英国文学选读复习资料罗经国

英国文学选读复习资料

罗经国

集团文件发布号：（9816-UATWW-MWUB-WUNN-INNUL-DQQTY-

Chapter 1

1.Earliest settlers---Celts

2.55 B.C. TO 407 A.D. ---Roman Empire(London was founded)

3.演变Celts- Romans – Anglo-Saxon – English

4.Julius Caesar , the first general came to British

5.500A.D. THE founder of the kingdom wessex, the Celts King

Arthur.

His followers , who were know as the knights of the round table, fight for their kingdom against the AS invaders.

6.9th century, King Alfred , the great of Wessex lead the AS

kings to defeat the invaders by uniting their forces.

7.the Norman Conquest

1066, Duck of Normandy came from Normandy to attack England to gets the land promise to be given to him for protecting from the Danes invasion by Edward Ⅱ. And Normandy beat the Harold at the Hesting.

8.Two highlight in the development of AS literature

A. Northumrian School

○1the first AS poet ---Caedmon

The earliest English poet. According to Bede, he was an

elderly herdsman who received the power of song in a

vision.

○2Vernerable Bede, A monk write in Lain Father of English History

B. the reign of Alfred Contribution

○1translate a number of Latin books into West Saxon

dialect

○2

○3created a style of Anglo-Saxon Prose

9. A long epic poetry 长篇叙事诗

A.the earliest heroic poetry

B.the most significant poetry

C.existed in oral form as early as the 6th century

D.Beowulf is a mixture of paganism and Christian elements

10.Difference between Old Eng poetry , later poetry is

technical structure

11.There are two poetic features of Old English poetry:

alliteration and kenning.

Chapter 2

1.流行Romance 主要写Knights

2.Duke William of Normandy. The Norman Conquest in 1066

accelerated the development of feudalism 封建主义in ENG

3.Categories of Romances: The matter of Erance ,the matter of

Rome , the matter of Britain

4.Middle ENG:

A.words that are related with enjoyment and pleasure are

usually of the French origin

B.many inflectional form of words were dropped

C.formal grammar simplified

5. Medieval Romance (Subject Matters)

A. matter of French (Charlemagne the Great, Roland, )

B. matter of Rome (Alexander the Great, The siege of Troy)

C. Britain the Arthurian Legend

By Sir Gawain, Launce lot, Marlin, the quest for Holy Grail, the Death of King Arthur.

Chapter 3 Age of Chaucer

1.The Hundreds’ Years War is an awakening of national

Consciousness in ENG,the French heroine Joan of Arc贞德

2.Geoffrey Chaucer (Buried in the Poets’ Conner in

Westminster Abbey)

A.Father of Eng poetry

B.The work of Geoffrey Chaucer

○1influenced by French literature

○2influenced by Boccaccio