The Anglo Norman Period英国文学盎格鲁诺曼时期文学
Part II The Anglo-Norman Period (盎格鲁-诺曼时期)讲解学习
Chronicle
《编年史》
(2) from Latin into English
a monument of Old English prose
2). 1013, Danes again, 30 years’ occupation
• Alfred the Great (Old English: Ælfrēd, Ælfrǣd, "elf advice"; 849 – 26 October 899), was king of the AngloSaxon kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred is noted for his defence of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of southern England against the Vikings, becoming the only English king to be given the epithet "the Great".[1] Alfred was the first King of the West Saxons to style himself "King of the Anglo-Saxons". Details of his life are described in a work by the Welsh scholar and Bishop, Asser. Alfred was a learned man who encouraged education and improved his kingdom's legal system and military structure.
Part II The Anglo-Norman Period
英国文学史及选读1,2册复习大纲
英国文学史及选读1,2册复习大纲Part 1 The Anglo―Saxon Period（449-1066）秧格鲁-撒克逊时期1.H istorical BackgroundCelts 400B.C. Romans 50B.C. Anglo―Saxons 450A.D Norman Invasion 1066A.D. Roman empire从albion撤军，teutonic tribes(包括angles, Saxons,jutes)（条顿人or日耳曼人）陆续登陆此地2. Literature 1,pagan异教徒文学2 christian基督徒文学alliterative verse头韵诗Epic: Beowulf贝奥武甫（Denmark背景）（the hall heorot 鹿兀grendel:a monster half-human）1) Oral origin, recited in court, handed down in generations until finally it was recorded by certain poet.上下部分由pagan写，插入由christian写2) a mixture of history and legend.，england’s national epic 民国史诗Part II The Anglo-Norman Period(1066-1350)秧格鲁-诺曼时期11.H istorical BackgroundRoman conquest,接着是english conquest，最后是normanconquest。
The Norman Conquest in 1066Duke William of Normandy claimed himself William I, King of England.（the battle of hastings希斯廷战役）Kings―Barons男爵―Knights, a feudal system of hierarchy统治集团was formed2.T he languageUpper classes: French, Latin The mon people: Old EnglishThree languages co-existed in England. French became the official language used by the king and the Norman lords; Latin became the principal tongue of church affairs and in universities; and Old English was spoken only by the mon English people.3.The literatureRomance was a type of literature that was very popular2in the Middle Ages. It is about the life and adventures undertaken by a knight.It reflected the spirit of chivalry骑士制度. The content of romance: love, chivalry and religion. It involves fighting, adventures.Subject matter:Geoffrey’s His tory杰弗里《史记》，riming chronicles押韵编年史，metricalverse格律诗体，doggerel verse打油诗体1)t he Matter of France eg. Charlemagne and his peers查理曼大帝和他的骑士2)M atter of Greece and Rome eg Akexabder亚历山大大帝3)M atter of Britain tales having for their heroes Arthurand his knights of the Round Table3.m ain literatureSir Gawain and the green knight.高文爵士和绿衣骑士（arthur，gawain,green knight, morgain the fay-woman3妖精摩根, the green girdle绿腰带）Part III Geoffrey Chaucer (1340―1400)杰弗里.乔叟时期1.H istorical BackgroundHe was living at the same time as the writer of Sir Gawain. In 1350 AD, 100 Years' War between England and France.The English won, they controlled large French territory领土. The Henry VI lost it all. He is father of English poetry War of the Roses 1455-1485 AD2.W hat's middle ages like?1). The medieval society: hierarchy 等级制度social system.2). Another important thing in the medieval society is Christianity基督God-centered thinking, mind ideology 思想体系3.L ife and work of ChaucerChaucer lived between (1340-1400). His life is closely41. French 1360-1370 translate French poetry2. Italian 1372-13863.English The Canterbury tales4.The Canterbury talesHe got his stories from various sources, Greek authors, Roman authors, Italian, French, but there is no doubt about Chaucer's originality. He retells the stories in his own way.5The stories are told by a group of people on their way to and back from Canterbury. Pilgrims 朝圣者tell stories to pass the time. The journey is used as a kind of device to unite the various tales Nun修女:Her enthusiasm for grace, trying to e someone that she is not, she cannot possibly be. --Pretentiousness, pretending伪装too much Chaucer has different attitude to different characters第一句：as soon as april pierces to the root, the drought of march, and bathes each bud and shootThe significance of his writing1)it gives a prehensive广泛的picture of Chaucer’s time2)the dramatic structure3)Chaucer’s humor4)Chaucer’s contribution to the English language. Ever since the Norman Conquest the French language was the language at the court and the upper classes, and Latin was the language of the learned and the church. Chaucer6used the native language English and proved that the English language is a beautiful language. He increased the prestige 威信of the English language.5.Popular ballads大众民谣A ballad is a narrative叙述poem that tells a story. It is about particular incidents, usually dramatic. Ballets tell stories-about tragic悲剧的incidents. They are written in a special musical pattern, ballad meter-four meters, couplets（相连并押韵的两行诗）―two line in a unit or quatrain 四行诗__ ababcdcd Characteristics:1)The beginning is often abrupt突然地. No introductionof the characters and the background of the tale2)There are strong dramatic elements. A ballad deals witha single episode插曲3)the story is often told through dialogue and action4)the theme is often tragic悲剧的5)The ballad meter is used. It contains four-line stanza7节，段在英国把民谣当文学形式研究的第一人是托马斯.帕西主教Bishop Thomas Percy,他将民谣收录到《英诗辑古》Reliques of Ancient English Poetry中。
英国文学盎格鲁诺曼时期课件The Anglo-Norman Period
Arthurian romances/legends《亚瑟王传奇》 亚瑟是否为一历史人物仍无法确定。传说中亚瑟王 原为威尔士国王之子，年轻时以力拔千钧之势将 插入巨石的一柄大剑拔了出来，令许多武士望尘 莫及。他用这柄宝剑征服了苏格兰和爱尔兰，娶 了美貌的桂内薇尔为妻。 《亚瑟王传奇》...以传说中的英王亚瑟为中心的故 事体和中世纪的传奇故事。这些故事记述了亚瑟 王的一生、他的骑士们的奇遇，以及他的骑士朗 斯洛(Lancelot)和亚瑟的王后桂内薇尔 (Guinevere)的奸情。
• The new literature The literature which Normans brought to England is remarkable for its bright, romantic tales of love and adventure, in marked contrast with the strength and somberness of Anglo-Saxon poetry. Anglo-Saxon literature: Battle is a way of life. Strength, courage and loyalty are basic virtues for both kings and warriors. Beowulf shows how the primitive people wage heroic struggles against the hostile forces of the natural world under a wise and mighty leader.
Medieval romances or tales in verse, can be divided into three classes: • a. the Matter of France • b. the Matter of Greece & Rome • c. the Matter of Britain tales having their heroes Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.
英国文学Lecture Two The Anglo-Saxon and The Anglo-Norman period(精品文档)
I. Religious poetry It was represented by Cynewulf and Caedmon, who was
2. The poetry was copied by the monks and has the religious coloring.
3. Most works can not find its scribe.
4. Famous poets of the time :
a. Caedmon, the father of English song, is the first known religious poet of England. He wrote a poetic Paraphrase of the bible b. Cynewulf produced the didactic poem The Christ c. Alfred the Great (848-901) wrote The AngloSaxon Chronicles. This book records the main happenings of the Anglo-Saxon period. It is the best monument of the Old English prose.
Historical background Before 410 A.D., Britain had been a Roman
province. After the fall of the Roman Empire (410 A.D.), the aboriginal Celtic population was conquered by the Teutonic Tribes of Angles, Saxons and Jutes who named the central part of Albion Anglia, or England. About 449 Jutes left Denmark, landed in the Isle of Thanet. And Angles and Saxons followed. Angles, an important Teutonic tribe furnished their new home England. The dialects gradually grew into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or Old English.
(完整word版)英国文学史及选读作者及作品
英国文学史及选读作者及作品一、盎格鲁—撒克逊时期The Anglo-Saxon Period※《贝奥武甫》“The Song of Beowulf”《浪游者》“Widsith”or “The Traveller's Song"《航海家》“Seafarer”二、盎格鲁—诺曼时期The Anglo—Norman Period※《高文爵士和绿衣骑士》“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ”杰弗里《史记》Geoffrey’s “History”莱亚门《布鲁特》Laysmon’s “Brust”《罗兰之歌》“Chanson de Roland”三、乔叟时期Geoffrey Chaucer （1340?-1400）※《坎特伯雷故事集》“The Canterbury Tales”《玫瑰传奇》“Romance of the Rose”《好女人的故事》“The Legend of Good Women”《声誉殿堂》“The House of Fame"《百鸟会议》“The Parliament of Fowls"《特罗伊勒斯和克莱西德》“Troilus and Gressie"大众民谣Popular Ballads※《罗宾汉和阿林代尔》“Robin Hood and Allin—a—Dale””※《起来，去关门》“Get Up and Bar the Door”※《派屈克·斯宾塞爵士》“Sir Patrick Spens”托马斯·帕西《英诗辑古》Bishop Thomas Percy ”Reliques of Anciet English Poetry”兰格论《农夫皮尔期》“The Vision of Piers，the Plowman”四、文艺复兴时期The Renaissance1．威廉·莎士比亚William Shakespeare(1564—1616）1590《亨利六世》第二部The Second Part of “King Henry Ⅵ”《亨利六世》第三部The Third Part of “King Henry Ⅵ”1591《亨利六世》第一部The First Part of “King Henry Ⅵ”1592《理查三世》“The Life and Death of King Richard Ⅲ”《错误的喜剧》“The Comedy of Errors”1593《泰特斯·安德鲁尼克斯》”Titus Andronicus”《驯悍记》“The Taming of the Shrew”1594《维洛那两绅士》“The Two Gentlemen of Verona”《爱的徒劳》“Love's Labour’s Lost”《罗密欧与朱丽叶》“Romeo and Juliet”1595《理查二世》“The Life and Death of King Richard Ⅱ"《仲夏夜之梦》“A Midsummer Night's Dream”1596《约翰王》“The Life and Death of King John”※《威尼斯商人》“The Merchant of Venice”1597《亨利四世》第一部The First Part of “King Henry Ⅳ”《亨利四世》第二部The Second Part of “King Henry Ⅳ”1598《无事生非》“Much Ado About Nothing”《温莎的风流娘儿们》”The Merry Wives of Windsor”《亨利五世》”The Life of King Henry Ⅴ”1599《尤利乌斯·凯撒》“The Life and Death of Julius Caesar”《皆大欢喜》”As You Like It”1600《第十二夜》“Twelfth Night ,or，What You Will”※1601《哈姆雷特》“Hamlet, Prince of Denmark"1602《特洛伊洛斯与克瑞西达》“Troilus and Cressida"《终成眷属》“All's Well That Ends Well”1604《一报还一报》“Measure for Measure"《奥塞罗》“Othello，the Moore of Venice”1605《李尔王》”King Lear”《麦克白》“The Tragedy of Macbeth" 1606《安东尼和克莉奥佩特拉》“Antony and Cleopatra”1607《科里奥拉鲁斯》”The Tragedy of Coriolanus”《雅典的泰门》“Timon of Athens”1608《佩里克利斯》“Pericles，Prince of Tyre”1609《辛白林》“Cymbeline，King of Britain”1610《冬天的故事》“The Winter’s Tale”《暴风雨》“The Tempest”《亨利八世》“The Life of King Henry Ⅷ”Poems《维纳斯与阿多尼斯》“Venus and Adonis”《露克丽丝受辱记》“Lucrece”※《十四行诗》“Sonnets"2。
英国文学史盎格鲁罗马时期Part II
Part II. English Literature of the Anglo-Norman Period (1066-1350)1.The Background: Political and Social.The Norman Conquest of 1066 accelerated the development of feudalism in England. Many Normans who came with William I were given large tracts of land that had been confiscated from the Anglo-Saxon nobility and other recalcitrant landlords, and they became feudal barons or vassals to the king and in turn allotted their land possessions to their own vassals. Though William I made all his vassals and his vassals‟ vassals swear allegiance to himself directly, the big barons still had much political power and could raise troops to fight among themselves or even to resist the king. The Magna Carta of 1215, which many bourgeois historians have claimed as the beginning of democracy for England, was actually no more than a document of concessions made by King John chiefly to the feudal barons and the potentates of the Church, and only to a very small extent to the rising plebeians. The ecclesiastics, from the monks and the clergy to the bishops and archbishops, together possessed over one third of the land in the country and owned numerous serfs, and had their tithes and ecclesiastical courts and the backing of the Pope in Rome. They had much political as well as religious power and ranked together with the big feudal barons as important participants in the affairs of the state.The chief social conflict in England in the three centuries after the Norman Conquest was inevitable that between the serfs or peasants and their feudal lords though some historians are inclined to think that the struggles and wars among the feudal barons and between the barons and the king were the major contradiction of the time. But all scholars have to admit that the terrible oppression and exploitation of the serfs by the feudal rulers led to many peasants fleeing from the countryside to the growing cities and towns, and that other serfs armed themselves and destroyed the manors of their feudal lords or at least got organized and refused to pay heavy rents on the land or to carry out their enforced tasks of labour. The Hundred Years‟ War with France which began in 1337 led to the drafting of soldiers from among the peasantry and to the levying of extra taxed upon the poor laboring masses, thus intensifying the sufferings of the serfs. The Black Death of 1349-50 swept across the country and brought about the scarcity of labor in the countryside, but in answer to the peasants;subsequent demands for higher wages, laws known as the “Statutes of Labourers” were passed in parliament in 1351,1357 and 1361, imposing heavy punishments upon all peasants that refused to work at the old rates for their feudal lords. All these prepared the way for the large-scale peasant risings in the second half of the 14th century.After the Norman Conquest England became no longer an isolated nation and trade relations with the European Continent grew steadily. There were rapid developments in commerce and handicraft industry in the newly established towns and cities, and the burgesses, made up of petty tradespeople and artisans many of whom were former peasants, gradually became a political force to be reckoned with, especially the citizens of the nation‟s capital and biggest city,London. Beginning from 1165 these burgesses were represented in parliament and as time went on they played an increasingly important role in the nation-wide political struggle.The three centuries following the Norman Conquest saw the large-scale introduction into England of French culture, including French customs and manners, medieval French literature and the literature of Italy and other European countries, as well as the extensive use of the Norman-French language, particularly in the cities and the big manors where the Norman nobility lived. For almost two hundred years after 1066, two languages, native English and Norman-French, existed side by side in England, together with Latin. While he native English tongue, descended from Anglo-Saxon or Old English, was the common speech of the overwhelming majority of the people, especially of the peasants in the countryside and among the lower ranks of the tradespeople and artisans in the towns, French for quite a long time prevailed at the king‟s court, in the big manors, in the lawcourts and in the bigger schools where Latin was also taught, and the clergy and many scholars made use of Lain in the churches and monasteries and ecclesiastical courts. By the mid-14th century the English language finally gained absolute supremacy in the whole country, particularly with the passage in parliament in 1362 of the Statute of Pleading, according to which it was required that court proceedings be conducted henceforth in English.But by then the English language had already been totally different from Old English, for in the three centuries after 1066 the language had undergone gradual but radical and extensive changes, as not only were borrowed in the course of time thousands of words from French and through French from Latin and also Greek, but many old inflectional forms of native English words had been dropped and formal grammar of the past had become considerably simplified.The English language in this transitional stage from Old English to modern English, through some four centuries (from 12th to 15th) of development and change, has generally been known as Middle English.2.Early Alliterative and Metrical RomancesRomances, alliterative and metrical, constitute the bulk of the literary works in England in the three centuries after 1066. The word “romance”here refers to some verse narrative that sings of knightly adventures or other heroic deeds, and usually emphasizes the chivalric love of the Middle Ages in Europe.Most of the English romances deal with three major themes: “The Matter of Britain”, about the Arthurian legend; “The Matter of France”, about stories concerning Charlemagne and his knights; and “The Matter of Rome”, about tales of antiquity, from the Trojan war to the feats of Alexander the Great. There were of course also some native English tales dating back to the time of the invasions of the Vikings on the English coast, as well as other miscellaneous stories and legends. English romances of this period are, generally speaking, inferior and less colorful than similar verse narratives at about the same time in Germany and France, such as the “Chanson de Roland”.Most of the English romances of the time were metrical, metre and rhyme having been adopted from French poetry to take the place of alliteration in Anglo-Saxon poetry, but in early 14th century there was a curious revival of alliterative verse in a number of romances written in the West Midland dialect of Middle English.The legend of King Arthur and his Round Table knights was the most popular theme employed. The origins of the Arthurian legend are very complicated and even confusing because there was an Arthur as a historical figure (“dux bellorum”, i.e., “the leader of the wars”) of the Celts in a series of 12 battles to repulse the invading Anglo-Saxons; then there was another Arthur as a mythological figure appearing chiefly in Welsh literature as a king of fairy-land, who undertakes hazardous quests, slays monsters, visits the realms of the dead and has a number of knightly henchmen; and finally there was an Arthur as a legendary hero reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Latin “Historia Regum Britanniae”(1137). In this last book the main framework of the now commonly known Arthurian legend is sketched, beginning from the prophecies of Merlin and the birth of Arthur, through his marriage with Guanhumara (Guenevere) and his various conquests and knightly adventures, to the treachery of his nephew Mordred and his battle with the latter, and finally to Mordred‟s defeat and Guenevere turning nun and Arthur himself mortally wounded and carried to Avalon. Geoffrey of Monmouth‟s book was translated by more than one writer into French and then Layamon, a humble priest on the banks of the Severn, told the Arthurian story for the first time in English in his alliterative poem with occasional rhymes, “Brut”(1205). In the meantime, in the late 12th and early 13th centuries the Arthurian legend became very popular on the European Continent, particularly in France and Germany, as it was retold with elaborations by German poets Wolfram von Eschenbach and Gottfried von Strassburg and French poets Marie de France and Chrestien de Troyes. So that by about 1399 most of the legendary material woven round the story of King Arthur and his Round Table knights, from Merlin and the birth of Arthur, to Genevere and the treachery of Mordred and the passing of Arthur, and including the heroic deeds of the best known knights like Lancelot and Tristram, Gawain and Percival as well as the story of the Holy Grail, had all been treated of whether in chronicle or in romance, in verse or in prose, in English or in Welsh or in Latin, French or German. The Arthurian romances written in English were mostly metrical, usually dealing with one particular knight or another, with Tristram and his love for Iseult, with Uwaain and Gawain, with Lancelot and the maid of Astolet, with Percival and the Holy Grail, and with Merlin and Arthur himself, but before the whole story was gathered together in a continuous thread in Sir Thomas Malory‟s “Le Morte d‟Arthur”in the 15th century, perhaps the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend was the anonymous “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, written in 1360-1370, in alliterative verse.“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” contains four “fits” or sections. In the first fit, King Arthur is holding at Camelot his Christmas feast of 15 days with allhis knights of the Round Table. The New Year comes and Arthur and his queen Guenevere and all the knights are seated at the table, but the king refuses to eat before he witnesses a “wondrous adventure” of some sort. Suddenly there rushes in a knight, the tallest on earth, clothed all in green and riding a green horse. He carries neither spear nor shield but a holy bough in one hand and in the other an axe with its edge as keen as a sharp razor. Arthur welcomes him and the knight utters the challenge to any one brave enough to strike him a blow with the axe and to receive a return blow “within a twelve-month and a day”. Fear keeps all the men there silent for a while. Then just as Arthur feels bound to seize the axe himself, Sir Gawain comes forward and asks permission to answer the challenge. The king gives his nephew the axe and the green knight lays bare his neck and Gawain lets fall the axe and severs the head from the body. The head falls to the ground but the knight falters not. He picks up the head and steps into the saddle and the head speaks to Gawain, asking him to seek for the Green Knight at the Green Chapel to receive the return blow the next New Year‟s morn. The Green Knight departs and Arthur and his knights go on with their feasting.The second fit begins with a lengthy description of the passing of the four seasons, from spring through summer and autumn and back to winter again, and Arthur makes a feast to send Gawain off on his journey. Then follows a detailed account of all the accoutrements made ready for the knight before he takes leave. Gawain fides on his horse Gringolet through the realm of England to North Wales and gets no answers to his inquiries for the Green Knight of the Green Chapel. He climbs over many cliffs and crosses many fords and steams and meets with all sorts of adventures with serpents, wolves and wild men, with bulls and bears, and the sharp winter brings special hardships. Soon it is Christmas-eve and he prays to the Virgin Mary, and soon he finds himself in a deep forest of many old oaks and sees in the wood on a hill the comeliest castle. He calls aloud and the drawbridge is let down and he is received into the castle and welcomed by the lord therein. He is shown to a chamber well decorated with curtains and tapestries, and he is given fine clothes and fine food and is entertained by the lord of the castle and his wife, fairer even than Guenevere, with an old lady beside her. Gawain tells his host of his errand to meet the Green Knight, and when he is told that the Green Chapel is not more than two miles away, he agrees to stay on at the castle till the New Year‟s Day. Then the lord of the castle makes a bargain with Gawain that for each day of his stay at the castle, the guest and the host is to exchange with each other at night what they gain during the day.The third fit tells of the three days of Gawain‟s sojourn at the castle. The first day the host goes to hunt with a hundred hunters and many hounds and they kill many deer. Sir Gawain lies abed and is visited by the fair lady of the castle, but he resists temptation and only lets her kiss him once. At night the host gives Gawain the venison of the deer he has slain and Gawain gives him a kiss. The second day the host hunts again and he and his fellow-hunters pursue a wild boar. The lady of the castle visits Gawain again and teases him for being a renownedknight and yet not knowing how to make love to a lady, but Gawain defends himself and the lady leaves after kissing him once again. The host returns with the boar killed and at night he gives Gawain the shields of the boar and Gawain again kisses the host. The third day the host goes hunting again and this time he hunts a fox, The lady of the castle comes again to entice Gawain, kissing him and desiring some gift from him. Gawain again resists and declines her gift of a gold ring. She offers him a second gift, this time her girdle, which he refuses at first, but when she says the girdle has the magic power of protecting the wearer from being wounded or slain, Gawain wavers upon the thought of his imminent encounter with the Green Knight and is finally persuaded to accept it as a secret gift. Then the lady kisses him thrice and departs. Gawain conceals the girdle on his person and goes to mass and shrives himself of his misdeeds. The host that night gives Gawain the skin of the dead fox while Gawain gives him only the three kisses. Then the guest thanks the host and his lady for his happy sojourn at the castle and goes to bed, ready to proceed to the Green Chapel the following day.The fourth fit begins with a description of the stormy snow weather on the New Year‟s Day as Gawain gets ready to go to the Green Chapel. Taking with him the girdle, he thanks the host at parting and a servant of the castle leads the way. They reach a high hill and the guide persuades Gawain not to go forward, for the Green Knight is terrible and has killed many. But Gawain refuses to be a coward and so the guide now leaves him, after telling him the way to the Green Chapel. Gawain goes alone and finally finds an old cave in the crag. He hears a loud noise and the Green Knight appears to demand the return blow according to the covenant. Gawain bares his neck but shrinks a little as the axe comes down and the Green Knight reproves him. Upon the second blow Gawain does not flinch and the axe pierces the flesh and blood flows. Then the Green Knight reveals himself to be no other than the lord of the castle, and he reproves Gawain for having concealed the girdle given him by the lady. Gawain is confounded, takes off the girdle and throws it at the other, and curses hiss own cowardice and covetousness. The Green Knight forgives him and gives him back the girdle, and reveals his own name to be Bercilak de Hautdesert and the older lady in his castle to be Morgan le Fay, Arthur‟s enemy. He asks Gawain to go back to his castle, but Gawain refuses and he returns to Arthur‟s court and tells the king and all the other knights of his adventures, feeling ashamed as he relates of the girdle and the cut in his neck. The king and the whole court comfort him and each of the knights agrees to wear a bright green belt for Gawain‟s sake.Though there are no descriptions of battles or jousts, the two main motifs in the story, the tests of faith, courage and purity and the human weakness for self-preservation, that point to the nobility as well as the humanness of the hero, provide the poem with unmistakable traits of chivalric romances, plus some strong Christian coloring.Besides, the romance gives the reader an engrossing tale well told vested in beautiful poetry and containing many artistic merits, such as the carefulinterweaving of one episode with another, the elements of suspense and surprise as the story unfolds itself, the psychological analysis of the chief character Sir Gawain as he encounters one strange event after another, the elaborate descriptions of the seasons as well as the places and things witnessed by the hero in the course of his adventures and finally the simple, straightforward language employed. Therefore, the popularity of the poem over and above most other romances of the period is well-grounded. As for the introduction here of supernatural elements and superstition, that was no more than a natural and inevitable limitation of the age in which the poem was written. However, the heroic adventures of Sir Gawain and of King Arthur as related in the poem were sought after and carried out rather for adventures‟sake than any truly worthy cause, and in this sense the romance in its true significance falls short of a poem like “Beowulf”where the heroic deeds were performed to help the hero‟s kinsfolk out of their distress or to protest them from disaster.Literary terms:epic: An epic is a long narrative poem, on a grand scale, about the deeds of warriors and heroes. It is a polygonal, …heroic‟ story incorporating myth, legend, folk tale and history. Epics are often of national significance in the sense that they embody the history and aspirations of a nation in a lofty or grandiose manner.Basically, there are two kinds of epic: (a) primary——also known as oral or primitive; (b) secondary——also known as literary. The first belongs to the oral tradition and is thus composed orally and recited; only much later, in some cases, is it written down, such as Gilgamesh, Iliad and Odyssey, Beowulf. The second is written down at the start, such as Virgil‟s Aeneid, Lucan‟s Pharsalia, the anonymous Song of Roland, Milton‟s Paradise Lost.alliteration: A figure of speech in which consonants, especially at the beginning of words, or stressed syllables, are repeated. It is a very old device in English verse (older than rhyme) and is common in verse generally. It is used occasionally in prose. In OE poetry alliteration was a continual and essential part of the metrical scheme and until the late Middle Ages was often used thus. However, alliterative verse becomes increasingly rare after the end of the 15th century.Culture:Knighthood and Code of Chivalry:Almost all nobles were knights in the Medieval days. But no one was born a knight——knighthood had to be earned. The training was both long and hard. A noble began his education as a page at the age of seven. He was taught to say his prayers, learned good manners and ran errands for the ladies. At about fourteen, the page became a squire or assistant to a knight who became his master. He was taught the duties of a knight and practiced using a sword, lance and shield. He went into battle with his master. If the squire proved to be a good fighter, he would be made a knight at a special ceremony known as dubbing. As a knight, he were pledged to protect theweak, to fight for the church, to be loyal to his lord and respect women of noble birth. These rules were known as code of chivalry, from which the western idea of good manners developed.Knight trained for war by fighting each other in mock battles called tournaments. The contestants and their horses often got killed and injured. Yet in spite of the cost these tournaments were festive occasions that drew all the people around.FogCarl SandburgThe fog comesOn little cat feet.It sits lookingOver harbor and cityon silent hunchesand then, moves on.Image: a word, phrase, or picture that describes an idea in a poem, book, film etc. . Many images are conveyed by figurative language, as in metaphor, simile, synecdoche, onomatopoeia and metonymy. An image may be visual (pertaining to the eye), olfactory (smell), tactile (touch), auditory (hearing), gustatory (taste), abstract and kinesthetic.诗歌的语言是形象的语言。
英国文学史及选读Part II The Anglo-Norman Period
William, Duke of Normandy
• William I (William the Conqueror)
Map showing the initial deployments at the Battle of Hastings
Tower of London (Castle built by William)
Anglo-Norman literature
Romance (罗曼司;骑士传奇) was a type of literature that was very popular in the Middle Ages. The great age of medieval romance was the 12th and early 13th centuries and its chief breeding ground was the aristocratic society in France. From France it was introduced into England in the second half of the 13th and 14th centuries.
II. Anglo-Norman literature
English literature was also a combination of French and Saxon elements. The three centuries after the Roman conquest saw the large scale introduction of French culture and literature, and through French literature the introduction of Italian literature.
The Anglo-norman Period
Chivalric Romance
Chivalric romance is a type of narrative that developed in twelfth-century France, spread to the literature of other countries, and displaced the earlier epic and heroic forms. Romances were at first written in verse, but later in prose as well. The romance is distinguished from the epic in that it does not represent a heroic age of tribal wars, but a courtly and chivalric age, often one of highly developed manners and
4. The central character is a knight of noble family described as riding forth to seek adventures, taking part in tournaments, of fighting for his lord in battle. He is devoted to the Church and the king. (the knight code) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is considered the culmination (顶点） of Romance.
Civility. Its standard plot is that of a quest undertaken by a single knight in order to gain a lady’s favor; frequently its central interest is courtly love, together with tournaments（中世纪 的骑马比武） fought and dragons and monsters slain for the damsel（少女，姑娘）’s sake; it stresses the chivalric idealsБайду номын сангаасof courage, loyalty, honor, mercifulness to an opponent, and elaborate（复杂的) manners; and it delights in wonders and marvels. Supernatural events in the epic usually were attributed to the will and actions of the gods;
总结英国文学史
9.Contemporary English Literature当代文学（1945—至今）
Selected writers & works
(1)Tribal society(5th-11th, Anglo-Saxon, old English poetry: pagan世俗诗& religious宗教诗,“Beowulf”)
(2) Feudal society(11th, Norman Conquest, Romance,“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”《高文爵士和绿衣骑士》Geoffrey Chaucer“The Canterbury Tales”《坎特伯雷故事集》
(3) The Renaissance(15th-16th, William Shakespeare, drama,“Hamlet”,“Sonnet 18”; Francis Bacon,“Essays”)
(6) English Romanticism (1798-1832)
①romantic poetry“Lyrical Ballads”《抒情歌谣集》
William Wordsworth“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”,“The Solitary Reaper”《孤独的割麦女》
②novel
Walter Scott“Ivanhoe” 《艾凡赫》
Jane Austen“Pride And Prejudice”
(7) The Victorian Age (1837-1901)
①Critical realistic novels
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The Literature—Romance and Ballad
The prevailing form of literature in the feudal
England was the Romance. (传奇)
Romance: It was a long composition, sometimes in verse, sometimes in prose, describing the life and adventures of a noble hero. (term)
Part II The Anglo-Norman Period 盎格鲁—诺曼底时期 (1066-1350)
Historical background The literature Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Literary terms Summary
The central character of romances was the
knight (骑士), a man of noblຫໍສະໝຸດ birth skilled in
the use of weapons. He was commonly described as riding forth to seek adventures, taking part in tournaments, or fighting for his lord in battle. He was devoted to the church and the king. The code of manners and morals
3. Great changes took place in languages: after the conquest, three languages co-existed in England. The Normans spoke French, the lower class spoke English, and the scholars and clergymen used Latin.
the_Anglo-Saxon_period and the_Anglo-Norman_Period
The Norman Conquest ended the Anglo-Saxon period.
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Three languages co-existed
• The Normans / The upper class
• The lower class • The scholars &clergymen
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The Anglo-Saxon Conquest
After the Roman Conquest, frequently swarms of pirates came to invade from Northern Europe .
England: Angle-land people: English Language: Anglo-Saxon ︾ Old English
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Influence on the English Language
the end of the 14th century, English, dominant language
English structure, English common words
English absorbed almost the whole body of French words and became the language of the land.
5. A poll-tax (人头税)
pauperized
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The Rise of 1381: the rise of peasants
• Where there is depression, there is fight. • The leader of the Rise of 1381 were Wat Tyler and John Ball. • The Rising was treacherously and bloodily repressed. • But the rise had shaken the feudal system in England to the root.
The-Anglo-Norman-Period英国文学盎格鲁诺曼时期文学PPT课件
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❖ After the conquest, feudal system was
established in English society. The new king
ruled England with a high hand. He made a
thorough job of taking over the country, and
England
It was William I landlords who pushed England
peasants into the feudal society
the King ruling the King’s office
church government
secular
heretics
. government burnt alive7
pyramid in Egypt. At the top of it was the
King William and below him were his
the_Anglo-Saxon_period____the_Anglo-Norman_Period_and_Romance
盎格 鲁人
Angles Saxons Jutes 7 small kingdoms
撒克 逊人
7th. C United into One Kingdom
朱特人
Social Condition of the Anglo-Saxons
before the settlement the tribal society families united by kinship(血族关系) after the settlement organs of state kingship (君王统治)
chiefs and warriors the military commander The Anglo-Saxon Period witnessed a Transition from tribal power of life and death; society to feudalism. close relationship 8 chief’s bread; the booty (plunder战利品)
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Anglo-Saxon Literature
2 kinds:
the pagan poetry the religious poetry
Beowulf
Caedmon Paraphrase of the Bible Cynewulf The Christ (didactic poem)
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Anglo-Saxon Literature
Buildings of Roman style for Roman conquerors Highways or Roman roads for military purposes Towns built E.g. London Christianity introduced
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《英国文学史及选读》(吴伟仁著)内容简介
PART I THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD
Beowulf
PART II THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
PART III GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales
(General Prologue)
Popular Ballads
Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale
Get Up and Bar the Door
Sir Patrick Spens
PART IV THE RENAISSANCE
PART V THE 17TH CENTURY
PART VI THE 18TH CENTURY
《英国文学史及选读》(吴伟仁著)目录
本书是作者根据英国文学历史的`顺序结合作品选读所编写的一套适合我国高等教院校英语专业使用的教材。
由于课时有限，历史部分只作了简明扼要的概述，作品选读部分，尽可能遴选了文学史上的重要作家和重要作品。
这部“史”、“选”结合的教材，分为两册出版，第一册是古代至18世纪英国文学，第二册是19划纪至20世纪英国文学。
教材内容丰富，观点正确，选文具有代表性，可作高校外文系英语专业英国文学史和文学作品选读课程的课本或参考书，也是广大中学英语教师及具有一定程度的英语自学者和英美文学爱好者进修的理想读物。
Part II The Anglo-Norman Period (盎格鲁-诺曼时期)
• Its essential features are:
• 1. It lacks general resemblance to truth or reality.
• 2. It contains perilous adventures more or less remote from ordinary life.
Norman Conquest
ended the Anglo-Saxon established the feudalism
The “Domesday Book” 地籍簿
confiscated the lands
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bestowed
a great survey (赠送给)Anglo-Saxon lords(贵族)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is considered the culmination of Romance.
• The value of romance:
• Its careful interweaving of one episode with another, the various suspense and surprise as the story unfolds itself, the psychological analysis of the character Sir Gawain has paved the way for the novel writing.
英国文学考试重点(上下两册)
1、The Anglo-Saxon Period盎格鲁撒克逊时期(strength & somberness)The literature of this period falls naturally into two divisions---pagan 异教and Christian基督教Cynewulf 基涅武甫the author of poem on religious subject 宗教诗Caedmon 凯德蒙the father of English song 用诗歌的形式译圣经The Song of Beowulf can be justly termed England's national epic and its hero Beowulf--- one of the national heroes of the English people.作者不明Grendel格伦德尔-a monster half-humanThe only existing manuscript of the 10th century and was not discovered until 1705.The whole epic consists of 3182 lines and is to be decided into 2 parts with an interpolation between the two.The forefathers of the Jutes2、The Anglo-Norman Period盎格鲁-诺曼底时期（bright，romantic tales of love and adventure English language became)The three chief effects of the conquest were: 1. the bringing of Roman civilization to England 2. the growth of nationality 3. the new language and literature, which were proclaimed in ChaucerThree classes: the Matter of France, the Matter of Greece and Rome, the Matter of BritainKing Arthur「亚瑟王」Sir Gawain and the Green Knight高文骑士和绿衣骑士3、Geoffrey Chaucer杰弗里•乔叟(首创heroic couplet)，the ＂father of English poetry" and one of the greatest narrative poets of England. It is characteristic that his allegories and symbols are already tinged with realistic images.English tonico-syllabic verseLondon dialectThe Canterbury Tales坎特伯雷故事集（本应有32个香客，128个故事，最终只完成了24个）Prologue总引is a splendid masterpiece of realistic portrayal, the first of its kind in the history of English literature. In this poem Chaucer's realism, trenchant irony and freedom of views reached such a high level of power that it had no equal in all the English literature up to the 16th century. His work is permeated with buoyant free-thinking, so characteristic of the age of Renaissance whose immediate forerunner Chaucer thus became.4、The Renaissance 文艺复兴The term Renaissance originally indicated a revival of classical(Greek and Roman) arts and sciences after the dark ages of medieval obscurantism蒙昧主义They held their chief interest not in ecclesiastical knowledge, but in man, his environment and doings and bravely fought for the emancipation of man from the tyranny of the church and religious dogmas.Thus Wyatt 怀亚特was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.Christopher Marlowe made blank verse无韵体诗William Shakespeare was one of the first founder of realism. Hamlet is the profoundest expression of Shakespeare’s humanism and his criticism of contemporary life. “to be or not to be”.Francis Bacon培根his work of three classes: philosophical, literary, professional works. The largest and important works Maxims of the law and Reading on the Statute of Uses. Of Truth & Of studies5、Revolution & RestorationMetaphysical poets玄学诗Restoration（witty and clever, but on whole immoral and cynical）John Milton约翰弥尔顿（文艺复兴之子）his greatest work Paradies lost presents the his views in an allegoric religious form. Paradies lost(12 books marked for its intricate and contradictory composition, based on the bible legend of the imaginary progenitors of the human race, Adam, Eve, Satan)John Bunyan班扬The Pilgrim’s Progress天路历程written in the old-fashion, medieval form of allegory and dream.6、Enlightenment (man)Three main divisions: the reign of so-called classism, the revival of romantic poetry, the beginning of the modest novel. Prose rather than poetry.代表人物Joesph Addison& Richard SteelePope( elaborate heroic couplets) Henry Field and Tobias George Smollet are the real founders of bourgeois realistic novel. The most outstanding personality of the epoch of Enlightenment in England was Jonathan Swift---Gulliver’s Travels. -(Lilliput) Sentimentalism---Laurence Sterne Pre-romanticism“Gothic Novel”Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe7、The Romantic PeriodWilliam Blake and Robert Burns represented the spirit of what is usually called Pre-Romanticism.William Wordsworth’s Lyrical BalladsThe most important and decisive factor in the development of literature is economics. It was greatly influenced by the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution.Thus, a new class, proletariat, had sprung into existence.The Revolution proclaimed the natural rights of man and the abolition of class distinctions.“liberty, equality and fraternity”The Reform Bill of 1832 shifted the center of political power to the middle class.Romanticism beginning with the publication of Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, ending with Walter Scott’s death.The 18th century was distinctively an age of prose.Poetry is the highest form of literary expressionColeridge and Southey, Wordsworth, so-called Lake PoetsThe great literary impulse the age is the impulse of Individualism in a wonderful variety of forms.Byron拜扬（Don Juan）Percy Bysshe Shelley雪莱（To the skylark-waking or asleep; teach me half the gladness）John Keats (Ode on a Grecian Urn-beauty is truth, truth beauty) Walter Scott (the father of Europe historical novel) Jane Austen (pried and prejudice) 8、The Victorian AgeCritical realismThe greatest English realist of the time was Charles Dickens(Oliver Twist雾都孤儿）.Another critical realist - William Makepeace Thackeray was a no less severe exposer of contemporary society. Thackeray’s novels mainly contain a satirical portrayal of the upper strata of society.Chartist literature宪章文学, the struggle of the proletariat for its rightsR. Browning, humanismCharlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre简爱) Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights呼啸山庄）9、The 20th Century LiteratureThe first disturbing factor was imperialism帝国主义Another factor that influenced literature for the worse was a widespread demand for social reform of every kind.Thomas Hardy (Tess of the D’Urebervilles)wrence (Oedipus complex 恋母情结）“art for art’s sake”with Oscar Wilde奥斯卡维尔德Anti-realistic art and literature反现实文学Oscar Wilde is the most conspicuous 颓废派writer and poet of the English decadence.Virginia Woolf & James Joyce are novelist of Stream-of-consciousness。
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The Anglo-Norman period （1066-1350）
• 1. Background: • 1066, the battle of Hastings, William, Duke of Normandy • effects: • The feudal society (landlords and peasants) • Bringing of Norman civilization • The growth of nationality 无忧PPT整理发布 • The new language and literature
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plot
• Beheading game • The lady in the castle and Sir Gawain
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Literary term
• Stanzan(节、段）:a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter(韵律） and rhyme.
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• Arthurian Romance: Chiefs of which are Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Lancelot(朗斯洛爵士）：table knight, fought in disguise, recognized. the lady of the Lake, the Queen, return, Arthur’s death, nun, religious man ) Merlin: the magician the Quest of the Holy Grail: the last supper, cross, Joseph, his tomb. pass down. belonged to Christ, magic powers. disappear. appear in the court, search for,found, rise into heaven. 无忧PPT整理发布 the Death of Arthur: nephew, marry Guinevere.
英国文学史期末复习要点
一、The Anglo-Saxon period (449-1066)1、这个时期的文学作品分类：pagan(异教徒) Christian(基督徒)2、代表作:The Song of Beowulf贝奥武甫(national epic民族史诗)采用了暗喻、押头韵手法。
勇士贝奥武甫与怪物格伦德尔搏斗，使其断臂而死。
怪物之母为子复仇，又被他追踪杀死。
后来他做了国王。
一次火龙来犯，他挺身斩龙，伤重而死。
人民为他举行了隆重的葬礼。
3、The ancestors of the English are Angles, Saxons and Jutes.二、The Anglo-Norman period (1066-1350)1、The Roman Conquest: In 1066, the Duke of Normandy William led the Norman army to invade England. The result of this war was William became the king of England. After the conquest, feudal system was established in English society. Chivalry was introduced by the Normans into England. 1066年诺曼人入侵，带来了欧洲大陆的封建制度，也带来了一批说法语的贵族。
古英语受到了统治阶层语言的影响,本身也在起着变化,12世纪后发展为中古英语。
文学上也出现了新风尚，盛行用韵文写的骑士传奇，它们歌颂对领主的忠和对高贵妇人的爱，其中艺术性高的有Sir Gawain and the Green Knight高文爵士与绿衣骑士。
它用头韵体诗写成，内容是古代亚瑟王属下一个“圆桌骑士”的奇遇。
2、传奇：描写骑士的冒险精神和典雅爱情，表现骑士为获得荣誉、保护宗教或为了赢得贵妇人的爱情而到处冒险的骑士精神的文学。
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The central character of the romance is the knight, a man of noble birth skilled in the use of weapons. He is commonly described as riding forth to seek adventures, taking part in tournaments, or fighting for his lord in battle. He is devoted to the church and the king. The code of manners and morals of a knight is known as chivalry.
Three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke French, the lower class spoke English, and the scholars and clergymen used Latin.
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church government
The 1381 Peasant Uprising
Wat Tyler, John Ball.
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3. The Influence of the Norman Conquest upon English Language and literature
After the conquest, the body of customs and ideals known as chivalry(骑士制度） was introduced by the Normans into England. The knightly code, the romantic interest in women were reflected in the literature.
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5. The Romance Cycles/Groups/Divisions
matters of Britain
Adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table Emperor Charlemagne and his peers Alexander the Great and the attacks of Troy
Three Groups
matters of France
matters of Rome
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The Romance of King Arthur
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4. The Romances in Anglo-Norman Period
The prevailing form of literature in the feudal England was the Romance. It was a long composition, sometimes in verse, sometimes in prose, describing the life and adventures of a noble hero.
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Outline of British Literature
The AngloNorman Period (1066-1350)
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1. The Norman Conquest
in 1066 battle in Hastings The Normans, from Northern France, Duke William King of England
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2. Social Features of the Feudal England
classes landlords peasants
It was William I who pushed England into the feudal society
ruling
the King the King’s office secular heretics government burnt live 7
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the battle of Hastings希斯廷战役
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the battle of Hastings（1066）
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After the conquest, feudal system was established in English society. The new king ruled England with a high hand. He made a thorough job of taking over the country, and had everything inventoried. William saw himself as the owner of the country. He owned the land everything in it. The feudal social structure in England was just like the pyramid in Egypt. At the top of it was the King William and below him were his noblemen such as barons and knights.