英国文学选读--复习资料-罗经国

英国文学选读--复习资料-罗经国

Chapter 1

1.Earliest settlers---Celts

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

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

4.Julius Caesar , the first general came to British

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

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

6.9th century, King Alfred , the great of Wessex lead the AS kings to defeat the invaders by uniting their forces.

7.the Norman Conquest

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

8.Two highlight in the development of AS literature

A. Northumrian School

○1the first AS poet ---Caedmon

The earliest English poet. According to

Bede, he was an elderly herdsman who

received the power of song in a vision.

○2Vernerable Bede, A monk write in Lain

People> Father of English History

B. the reign of Alfred Contribution

○1translate a number of Latin books into West Saxon dialect

○2

○3created a style of Anglo-Saxon Prose

9.A long epic poetry 长篇叙事诗

A.t he earliest heroic poetry

B.the most significant poetry

C.e xisted in oral form as early as the 6th

century

D.B eowulf is a mixture of paganism and

Christian elements

10.Difference between Old Eng poetry , later poetry is technical structure

11.There are two poetic features of Old English poetry: alliteration and kenning. Chapter 2

1.流行Romance 主要写Knights

2.Duke William of Normandy. The Norman Conquest in 1066 accelerated the development of feudalism 封建主义in ENG

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

4.Middle ENG:

A.w ords that are related with enjoyment and

pleasure are usually of the French origin B.many inflectional form of words were

dropped

C.f ormal grammar simplified

5. Medieval Romance (Subject Matters)

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

B. matter of Rome (Alexander the Great, The

siege of Troy)

C. Britain the Arthurian Legend

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

Chapter 3 Age of Chaucer

1.The Hundreds’ Years War is an awakening of national Consciousness in ENG,the French heroine Joan of Arc贞德

2.Geoffrey Chaucer (Buried in the Poets’Conner in Westminster Abbey)

A.F ather of Eng poetry

B.The work of Geoffrey Chaucer

○1influenced by French literature

○2influenced by Boccaccio

○3坎特伯雷故事集

The general prologue 总序is the best part of it.

3.the significances of

A.G ives a comprehensive picture of