Tricia英国文学(一)资料

PPT01：总述

1. Literature in the Anglo-Saxon period (450-1066) 安格鲁-撒克逊时期

poetry: Beowulf 诗歌：《贝奥武夫》

2. Literature in the Middle English period (1066-1500) 中世纪文学

romance (narrative verse or prose) 传奇

popular ballad 大众民谣

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales 乔叟---《坎特伯雷故事集》

3. The Renaissance period (16th century) 文艺复兴时期

Shakespeare: poetry and drama 莎士比亚---诗歌和戏剧

Francis Bacon: essay 培根---散文

4. The period of revolution and restoration (17th ) 革命和复辟时期

poetry: John Milton：Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained

诗歌：约翰弥尔顿---《失乐园》、《复乐园》

John Donne：约翰多恩

John Bunyan：The Pilgrim’s Progress 约翰班扬---《天路历程》5. The period of Enlightenment(启蒙运动)(18th)

Alexander Pope

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe 丹尼尔笛福---《鲁滨逊漂流记》

Henry Fielding: The History of Tom Jones 菲尔丁---《汤姆琼斯历险记》

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels 乔纳森斯威夫特---《格列佛游记》

Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The School of Scandal 肖尔顿---《造谣学校》

Thomas Gray and Robert Burns 汤姆斯格雷、罗伯特伯恩斯

Old English period (450-1066)

The Song of Beowulf (Beowulf) 贝奥武夫

—National epic 民族史诗/ National hero 民族英雄·人物：

Beowulf

Hrothgar-King of Danes

Grendel—monster

Grendel’s mother

Fire-breathing dragon

·剧情：lst one: Beowulf kills Grendel

2nd one: Beowulf kills Grendel’s mother

3rd one: Beowulf kills a dragon and dies

Theme 主题:

People’s struggle with the hostile forces under a wise and heroic leader Beowulf (alliterative verse)

of men was the mildest and most beloved,

to his kin the kindest, keenest for praise.

Then the Goth’s people reared a mighty pile

With shields and armour hung, as he had asked,

And in the midst the warriors laid their lord,

Lamenting. Then the warriors on the mound

Kindled a mighty bale fire; the smoke rose

Black from the Swedish pine, the sound of flame

Mingled with sound of weeping;…

For their dead king; exalted his brave deeds,

Holding it fit men honor their liege lord

Praise him and love him when his soul is fled

Thus the (Geat’s) people, sharers of his hearth,

Mourned their chief’s fall, praised him of kings, of men

The mildest and the kindest, and to all

His people gentlest, yearning for their praise

Eg: clean and clear

Round the rocks runs the river

busy as a bee

Alliteration 头韵：The repetition of the usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words.

·The Prologue (序诗) supplies a miniature(小画像) of the English society of the time

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Heroic couplet(英雄双韵体)

The Middle English Period(1066-1500)

Influence of Norman Conquest in 1066：

❖in politics: feudalist system was established in England

❖in religion: Catholic Church had a much stronger power over the country

❖in language: three languages co-existed

❖French, Latin, English

Romance:

Uses narrative verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or heroic deeds

1. hero: knight

2. plot: set out—test: the meeting with the evil—accomplish one’s mission—return

most famous one: King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight《高文爵士和绿色骑士》