英国文学史及选读 复习要点总结概要

《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点

1.Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements (此处可能会有填空,选择等小题

2.Romance (名词解释

3.“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur' s story

4. Ballad(名词解释

5.Character of Robin Hood

6.Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance;

form: heroic couplet

7.Heroic couplet (名词解释8. Renaissance(名词解释9.Thomas More——Utopia 10. Sonnet(名词解释11. Blank verse(名词解释12. Edmund Spenser “The Faerie Queene”13. Francis Bacon “essays”esp. “Of Studies”

(推荐阅读,学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参照,本

文用词正式优雅,多排比句和长句,语言造诣非常高,里面很多话都可以引用做格言警

句,非常值得一读

14. William

Shakespeare四大悲剧比较重要,此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了,这些剧的主题,背景,情

节,人物形象都要熟悉,当然他最重要的是Hamlet 这是肯定的。他的sonnet

也很重要,最重要属sonnet18。

(其戏剧中著名对白和几首有名的十四行诗可能会出选读

15. John Milton 三大史诗非常重要,特别是Paradise Lost 和Samson Agonistes。对于Paradise Lost 需要知道它是blank verse写成的,故事情节来自Old

Testament,另外要知道此书theme 和Satan 的形象。

16.John Bunyan——The Pilgrim' s Progress

17.Founder of the Metaphysical school ——John Donne; features of the school: philosophical poems, complex rhythms and strange images.

18.Enlightenment(名词解释

19.Neoclassicism(名词解释

20.Richard Steele——“The Tatler”

21.Joseph Addison——“The Spectator”这个比上面那个要重要,

注意这个报纸和我们今天的报纸不一

样,它虚构了一系列的人物,以这些人物的口气来写报纸上刊登的散文,这一部分要仔

细读。22. Steel' s and Addison' s styles and their contributions

23.Alexander Pope: “Essay on Criticism”, “Essay on Man”, “The Rape of Lock”, “The Dunciad”; his workmanship (features and limitations

24.Jonathan Swift: “Gulliver' s Travels”此书非常重要,要知道具体内容,就是Gulliver 游历过的四个地方的英文名称,和每个部分具体的讽刺对象;

(我们主要讲了三个地方“A Modest Proposal”比较重要,要注意作者用的irony 也就是反讽手法。

25.The rise and growth of the realistic novel is the most prominent achievement of 18th century English literature.

26.Daniel Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe”, “Moll Flanders”, 当然是Robinson Crusoe比较重要,剧情要清楚, Robinson

Crusoe的形象和故事中蕴涵的早期黑奴的原形, 以及殖民主义的萌芽。另外注意

Defoe 的style 和feature ,另外Defoe 是forerunner of English realistic novel。

27.Samuel Richardson ——“Pamela”(first epistolary novel, “Clarissa Harlowe”, “Sir Charles Grandison”

28.Henry Fielding: “Joseph Andrews”, “Jonathan Wild”, “Tom Jones”

第一个和第三个比较重要,需要仔细看。他是一个比较重要的作家,另外Fielding 也被称为father of the English novel.

urence Sterne——“Tristram Shandy”项狄传

30.Richard Sheridan——“The School for Scandal”

31.Oliver Goldsmith——“The Traveller”(poem, “The Deserted Village”(poem (both two poems were written by heroic couplet, “The Vicar of Wakefield”(novel, “The

Good-Natured Man”(comedy, “She stoops to Conquer”(comedy, “The Citizen