英语专八英美文学常识(English Literature)

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英美文学知识考点分析经过对英语专业八级考试大纲以及近三年真题人文知识部分全真题的认真研究，详细、逐题分析后，我们可以清楚看出对英美文学知识的考查一般占了其中的3小题（30%）。

通过分析，可以把对英美文学知识的考查重点归纳为以下几类：一、对知名的英美文学家及其作品的重点考查1．The novel Emma is written by________.（2005年真题第35题）A. Mary ShelleyB. Charlotte Bronte?C. Elizabeth C. GaskellD. Jane Austen该题是关于英国文学知识，考查的是英国著名小说家的作品,考查作家作品是专业八级人文知识文学部分的重要考试内容。

问题问小说Emma为何人所作？该书为浪漫主义时期女作家Jane Austen所作，因此答案是D。

2．Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte? （2007年真题第35题）A. Oliver TwistB. MiddlemarchC. Jane EyreD. Wuthering Heights该题考查的也是关于英国小说家的作品。

问题Emily Bronte写了哪部小说？Emily Bronte是英国维多利亚时期的女作家、诗人，小说Wuthering Heights是她的代表作品，因此答案为D。

3．Death of a Salesman was written by________.（2007年真题第37题）A. Arthur MillerB. Ernest HemingwayC. Ralph EllisonD. James Baldwin该题是关于美国小说家的作品。

Arthur Miller是美国著名的剧作家，他的作品有Man Who Had All the Luck，Death of A Salesman，All My sons等，因此答案为A。

专八人文知识(英国文学)

The old and medieval English literature(8th-14th century )The renaissance period(14th –mid17th c)The neoclassical period(mid17th -18th c)The romantic period(mid18th -mid19th c)The Victorian period(1836-1901)Modern period(20th - )注：【后面的Matp指主要作品】一．The old and medieval English literature(8th-14th century)1.The Venerable Bede(A.D673-735) “father of English history”《the essiesiastical history of the English people》《the anglo-sarxon chronic》epic——Beowulf2.mid11th-mid14th 亚瑟王和圆桌骑士《Sir Gawain and the Green Knight，高文爵士和绿衣骑士》3.Geoffy Chaucer（杰弗利·乔叟，1343-1400）“the father of English poetry” ；“the first one who used London dialect ” in《The Canterbury Tales，坎特伯雷故事集》（1387-1400,a prologue\24 tales,描写14th 英国现状）二．The renaissance period (14th –mid17th c)1.Sonnet:contains 14 lines of iambic pentameter rhymed in various patterns 14行5音步抑扬格诗行（ababcdcdefefgg）e.g: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.2.Thomas More(托马斯·莫尔1478-1535) Matp:《Utopia,乌托邦》（in Latin）3.Francis Bacon(培根1561-1626) “杰出essayist in English history”《the essays》4.Edmund Spenser(埃德蒙·斯宾赛,1552-1599) “the poet’s poet”；Matp:《The Faerie Queen,仙后》（1579）；create “Spencerian Stanza ,斯宾塞诗体”。

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英美文学知识第一节英国文学一、古英语时期的英国文学 (约499-1066)Alliteration – Beowulf《贝奥武甫》- national epicCaedmon (开德蒙)Anthem《赞美诗》1. 诗歌Cynewulf(基涅武甫)Dream of the Rood《十字架之梦》Bede (比德)Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum《英吉利人教会史》2. 散文King Alfred(阿尔弗雷德大帝)Wessex – Father of English Prose (“英国散文之父”);Anglo-Saxon Chronicle《盎格鲁-撒克逊编年史》二、中古英语时期的英国文学 (14世纪 – 15世纪)1. Allegory – Romance – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight《高文爵士和绿衣骑士》2. Ballad – The Robin Hood Ballads《罗宾汉民谣集》3. William Langland (威廉•兰格伦)The Vision Concerning Piers the Plowman 《农夫皮尔斯的幻想》4. Geoffrey Chaucer (杰弗里•乔叟)Father of English Poetry (“英国诗歌之父”); The Canterbury Tales《坎特布雷故事集》;- octosyllabic & heroic couplet (八音节英雄双韵体)5. Sir Thomas Malory(托马斯•马洛礼)Le Morte d’Arthur《亚瑟王之死》三、文艺复兴时期的英国文学 (15世纪末 – 17世纪中期)1. Humanism – classic culture2. Thomas More (托马斯•莫尔)Utopia《乌托邦》; The Painful Life of Edward V; Historie of Richard the Third《理查德三世传》3. Thomas Wyatt (托马斯•怀亚特), Henry Howard (亨利•霍华德) – Sonnet4. Philip Sidney (菲利浦•锡德尼)Arcadia《阿卡迪亚》-第一篇田园生活的传奇,“现代长篇小说的先驱”;The Defence of Poesie / Apology for Poetry《诗辩》-人文主义文学的宣言,开创近代英国的文学批评5. Edmund Spencer (埃德蒙•斯宾塞)poet’ poet – Spencerian stanza – 9行(ababbcbcc)8 iambic pentameter + 1 iambic hexameter; The FaireQueene 《仙后》被誉为英国文艺复兴时期“最杰出的史诗” nationalism, humanism, puritanism 6. Christopher Marlowe(克里斯托弗•马娄)Tamburlaine 《帖木耳大帝》; The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus 《浮士德博士的悲剧历史》7. William Shakespeare2首长诗, 154首十四行诗, 37部戏剧长诗Venus and Adonis 《维纳斯和阿多尼斯》;The Rape of Lucrece 《露克丽丝受辱记》十四行诗iambic pentameter – 14 (abab cdcd efef gg)3 quatrains + 1 couplet = Shakespearean sonnet悲剧Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth喜剧 A Midsummer Night’s Dream ; The Merchant ofVenice ; As You Like It 《皆大欢喜》; TwelfthNight历史剧Henry VI, Henry IV, Richard III(威廉•莎士比亚)戏剧传奇剧Pericles 《泰尔亲王配力克里斯》;Cymbeline 《辛白林》; The Winter’s Tale ;Tempest 《暴风雨》8. Ben Jonson (本•琼森)comedy of manners (风俗喜剧的奠基人);Every Man In His Humor 《人性互异》9. John Donne (约翰•多恩)Metaphysical Poems (“玄学派”诗歌创始人);Songs and Sonnets 《歌曲与十四行诗》10. George Herbert (乔治•赫伯特)the saint of the Metaphysical school(“玄学派诗圣”);The Temple 《神殿》11. Andrew Marwell (安德鲁•马韦尔)诗风结合了玄学派和古典主义的创作特点;To His Coy Mistress 《致他的娇羞女友》12. Francis Bacon (弗朗西斯•培根)Materialism; Essays 《随笔》(Of Study, OfTruth );The Advancement of Learning 《学术的推进》;The New Instrument 《新工具》四、资产阶级革命及启蒙时期的英国文学 (17世纪末，18世纪 )1. the Enlightenment: liberty, equality, democracy前30年：neo-classicism (崇尚古典文学的创作及美学原则)40年代到80年代：realism2. 18世纪的英国文学80年代以后：sentimentalism & pre-romanticism (崇尚情感)3. John Milton (约翰•弥尔顿)Defence of the English People 《为英国人民而辩》;Second Defence of the Englishpeople 《为英国人民再辩》;Paradise Lost (blank verse, 旧约); Paradise Regained(新约);Samson Agonistes 《力士参孙》(poetical drama, closet73. Tennessee Williams (田纳西·威廉斯)The Glass Menagerie《玻璃动物园》; A Street car Named Desire《欲望号街车》; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》74. Arthur Miller (阿瑟·米勒)All My Sons《都是我的儿子》; The Death of a Salesman《推销员之死》75. Edward Albee (爱德华·阿尔比)The Zoo Story《动物园的故事》; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 《谁害怕弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫》76. Sylvia Plath (西尔维亚·普拉斯)自白派; The Colossus and Other Poems《巨人》。

专八英国文学常识

专八英国文学常识专八英国文学常识１．the renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is not such an event?a．the rediscovery of ancient rome and greek culture．b．england's domestic rest．c．new discovery in geography and astrology．d．the religious reformation and the economic expansion．２．which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the english language．a．the pilgrim's progressb．grace abounding to the chief of sinnersc．the life and death of mr．badmand．the holy war３．it is___________alone who, for the first time in english literature, 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．a．geoffrey chaucerb．martin lutherc．william langlandd．john gower４．all of the following four except___________are the most eminent dramatists in the renaissance england．a．francis baconb．christopher marlowec．william shakespeared．ben jonson５．it is generally regarded that keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of___________．a．elegyb．odec．epicd．sonnet６．daniel defoe's novels mainly focus on___________．a．the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existenceb．the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for securityc．the struggle of the pirates for wealthd．the desire of the criminals for property７．in beowulf,___________fought against the monster grendel and a five breathing dragon．a．the anglo-saxonsb．beowulfc．the scandinaviand．the winter dragon８．francis bacon is best known for his___________which greatly influenced the development of this literary form．a．essaysb．poemsc．worksd．plays９．most of thomas hardy's novels are set in wesse-x___________．a．a crude region in englandb．a fictional primitive regionc．a remote rural aread．hardy's hometown１０．we can perhaps describe the west wind in shelley'spoem "ode to the west wind" with all the following terms except___________．a．swiftb．proudc．tamedd．wild１１．"blindness", "partiality", "prejudice", and "absurdity" in the novel "pride and prejudice" are most likely the characteristics of___________．a．elizabethb．darcyc．mr．bennetd．mrs．bennet１２．the modern english novel came into being in___________．a．the middle of the 17th centuryb．the 17th centuryc．the late 18th centuryd．the middle of the 18th century１３．who is not the major figure of modernist movement?a．eliotb．joycec．charles dickensd．pound１４．who is considered to be the best known english dramatist since shakespeare?a．oscar wildeb．john galsworthyc．w．b．yeatsd．george bernard shaw１５．of the following poets, which is not regarded as "lake poets"?a．samuel taylor coleridgeb．robert southyc．william words worthd．william shakespeare１６．in the first part of gulliver's travels, gulliver told his experience in___________．a．lilliputb．brobdingnagc．houyhnhnmd．england１７．which of the following cannot describe "byronic hero"?a．proudb．mysteriousc．noble origind． progressive１８．in the history of literature, romanticism is generally regarded as ．a．the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience．b．the thought that designates man as a social animalc．the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in commond．the modes of thinking１９．the term "metaphysical poetry" is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of___________．a．john miltonb．john donnec．john keatsd．john bunyan２０．"the vanity fair" is a well-known part in___________．a．the pilgrim's progressb．grace abounding to the chief of sinnersc．the life and death of mr．badmand．the holy war２１．in oliver twist, charles criticizes___________．a．money worshipping tendencyb．dehumanizing of workhouse systemc．hypocrisy of the upper societyd．distortion of human heart２２．which of the following plays by shakespeare is history play?a．julius caesarb．the merry wives of windsorc．henry ivd．king lear２３．who is regarded as a "worshipper of nature"．a．john keatsb．william blakec．william wordsworthd．jane austen２４．which of the following writing is not the work by charles dickens?a．a tale of two citiesb．hard timesc．oliver twistd．sons and lovers２５．the 18th century england is known as the___________ in the history．a．romanticismb．classicismc．renaissanced．enlightenment专八人文知识（英国文学）(3)2016-07-17 22:59 | #2楼william wordsworth威廉华兹华斯1770-1850 an evening walk 黄昏漫步;lyrical ballads抒情歌谣集（与柯勒律治合编）;lucy poems 露西组诗(she dwett among the untrodden ways;to the cuckoo杜鹃颂;i wandered lonely as a cloud;the solitary reaper孤寂的刈麦人);ode on intimations of immorality不朽颂;ode to duty义务颂;the excursion远足;the prelude序曲samuel taylor coleridge柯勒律治1772-1834 lyrical ballads;the fall of the bastille巴士底狱的毁灭;the rime of the ancient mariner老船夫;kubla khan忽必烈汗;biographia literaria文学传记robert southey骚塞 joan of arc wat tylergeorge gordon byron乔治拜伦1788-1824 hours of idliness 懒散的时刻;english bords and scottish reviewers英国诗人与苏格兰评论家;childe harold’s pilgrimage,cantos i and ii,canto iii 1818恰罗德哈罗德游记;ode to the framers of the frame-bill编织机法案编制者颂;oriental tales东方叙事诗(the bride of abydos阿比道斯的新娘;the corsa海盗;the siege of corinth柯林斯之围);manfred曼弗雷德;the age of bronze青铜世纪;don juan唐璜名诗：she walks in beauty;the isles of greecepercy bysshe shelley波西比希雪莱1792-1822 queen mab麦布女王;prometheus unbound解放了的普罗米修斯;adonais阿东尼斯;the cenci钦契;song to the men of england致英国人民;englandin 1819;the masque of anarchy专制魔王的化装游-行;ode to the west wind/a skylark西风/云雀颂;a defence of poetry诗辩john keats约翰济兹1795-1821 endymion恩底弥翁;isabella伊莎贝拉;the eve of sanit agnes圣爱尼节前夜;ode on a grecian urn 希腊古瓮颂;ode to a nightingale夜莺颂;to autumn秋颂;hyperion 赫披里昂（未完成）20、charles lamb查尔斯兰姆1775-1834 tales from shakespeare莎士比亚故事集;alburn verses诗集;essay of elia伊利亚散文集(dream children梦中儿女;a dissertation unpon roast pig 烤猪论;old china古瓷;new year’s eve除夕;the praise of chimney sweepers扫烟囱童工赞;the superannuated man领取养老金的人;a bachelor’s complaint of the behavior of married people单身汉对结过婚的人的行为的抱怨)walter scott瓦尔特司各特1771-1832 诗：the minstrlsy of the scottish border苏格兰边区歌谣集;marimion玛里恩;the lady of the lake湖上夫人小说：waverley威弗利;guy mannering盖曼纳令;rob roy罗布罗伊;the heart of midlothian米德洛西恩监狱;ivanhoe艾凡赫;kenilworth坎尼尔华斯;woodstock皇家猎馆;queentin durward 昆廷达沃part 6. english critical realismthomas hood胡德1799-1845 the song of the shirt衬衫之歌;the bridge of sighs悲叹之桥;miss kilmansegg and her precious leg基尔曼塞格小姐和她贵重的`腿ernest jones琼斯1819-1869 小说：the women’s wrongs妇女们的委屈名诗：the song of the lower class;the song of the futurecharles dickens狄更斯1812-1870 the posthumous pa-pe-rs of the pickwick club匹克威克外传;oliver twist奥利弗退斯特;american notes美国札记;martin chuzzlewit马丁朱述尔维特;theold curiosity shop老古玩店;dombey and son董贝父子;david copperfield大卫科波菲尔;hard times艰难时世;a tale of two cities 双城记;great expectation远大前程william makepeacethackery萨克雷1811-1863 the book of snobs势利者集;vanity fair名利场;history of pendennis潘丹尼斯的历史;the history of henry esmond亨利艾斯芒的历史;the newcomes纽可谟一家;the virginians弗吉尼亚人jane austin简奥斯丁1775-1817 pride and prejudice傲慢与偏见;sense and sensibility理智与情感;emma爱玛;mansfield park曼斯菲尔德公园;persuasion好事多磨;northanger abbey诺桑觉寺charlote/emily/anne bronte夏洛蒂/爱米丽/安妮勃郎特1816-1855 jane eyre简爱;shirley雪丽/wuthering height呼啸山庄/agones grey艾格尼斯格雷elizabeth cleghorn gaskell盖斯凯尔1810-1865 mary barton 玛丽巴顿;ruth露斯;cranford克兰弗德;north and south北与南;life of charlote bronte夏洛蒂勃郎特传george eliot爱略特(mary ann evans)1819-1880 adam bede 亚当贝德;the mill on the floss弗洛斯河上的磨坊；silas marner织工马南;middlemarch米德尔马契;felix holt,the radical。

英语专业八级英国文学知识总结

英语专业八级英国文学知识总结1 Old and Medieval Period1-1 the Anglo-Saxon PeriodBeowulfCaedmon –Caedmon’s HymnCynewulf – The Fates of the Apostles, Juliana, Elene1-2 the Middle English PeriodSir Gawain and the Green KnightThomas Marlory –Le Morte D’Arthur (The Death of King Arthur)William Langland – Piers the PlowmanGeoffrey Chaucer –The Canterbury T ales1-3 the 15th CenturyThe Robin Hood Ballads2 The Renaissance Period2-1 poemThomas WyattHenry HowardSir Philip Sidney – Astrophel and Stella, Apology for Poetry Edmund Spencer –The Shephearde’s Calendar, Epithalamion, The Faerie Queene 2-2 proseThomas More – UtopiaFrancis Bacon – A History of the Life and Reign of King Henry Ⅶ, The Advancement of Learning, Essays(Of Studies, Of Travel, Of Wisdom), The New AtlantisJohn Lyly—Eupheus2-3 dramaChristopher Marlowe –Tamburlaine, The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus, The Jew of MaltaWilliam Shakespeare – Comedies:A Midsummer Night’s Dr eam, As You Like It, Merchant ofVenice, The Twelfth NightTragedies:Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, The TempestHistorical plays:Henry Ⅳ, HenryⅤLong narrative poems:Venus and Adonis, The Rape of LucreceBen Johnson – V olpone3 The Period of Revolution and Restoration3-1 poets in Revolutionary PeriodJohn Milton –Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson AgonistesJohn Donne – The Sun Rising, The Songs and Sonnets, Holy Sonnets, A Hymn to God the Father, Death, Be not Proud, A Valediction: ForbiddingMourningGeorge Herbert – The Altar, Easter Wings3-2 prose writers in Revolutionary PeriodJohn Bunyan –The Pilgrim’s Progress, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, The Holy War3-3 writers in RestorationJeremy Collier – A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English StageJohn Dryden –The Hind and the Panther, All for Love, Absalom and Achitophel, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy4 The Age of Enlightenment4-1 writers of Neo-ClassicismAlexander Pope – An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man Richard SteeleJoseph Addison – The Tattler, The SpectatorSamuel Johnson – The Dictionary of the English Language, The Lives of English Poets4-2 writers of Realistic TraditionDaniel Defoe –Robinson Crusoe, Captain Singleton, Colonel Jacque, Moll FlandersJonathan Swift – A Tale of a Tub, Predictions for the Year 1708, Vindication ofIsaac Bickerstaff, Gulliver’s Travels, The Drapier’s Letters, A Modest ProposalHenry Fielding – Plays:The Welsh Opera, Don Quixote in England, Pasqin, The HistoricalRegister for the Year 1736Novels:Joseph Andrew, Jonathan Wild and Great, The History of Tom Jones, a Founding, Amelia4-3 writers of Sentimental TraditionSamuel Richardson –Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa Harlowe, SirRichardson’s GrandisonLaurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy, A Sentimental JourneyOliver Goldsmith –The Traveler, The Deserted Village, The Vicar of Wakefield Thomas Gray –Elegy Written in a Country Church YardEdward Young – From Night Thoughts4-4 English dramaJohn Gay –The Beggar’s OperaRichard Brinsley Sheridan –The Rivals, The School for Scandal5 The Age of Romanticism5-1 Pre-Romantic poetsJames Thomas – The SeasonsWilliam Collins – Ode to EveningWilliam Blake –Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, The Marriage ofHeaven and HellRobert Burns –My Heart’s in the Highlands, A Red, Red Rose, Auld Lang Syne 5-2 Lake poets (or the first generation) William Wordsworth –Lyrical Ballads (Lines Composed a Few Miles aboveTintern Abbey, Lines Written in Early Spring), AnEvening Walk, Lucy Poems, I Wandered Lonely as aCloud, The Excursion, To the Cuckoo, The SolitaryReaper, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, To aHighland Girl, The PreludeSamuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christable, KublaKhan, The Fall of the BastilleRobert Southey –Joan of Arc, Wat Tyler, The Inchcape Rock, The Battle ofBlenheim5-3 Romantic poets of the second generationGeorge Gordon Byron – Lyrical poems:She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, HebrewMelodiesLong Poems:Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don JuanPercy Bysshe Shelley – Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci, Ode to the West Wind,Ode to a Skylark, A Defense of Poetry, The Necessity OfAtheismJohn Keats –When I have a Fear, On Melancholy, On a Grecian Urn, To Psyche,To Autumn, Ode to a Nightingale5-4 prose writers of the Romantic AgeCharles Lamb – Tales from Shakespeare, Essays of Elia, Old ChinaWilliam Hazlitt – Literary critics:The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, Lectures on the EnglishPoets, Lectures on the English Comic Writers, Lectureson the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, TheSpirit of the AgeEssays:Table Talk, The Plan Speaker, Sketches and Essays Thomas De Quincey –The Confession of an English Opium-Eater, On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth5-5 English fiction in the Romantic AgeWalter Scott –The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Marmion, The Lady of theLake, Waverley, Rob Roy, The Heart of Midlothian,IvanhoeJane Austen –Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park,Persuasion, Northanger Abbey6 The Victorian Period6-1 Critical Realist novelists in Victorian AgeCharles Dickens – The Pickwick Paper, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The OldCuriosity Shop, American Notes, A Christmas Carol,Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, HardTimes, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, GreatExpectations, Our Mutual FriendWilliam Makepeace Thackeray – The Book of Snobs, Vanity Fair, The Newcomes,The VirginiansCharlotte Bronte – Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley, VilletteEmily Bronte – Wuthering HeightsAnne Bronte – Agnes Grey, The Tenant of the Wildfell HallMrs. Gaskell – Life of Charlotte Bronte, Mary BartonGeorge Eliot – Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner Thomas Hardy –Under the Greenwood Tree, The Return of the Native, TheMayor of Casterbridge, Tess of D’Urbervilles, Jude theObscure, Far from the Madding Growd6-2 Victorian poetryAlfred Tennyson –In Memoriam, Idylls of the King, Break, Break, Break,Crossing the Bar, Ulysses, Poems by Two Brothers, ThePrincessRobert Browning –Men and Women, My Last Duchess, Parting at Morning,Meeting at NightMatthew Arnold –On Translating Homer, Dover Beach, Essays in Criticism,Culture and Anarchy, Literature and Dogma7 The Modern Period7-1 novelistsJohn Galsworthy – The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property, The Indian Summerof a Forsyte (interlude), In Chancery, Awakening(interlude), To LetA Modern Comedy: The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon,Swan SongKatherine Mansfield – In a German Pension, Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’sNest, Something Childish, Life of Ma Parker7-2 playwrightsOscar Wilde –An Ideal Husband, The Important of Being Earnest, The Picture ofDorain Gray, A Women of No Importance, LadyWindermere’s Fan, The Happy Prince and Other T ales Bernard Shaw –Widower’s Houses, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Man andSuperman, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, Pygmalion John James Osborne – Look Back in AngerSamuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot7-3 poetsW. B. Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium, Leda and the Swan, The Second Coming, TheCountess Cathleen, The Land of Heart’s Desire, TheTower, Down by the Sally GardensT. S. Eliot –The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, The Waste Land,Hollow Man, Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, SweeneyAmong the Nightingales, Murder in the Cathedral, TheCocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, The Sacred Wood,Essays on Style and Order, After Strange Gods7-4 the psychological fictionsD. H. Lawrence –Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, LadyChatterley’s Lover, The White Peapock, The Daughter ofthe Vicar, The Horse Dealer’s DaughterJames Joyce –Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses,Finnegans Wake, AradyVirginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Orlando。

英语专八英美文学常识汇总

3专八人文知识:英国地理概况the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france and connects the atlantic ocean and north sea.英吉利海峡：英吉利海峡是一道狭长的海峡，分割英法两国，连接大西洋和北海。

the dee estuary: a small sea ( in irish sea) where the dee river enters.迪河河口：是迪河流入的一个小海。

"the act of union of 1801": in 1801 the english parliament passed an act by which scotland, wales and the kingdom of england were constitutionally joined as the kingdom of great britain.1801合并法：1801年英国议会通过法令，规定英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士根据宪法合并成为大不列颠王国。

gaelic: it is one of the celtic language, and is spoken in parts of the highlands.盖尔语：是盖尔特语言的一种，在高地地区仍有人说这种语言。

the "backbone of england": it refers to the pennies, the board ridge of hills.英格兰脊梁：指的是山脉的背脊。

lead ore: british lead ores have been worked since pre-roman times. it contains silver.铅矿：自前罗马时代开始，英国的铅矿就被开发了。

专八考试人文知识英美文学部分

英国文学知识点总结一、中古世纪时期和文艺复兴时期1.The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on theirway to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by ______. (2006)A.William LanglandB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. William ShakespeareD. AlfredTennyson2.______ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed intofourteen lines. (2006)A.Free verseB. sonnetC. odeD. epigram重要文学术语一句话定义：Ballad 民谣：Ballad is a story in poetic form to be sung or recited. It was handed down from generation to generation. 代表作：Robin HoodEpic 史诗：Epic, in poetry, refers to a long work dealing with the actions of gods and heroes. 代表作：BeowulfRenaissance 文艺复兴：It meant the reintroduction into Western Europe of the full cultural heritage of Greece and Rome.Humanism 人文主义：Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.Spenserian stanza 斯宾塞诗节：it refers to a stanza of nine lines, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter, the last line in iambic pentameter, rhyming ababbcbcc. 代表作：the Faerie QueeneSonnet 十四行诗: A sonnet is a lyric consisting of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter. 代表人物：William Shakespeare重要人物和其代表作的一句话评价：Geoffrey Chaucer 乔叟：He is regarded as the father of modern English poetry. 英国诗歌之父代表作：Canterbury Tales: A collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims.Philip Sidney 菲利普锡尼：He stands for the spirit of the Elizabeth age. 伊莉莎白时代精神的代表代表作：Defense of Poetry, Arcadia.Edmund Spenser 斯宾塞：the poet s’ poet. He created Spenser Stanza. 诗人中的诗人，斯宾塞诗节的创作者。

专八人文知识之Literature

专八人文知识之LiteratureLiterature British literature 中古时期-before 15th1. Beowulf represents the highest achievement of the old English2. Caedmon is the earliest English poet3. Sir Gawain and the green knight is one of the best Middle English romance4. William Langland-piers the plowman -the great work along with the Canterbury tales5. Geoffrey Chaucer-“the father of English poetry ” and “the father of English fiction ”6. The Robin Hood Ballads -English folk literature 文艺复兴时期-14th —17thDrama is the most distinctive achievement Poetry1. Thomas Wyatt is the first to introduce sonnet into English2. Edmund Spenser is “the poets’ poet ” and poet laureateMasterpiece: the faerie queen (Spenserian stanza-eight iambic pentameter lines and a line of six iambic feet) Other works: the shepherd’s calendar epithalamion Prose1. Thomas More Masterpiece-utopia2. Francis Bacon is England’s first essayist3.John Lyly-euphues (the use of euphuism 夸饰文体) Drama1. Christopher Marlowe-the greatest playwrightbefore Shakespeare and most gifted university writerHe first use blank verse in drama and paved the way for ShakespeareWorks: Tamburlaine the tragic history of doctor Faustus (best play) the Jew of Malta 2. William Shakespeare(37 plays,154sonnets) Four great Comedies : a midsummer night’s dream, as you like it, the merchant of V enice, twelfth nightFour great tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth3. Ben Johnson-vulpine -satirical comedy 资产阶级革命和王朝复辟时期-17thLiterature of the revolution period (age of Milton) of restoration period (age of Dryden) Poets1. John Milton (a master of blank verse ) Masterpiece: paradise lost others: Samson agonist’s paradise regained John Donne-the founder of the metaphysical schoolMasterpiece: a valediction: forbidding mourning Proses1. John Bunyan-the pilgrim’s progress WritersJeremy Collier-a short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage2. John Dryden -the father of English criticism Forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18th and poet laureate for 20 years, he also created the heroic couplet an essay of dramatic poesy (best work) all for love Absalom and acidophil the hind and the panthe r 启蒙运动时期-18th The age of enlightenment/reasonEnlightenment movement (reason, equality, science) Neoclassicism (a revival of classical standards of order, balance and harmony, john Dryden and alexander pope) Sentimentalism The graveyard school (sentimental lamentation or meditation, Thomas gray is the leading figure) Writers of Neoclassicism1. Alexander Pope-the greatest English poet of the18th centuryBest known for his satirical verse , one of the first to introduce rationalismWorks: an essay on criticism the rape of the lock essayon man2.Samuel Johnson-“grand champion in literature ofthat age”Works: the dictionary of the English language the lives of English poetsWriters of realistic tradition1.Daniel Defoe-the discoverer of the modern novel“father of English and European novels”Robinson Crusoe-the first English novelOther works: captain singleton colonel Jacque moll Flanders2.Jonathan Swift(an Irish master of satires) Works: a tale of a tub (established his name as a satirist) a modest proposal Masterpiece: Gulliver’s travels3.Henry Fielding-father of the English novel Playwrights: the welsh opera pasquinNovels: Joseph Andrew-“a comic epic poem in prose “Jonathan wild the greatThe history of tom jones, a founding (masterpiece) Writers of sentimental tradition1.Samuel RichardsonWorks: Pamela, virtue rewarded (letters); Clarissa harlowe (letter) sir Richard grandson/doc/223144cd804d2b160b4ec0a9.html urence SterneTristram Shandy (his most famous book) a sentimental journey3.Oliver Coldsmish(an outstanding representative ofthe English sentimentalist)Works: the traveler (heroic couplet) the deserted village (hisbest poet) the vicar of Wakefield4.Thomas GrayThe leader of the graveyard school5.Edward Young-from night thoughtsEnglish drama1.John Gay-the beggar’s opera2.Richard Brinsley SheridanWorks: the rival the school for scandal (the best English comedy since Shakespeare)浪漫主义时期-18th—19thIt began with the publication of lyrical ballads Romanticism (passion, emotion, natural beauty)Pre-romantic poets1.James Thomson(the first significant poem)2.William BlakeWorks: songs of innocence songs of experiencethe marriage of heaven and hell3.Robert Burns-“national poet of Scotland”Works: my heart’s in the highlands a red red rose auld langsyne Lake poets of the first generation1.William Wordsworth(poet laureate)Finish the lyrical ballad with Samuel Taylor Coleridge Works: an evening walk Lucy poems I wondered lonely as a cloud the solitary reaper2.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeMasterpiece: the rime of the ancient mariner (ballad) Others: christabelkubla khan the fall of the bastille 3.Robert Southey Works: Joan of arc wattyler the inch cape rock the battle of BlenheimLake poets of the second generation1.George Gordon Byron-“Byronic hero”Masterpiece: son JuanWorks: she walks in beauty when we two parted Hebrew melodies2.Percy Bysshe ShelleyMasterpiece: Prometheus unboundOthers: ode to the west wind ode to a skylark3.John Keats“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” “pure poetry” “art for art’s sake”Works: when I have a fear on melancholy on a Grecian urn to psycheProse writers1.Charles LambTales from Shakespeare essays of Elias old china2.William Hazlitt(the representative of romanticcriticism)Critics: lectures on the English poets the spirit of the ageEssays: table talks the plain speaker sketches and essays 3.Thomas de QuinceMasterpiece: the confession of an English opium-ente r Fictions1. Walter Scott (historical novelist)He paves the way to the realism and marked the transition from the romanticism to realism Works: Ivanhoe (best-known novel) Waverley Marmon3.Jane Austen-the first English woman novelist Pride and prejudice sense and sensibility Emma Mansfield park persuasion Northanger abbey维多利亚时期（1836-1901）Critical realism (novel)The greatest novelist of this time is Charles Dickens Naturalism-Darwin’s biological theories-Emile Zola Critical realist novelists1.Charles DickensThe Pickwick papers Oliver twist Dumbly and son David copper field bleak house hard timesa tale of two cities-“where there is oppression, there is revolution” great expectation2.William Makepeace ThackerayMasterpiece: vanity FairOthers: the book of snobs the newcomes the Virginians3.Charlotte BronteShe is the forerunner of the feminism and the feminism literaryMasterpiece: Jane EyreOthers: Professor Shirley villette4.Emily BronteWuthering heights 5.Anne BronteAgnes grey the tenant of the wild fell hall6.Mrs. Gaskell(female writer)Life of charlotte brontemary barton (masterpiece)7.George Eliot(female writer)Adam bede the mill on the floss silasmarner8.Thomas HardyRegarded as transitional writer for “regional novels”Masterpiece:Tess of D’UrbervillesOthers: Jude the obscure under the greenwood treethe return of the native the mayor of caster bridge Poetry1.Alfred Tennyson(“poet of the people”)“The big three”-Tennyson, browning, Arnold Works: break, break, and break in memoriam Ulysses 2.Robert Browning The most original poet in Victorian age (contribution: dramatic monologues)Works: men and women my last duchess parting at morning meeting at night3.Matthew ArnoldDover Beach (masterpiece) on translating homer现代主义（19世纪末）Modernism (philosophy and the theory ofpsycho-analysis, focusing on private, subjunctive, inner and individual)Novelists1.John Galsworthymasterpiece: the Forsyth saga(福尔赛世家三部曲) includes the man of property, the Indian summer of a Forsyth, in chancery, awakening, to leta modern comedy(现代戏剧三部曲) includes the white monkey, the silver spoon, swan song2.Katherine MansfieldShe is a famous woman writer of short stories Works: in a German pension bliss the garden party the dove’s nest something childishPlaywrights1.Oscar WildeThe picture of Dorian gray the happy prince and other tales2.Bernard ShawHe was the greatest dramatist since Shakespeare and accepted Nobel Prize in 1925Works: man and superman major Barbara heartbreak housePygmalion3.John James OsborneMasterpiece: look back in anger4.Samuel Beckett(爱尔兰戏剧家和小说家，荒诞派戏剧的重要代表人物)Masterpiece: waiting for godotPoets1.W．B．YeatsOne of the greatest poets in the English literature and got Nobel Prize in 1923Works: sailing to Byzantium Leda and the swan the second coming2. T.S. Eliot Got Nobel prize in 1948The waste land (long poet) four quartets murder in the cathedralThe psychological fictions(心理小说)1. D.H. LawrenceSons and lovers the rainbow woman in love lady Chatterley’s lover the white peacockThe daughter of the vicar the horse dealer’s daughter 2. James JoyceForerunner of “stream of consciousness”Works: Dubliners a portrait of the artist as a young man Ulysses Finnegan’s wake Araby3.Virginia Woolf advocator of the feminist movement Mrs. Dalloway to the lighthouse the waves Orlando美国文学殖民地时期和独立革命时期American puritanism (predestination, original sin, total depravity, limited atonement) Writers in colonial period1.John Smith-“the first author”A true relation of Virginia-“the first book”2.William BradfordOf Plymouth plantation3.John WinthropThe history of New EnglandWriters of puritanism1.Anne Bradstreet(female)The tenth muse lately sprung up in America contemplations the flesh and the spirit2.Jonathan EdwardsThe freedom of the will the great doctrine of original sin defended the nature of true virtueWriters in the revolution1.Benjamin FranklinPoor Richard’s almanac (many practical sayings about life) The autobiography (representative work of franklin)2.Roger Williams(puritan dissenters)3.Thomas Paine-the father of American revolution The common sense-the greatest of the revolutionary pamphlets The American crisis the rights of man the age of reason4.Philip Freneau-“a poet if the American Revolution”and “the father of American poetry”The rising glory of American the wild honey suckle 5.Thomas JeffersonDeclaration of Independence浪漫主义时期（18世纪末-19中后期）American romanticism advocate individualism and every should fight for individual rightAnd happiness bravelyWriters of pre-romanticism1.Washington Irving-the father of AmericanliteratureThe sketch book-mark the beginning of Americanromanticism2.James Fennimore cooper描写西进运动开创边疆传奇小说Leather stocking tales（the pioneer, the last ofMohicans, the prairie, the pathfinder, the deepslayer）Writers in transcendentalism1. Ralph Waldo EmersonNature-the manifesto(宣言) of American transcendentalism The American scholar2. Henry David ThoreauMasterpiece: Walden3.Nathaniel Hawthorne-first great American writerof fictionMasterpiece-the scarlet letterThe house of the seven gables twice-told tales mosses from an old manseMosses from an old manse the blithe dale romance4.Herman Melville美国浪漫主义时期成就最高的小说家，擅长写航海奇遇和异域风情Type eomoomoby dick5.Walt Whiteman-the father of free verseLeaves of grass-marked the birth of truly American poetry and praised as democratic bible and American epic6.Emily DickinsonBecause could not stop for death this is my letter to the world7.Edgar Allan PoeHe is the first American professional writer and first writer of detective storyWorks: the fall of the house of usher the raven tales of the grotesque and arabesqueFireside poets1.William Cullen BryantThe Fountain to a waterfowl song of Marion’s men2.Hennery Wadsworth Longfellow He use native themesA psalm of life voiced of the night现实主义时期（19世纪中期-20世纪初）American realism-concern for common place and the low, offering an objective viewOf human natureAmerican naturalism-evolved from realism and have ironic and pessimistic view to reality改革和废奴主义者1. Harriet Beecher Stowe (female)Uncle T om’s cabin-“the little woman that wrote the book that made this great war”2. Frederick DouglassMy bondage and freedom现实主义作家1. William Dean Howells (champion of realism)He wrote about middle class and their lifestyle Masterpiece: The Rise of Silas LaphamOthers: Venetian life criticism and fiction a modern instance3.Henry James(描写心里活动)The portrait of a lady the American the turn of the screw乡土文学1.Mark TwainFamous for his colloquial style and localismthe adventure of huckleberry Finn the adventure of tom sawyer roughing it（first）the prince and thepauper(historical romance)2.Bret HarteThe luck of roaring camp the outcasts of poker flat3.Hamlin GarlandFirst involving hard-working mid-western farmers Main traveled road crumbling ido l4.Sarah Oren Jewett(乡土文学女作家)Deep haven a country doctor5.Kate ChopinBayou folk a night in Acadia the awakening a story ofan hour自然主义作家1.Stephen CraneMaggie: a girl of the streets(美国第一部自然主义小说) The red badge of courage (a landmark in American literary naturalism)2.Frank NorrisA story of San Francisco (the octopus, the pit, the wolf) The responsibilities of the novelists3.Theodore DreiserMasterpiece: an American tragedySister Carrietrilogy of desire(欲望三部曲): The titan, the stoic, the genius4.Jack London心理现实主义的创始人（psychological realism）The call of the wild the son of the wolf the sea wolf 5. O. Henry-the father of the modern short storyThe cop and the anthem the last leaf the gift of mafi 5.Upton Sinclair(获普利策文学奖)the jungle oil spring and harvest Boston king coal现代主义时期（20世纪初）Lost generationModernism-cutting off history and a sense of despair and loss二战前诗歌1.Ezra Pound-the father of modern Americanpoetry and the father of imagist poetryCathay-translation from Chinese poets like Li BaiIn a station of the metro2.Robert FrostNorth of Boston fire and ice the road not taken 3.Wallace StevensHarmonium the man with the blue guitar collected poems 二战前小说1. F. Scott. Fitzgerald Masterpiece: the great GatsbyThe side of paradiseTender is the night2. Ernest HemingwayReceived the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954Masterpiece: a farewell to armsThe sun also rises for whom the bell tolls the old man and the sea3. Sinclair Lewis-the first American author to win the Nobel PrizeMain Street Babbitt Elmer gantry dodsworthannVickers 4.William FaulknerAwarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950 Soldier’s pay mosquitoes the sound and the fury light in august the wild palms the hamle t5.John Steinbeck1962获诺贝尔文学奖The grapes of wrath tortilla flat of mice and men the pearl 二战前戏剧Eugene O’NeilBeyond the horizon the hairy ape desire under the elms当代作家1.Ralph Ellison（黑人作家）Invisible man2.Saul Bellow 1976年获诺贝尔文学奖The adventures of Augie march Seize the day the dangling man3.John UpdikeBabbitt run/redux/rich/rest4.Tennessee WilliamsThe glass menagerie a streetcar named desire cat ona hot tin roof5.Arthur MillerDeath of a salesman6.Edward AlbeeThe zoo storyWho’s afraid of Vi rginia Woolf7. J.D.SalingerThe catcher in the rye7.Allen GinsbergHowl8.Jack KerouacOn the road语言学Language: a system of arbitrary vocal symbolsFeatures:1.Arbitrariness:首先由Saussure提出，语言的形式与表达的意义没有天然的联系）2. Duality3.Creativity：语言的能产性4.Displacement：可以让使用者在交际时用语言符号代表时间上和空间上并不可及的物体、时间或观点Functions1. Informative2. Interpersonal function3.Performative施为功能：改变人的社会地位4. Emotional function5.Phatic communion寒暄功能6. Recreational functionMain branches: 1.articulatory phonetics 发音语音学-研究语音的生成Phonetic语音学2.acoustic phonetics声学语音学-研究语音的物理属性3.auditory phonetics听觉语音学-研究语音如何被感知Consonants辅音：发生时气流受阻vowels：Without obstructionCoarticulation协同发音/assimilation rule同化规则：实际说话中语音持续受临近音的影响Anticipatory Coarticulation逆协同发音/regressive assimilation逆同化:前一个音受后一个音的影响Preservative Coarticulation顺协同发音/progressive assimilation顺同化：后一个音受前一个音的影响Phonology音系学最小对立体：两个意思不同的单词，出来出现在同一位置上的一个音外，其余的音都相同Phoneme音位：The smallest unit of sound in a language Free variation：同一个词发成两个不同的音Morphology形态学Morpheme语素：Morpheme is the smallest unit of language Affix词缀prefix前缀=derivational affix派生词缀suffix后缀=inflectional affix曲折词缀Infix中缀词汇变化：invention词的创新e.g.：coke nylon blending混拼词e.g.：smog telex abbreviation缩写e.g.：adcoper Acronym首字母缩写e.g.：WTO back-formation逆构词法e.g.：television-televise editor-edit analogical creation类推构词e.g.：slay slew-slayed borrowing外来词词义变化：broadening词义扩大narrowing词义缩小meaning shift词义转移class shiftSyntax句法学Category范畴指语言单位的特征such as number，gender，case，tense，aspect，voiceNumber：singular，pluralGender：feminine，masculine，neuterCase：nominative主格，accusative宾格，genitive属格Tense：past，presentEndocentric constructions向心结构：一个分布功能可以等于其中一个充当主词或中心词的成分的结构Exocentric constructions离心结构：没有明显的主词或中心词Theme主位：已知的信息是明确的，说话者从它开始谈话Rheme述位：说话者的陈述有关，或涉及说话起点的内容Communication dynamism（CD）交际力：句子成分对交际发展所做的贡献的程度Semantic语义学G．Leech’s 7 types of meaning: conceptual meaning, connotative meaning, social meaning, affective meaning, reflected meaning ,Collocative meaning(搭配意义)，thematic meaning主要含义关系：synonymy同意关系antonymy反义关系hyponymy上下意关系Pragmatics语用学Speech Act Theory言语行为理论由John Lang show Austin 提出Performative施为句：一个句子在实施某种行为 e.g.：I apologizeConstative叙事句：叙述说话人在说话时所做的事A theory of the illocutionary act行事行为理论Locutionary act 言内行为：说话表达的字面意义Illocutionary act言外行为：说话表达的别的含义如允诺警告等Perlocutionary act言后行为：说话在听者身上产生的效果The theory of conversational implicature会话含义理论由Hebert Paul Grace提出The Q- and R-principle 由Laurence horn发展得来The Q- principle基于听话人the R-principle基于说话人Important distinctions：Prescriptive规定式&descriptive描写式，规定式说明事情应该是怎么的，描写式描述事物本身怎么的。

英语专八英美文学常识(EnglishLiterature)

英国文学（English LiteratureOld and Medieval English Literatus英语文学但世纪-14 世纪）1）The Old English Period / The Anglo-Saxon Per古英语时期（449-1066）a. pagan poetry（异教诗歌）:Beowulf《贝奥武甫》-最早的诗歌；长诗（3000 行）heroism & fatalism & Christian qualitiesthe folk lege nds of the primitive n orthern tribes; a heroic Scandin avia n epic lege nd; 善恶有报b. religious poetry：Caedmon凯德蒙610-680）: the first known religious poet; the father of English songCynewulf（基涅武甫9C）: The Christc. 8th C, Anglo-Saxon prose Venerable Bede（673-735）； Alfred the Great（848-901）2） The Medieval Period中世纪（1066-ca.1485 / 1500）:a. Romance 中世纪传奇故事（1200-1500）： the Middle Ages;英雄诗歌无名诗人-Sir Gawain and the Gree n Kn igh 高文爵士与绿色骑士》：Celtic lege nd; verse-roma nee; 2530 lines ~ 14th C, Age of Chauce r* Geoffrey Chauce（乔叟1340-1400）:文风：vivid and exact Ian guage, his poetry is full of vigor and swiftn ess the father of English poetry; the father of English fiction 首创双韵体”；首位用伦敦方言写作英国作家The Canterbury Talesc ilgrims stories 受Boccaccio（薄伽丘）-Decameron《十日谈》启发The House of Fame; Troilus and Criseyde; The Romaunt of the Rose《玫瑰罗曼史》（译作）* William Langland｛朗兰1332-1400）：The Vision of Piers Plowmans农夫皮尔斯之幻象》：普通人眼中的社会抗议b. 15th C, English ballads Thomas Malory （1395-1471）: Morte d ' Art《亚瑟王之死》-圆桌骑士、The Renaissance Perio英国文艺复兴(1500-1660): humanism十四行诗，文艺复兴，无韵诗，伊丽莎白戏剧1）诗歌He nry Howard（霍华德1516-1547）a. Thomas Wyatt （怀亚特1503-1542）： the first to i ntroduce the sonn et into En glish literatureb. Sir Philip Sidney雪尼爵士1554-1586）：代表了当时的理想-“he complete man” Defense of Poetry《为诗辩护》Astrophel and Stella; Arcadia《阿卡狄亚》：a prose romanee filled with lyrics; a forerunner of the modern worldc. Edmund Spense斯宾塞1552-1599）： the poets ' poet; non-dramatic poet of 伊丽莎白时代-Io ng allegorical roma nee文风：a perfect melody, a rare sense of beauty and a splendid imagination. The Shepherd CalendarThe Faerie Queen《仙后》：long poem for Queen Elizabeth; Allegory - nine-line verse stanza/ the Spenserian StanzaSpenserian Stanza斯宾塞诗体）：Nine lines, the first eight lines is in iambic（抑扬格）pentameter（五步诗）,and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter（六步诗）line.2） Prose 散文a. Thomas More莫尔1478-1535）：欧洲早期空想社会主义创始人Utopia《乌托邦》：More与海员的对话b. John Lyly黎里1553-160，剧作家&小说家）：EupheusEuphuism（夸饰文体）:Abundant use of balaneed sentences, alliterations（头韵）and other artificial prosodic（韵律）means.The use of odd similes（明喻）and comparis onsc. Francis Bacon培根1561-1626）：英国首位散文家，中世纪至现代欧洲时期；近代唯物主义哲学奠基人和近代实验科学先驱the trumpeter of a new age; Essays^说文集）：Of Studies, Of Love, Of Beaut t y e first true English prose classic3）戏剧a. Christopher Marlowe马洛1564-1593）：University Wits 大学才子派Edward II ；The Jew of Malta《马耳他的犹太人》first made blank verse（无韵诗：不押韵的五步诗）the prin ciple in strume nt of En glish dramaThe Tragical History of Doctor Faustu浮士德博士的悲剧》：根据德国民间故事书写成；完善了无韵体诗。

专八人文知识英美文学复习材料

专业八级备考英美文学知识纲要注：黄色部分为往年已考过的内容。

英国文学Old and Medieval English literature (5th-15th century) 10661. Beowulf oldest English epic2. medieval romance Arthurian romances, knight3. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales in heroic couplet4. popular ballads Robin Hood stories and the ballad meterThe English Renaissance—Humanism, drama (16th century)1. Edmund Spenser Faerie Queene in the Spenserian stanza, allegorical romance2.Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great3.William Shakespearea)Major tragedies: Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbethb)Major comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of V enice; As YouLike It; The Twelfth Night; Romeo and Julietc)Sonnet 184.Francis Bacon Essays“Of Studies” some quotes from the essay5.King James’s or The Authorized Bible (1604)The 17th Century—Turbulent and gloomy1.John Donne and Metaphysical Poetry “The Flea”, “Valediction: ForbiddingMourning”2.John Milton: Paradise Lost rebellious spirit, Miltonic style, blank verse3.John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress allegory, satire, Vanity FairThe 18th Century—Age of Reason and common sense1.Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders2.Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels, “A Modest Proposal”3.Neoclassicism and Alexander Pope4.Samuel Johnson Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield5.Henry Fielding The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling6.Robert Burns: “A Red, Red Rose”“Auld Lang Syne”7.William Blake: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, “The Tyger”The Age of Romanticism—Poetry, individualism, nature, emotion (1798-1832)1.William Wordsworth: “The Preface to Lyrical Ballads” as declaration of Romanticism,nature poet “The Solitary Reaper”, “Tintern Abbey”, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” or“Daffodils” , “Composed upon Westerminster Bridge”2.Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan3.George Gorgon Byron: the Byronic hero; Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan4.Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound, “Ode to the West Wind”5.John Keats：“Ode to a Nightingale”, “To Autumn”, “Ode on an Grecian Urn”, truth isbeauty, beauty is truth6.Walter Scott: historical romance, Ivanhoe7.Jane Austen: realistic writing about family life, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense andSensibilityThe Victorian Age (1832-1901) 19th century1.general features: utilitarianism, middle class urban literature, conservative morality2.Charles Dickens: Dombey and Son, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations,Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Little Dorrit3.William Thackeray: Vanity Fair4.The Bronte sisters: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte5.George Eliot: Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch6.Thomas Hardy: the Wessex novels; Tess of the D’urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, TheReturn of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, naturalist ideas7.Alfred Tennyson: poet8.Robert Browning: poet, dramatic monologue, “My Last Duchess”9.George Bernard Shaw: dramatist, 1925 Nobel Prize winnerThe Twentieth Century1.The features of modernism: alienation and loneliness2.T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; The Waste Land 1948 Nobel Prizewinner3.James Joyce: Ulysses, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Irish, Dublin, stream ofconsciousness4.Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway5. D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers(Oedipus Complex), Lady Chatterley’s Lover6.W. B. Yeats: Irish poet, modernism 1923 Nobel Prize winner7.Angry Young Men (1950s): Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim8.The Theatre of the Absurd: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot9.Women writers: Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark10.Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook, 2007 Nobel Prize winner11.contemporary writers: Martin Amis, Ian McEvan, Julia Barnes, A. S. Byatt, MargaretDrabble, Anita Brookner, V. S, Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Philip Larkin(poet), Seamus Heaney (poet), Harold Pinter (dramatist)12.V. S. Naipaul: Indian-British novelist, 2001 Nobel Prize winner13.Seamus Heaney: Irish Poet 1995 Nobel Prize winner美国文学Colonial Period (1607-1800) –Rise of the American Dream1.Puritanism, Enlightenment, Independence War2.Jonathan Edwards3.Benjamin Franklin:Poor Richard’s Almanac, AutobiographyRomanticism (1800-1865) –Prime of the American Dream1.Washington Irving: “Rip Van Winkle”, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”2.James Fenimore Cooper: Leather stocking Tales, American Westward movement3.New England Transcendentalism: Oversoul4.Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Nature”(The Bible for Transcendentalism), “The AmericanScholar” (intellectual independence), prose5.Henry David Thoreau: Walden, prose6.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: poet, “A Psalm of Life”7.Edgar Allan Poe: poet and short story writer, “The Raven”, The Fall of the House ofUsher, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter8.Walt Whitman: free verse, Leaves of Grass, “Song of Myself”, “O Captain! MyCaptain!”, national poet of America, social and national topics, strongly influenced byEmerson9.Emily Dickinson: poet, regional and inner world, topics on religion, death, love, nature10.Nathaniel Hawthorn: novelist, dark side of human beings, The Scarlet Letter, “YoungGoodman Brown”, “The Minister’s Black Veil”11.Herman Melville: novelist, sea life, Moby DickRealism and Naturalism (1865-1918)—Questioning the American Dream1.William Dean Howells: middle class, The Rise of Silas Lapman2.Mark Twain: Samuel Clemens, lower class, local colorism, The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer, The Gilded Age3.Henry James: rich class, international theme, psychological descriptions, The Portrait ofa Lady, The Ambassadors, The American, Daisy Miller4.Stephen Crane: pioneer writing in the naturalistic tradition, Maggie: A Girl of theStreets, The Red Badge of Courage5.Frank Norris: McTeague, the first full-bodied naturalistic American novel, a case studyof the inevitable effect of environment and heredity on human lives6.Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier, An American Tragedy7.Jack London: The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden8.O Henry: short story writer, the American Maupassant, surprise endings, “The Gift ofthe Magi”, “The Cop and the An them”Modernism (1918-1945)—Disillusionment of the American Dream1.Imagist poetry: imagism, direct treatment of the thing, use as few words as possible2.Ezra Pound: “In a Station of the Metro”, The Cantos3.T. S. Eliot: referring to the British part4.Wallace Stevens: “Anecdote of the Jar”, “The Idea of Order at Key West”5.William Carlos Williams: “The Red Wheelbarrow”6.Robert Frost: New England poet, “The Road Not Taken”, “Mending Wall”, “AfterApple-picking”7.Modernist Novels: the Lost Generation8. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, the Jazz age9.Ernest Hemingway: the Lost Generation, Hemingway hero, iceberg theory, The Sun AlsoRises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, 1954Nobel Prize winner10.William Faulkner: the Southern Renaissance/myth, Yoknapatawpha, The Sound and theFury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, stream of consciousness1949 Nobel Prize winner11.Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio; describing the grotesque12.Sinclair Lewis: Main Street, sociological writer, first American Nobel Prize winner,(1930)13.Willa Cather: female writer, writing about the Old West in traditional way, My Antonio14.John Dos Passos: 1930s, Depression, U.S.A.15.John Steinbeck: 1930s, Depression, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl1962 Nobel Prize winner16.Drama: A renaissance of drama in 1920s—Eugene O’Neill, The theatre of theDepression in 1930s17.Eugene O’Neill: American dram began in 1916 when O’Neil’s first play Bound East forCardiff was produced, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey intoNightPost-War American Literature—Multi-faceted1.The Beat Generation in 1950s: Howl by Allen Ginsberg (poet), On the Road by JackKerouac (novelist)2.Black Humor: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller3.Post-war Realism: Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger4.Jewish literature: Herzog by Saul Bellow5.African-American literature: Richard Wright, Native Son; Ralph Ellison, The InvisibleMan; Toni Morrison, Beloved6.Post-war drama: Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire;Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman7.Theatre of the Absurd: George Albee, Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Literary Terms:1. Alliteration: repetition of the same sound or sounds at the beginning of two or more wordsthat are next to or close to each other.2. Iambic pentameter: poetic meters of five iambs or feet. Iambic means the stress is on thesecond syllable.3. Heroic couplet: a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter lines.4. Blank verse: unrhymed poetic lines in iambic pentameters.5. Sonnet: a lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of fourteen iambic pentameter lines linkedby an intricate rhyme scheme. Italian or Petrarchan sonnet is composed of an octave and a sestet (rhyming abbaabba cdecde). Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains and a couplet (rhyming abab cdcd efef gg).6. Assonance: repetition of related vowel sounds7. Ode: a long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and elaboratein its stanzaic structure.8. Spenserian stanza: a nine-line stanza of eight lines in iambic pentameter plus an iambichexameter. The rhyme scheme is abab bcbc c.9. Romance: a tale in verse, embodying the life and adventures of knights.10. Ballad: a narrative poem that tells a story.11. Ballad meter: a quatrain in alternate four- and three-stress lines; usually only the second andfourth lines rhyme.12. Allegory: a story or description in which the characters and events symbolize some deeperunderlying meaning, and serve to spread moral teaching.13. American Puritanism: Puritanism is a Protestant movement which spread its influence intothe New England colonies in 17th century. The American Puritans believed that the Church should be restored to the “purity” of the Church as established by Christ himself. They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin, total depravity, and limited atonement. 14. American Romanticism: American Romanticism is the literary movement stretching from theend of the 18th century through the outbreak of the Civil War. It was in essence the expression of “a real new experience” and contained “an alien quality”. There was American Puritanism as a cultural heritage to consider. The features can be found in the major works by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman.15. Transcendentalism: Transcendentalism is a literary and philosophical movement, associatedwith Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcended the empirical and scientific and was knowable through intuition.16. American Realism: First, American realist authors described life truthfully. Second, they putthe typical characters under typical circumstances. Third, they were objective rather than idealized, in a close observation and investigation life. Finally, realistic works were concerned with social and psychological problems. The famous realistic works include Henry James’s The Ambassadors and Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.17. Local Colorism: As a literary trend, local colorism made its presence felt in the late 1860s toearly 70s. Local colorists concerned themselves with presenting and interpreting the local characters of their regions. The representative works of local colorism include Bret Hart’s “The Luck of Roaring Camp” and H. B. Stowe’s Oldtown Folks.18. American Naturalism: American naturalism is a literary tendency that prevailed in 1890s.Under the influence of social Darwinism and inspired by French naturalism, American naturalists wrote about the helplessness of man in a cold, amoral world, and his lack of dignity in face of the crushing forces of environment and heredity. The features of naturalism can be found in the major works by Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser.19. Lost Generation: The Lost Generation refers to the group of American writers who came ofage during World War I and established their reputations in the 1920s. The writers considered themselves “lost” because their inherited values could not operate in the postwar world. The term is commonly applied to Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others.20.Image(in Pound’s poetry): An image is defined by Pound as that which presents anintellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time, “a vortex or cluster of fused ideas”“endowed with energy”.21. Stanza: Stanza is a recurrent grouping of two or more lines or more lines of a poem in termsof length, metrical form, and rhyme-scheme.22. Code Hero: Code hero is the Hemingwayan hero, an average man of decidedly masculinetastes, sensitive and intelligent, a man of action, and one of few words.23. Southern Literature: Southern Literature is defined as American literature about the SouthernUnited States or by writers from this region. The Southern literature meets its renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s, and the famous Southern writers include Ellen Glasgow and William Faulkner.24. “Anti-hero”(as in William Faulkner’s works): A central character in a work of literature wholacks traditional heroic qualities such as courage, physical prowess, and fortitude. Anti-heroestypically distrust conventional values and are unable to commit themselves to any ideals.Anti-heroes usually accept, and often celebrate, their positions as social outcasts.25. Allusion: Allusion is a figure of speech that makes brief, often casual reference to a historicalor literary, event, or object.26. Beat Generation: Beat generation is a term applied to a group of American poets andnovelists of the 1950s and 1960s who were in romantic rebellion against the culture and value systems of America. They expressed their revolt through the literary works of loose structure and slang diction. Among the leading members of the loose group were the poet Allen Ginsberg and the novelist Jack Kerouac.27. Black Humor: Black humor is a term applied to a large group of American novels beginningin the 1950s, represented by Joseph Heller’s Catch 22. In the novelists’ opinion, their society is full of institutionalized absurdity. Therefore, all of them hold a cynical attitude toward society and the conventional moral values. This despondency is reflected in their novels by the use of exaggeration as a vehicle for satire.28. Satire: Satire is a literary manner which blends a critical attitude with humor and with wit forthe purpose of improving human institutions or humanity. Catch-22, satirizes bureaucracy and the military, and is frequently cited as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.29. Motif:Motif is a theme, character type, image, metaphor, or any other verbal element thatrecurs throughout a single work of literature or occurs in a number of different works over a period of time. For example, the disillusionment of “American Drama” is one of the important motifs in Death of a Salesman.30. Theatre of the Absurd: The Theatre of the Absurd is an avant-garde kind of drama in the1950s and 1960s that represents the absurdity of the human condition by abandoning rational devices and realistic form. Some playwrights in the school are Samuel Beckett and Edward Albee.。

八级考试英美文学讲座

八级考试英美文学讲座八级考试英美文学讲座I. English Literature 英国文学部分1.English literature began with the Anglo-Saxon settlement in England. “Beowulf”is the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon and English people.2.The Norman Conquest: The French speaking Normans under Duke William camein 1066 and defeated the English , thus William was crowned as King of England.3.The Romance: The most prevalent kind of literature in feudal England. Thecentral character of romances was the knight, a man of noble birth, who was known for his chivalry.4.The ballads(民谣，民歌): the most important department of English folk literatureis the ballad. A ballad is a story told in song, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and the fourth lines rhymed. For example, the Robin Hood Ballads.5.Geoffrey Chaucer , the founder of English poetry, was born in 1340, and died in1400. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, thus founding the “Poet’s Corner”.“ The Canterbury tales”(1387—1400)is Chaucer’s masterpiece and one of the monumental works in English literature.6.The English Renaissance: Thomas More (1478—1535) and his “Utopia”; the“poet’s poet of the English Renaissance was EdmundSpenser (1552-90)whose masterpiece is “The faerie Queene”. If the imaginative powers of literary creation of English renaissance found their expression in the poetry of Spenser and the drama of Shakespeare , the intellectual energy of this age showed itself in the achievement of Francis bacon(1561-1626).7.William Shakespeare(1564-1616): the literary giant of the English Renaissance.His famous comedies:(1)A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream(2)The merchant of Venice(3)Twelfth Night(4)All’s Well that Ends Well.His famous tragedies:(1)Romeo and Juliet(2)Hamlet(3)King Lear(4)MacbethShakespeare also wrote 154 sonnets.8.The 17th Century Literature ---- John Milton (1608—1674): “Paradise Lost”9.The 18th Century LiteratureThe Enlightenment in Europe: The 18th century marked the beginning of anintellectual movement in Europe known as the Enlightenment. It was, on the whole, an expression of struggle of the bourgeoisies against feudalism. The enlighteners fought against class inequality, stagnation, prejudices and other survivals of feudalism. They attempted to place all branches of science at the service of mankind.10.Classicism in the English literature:The classicists modeled themselves after the Greek and the Latin authors, and tried to guide literary creation by some fixed laws and rules drawn from Greek and Latin works. Rhymed couplets instead of blank verse, the three unites of time, place and action, regularity in construction, and the presentation of types rather than individuals---these were some of the standards the classicists required of drama. Poetry, following the ancient divisions, should be lyric, epic, didactic, satiric or dramatic, and each class should be guided by its own principles. Prose should be precise, direct, smooth and flexible. Classicism achieved a rapid growth and prevailed for the better part of the 18th century. The literary representatives of classicism in English literature were John Dryden, A. Pope and Samuel Johnson.11.The Rise of the English Realistic Novel”Daniel Defoe(1661-1731): Robinson Crusoe(1719).Jonathan Swift(1667-1745): Gulliver’s Travels” (1726).Henry Fielding (1707-1754):Tom Jones (1749)12.English RomanticismAt the turn of the 18th and 19th century romanticism came to be the new trend in English literature. It rose and grew under the impetus of Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution. It was marked by a strong protest against the bondage of Classicism, a recognition of the claims of passion and emotion, a great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man and a return to nature.William Wordsworth(1770—1850): I Wondered Lonely as a CloudSamuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): The Rime of Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan George Gordon Byron (1788-1824): Don Juan, Sonnet on ChillonPercy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822): Queen Mab, Ode to the West Wind,Prometheus Unbound(a lyric drama) John Keats(1795-1821): Ode to Autumn, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to aNightingale13.English Critical Realism:Charles Dickens(1812-1870): Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Hard Times, GreatExpectation, A Tale of Two Cities.William Thackeray(1811-18630: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero,Some Women Novelists:Jane Austen(1775—1817): Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, EmmaCharlotte Bronte(1816-1855): Jane EyreEmily Bronte(1818-1848): Wuthering HeightsGeorge Eliot(1819—1890): The Mill on the Floss14.The Victorian Poets:The Brownings----Robert Browning(1812-1867 )and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). (The Ring and the Book, My last Duchess)15.The Turn of the Century:Thomas Hardy(1840-1928): Tess of the D’ Urbervlles (refer to Lesson 15,Book 5) George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950): Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Man and Superman,Major Barbara, The Apple Cart.16.Between the Two World Wars:T.S. Eliot(1887-1965): The Waste LandJames Joyce(1882-1941): Ulysses, Finnegans Wake,Virginia Woolf(1882-1941): Mrs. Dalloway,D. H. Lawrence(1885-1930): Sons and Lovers, Lady Chatterley’s LoverWilliam S. Maugham(1874-1965): Of Human Bondage17: Contemporary English Literature(1945----)Kingsley Amis(1922----): Luck JimJohn Fowles(1926----) :The French Lieutenant’s Woman(法国中尉的女人)Iris Murdoch(1919-1999): Under the Net(《在网下》)，The Sandcastle(《沙堡》) Samuel Beckett(1906--): Waiting for Godot John Osborne(1929--) :Look Back in AngerHarold Pinter(1930---):Birthday Party, Homecoiming18. Contemporary English Literature(1980----)Martin Amis(1949---): Money : A Suicide Note(《钞票：绝命书》)Time’s Arrow(《时光之箭》)Julian Barnes(1946---): Flaubert’s Parrot(《福楼拜的鹦鹉》) American Literature 美国文学部分1．Colonial Period: Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, Poor Richard’s Almanack2. American Romanticism: Transcendentalism (超验主义)3. Washington Irving(1783—1859, the father of American short story): The Legend ofSleepy Hollow; Rip Van Winkle.4. Nathanial Hawthorne(1804—1864): The Scarlet Letter.5. Henry David Thoreau(1817—1862): Walden.6. Walt Whitman(1819—1892): Leaves of Grass / Song of Myself / When Lilacs Lastin the Dooryard Bloom’d / Oh, Captain, My Captain 7. Herman Melville(1819—1891): Moby Dick8: American Realism(1865—1914):9. Mark Twain(Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835—1910):The Adventures of Tom SawyerThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe prince and the Pauper10. Henry James91843—1916):The international themeDaisy MillerThe AmbassadorsThe AmericanThe Turn of the Screw11. O Henry: The Gift of Magi / The Last Leaf / The Cop and the Anthem12. Theodore Dreiser(1871—1945): Sister Carrie13.Robert Frost(1874—1963)Mending WallThe Road Not TakenStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening14. Wallace Stevens(1879—1955)Sunday Morning15.Ezra Pound(1885—1972)The CantosIn a Station of the Metro(The apparition of these faces in the crowd/ Petals on a wet, black bough )16. T.S. Eliot( 1888—1965) see above.17.Eugene O’Neill(1888—1953)(Nobel Prize winner in 1936)The Emperor Jones / Hairy Ape/ The Iceman Comth / The Long Day’s Journey into Night)18. Arthur Miller(1915-2005)The Death of a Salesman19.F.S. Fitzgerald(1896—1940)The Great Gatsby20.William Faulkner (1897—1962)Stream of consciousness / The Rose for Emily / The Sound and the Fury)21. Ernest Hemingway(1899—1961)The Sun Also RisesA Farewell to ArmsFor whom the Bell TollsThe Old Man and the SeaHemingway Hero / Code Hero (A man can be destroyed but not defeated)Lost GenerationToni Morrison(1933--)The Bluest EyeBelovedThe Song of SolomonTar BabySulaParadiseLove。

英美文学(专八)

Francis Bacon
弗兰西斯.培根
Essayer
Essays论说文
Of Studies论学习
Of Truth论真理
现代科学和唯物主义（materialism）的创始人之一
1572-1631
John Donne
约翰.邓恩
MetaphysicalPoet
玄学派诗人
The Sun Rising升起的太阳
London伦敦
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
理查德德.比.谢立丹
Playwright
The School of Scandal造谣学校
The rivals情敌
Comedy of manners
风俗喜剧
Thomas Gray
扥马斯.格雷
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard墓园挽歌
Joan of Arc圣女贞德
Lake poets
1831桂冠诗人
1788-1824
George Gordon Byron
乔治.戈登.拜伦
Childe Harold洽尔德.哈罗德游记
Don Juan唐璜
Cain该隐
1792-1822
Percy Bysshe Shelley
铂.比.雪莱
Ode to the West Wind西风颂
The picture of dorian grey道林格雷的画像
Lady windermere’s fan温德米尔夫人的扇子
A woman of no’important一个无足轻重的女人
The importance of being earnest认真的重要性
唯美主义（aestheticism）的代表

英专八级人文重要考点总结——英美文学

. 英语专业八级人文知识——英国文学Part one Old and Medieval English Literature1. Old English P oetry and “Beowulf ”(贝奥武浦)• “Beowulf ” → the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon and English people →Alliteration( 头韵）national epic: 国家史诗（赞颂一个国家的丰功伟绩）2.Middle English Literature and the Canterbury T ales①The R omance ( describing the life and adventures of a noble hero) 浪漫传奇• King Arthur and His Knights o f the R ound T able 《亚瑟王与他的圆桌骑士》②Geoffrey Chaucer 乔叟→ the “_ father of English poetry__________________”,→“The Canterbury T ales ” is Chaucer’s masterpiece (stories narrated by Pilgrims 朝圣者)→ he introduced rhymed couplet to English poetry , instead of the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.• (Couplet: A stanza of two lines, usually rhyming. ) couplet: 对句，对联 stanza:诗的一节Renaissance (1485—1660) 文艺复兴→ The Background: the society was in its transition from the feudalism to capitalism.→ Revival or rebirth of classical arts, culture and philosophy after the dark ag e s of medieval → The key word for it is _ humanism _, emphasized secular concerns , express the interests of the rising bourgeoisie.→ Shakespeare, Spenser , and Marlowe are all famous literary figures in this periodThomas More (1478-1535)Utopia (socialism ) The definition of Utopia is "no place." Edmund Spenser(1552-1599) “A poet’s poet” The Faerie Queen 《仙后》Francis Bacon 培根 (1561-1626)1 “Adv an cemen t o f Learning ” 学术的推进:2 “New Instrument ” :新工具 the inductive method of reasoning3. “New Atlantics ” : an ideal society 新大西岛4. “Essays ” / 58 essays 论说文集A wide variety of subjects: love, truth, friendship, beauty, studies, riches…His style: clearness, brevity, force of expression☆ his essays is an important landmark in the development of English pr oseChristopher Marlowe (1564-1593)1.University wits, the greatest pioneer of English d rama2. blank verse V erse consisting of unrhymed lines, usually of iambic pentameter(五步抑扬格). 无韵诗，素体诗3. Doctor Faustus 《浮士德》William Shakespeare：the greatest English poet and dramatist①154sonnets（十四行诗）（商籁体）,②37plays,including14comedies,12tragedies,and11historical plays,③2long poems.☆But for such a great writer,we have very little definite knowledge about his life. Shakespeare’s T ragedies(1)Hamlet(2)Othello(3)King Lear(4)Macbeth Shakespeare’s Comedies(1)The Merchant o f V enice(2)A Mi d summer Night's Dream(3)As Y ou Like It《皆大欢喜》(4)T welfth nightThe Merchant of Venice to praise the friendship be tw e en Antonio and Bassanio,to idealize Portia a heroine of great beauty,wit and loyalty,to expose the insatiable greed and brutality (Shylock)Hamlet hesitate betw een fact and fiction,language and action→T o be,or not to be-to live on in this world or to die;to suffer or to tak e action Soliloquy or monologue-fully reveal the inner conflict of the characters（独白）Poetry1.Narrative poetry①the epic②the r omance③popular ballads2.Lyric poetry①the elegy:a lyric poem lamenting the death of an individual.挽歌②the ode:a lyric poem of considerable length to sing in honor a person or a thing.It is seriousin subject and formal in style.颂歌3.Dramatic poetry:dialogue in the d ramaSonnetA14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes.Rhyme:abab cdcd efef gg☆3quatrains(3four-line stanza)+1couplet(2lines)quatrains:四行诗The period of the English Bourgeois Revolution→Historical background:two revolutions:puritan revolution and glorious revolutionthe transition from the absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy→1.two literary schools of poets①the school of Metaphysical玄学②the school of Cavaliers.骑士2.the most important poet:John Milton Metaphysical Poetry（玄学派诗歌)It is the poetry of John Donne and other seventeenth-century poe ts who wrote in a similar style.dislike traditional poem Scholar,Highly abstract or theoretical;John Milton约翰·弥尔顿the last great poemsParadise Lost失乐园Paradise Regained复乐园Samson Agonistes力士参孙.→The two most essential things:Puritanism and his republicanism.Paradise Lost→the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.→the main idea of the poem is a revolt against God’s authority→Satan is the real her o of the poem.Satan led a rebellion against God with his unconquerable will.John Bunyan(1628-1688)班扬Puritan author His best known work,The Pilgrim‘s Progress天路历程a religious allegory（宗教预言）18世纪英国文学Cultural Background1.Enlightenment Movemen t启蒙运动⑴A progressive intellectual movement⑵E nlighteners considered“Enlightenment”or“education”of the people to be their chief objective.⑶They believed in the power of reason(the age of reason)⑷two groups:①the moderate(Pope,Defoe,Addison)（温和派）→support the principles of the existing social order②the radical(Swift,Fielding,Sheridan)（激进派）→crisis→Sentimentalism（感伤主义）18世纪英国文学Complex:An age of pr ose(Addison’s essay\Swift’s satire\Fielding’s novel)1.Neo-classicism新古典A revival interest in old classic works,order,logic→(P ope\Addison\S teel:model themselves after Greek and Latin authors)2.Sentimentalism(Gray\Goldsmith\Richardson\Sterne:discontent with the social reality “Heart”)3.The beginning of modern novel→Major novelists:Defoe\Swift\Fielding\Richardson,4.Pre-romanticism in English poetry5.English Drama(Sheridan:the school for Scandal) Neo-classicism新古典A revival interest in old classic works,order,logic→(model themselves after Greek andLatin authors)1.Alexander P ope蒲伯:Heroic couplet英雄双韵体2.Joseph Addison艾迪生Sir Richard Steele斯梯尔:The Spectator旁观者3.Samuel Johnson:DictionaryAlexander P ope蒲柏Neo-classicism新古典Heroic couplet英雄双韵体Lines of ia mbic pentameter rhyme in pairs；P ope carried this to its last stage of perfection；An Essay on CriticismSentimentalism格列 n i discontent with the social realityThomas Gray 格雷 (poem) Laurence Sterne (novel)Thomas Gray (1716 -1771)Sentimentalism The graveyard school 墓园派Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard《墓园挽歌》The beginning of modern novelSmollett: First important sea novelist Laurence Sterne 斯泰恩 : SentimentalismSamuel Richardson 理查生: Pamela, or Virtue R ewarded 《帕美拉》Clarissa Harlowe, or Virtue T riumphant 《克拉丽莎》1.Daniel Defoe 迪福 : R obinson Crusoe 鲁宾逊漂流记R obinson is the very prototype of the empire builder , the pioneer colonist.2.Jonathan Swift 斯威夫特： a master satirist Gulliver‘s Travels 佛游记3.Henry Fielding ：Father of English novel 、The founder of English realistic novel T om Jones 汤姆· 琼斯Romanticism in Britain The New Literary T rend (1798---1832)1.Dissatisfaction with the society (1) A revolt against it (2) An escape from it2. An introspection into one ’s inner world ( attention on spiritual and emotional life)3. The passions of man and the beauties of nature4. A period of poetical revival(1) The Romantic period is an age of poetry . (Blake , Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley , Keats)(2) The Romantic period is a great age of prose. Coleridge , Hazlitt, Lamb (3) This period is also a great age of novels.Walter ScottScott ’s historical novels combine a romantic atmospher e with a realistic depiction of historical b ack ground and common people ’s life. Scott mark ed the transition from romanticism to the period realism.William Blake 布莱克 Symbolism: 象征主义1.The earliest poems: Poetical sk etches 素描诗集2.Songs o f Innocence 天真之歌3.Songs o f experience 经验之歌_4.famous poem: The tiger\London\The Chimney SweeperRobert Burns (1759-1796)1.Written in the Scottish dialect on a variety of subjectsP oems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect 苏格兰方言诗集2. Songs of love and friendship —a new spirit of romanticism“A Red, Red Rose ”一朵红红的玫瑰3 The rural theme / Beauties of nature“My Heart’s the Highlands ”我的心呀在高原1.Samuel T aylor Coleridge(1772-1834)柯勒律治P oetic and critic “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” 1798 《古舟子咏》“Kubla Khan” 1816 《忽必烈汗》•W ordsworth and Coleridge 's Lyrical Ballads 《抒情歌谣集》William Wordsworth 威廉· 华兹华斯“Lucy ”---《露西组诗》(She Dwelt Among the Untr odden Ways ） ☆harmony be tw ee n humanity and nature2. “The Solitary Reaper ”---《孤寂的刈麦人》 ☆pathetic pictures of the labouring people3. “I wondered lonely as a cloud ”—《我孤独如云》☆ deep love for natureGeorge Gordon“Childe Harold ’s Pilgrimage ” 1812《恰罗德· 哈罗德游记》“Don Juan ” 1812-1823 masterpiece 《唐· 璜》 a great comic epic of the early 19th century . The “ Byronic hero ” is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin• 名诗：She W alks in Beauty The Isles o f GreecePercy Bysshe Shelly 雪莱 (1792-1822)1. “Queen Mab ”:麦布女王 His first long poem expresses almost all his major political ideas.2. “Prometheus Unbound ”:《解放了的普罗米修斯》His masterpiece; a lyrical drama.3. Lyrics on nature and love: e.g. “Ode to the West Wind”; “To a Skylark”《西风/云雀颂》 ☆“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”John Keats(1795-1821) Not noble Died of TB Died at 25Ode on MelancholyOde on a Grecian Urn 希腊古瓮颂It reveals the contrast between the permanence o f art and the transience o f human passion. Ode to a Nightingale 夜莺颂It reveals the contrast between the happy world o f natural loveliness and human world o f agonyOde to Psyche Ode to Autumn 秋颂The Development of Victorian Literature→ Victorian Literature, as a pr oduct of its age, naturally had its quality of magnitude and diversity .It was many-sided and complex, and reflected both romantically and realistically the great changes that were going on in people ’s life and thought.→the great period of the novel in Britain Critical realists were all concerned about the fate of the common peopleThe Genres of Victorian Literature1)The novel became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.Charles Dickens,William Makepeace Thackeray,Charlotte Bronte,Emily Bronte,Elizabeth Gaskell,George EliotRobert Browning勃朗宁(1812-1889)the most original poet,who improve and matur e the dramatic monologue戏剧独白Wrote an admiring letter to Elizabeth Barret(an invalid,a poet,six years elder)→famous r omance→secretely wedded,eloped to Italy in1846→Sonnets From the P ortuguese(love poems to her husband)葡萄牙十四行诗The ring and book(poetic drama)My last Duchess(dramatic monologue)→A poem in which a single character,addressing a silent listener,explains his actions at an important moment or crisis in his lifeHome Thoughts From AbroadAlfred T ennyson(1809-1892)P oet Laureate A real artistinvents dramatic monologueJane Austen简·奥斯丁1775-18171.Northanger Abbey诺桑觉寺2.Sense and Sensibility理智与情感3.Pride and Prejudice傲慢与偏见4.Mansfield Park曼斯菲尔德庄园5.Emma爱玛6.P ersuasion劝导Austen’s writing style1.The founder of the novel which deals with unimportant middle-class people.2.Vivid pictures of everyday life of simple country society,the small world she lived in3.Delicate description of the daily talks and doings of y oung people4.Quiet irony and analysis of characterCharles Dickens(1812-1870)→one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age→famous for his forceful social criticism→urb an poor(Critical realists were all concerned about the fate of the common people)→Character-portrayal is the most distinguishing feature of his works→A mingling of humor and p ath os悲伤The P osth umou s Papers o f the Pickwick Club匹克威克外传Oliver T wist奥利弗·退斯特/雾都孤儿American Notes美国札记The Old Curiosity Shop老古玩店Dombey and Son董贝父子David Copperfield大卫·科波菲尔Hard Times艰难时世A T ale o f T wo Cities双城记Great Expectation远大前程”·Thackeray (1811-63)萨克雷 Representative of critical realism→different from Dickens, Less interested in direct social criticism→ Showing people ’s vanity and their deluded efforts to achieve wealth and social statusThe book o f Snobs (1846-47)势利者集 V anity Fair (1847-48)名利场P endennis (1848)潘登尼斯 Henry Esmond (1852)亨利爱德芒德The Newcomes (1853)纽卡姆一家 The Virginians (1857)弗吉尼亚人V anity Fair 名利场★V anity Fair is Thackeray ’s masterpiece.★ The term "vanity fair" originates from the allegorical story The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan.★ The sub-title of the book, “A Novel Without a Hero (the characters are all flawed to a greater or lesser degree )★ The novel satirizes society in early 19th-century England (characterised by hypocrisy and opportunism).George Eliot (1819-1880)insightful psychological novels （心理小说）Writing about life in small rural towns,《亚当· 比德》 Adam Bede (1859) 《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》 The Mill on the Floss (1860)《织工马南》 Silas Marner (1861) 《米德尔玛契》Middlemarch (1871-1872) ----a portrait of life in a provincial town, is considered her masterpiece.As a woman of exceptional (特有的)intelligence and life experience, she shows a particular concern for the destiny of womenThe Bronte SistersCharlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Jane Eyre Shirley ProfessorEmily Bronte 爱米丽 · 勃郎特 1818-1848 Wuthering Heights 呼啸山庄（Heathcliff ） Anne Bronte 安妮· 勃郎特 Agnes Grey 艾格尼斯格雷简· 爱 Jane Eyre (1847) Jane Eyre Mr. Rochester★ The center theme : women should have equal rights with man. （The position of woman in society ）★ The problem of the bourgeois system of education;★ The problem of orphan;Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood T ree(1872) 绿茵下 Far fr om the Madding Crowd(1874) 远离尘嚣 The Return o f the Native(1878) 还乡 The Mayor o f Casterbridge(1886) 卡斯特桥市长 T ess of the D ’Urbervilles(1891) 德伯家的苔丝Jude the Obscure(1896) 无名的裘德His principal works are the Wessex novelsi.e.novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside.He truthfully depicts the impoverishment and decay of small farmers威塞克斯小说His pessimistic philosophy seems to show that mankind is subjected to the rule of some hostile and mysterious fate,which brings misfortune to human life.English literature at the turn of the century→The turn of the century→Oscar Wilde(1854-1900),John Galsworthy George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)Oscar Wilde(1854-1900),→Irish poet and dramatist→The literary school of decadence→apostle of Aestheticism “art for art’s sake”.→The Picture o f Dorian Gray(1891)道林·格雷的画像剧作→his comic masterpieces The Importance o f Being Earnest(1895)埃耐斯特的重要性. Lady Windermere's Fan(1892)温德米尔夫人的扇子An ideal Husband理想丈夫童话→"The Happy Prince."(his fairy tales especially)快乐王子John Galsworthy(1867-1933高尔斯华绥①The first trilogy“The Forsyte Saga”福尔塞世家:The Man o f Property(1906)有产业的人（It was a landmark in the development of Galsworthy’s art.It established his place in literature as a representative of bourgeois realism in the20th century English novel.）In Chancery(1920)骑虎难下T o let(1921)出租;②The second trilogy,“A Modern Comedy”:现代喜剧The White Monkey(1924)白猿The Silver Spoon(1926)银匙Swan Song(1928)天鹅曲Bernard ShawShaw was an essay-writer，language scholar and critic，but is best-remembered as a playwright.pr oblem plays.Widowers’Houses鳏夫的房产Mrs.W arren’s Profession华伦夫人的职业The Devil’s Disciple魔鬼的门徒Man and Superman人与超人Major Barbara巴巴拉少校Heartbroken House伤心之家The Apple Cart苹果车H.G.Wells（1866-1946）威尔斯•Wells is celebrated as a popularizer of science，but his best novels explore serious social and cultural themes，•科幻小说：The Time Machine时间机器E.M.Forster福斯特（1879-1970）A P assage to India印度之行Howards End霍华德庄园The Longest Journey最漫长的旅程The Room With A View可以远眺的房间Wher e Angels Fear to T read天使们忘而却步的地方,William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)毛姆1915—Of Hu man Bandage 人性枷锁 1919 — The Moon and Sixpence 月亮与六便士 1930—Cakes and Ale 寻欢作乐 1944—The Razor ’s Edge 刀锋 1951—short storiesArnold Bennett ， 1867-1931Naturalism Old Wives' T ale 《老妇谭》Joseph Conrad 康拉德 (1857-1924)☆by birth a P ole ☆ His experience as a sailor made the sea his favorite theme.☆ Conrad's narratives may resemble adventure stories in incident and setting ， but his real concern is with issues of character and morality .Heart o f Darkness 黑暗的心灵 Lord Jim 吉姆老爷An Outcast o f progress 文明的前哨 The Chance 机缘The Nostromo 诺斯特罗莫 The secret Age n t 间谍“The Nigger o f the Narcissus ”(1899) is a magnificent and symbolic story of a ship in a storm. 水仙号上的黑鬼Modernism(1)A reaction against realism(2)Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.(3)The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships b e tw e en man and nature,man and society, man and man, and man and himself .(4) The modernist writers concentrate more on the private than on the public, more on the subjective th an on the objective.They are mainly concerned with the inner being of an individual. In their writings, th e past, the present and the future are mingled toge ther and exist at the same time in the consciousness of an individual.James Joyce (1882-1941)乔伊斯 Irish novelistSecond only to Shak espeare in his mastery of the English language• definitely established “ stream of consciousness ” as a valid way of writing fiction.• 1914—Dubliners 短篇小说集（都柏林人）short stories about the hard life of poor peoplein Dublin• 1916– A Portrait of the Artist as a Y oung Man 青年艺术家的画像, a novel which islargely autobiographical, about a boy growing up in Dublin.• 1922– Ulysses 尤利西斯, a novel about three main characters in Dublin, told entirelythr oug h “stream of consciousness ”• 1939— Finnegan ’s Wake 芬尼根的觉醒, a long , extremely difficult book, written inmany languages, with many layers of symbolism, full of puns, linguistic gymnastics anddeep complicated philosophy• ☆stream-of -consciousness, or interior -monologue: a literary device that renders all theth ough ts ， feelings and sensations of a character with scrupulous psychological realism.• ☆ epiphany Joyce employ ed symbols to create what he called an “epiphany ，” the; revelation of an emotional or personal truthVirginia Woolf (1882-1941) Novelist and critic Leader of the “Bloomsbury Group ” 1922 — J acob ’ s R oom 1925 Mrs. Dalloway 达洛威夫人 1927 – T o the Lighthouse 到灯塔去1929—A R oom of O ne ’s Own 1931—The W aves 浪 1937—The Y ears 1939—Between the Acts 幕间散文集D wrence(1885-1930) 劳伦斯 O ne of the most original and controversial writers of the early 20th century• 1910---- The white P eacock 白孔雀 1913—Sons and Lovers 儿子与情人 • 1915—The Rainbow 虹 1921—Women In Love 恋爱中的妇女 •1923—Kangaroo 1926—The Plumed Serpent •1928—Lady Chatterly ’s Lover 查泰莱夫人的情人P oem of 20th centuryWilliam Butler Y eats 叶芝Irish writer who is considered among the greatest poe ts of the 20th century .• The Winding Stair 盘旋的楼梯T.S.Eliot 艾略特诗集：Prufrock and Other Observation 普鲁夫洛克及其他The W aste Land 荒原•William Golding (1911-1993)戈尔丁Winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize Novelist, essayist, poetThe Lord of the Flies （1954） The Inheritors 继承人T ed Hughs 特德· 休斯 1930-The Hawk in the Rain 雨中鹰（poem ）Richard Lessing 多丽丝· 莱辛 1919-The Four -gated City 四门城 The Golden Notebook 金色笔记蒸英语专业八级人文知识——美国文学Introduction to American literature1.The Colonial P eriod2.The Romantic P eriod (the first half of 19th century)3.The Age of Realism and Naturalism4.The P eriod ar ound WWIChapter One The Colonial PeriodI. The Colonial P eriod (the early 17th and 18th century)1. Puritanism: idealism and opportunism2. Benjamin Franklin 本杰明· 富兰克林 :→ “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”自传→ Poor Richard ’ s Almanac 穷查理历书 (containing witty maxims for achieving wealth as a result of hard work and thrift)3.Philip Freneau (poem)菲利普· 弗伦诺 The Rising Glory of America 蒸日上的美洲American PuritanismPuritans → The early settlers☆ founding fathers of the America nation☆T o purify the rituals and lessen the authority of bishops → escaped to the new world, create a new paradise→ advocate highly religious and moral principles.→ American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and American literature.Chapter Two American Romanticism and New England LiteratureRepresentative figures of the time:Pre-romanticism: W ashington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper 库珀Post-romanticism:Novelists: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman MelvilleP oets: Henry W adesworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan P oe, Walt Whitman Emily DickinsonEssayists: Ralph W aldo Emerson, Henry David ThoreauAmerican RomanticismThe romantic period stretches from the end of the eighteenth century thr oug h the outbreak of the Civil W ar (1790-1865).1. Background(1) Political b ack ground and economic developmentT erritorial Expansion Industrial Growth The Civil WarThe “newness” of Americans as a nation is in connection with American Romanticism. →optimism and hope among the people There is American Puritanism as a cultural heritage to consider.(2)foreign influence–Romantic movement in European countriesAmerican Romanticism☆Romanticism was a rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism.☆For romantics,the feelings,intuitions and emotions were more important than reason and common sense.☆They stressed th e close relationship be tw ee n man and nature;☆They emphasized individualism and affirmed the inner life of the self.Washington Irving(1783-1859)华盛顿·欧文早期浪漫主义小说家A History of New Y ork纽约的历史-----美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作；The Sketch Book见闻札记→①The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说---使之成为美国第一个获得国际声誉的作家→②Rip V an WinkleJames Fenimore Cooper1789-1851詹姆斯•费尼莫尔•库珀早期浪漫主义小说家“Leatherstocking T ales”皮裹腿故事集→a series of five novels,that is☆the Pioneers拓荒者(I823)☆the Last o f the Mohicans(1826)最后的莫希干人☆The Prairie(1827)大草原☆The Pathfinder(1840)探路者☆The Deerslayer(1841)杀鹿者→adventure into the wilderness of the West2.The summit of Romanticism---New England T ranscendentalism超验主义1.Emerson/“Nature”2.Henry David Thoreau/“Walden”3.Whitman/“Leaves of Grass”4.Hawthorn/“The Scarlet Letter”5.Herman Meville\“Moby Dick”Post-romanticism(New England T ranscendentalism)• 1.Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)爱默生•→The leading New England T ranscendentalist•→“Nature”论自然-----新英格兰超验主义者的宣言书;The American Scholar论美国学者• 2.Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)•→T ranscendentalist\Emerson’s friend→W alden《瓦尔登湖》The major features of T ranscendentalism1.The T ranscendentalists placed emphasis on spirit,or the Oversoul,as the most importantthing in the universe.2.The T ranscendentalists stressed the importance of the individual.T o them the individualwas the most important element of society.3.The T ranscendentalists offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolic of the Spirit orGod.Nature was,to them,not purely matter.It was alive,filled with God’s overwhelming presence.·The Development of T ranscendentalism• ☆ Nature (in 1836) by Ralph W aldo Emerson• Nature ’s voice pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of NewEngland T ranscendentalism, the summit of American Romanticism.• T ranscendentalist Club• ☆ T ranscendentalism was indebted to the dual heritage of American Puritanism, thereligious idealism of their Puritan past.T ranscendentalists ’ emphasis on the individualwas directly traceable to the Puritan principle of self -culture and self -improvement. Thusthere is good reason to state that New England T ranscendentalism was Romanticism onthe Puritan soil.• ☆ New England T ranscendentalism was important to American literature. It inspired awhole new generation of famous authors such as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman and Dickinson.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)☆ Novels:Scarlet Letter 《红字》 Hester Prynne; The House of Seven Gables 《七个尖角阁的房子》;• The Blithedale R omance 《福谷传奇》; The Marble Faun 《大理石神像》☆Short story collections:• T wice-T old T ales 《故事新编》Moses from an Old Manse 《古屋青苔》Herman Melville 赫尔曼· 梅尔维尔 1819-1891• Moby Dick/The White Whale 莫比· 迪克/白鲸Edgar Allan P oe 埃德加· 爱伦· 坡 1809-1849→The first professional writer in AmericaThe first writer of detective story in the world• -----歌特风格；首开近代侦探小说先河，又是法国象征主义运动的源头• The Fall o f the House o f Usher 厄舍古屋的倒塌(novel);• → The Raven 乌鸦(poem) T amerlane and Other P oems 帖木儿和其他诗;• T o Hellen 致海伦（以诗为诗；永为世人共赏的伟大抒情诗人-----叶芝）Walt Whitman(1819-1892)沃尔特· 惠特曼 •••••O ne of the great innovators in American P oetry Free verse Growing up in a working-class back ground, having little education Leaves o f Grass 草叶集 → Song o f Myself ”自我之歌 reveals a world of equality , without rank and hierarchy .poets •①Emily Dickinson(1830-1886) • The P oems o f Emily Dickinson 埃米莉迪金森诗集(love, death,nature,friendship, andimmortality)·”• ② Henry W adsworth Longfellow 亨利·沃兹沃思朗费罗 1807-1882 →A Psalm of Life 生命礼赞（short poem ）→ The Song of Hiawatha 海华沙之歌----美国人写的第一部印第安人史诗•③; William Cullen Bryant 1794-1878 柯伦· 布莱恩特 •→ T o a Waterfowl 致水鸟-----英语中最完美的短诗Harriet Beecher Stowe 哈丽特· 比彻· 斯托 1811-1896• Uncle T om ’s Cabin 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》 ☆“一个女人和一本书引发的战争 ”—南北战争Chapter 3 The Age of Realism and Naturalism• The three strong advocates of 19th century American realismWilliam Dean Howells (critic)豪威尔斯 Henry James 威廉· 詹姆斯 Mark Twain 马克· 吐温Henry James 1842-1910→ James ’novel ’s “international situation” are set against a b ack gr ound be tw een America and Europe→James contribution to literary criticism is immense.• T o him, “art without life is a poor affair ”. “the aim of the novel is to represent life ”.→ His realism was called as Psychological realism .• He was esp. an observer of the mind rather than a recorder of the times.• The American Daisy Miller The Portrait o f a Lady 贵妇人画像• The Wings o f the Dove 鸽翼 The Ambassadors 大使Mark Twain 马克· 吐温1. “The Adventures o f Tom Sawyer 汤姆· 索耶历险记2. “The Adventures o f Huckleberry Finn ”----his masterpiece/ 哈克贝利· 费恩历险记“The Gilded Age ” 镀金时代3. F amous for his localism, colloquial style, humor and bitter attacksAmerican Naturalism : pessimistic realism1. Naturalism cam e from France.2. Reasons: civil war , social upheavals ☆Darwin ’s theory of evolution : the survival of the fittest→ Men were conditioned\ d omi nat ed by social and economic forces, by heredity and environment.3. Features of naturalist writing:A. naturalist writers turned literary creation into a mechanical record of society, in a way of attempting to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness. They never made comments on the characters and their behaviors.B. The characters were o ften figures of low social and economic classesC.They stressed men had no free will,their lives were controlled by heredity and environment.4.American Naturalist writers:S tephen Crane,Frank Norris,Jack London,Henry Adams,Theodore Dreiser.Stephen Crane(1871-1900)斯蒂芬·克莱恩•Maggie:A Girl o f the S treets街头女郎梅姬（美国文学史上首次站在同情立场上描写受辱妇女的悲惨命运）•The R ed Badge o f Courage红色英勇勋章•The Black Riders(his first book of poems)Theodore Dreiser(1871-1945)德莱塞•Sister Carrie1900☆A feather in wind,she is totally at the mercy of forces she cannot comprehend and control.She does not seem to possess what may be called a moral fibre in her.•Jennie Gerhardt1911T rilogy of Desire欲望三部曲Financer金融家1912,The Titan巨人1914,The Stoic斯多葛1915•An American T ragedy美国的悲剧1925（被称为美国最伟大的小说）Frank Norris(1870-1902)弗兰克·诺里斯The Octopus1901章鱼Jack London(1876-1916)杰克·伦敦Martin Eden马丁·伊登（masterwork）The Call o f the Wild野性的呼唤The Sea-W olf海狼White Fang白獠牙O Henry(1862---1910)欧·享利☆famous for short stories1“The Gift o f Magi”2“The Cop and the Anthem”3.F amous for his fascinating plot,h umor ous touch,interesting puns,localism,and unexpected endings.Chapter Four The Period around WWIAmerican literature in the1920s and1930s1.P oets:T.S.Eliot:“the W aste Land”R obert Frost2.Novelists:Fitzgerald/“the Great Gatsby”Hemingway/“A Farewell to Arms”Faulkner/ wrote about the SouthThe Lost Generation迷惘的一代→a disillusionment about the value of war→disgusted by th e new frivolous,greedy way of life in AmericaWhen the First World W ar brok e out,many idealistic y oung Americans volunteered to tak e part in the war and test their own bravery.They discovered that modern warfare was not。

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专业英语八级英美文学知识-2(总分80,考试时间90分钟)单项选择题1. ______, written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, is regarded as one of the best biographies in English Literature.A. The Life of William ShakespeareB. The Life of Jane AustinC. The Life of Elizabeth BrowningD. The Life of Charlotte Bronte2. Mary Barton reflects something about ______.A. RenaissanceB. Chartist MovementC. RestorationD. Enlightenment3. George Eliot is the first ______ who started putting all the actions inside.A. dramatistB. poetC. essayistD. novelist4. George Eliot was the pseudonym of ______.A. Mary Ann BartonB. Mary Ann EliotC. Mary Ann EvansD. Mary Ann White5. ______is the masterpiece written by George Eliot.A. MiddlemarchB. CranfordC. North and SouthD. Ruth6. Lord Jim is written by ______.A. Charles DickensB. Joseph ConradC. George EliotD. Oscar Wilde7. Which of the following is NOT written by Robert Louis Stevenson?A. Treasure Island.B. New Arabian Nights.C. Kidnapped.D. The Mayor of Casterbridge.8. Which of the following is NOT the **edy by Oscar Wilde?A. A Woman of No Importance.B. An Ideal Husband.C. The Two Gentlemen of Verona.D. Lady Windermere's Fan.9. ______ is NOT a novel written by Thomas Hardy.A. Far From the Madding CrowdB. Jude the ObscureC. Tess of the D 'UrbervillesD. The Happy Prince and Other Tales10. ______ is the essay written by William Morris.A. The Pilgrims of HopeB. ParacelsusC. Pippa PassesD. Home Thoughts From Abroad11. A Passage to India is the major work of ______.A. George Bernard ShawB. Edward Morgan ForsterC. David Herbert LawrenceD. John Galsworthy12. ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.A. Joseph Rudyard KiplingB. James JoyceC. Virginia WoolfD. Thomas Steams Eliot13. Kim is a long ______ written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling.A. poemB. novelC. dramaD. essay14. John Galsworthy was one of the major ______ English writers in the 20th century.A. romanticB. neo-classicalC. idealisticD. realistic15. Which of the following is NOT written by John Galsworthy?A. A Room with a View.B. The White Monkey.C. The Silver Spoon.D. Swan Song.16. The Forsyte Saga, the trilogy of John Galsworthy, does not include______.A. To LetB. The Man of PropertyC. The Silver SpoonD. In Chancery17. In 1931, ______ visited China and was warmly received by Luxuan.A. George OrwellB. George Bernard ShawC. George EliotD. George Howard18. George Bernard Shaw is regarded as the greatest English ______ in the 20th century.A. novelistB. poetC. playwrightD. essayist19. ______ is NOT written by George Bernard Shaw.A. Widowers 'HousesB. The Return of the NativeC. Mrs. Warren's ProfessionD. The Devil's Disciple20. In 1923, ______ received the Nobel Prize for his "inspired poetry".A. William Butler YeatsB. Herbert George WellsC. John Boynton PriestleyD. Mr. Browning21. ______ is the poet written by William Butler Yeats.A. Let the People SingB. When We Are MarriedC. The Land of Heart's DesireD. Time and the Conways22. ______, written by Thomas Stearns Eliot, is considered to be a landmark and model of English poetry in the 20th century.A. The Waste LandB. The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockC. Murder in the CathedralD. Ash-Wednesday23. Four Quartets consists of four long ______ about T.S. Eliot's religious meditations on time, place, memory and consciousness.A. odesB. epicsC. lyricsD. eulogies24. 1984 is written by ______.A. William Somerset MaughamB. Herbert George WellsC. George OrwellD. David Herbert Lawrence25. ______ is autobiographical novel by David Herbert Lawrence.A. The RainbowB. Sons and LoversC. Women in LoveD. Lady Chatterley's Lover26. ______, written by David Herbert Lawrence, is regarded as a typical example and lively manifestation of Oedipus Complex in fiction.A. The White PeacockB. Lady Chatterley's LoverC. The RainbowD. Sons and Lovers27. D.H. Lawrence is famous for his novels written under the influence of ______theory of psychoanalysis.A. Sigmund Freud'sB. Bernard Shaw'sC. George Eliot'sD. James Joyce's28. ______ is the last and most controversial novel of wrence.A. Sons and LoversB. Lady Chatterley's LoverC. Women in LoveD. The Rainbow29. Which of the following is the best well-known novel by William Somerset Maugham?A. Liza of Lambeth.B. The Moon and Sixpence.C. Complete Short Stories.D. Of Human Bondage.30. Which of the following writers was NOT from Ireland?A. James JoyceB. William Butler YeatsC. William Somerset MaughamD. George Bernard Shaw31. ______ belongs to the novelists of the "stream of consciousness" school.A. Thomas WolfeB. James JoyceC. D.H. Lawrence D. Bernard Shaw32. Which of the following does NOT belong to the novels of the "stream of consciousness" school writers'?A. Ulysses.B. Dubliners.C. The Picture of Dorian Gray.D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.33. ______ is an autobiographical novel by James Joyce.A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. Finnegans WakeC. DublinersD. Ulysses34. ______ is the best novel by Virginia Woolf.A. Mrs. DallowayB. To the LighthouseC. The WavesD. Orlando35. Virginia Woolf is considered to be one of the major exponents of ______and novelists of the "stream of consciousness" school.A. RomanticismB. RealismC. ClassismD. Modernism36. ______ by Captain John Smith is recognized as the first book in American Literature.A. The Indian Burying GroundB. A True Relation of VirginiaC. The Rising Glory of AmericaD. To the Memory of the Brave Americans37. In American Literature, the major thread is the focus on the ______.A. independenceB. evolutionismC. individualismD. rationalism38. Anne Bradstreet is regarded as a Puritan ______.A. novelistB. criticC. dramatistD. poet39. Poetry writing won Anne Bradstreet the fame as the ______.A. First MuseB. Fifth MuseC. Tenth MuseD. Best Muse40. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is the best and most representative sermon by ______.A. Michael WigglesworthB. Jonathan EdwardsC. Thomas PaineD. Thomas Hooker41. ______ is the masterpiece by Benjamin Franklin.A. Poor Richard's AlmanacB. The AutobiographyC. The American CrisisD. The Age of Reason42. Which of the following is the most famous political pamphlet of Thomas Paine?A. Rights of Man.B. Common Sense.C. The Age of Reason.D. The American Crisis.43. Who is the most famous poet in the 18th century America?A. Philip Freneau.B. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.C. William Cullen Bryant.D. Edgar Allan Poe.44. ______ by Philip Freneau is about his imprisoned experience.A. The Wild HoneysuckleB. The British Prison ShipC. The Rising Glory of AmericaD. The Indian Burying Ground45. The 18th century was considered to be an Age of ______and Revolution in American Literature.A. ReasonB. ScienceC. NatureD. Religion46. In the early 19th century, ______ appeared as a new trend of literature in America.A. naturalismB. realismC. romanticismD. modernism47. Which of the following works does NOT show the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature?A. Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking TalesC. Washington Irving's Rip Van WinkleD. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter48. ______ by Washington Irving is recognized as the first work by American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.A. A History of New YorkB. The Sketch BookC. The Legend of Sleepy HollowD. Tales of a Traveler49. Who published An American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828?A. Samuel JohnsonB. Noah WebsterC. William Cullen BryantD. Ralph Waldo Emerson50. ______ was the first important American novelist.A. Edgar Allan PoeB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Herman MelvilleD. James Fenimore Cooper51. ______ is the best sea romance written by James Fenimore Cooper.A. The SpyB. The PilotC. The PrairieD. The Pioneers52. James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales consists of the following works EXCEPTA. The Last of the MohicansB. The PathfinderC. The DeerslayerD. The Alhambra53. ______ was the first American poet to be honored by having his bust placed in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.A. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowB. William Cullen BryantC. Philip FreneauD. Anne Bradstreet54. Which of the following is NOT a poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?A. Voices of the NightB. Song of MyselfC. Ballads and Other PoemsD. The Courtship of Miles Standish55. William Cullen Bryant is considered to be one of the major American ______ poets.A. romanticB. realisticC. naturalistD. neo-classical56. ______ is the most famous nature poem by William Cullen Bryant.A. The FountainB. The White-Footed DeerC. ThanatopsisD. The Flood of Years57. Nature is named "the manifesto of American ______".A. transcendentalismB. postmodernismC. naturalismD. modernism58. ______ by Ralph Waldo Emerson is called "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence."A. The American ScholarB. The TranscendentalistC. Divinity School AddressD. Self-Reliance59. Who was named the "Father of the American detective stories"?A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Herman MelvilleC. Edgar Allan PoeD. James Fenimore Cooper60. The Raven is a ______ written by Edgar Allan Poe.A. novelB. poemC. balladD. play61. is a masterpiece of transcendentalism written by Henry David Thoreau.A. Tales of the Grotesque and ArabesqueB. Fall of the House of UsherC. WaldenD. To Helen62. The famous essay ______ is written according to Henry David Thoreau's jail experience in Concord.A. The Over-SoulB. Civil DisobedienceC. Representative MenD. Concord Hymn63. The Scarlet Letter is the finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne's ______.A. symbolismB. naturalismC. transcendentalismD. postmodernism64. Which of the following is NOT Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story?A. The House of Seven GablesB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Great Stone FaceD. The Ambitious Guest65. Herman Melville called his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne ______ in American Literature.A. the father of mystery-haunted novelsB. the greatest American scholarC. the largest brain with the largest heartD. the most versatile American writer66. ______ made Herman Melville known as the "man who lived among cannibals."A. OmooB. White JacketC. Billy BuddD. Typee67. Which of the following works is the masterpiece by Herman Melville?A. Mardi.B. Moby Dick.C. Redburn.D. Mosses from an Old Manse.68. Walt Whitman is one of the greatest American ______.A. novelistsB. poetsC. playwrightsD. essayists69. ______is the masterpiece written by Walt Whitman.A. Leaves of GrassB. EvangelineC. A Psalm of LifeD. The Song of Hiawatha70. Which of the following does NOT characterize Emily Dickinson's poems?A. Directness.B. Simpleness.C. Conciseness.D. Endlessness.。

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专八人文知识（英国文学）Part 1. Old and medievalBeowulf 贝尔武甫(the national epic of the English people) stricking feature: alliteration, metaphors and understatements.William Langland 威廉。

兰格伦Piers the Plowman耕者皮尔斯Geoffrey Chaucer杰佛利•乔叟1340-1400 长诗：The House of Fame声誉之堂;Troilus and Criseyde特罗勒斯与克丽西德小说：Canterbury Tales坎特伯雷故事集----英国文学史上现实主义第一部杰作（他是最早有人文主义思想的作家，现实主义文学的奠基人）his contribution to English poetry: introduced from france the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter (the heroic couplet), is the first great poet who wrote in the English language. Who making the dialect of London the standard for the modern English speech.Part 2. The English renaissanceThomas More托马斯。

莫尔Utopia乌托帮Philip Sidney菲力普。

锡德尼Astrophel and Stella Apology for Poetry诗辩Edmond Spenser埃德蒙。

斯宾塞The Faerie Queene 仙后The Shepherds’s Calender 牧羊人日历Francis Bacon培根1561-1626 Advancement of Learning学术的进展;Novum Organum新工具;New Atlantic新大西岛;Essays论文集（Of Studies论学习;Of Wisdom for a Man’s Self）The founder of English materialist philosophyChristopher Marlowe克里斯托夫。

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the dee estuary: a small sea ( in irish sea) where the dee river enters.迪河河口：是迪河流入的一个小海。

gaelic: it is one of the celtic language, and is spoken in parts of the highlands.盖尔语：是盖尔特语言的一种，在高地地区仍有人说这种语言。

the "backbone of england": it refers to the pennies, the board ridge of hills.英格兰脊梁：指的是山脉的背脊。

lead ore: british lead ores have been worked since pre-roman times. it contains silver.铅矿：自前罗马时代开始，英国的铅矿就被开发了。

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英国文学一、古英语时期的英国文学〔499-1066〕1、贝奥武夫2、阿尔弗雷德大帝：英国散文之父二、中古英语时期的英国文学1、allegory体非常盛行2、Romance开场上升到一定的高度3、高文爵士和绿衣骑士4、Willian Langlaud "农夫皮尔斯的幻象"5、乔叟坎特伯雷故事集〔英雄双韵体〕6、托马斯.马洛礼"亚瑟王之死"三、文艺复兴时期的英国文学〔伊丽莎白时代〕〔14-16世纪〕1、托马斯.莫尔"乌托邦"2、Thomas Wyatt 和Henry Howard引入sonnet3、Philips Sidney "The defense of Poesie""阿卡迪亚"描述田园生活；现代长篇小说的先驱4、斯宾塞"仙后" 诗人中的诗人；斯宾塞体诗节；5、莎士比亚：长篇叙事诗："维纳斯和阿多尼斯"、"露克丝受辱记"四大悲剧：哈姆雷特、尔王、奥赛罗、麦克白7、本.琼森风俗喜剧〔edy of manners〕"人性互异"8、约翰.多恩"玄学派〞诗歌创始人9、George Herbert 玄学派诗圣10、弗朗西斯.培根现代科学和唯物主义哲学创始人之一"Essays"英国开展史上的里程碑"学术的推进"和"新工具"四、启蒙时期〔18世纪〕1、约翰、弥尔顿："失乐园"、"为英国人民争辩"2、约翰、班扬："天路历程"religious allegory3、约翰、德莱顿：英国新古典主义的出色代表、桂冠诗人；"论戏剧诗"4、亚历山大.蒲柏：英国新古典主义诗歌的重要代表；英雄双韵体的使用到达登峰造极的使用；"田园组诗"是其最早田园诗歌代表作5、托马斯、格雷：感伤主义中墓园诗派的代表人物"墓园挽歌"6、威廉、布莱克：天真之歌、经历之歌；7、罗伯特、斯：格兰最出色的农民诗人；8、Richard Steel和Joseph Addison合作创办"The tatler"和"the spectator"9、Samuel defoe 英国现实主义小说的奠基人之一；"鲁滨逊漂流记"；"铲除非国教徒的捷径"，仪表达自己的不满；10、Jonathan Swift "一个小小的建议"；"格列佛游记"；"桶的故事"；11、Samuel Richardson 英国现代小说的创始人；帕米拉；克拉丽莎；查尔斯.格蓝迪森爵士的历史；12、Henry Fielding 英国现实主义小说理论的奠基人；"约瑟夫。

专八 TEM8 英国文学知识

英国文学知识一．古英语时期（Old English Literature 公元499—1066年）英国文学开山之作：头韵体诗歌（alliteration）《贝奥武甫》（Beowulf）开德蒙（Caedmon）：《赞美诗》（Anthem）琴涅武甫（Cynewulf）：《十字架之梦》（Dream of the Rood）比德（Bede）：《英吉利人教会史》（Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum）阿尔弗雷德大帝（King Alfred）：《盎格鲁—撒克逊编年史》（Anglo-Saxon Chronicle），被誉为“英国散文之父”（Father of English Prose）二．中古英语时期（Medieval English Literature 公元1066年—15世纪）头韵体诗歌：《高文爵士和绿衣骑士》（Sir Gawain and the Green Knight）英国名谣：《罗宾汉名谣集》（The Robin Hood Ballads）威廉·兰格伦（William Langland）：《农夫皮尔斯的幻想》（The V ision Concerning piers the Plowman）杰弗里·乔叟（Geoffrey Chaucer）：英国中世纪最伟大的诗人，享有“英国诗歌之父”的美誉（Father of English Poetry）。

代表作：八音节（octosyllabic）英雄双韵体（heroic couplet）诗歌《坎特布雷故事集》（The Canterbury Tales）。

托马斯·马洛礼（Sir Thomas Malory）：英国15世纪优秀的散文家，代表作为《亚瑟王之死》（Le Morte d’Arthur）三．文艺复兴时期（Renaissance 15世纪末—17世纪）托马斯·莫尔（Thomas More）：伟大的人文主义者，代表作：《乌托邦》（Utopia），《国王爱德华五世悲戚的一生》（The painful Life of Edwar d Ⅴ）.托马斯·魏厄特（Thomas Wyatt）和亨利·霍华德（Henry Howard）的十四行诗（Sonnet）。

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