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
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

Chaucer’s time

B.The dramatic structure of the poem has

been highly commended 高度赞赏by critics

C.G eoffrey Chaucer’s humor

D.C haucer’s contribution to ENG language

E.Perhaps the greatest work in Middle

English

4.John Wycliff

A.f ather of ENG prose

B.one of the first figures who demanded to

reform church

C.t he one translate Bible into standard ENG

5.William Langland Chapter 4

1.main events

A.T he war of the Rose ,the thirty Years

War(the house of Lancaster/Red, the house of York)

B.The discovery of American and the new sea

routes

C.R eformation of church. HenryⅧfound the

Anglican Church, break away from the church of Rome.

2.Ballad: a narrative poem that tells a story

3.Characters of Ballads

A.t he beginning is often abrupt

B.have strong dramatic elements

C.t he story is told through dialogue and

action

D.t he theme is often tragic

E.the meter格律is used (contains four-line

stanzas, the odd numbered line奇数four feet, the even numbered line偶数three feet.

Rhymes fall on the even numbered lines.)

4.Ballads

A. A legendary hero living

during the reign of Richard the Lion Heated 金雀花王朝

B.By Sir Thomas

Mallory prefect the king Arthur

5.Early ENG Plays(the 14th)developed into(mystery Plays神秘剧,miracle plays 奇

迹剧)

6.The flourishing of drama

the reason: no other entertainment ,both rich and poor can go to there

Chapter 5

英国文学史上三次高潮15th ENG Renaissance —19th上Romantic —19th下Victoria

1.The Background

Queen Elizabeth , defeat the Spanish Armada 无敌舰队, mighty naval power强有力的海军.

2.Humanism 人文主义Rebirth(文艺复兴的时代精神)

Humanism Renaissance is a French word which means “rebirth ” in ENG

3.人文主义的解释及价值观

According to the Humanist scholars it was against human nature to ○1sacrifice the happiness of the life for an after life. They argued that ○2man should be given full freedom to enrich their intellectual and emotional life. In religion they demanded the reformation of the church, In art and literati

on, instead of happiness in his life. Humanism shattered the shackles of spiritual bondage of man’s mind by the Roman catholic church and opened his eyes to “a brave new world” in front of him.

4.Edmund Spenser

5.The University Wits

A.R obert Greene

B.Thomas Kyd

C.C hristopher Marlowe

of Doctor Faustus> The blank Verse无韵诗

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

6.William Shakespeare

A.发展

○1Early years of his apprenticeship学徒期

○2Growth and development

○3gloom and depression

○4restored serenity

B.achievement

○1represented the trend of history in giving write to the desires and aspiration of people ○2S’humanism: He had firm belief in the

mobility of human nature and in the power of love

○3S’ characterization, S’ characters are round 丰满的而非flatter 扁平

○4originality

○5as a great poet in sonnets

○6master of the Eng language

7.Four Tragedy : Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, The Tragedy of Macbeth

8.Sonnets (Italy/Petrarch’s —the first one, S’s)

A.d efinition A short song in the original

meaning of the word become a poet of 14 lines. Usually in iambic pentameter抑扬格

五音步with various rhyming schemes.

B.Sonnet, 3 quatrains, 1 couplet

(Shakespeare’s ) 9.S’s sonnets are different from Petrach’s.

Petrach’s sonnets is divided into an octave(八音) which typically rhymes abba abba , and a sestet, which may have varying rhyme schemes.

Shakespeare’s sonnets (English

sonnets)consists of 3 quatrains and 1 couplet ,which typically rhyme abab cdcd efef gg .ends with a surprised conclusion or

a shift of ideas.

Petrach abba abba / cde cde

Shakespeare abab cdcd efef / gg 10.Hamlet —Humanist (melancholy忧郁procrastination优柔寡断)

Chapter 6

From Age of Elizabeth to Glorious Revolution 1.Background(the ENG bourgeois revolution 资产阶级革命,农民与贵族阶级,Anglican church 与Puritanical Church)

2.Glorious Revolution 1688

In 1688, William signed presented by Parliament, which greatly restricted the power of English King hence four ENGLAND has become a country of constitutional monarchy.君主立宪制

3.The King James Bible of 1611

Old Testament in Hebrews

New Testament in Greek

The earliest English translations of the Bible date back to Caedmon, Bade and King Alfred.

4.Francis Bacon. Praised by Marx as “the pioneer of Eng Materialism唯心主义”

5.

目的:Studies serve for delight, for ornament, for ability.

功效:History make man wise; poetry witly; mathematics subtitle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.

方法:Books are able to be tasked, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

6.玄学派特点(Metaphysical Poets)John Donne Metaphysical Poets describe a school of highly intellectual poetry marked by hold and ingenious conceits (奇思妙喻)incongruous imagery. Complexity of thought, frequent use of Paradox, and often by deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression.

7.Main theme of Metaphysical Poets: love,

death and religion

Main theme of Cavalier(骑士派):Carpe Diem 及时行乐

8.Cavalier: Carpe diem<AValediction:forbidding mourning >

A breach, but an expansion

Like gold to airy thinness beat

If they be two, they are two so.

As stiff twin compasses are two.

THEME, 他人物质化的爱情与我柏拉图式的真爱。

9.John Milton(Puritan Writer)

10.

A.M ilton ’s master piece and one of the

greatest poems in world literate.

B.Satan, the most impressive character

Better to reign in Hell than Serve in Heaven

C.M eaning:

○1rebellion spirits叛逆精神

○2defiance of authority对权威的藐视

○3excessive pride极端自负11.John Bunyan(Puritan) 天路历程is written in the old fashioned medieval form of allegory and drama.

Chapter 7

1.Glorious Revolution

2.Two Parliaments: The Tory & The Whig

3.The characters of neo-classicism

Official

A.P eople emphasized reason理智rather than

emotion, form rather than content

B.As reason was stressed, most of the

writings of the age were didactic 说教性

and satirical讽刺

C.A s elegance 优雅性correctness正确性

appropriateness 恰当性and restraint 节制

性were preferred , the poet found closed couplet the only possible verse form for serious work.

D.I t’s almost exclusively a “town”poetry

catering to the interests of the “society”in

great cities.

E.It is entirely wanting in all these elements

that are related with the “romantic”

Civilian

A.E mphasized reason rather than emotion ,

form rather than Content

B.Didactic and satirical

C.T he poet found closed couplet the only for

serious

D.T own poetry show no love of nature,

landscape or country things

https://www.360docs.net/doc/9210467063.html,ck of all Romantic Elements 4.Geoffrey Chaucer, first use couplet—Pope 5. Classicisms , a drama, 3 unities: action, place, time

6. Daniel Defoe, know as a pioneer novelist of ENG

is based on a real incident.

a lowly women as the

subject of literature who for her first time

has committed theft and robbery.

7.Jonathan Swift

8.Joseph Addison & Richard Steele, periodical essays期刊写作. 2 periodical 期刊(the tattler, the spectator)

9.Alexander Pope 新古代表/英雄双韵顶峰

deist view 自然神论观点

10.Samuel Johnson

11.Henry Fielding (playwright, novelist)

12.Robert Burns 抒情诗人From Scotland, write in Scottish and in traditional of Scottish folk songs. Besides, love lyrics, most of his poems and songs are about patriotic and political Themes. Burns had a profound love for the common Scottish people and their literature. And his poems or songs are permeated with the Scottish natural spirit.

13.William Blake (神秘主义者)同Burns 为前期浪漫主义代表

Chapter 8 Romanticism

1.From Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798 to the death of Sir Walter Scott in 183

2.

2.Characters: The glorification of instinct and emotion a deep veneration 崇拜of nature, and a flaming zeal to remark the world.

3.Rousseau 卢梭French Philosopher . The Father of Romanticism/ The Nobel Savage

4.Characteristic features of the romantic movement

A.S ubjectivism主观主义

B.Spontaneity 自发性

C.S ingularity 奇特性

D.W orship of nature

E.Simplicity

F.There is a dominating note of melancholy /

in the poems of Romantic poets人道主义理

想、忧郁气质

G.A n age of poetry by which the poets

outpoured their feeling and emotion free verse form

5.William Wordsworth —Poet Laureate 桂冠

诗人

6.WW

A.S ing of harmony between things in nature

and between the nature and the poet

himself

B.Personification, Simile, Metaphor

https://www.360docs.net/doc/9210467063.html,ke poets (William Wordsworth, Robert Southey,Taylor Coleridge )

8.Samuel Taylor Coleridge 古舟子咏

9.George Gordon Byron

10. the adventure of a Spanish liberation

Byron’s fiery passion for the liberation of Greek people, and his bitter satire on the sham and hypocrisy in love, religion and the social relation of his time.

11.Percy Bysshe Shelley

希望英国人认识到自己的悲惨地位起来奋斗

12.John Keats (Last poet)

13.Charles Lamb 剧作家With his sister 写了Contribution to Familiar Essay

14.Thomas de Quincy

15.Walter Scott—Historic Novel . 1832 die , the end of Romanticism Contribution

Chapter 9 Queen Victoria

1.Two Queens:

A.b oth were on a throne for a long period of

time. Elizabeth 40s, Victoria 60s.

B.Developed rapidly in both politically ,

economically

C.L iterature flourished(E’- SB, drama.

V’-novel)

2.The reason why novel rise quickly in V’s Age

A.t he growth of urban population bring a

new reading in publich

B.the development of printing and making

papers and the price of books dropped

C.p eople can make a living by writing

D.a large part class who need recreation and

entertainment

E.the novel provided a marvelous mechanism

for all sort of things——explorisy the conditions of poor and the manners of society, satirizing individuals or institution , advocating social reform and providing diversion for people at all levels

F.t he feminist movement

3.Characterized by the common features

A.p lot is unfolded against a social

background

B.the cause-effect sequence much more

striking than in previous novels

C.p ublished in serial form连载

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