英国文学复习提纲.doc

1、1Chapter 1 Old English LiteratureBeowulf 评论 Chapter 2 Middle English Literature BalladBallads are anonymous narrative poems designed for singing or oral reflection and composed in usually four-line stanza. The second and fourth lines having three feet each and rhymes falling on the second and fourth

2、 lines. The themes of ballads are various in kind, from war and bloodshed and superstation to domestic life, particularly with the relations between different members of a family or between lovers.Drama Miracle plays, moralityPiers Plowman 农夫皮尔斯Geoffrey Chaucer 杰弗里乔叟 Geoffrey Chaucer was the greates

3、t English poet of the Middle Ages.The Canterbury Tales Each tale told is, however, a vivid exploration of the personality of the speaker The General Prologue also provides an often amusing reflection of pilgrims characters. In terms of the separate tale, each belongs to an established mode. But in s

4、uch a vigorous manner, and so often focus on human weakness, that we are left with an overwhelming impression of the gap between polite literary forms and the rude untidiness of everyday life. Chaucer seems to present the weakness with a comic and tolerant tone. In spite of the various failings, wha

5、t emerges in the poem overall is a rather reassuring and essentially positive picture of the late Middle Ages.Chapter 3 Literature of Renaissance and Reformation (1510-1620)PoetryEdmund SpenserThe Faerie QueeneThe Faerie Queene is Elizabeth, Gloriana.ProseThomas Mores Utopia.Francis Bacons Of Studie

6、sDramaChristopher Marlowe 三部巨星的陨落Tamburlaine the Great, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of MaltaWilliam Shakespeare 四大悲剧 Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth四大喜剧 The Merchant of Venice (威尼斯商人), Twelfth Night （第十二夜）, A Midsummer Nights Dream （仲夏夜之梦）, As You Like it（皆大欢喜）.Sonnet 选段Chapter 4 Literature of Revol

7、ution and Restoration (1620-90)Puritanism 清教主义： was the religious doctrine of the revolutionary bourgeois during the English Revolution. It reached thrift, sobriety, hard work but with no extravagant enjoyment of the fruit.四约翰 Poetry: John Done (玄学派 Metaphysical), John Milton ( Prose: Paradise Lost

8、),Prose: John Bunyan ( The Pilgrims Progress ), John Dryden Chapter 5 The Eighteenth Century Literature (1690-1780) and Neo-ClassicismThe Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe at the time. The movement was

9、 a furtherance of Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.新古典主义的代表人物 Alexander Pope (Poetry)2Sentimentalism:Narrow definition: Sentimentalism came into being during the middle of the 18th century as a result of a bitter discontent among the enlightenment people with social reality.strug

10、gle to against feudalism, but appeal to sentiment, torn to the countryside for its material.since sympathy for the poverty-stricken, expropriated peasants, transition from classicism to romanticism.Thomas Gray and Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard(墓园挽歌)Jonathan Swift and Gullivers Travel ( 关键字 y

11、ahoo 粗鲁的人)Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe 星期五Henry Fielding and Tom JonesRichard Brinsley Sheridan and The School ScandalChapter 6 The literature of the Romantic Period (1780-1832)PoetryWilliam Blake (Songs of Innocence and Experience), The Tyger苏格兰最杰出的农民诗人Walter Scott (Historical novel)Robert Burn

12、s (ploughmen poet)湖畔诗人 Lake PoetsWordsworth, Coleridge and SoutheySamuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 古舟的咏)William Wordsworth (关键字 水仙花)George Gordon Byron and Don JuanByronic Hero(拜伦式英雄) A man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner o

13、f his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection. The Byronic hero appears in Childe Harolds Pilgrimage.Percy Bysshe ShelleyOde to the West Wind (西风的特点 )NovelJane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility) 批判现实主义Chapter 7 Victorian Literature (1832-1900)特点：批判现实主义1

14、. NovelCharles Dickenss Pickwick PapersWilliam Makepeace Thackeray and Vanity FairCharlotte Brontes Jane EyreEmily Brontes Wuthering HeightsThomas Hardy (Tess of DUrbervilles (A Pure Woman) 评价这部小说2. PoetryAlfred Lord Tennyson (Ulysses)Robert Browning (The Last Duchess)3. DramaOscar Wilde (The Pictur

15、e of Dorian Gray)George Bernard Shaw (Warrens Profession)Chapter 8 Twentieth Century Literature1. Poetry T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land 荒原) 2. DramaWilliam Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bandage)33. NovelJohn Galsworthy (The Forsyte Saga)David Herbert Lawrence (Sons and Lovers)Stream of consciousness is a t

16、erm used to refer to particular technique of presentation which a number of Modernist novelists developed. It refers to the flow of impressions, perceptions and thoughts which stream unbidden through our minds.James Joyce (Ulysses)Chapter 9 English Literature Since 19451. DramaSamuel Beckett called

17、Theatre of the Absurd, (Waiting for Godot 等待戈多)2. NovelDoris Lessing (The Golden Notebook), 07 年获诺奖。考试题型1.名词解释：批判现实主义、唯美主义、头韵、戏剧独白、文艺复兴、喜剧、Tragic-flow、启蒙运动。 （考 5 个15 分）Critical Realism: flourished in the forties and in the early fifties (time), of which the critical realists described with much vivi

18、dness and great artistic skill the chief traits of the English society(subjects), criticized the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint, and refund sympathy for the common people(theme).Aestheticism：art was not supposed to utilitarian or useful in any practical sense, regards beauty as an end

19、 in itself, and attempts to preserve the art form subordination to didactic or political purpose.Alliteration: alliteration refers to the repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases.Dramatic monologue：a form in which a given speaker address a listener , a

20、listener both implied by the poem and who is, by extension, the reader.Renaissance: The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th and early 16th centuries to the early 17th century.Comedy: as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter.Tragic-flaw: The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe at the time. The movement was a furtherance of Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.