two Contributions ---the father of English Prose. • translated the Bible into standard English ( to reform the church )
• Chaucer’s achievement: • 1. He presented a comprehensive realistic picture of his age and created a whole gallery of vivid characters in his works, especially in The Canterbury Tales. • 2. He anticipated a new ear, the Renaissance, to come under the influence of the Italian writers. • 3. He developed his characterization to a higher level by presenting characters with both typical qualities and individual dispositions. • 4. He greatly contributed to the maturing of English poetry. Today, Chaucer’s reputation has been securely established as one of the best English poets for his wisdom, humor and humanity.
• (2). 1372-1386. he wrote under the influence of Italian literature. “Troilus and Criseyde”---sing for the love and the individual happiness; oppose the feudal formality and asceticism of the day. • The beginning of the humanism.
III. William Langland (1330?-1400?)
• 1. The Vision of Piers Plowman--alliterative poem. Two parts of it. • 2. allegory---a story or description in which the characters and events symbolize some deeper underlying meaning, and serve to spread moral teaching. It has a double meaning. (surface and underlying meaning)
• 4. Major Characters • Lady Meed---the bribery • Seven Sins.
IV. Geoffrey Chaucer (ca.1340-1400) • 1. life story---patron. “Poet’s Corner” in Westminster Abbey. • 2. literary Career--- three periods • (1). 1360-1372, he wrote under the influence of French literature. “The Book of Duchess”.
• 他还侍奉过柏拉西亚国君， 讨伐另一支土耳其异教军； 没有一次不赢得最高荣誉， 他骁勇善战，聪慧而不痴愚。 他温柔顺从像个大姑娘， 一生无论是在什么地方， 对谁也没有讲过半个脏字： 堪称一个完美的真骑士。 他有一批俊美的千里马， 但是他的衣着朴实无华； 开价的底下是结识的布衣， 上上下下到处是斑斑污迹。 他风尘仆仆刚从战场归来， 片刻未休息就急忙去朝拜。
• His contribution to the English language.--native language. (London dialect); he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accented in iambic meter (heroic couplets) to English poetry, instead of the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.
• (3).1387-1400. his own creative period. • “The Canterbury Tales”---the first complete realistic poem of the medieval period. • A. the contents---858 lines of the “Prologue”and 24 tales.
• The Wife of Bath is depicted as the new bourgeois wife asserting her independence. Chaucer develops his characterization to a higher artistic level by presenting characters with both typical qualities and individual dispositions.
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• (4). The skill---it contains practically all the major types of medieval literature--romances of Knights and ladies, folk tales, moral and merry; Fable etc. some are exalted or full of fun, others plain and tiresome,（平淡无味） still others coarse and vulgar.(粗陋俚俗）he raised the language to a higher literary level by writing in it with polish and ease.(文笔精练 优美，流畅自然)
• Originally, Old English poems are mainly alliterative verses with few variations. Chaucer introduced from France the rhymed stanzas of various types to English poetry to replace it. In The Romaunt of the Rose, he first introduced to the English the octosyllabic couplet. In The Legend of Good Women, he used for the first time in English heroic couplet. And in his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, he employed heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English literature. His art made him one of the greatest poets in English, John Dryden called him “the father of English poetry”.
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夏雨给大地带来了喜悦， 送走了土壤干裂的三月， 沐浴着草木的丝丝经络， 顿时百花盛开，生机勃勃。 西风轻吹留下清香缕缕， 田野复苏吐出芳草绿绿； 碧蓝的天空腾起一轮红日， 青春的太阳洒下万道金辉。 小鸟的歌喉多么清脆优美， 迷人的夏夜怎好安然入睡—— 美丽的自然撩拨万物的心弦， 多情的鸟儿歌唱爱情的欣欢。 香客盼望膜拜圣徒的灵台， 僧侣立愿云游陌生的滨海。 信徒来自全国东西南北， 众人结伴奔向坎特伯雷， 去朝谢医病救世的恩主， 以缅怀大恩大德的圣徒。
• C. the main characters • The Wife of Bath; the Pardoner; the Nun’s Priest; • D. significance of it-it gives a comprehensive picture of his time; • The dramatic structure of the poem has been highly commended by critics; • His humour (gentle satire and mild irony.).