1、英美文学选读纲要(1-2 章)作者：如哲 出自：朗月行云 浏览/评论：1,383/2 日期：2009 年 3 月 5 日 12:08 英国文学 Chapter I The Renaissance Period 一、学习目的和要求 通过本章学习，了解文艺复兴运动和人文主义思潮产生的历史，文化背景，认识该时期文学创作的基本特征和基本主张，及其对同时代及后世英国文学乃至文化的影响；了解该时期重要作家的文学生涯，创作思想，艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构，人物刻画，语言风格，思想意义等；同时结合注释，读懂所选作品，了解其思想内容和写作特色，培养理解和欣赏文学作品的能力。二、考核要求 (一) 文艺复兴时期
2、概述 1. 识记：（1）文艺复兴时期的界定 it refers to the period between the 14th Epithalamion (1595), a poem expressing the deep personal feelings occasioned by the poets second marriage; Amoretti (1595), a series of sonnets. 3. 领会 His Influence 1) Main qualities of Spensers poetry a perfect melody a rare sense of be
3、auty a splendid imagination a lofty moral purity it also reveals mans frustration in realizing the high aspirations in a hostile moral order. The last scene, in which Faustus confronts his doom, brilliantly renders the fear they are individuals representing certain types. Each character has his or h
4、er own personalities; meanwhile, they may share features with others. The soliloquies in his plays fully reveal the inner conflict of his characters. Shakespeare also portrays his characters in pairs. Contrasts are frequently used to bring vividness to his characters. The women in the plays are vivi
5、d creations, each differing from the others. Shakespeare was fond of portraying “mocking wenches,“ such as Kate of the Taming of the Shrew, Rosaline of Loves Labors Lost, instead, he borrows them from some old plays or storybooks, or from ancient Greek & Roman sources. There are usually several thre
6、ads running through the play, thus providing the story with suspense & apprehension. 3) Language In Shakespeares time, English grammar & spelling were not yet formalized, so Shakespeare could freely inter charge the various parts of speech, using nouns as adjectives or verbs, adjectives as adverbs,
7、& pronouns as nouns. Such freedom gave his language an extraordinary flexibility, which enabled him to express his thoughts as easily in poetry as in prose. Most of Shakespeares dramatic poetry is in blank verse, or unrhymed iambic pentameter. His bland verse is especially beautiful & mighty. He has an amazing wealth of vocabulary & idiom. His coinage of new words & distortion of the meaning of the old ones also create striking effects on the reader. 7. 应用 Selected Readings
