英美文学史
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英国文学史：
Beowulf:
?The national epic of the English people.
?Beowulf is the nephew of Hygelac, King of the Geats, a people in Jutland, Denmark.
?The most striking features: the use of alliteration头韵
?Other features are the use of metaphors and of understatements.隐喻/低调陈述
Romance传奇故事:
?the most prevailing kind of literature in feudal England was the romance
The Ballads:
?The most important department of English folk literature is the ballad.
Geoffrey Chaucer:
?The founder of English realism / founder of English poetry, born 1340.
?The father of English poetry / the father of English fiction
?The heroic couplet英雄双韵体
?The Canterbury Tales: prologue(前言)、20个完整的故事、还有四个故事残篇。
?The Prologue provides a framework for the tales.(前言)
?He is the first great people who wrote on the English language.
?文艺复兴时期：
Thomas More:
?Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of a conversation between More and Hyhloday, a
returned voyage.—prose散文
Christopher Marlowe:
?Three plays:
Tamburlaine / The Jew of Malta / Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare：
?One of the founders of Realism in English literature.
?Skilled in many poetic forms
? A great master of the English language.
?154 sonnets and 2 long poems.
?10 historical plays
作品分成三个时期:
1st: 1590-1594
?The Comedy of Errors《错误的戏剧》
?The Two Gentlemen of Verona《维罗纳的二绅士》
?The Taming of the Shrew《驯悍记》
?Love ‘s Labor’s Lost《爱的徒劳》
?Romeo and Juliet(earliest great success in tragedy)
2nd: 1595-1600 喜剧为主
?Midsummer Night’s Dream / The Merchant of Venice / As You Like It / Twelfth Night
?The Merry Wives of Windsor / Much Ado about Nothing
? 5 historical plays / Sonnets
3rd:1601-1607悲剧为主
?悲剧：Hamlet / Othello/ King Lear / Macbeth / Timon of Athens《雅典的泰门》
Othello: shows that noble-minded people may be led astray by evil forces in a evil society and commit heinous mistakes if they cannot distinguish falsehood from truth, and evil from good. It is a tragedy of humanism / it is also a tragedy of the colored people in a society of racial prejudice.
?喜剧：Troilus and Cressida /All is Well That Ends Well《吉人天相》/ Measure for Measure《以牙还牙》? 2 Roman tragedies: Antony and Cleopatra / Coriolanus
?17世纪文学：
John Milton:
? A master of the blank verse/ a great stylist.
?Lycidas《利西达斯》—elegy挽歌
?1665 Paradise Lost—long epic in 12 books, written in blank verse—main idea: a revolt against God’s
authority.
?1671 Paradise Regained—epic
?1671 Samson Agonistes—poetical drama.
John Bunyan:
?The Pilgrim’s Process—religious allegory宗教寓言
John Donne:
?The founder of Metaphysical School玄学派诗人的创始者
?The Flea《跳蚤》—求爱
?Holy Sonnets《圣十四行诗》
?Seeks out complex rhythms and strange images.
George Herbert:
?The saint of the Metaphysical school.
?The Altar《祭坛》
?18世纪文学：
Daniel Defoe:
?The father of English and European novels英国小说之父
?Captain Singleton,1720 / Moll Flanders, 1722
?The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe --–one of the forerunners of the English realistic
novel. It creates the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie of the 18th century.
鲁滨逊代表了资产阶级，Defoe在书中没有怪责黑人奴隶制。
Jonathan Swift:
? A great master of English prose. / A master of satirist and his irony is deadly.
?―P roper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style‖
? A Tale of a Tub / The Battle of the Books ---1704, made him well-known as a satirist.
?Bickerstaff Almanac-- 1708
?Gulliver’s Travels 1726 / A Modest Proposal 1729
?感伤主义与前浪漫主义—Sentimentalism(18c中) and Pre-Romanticism（18c后期）
Thomas Gray
?Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard(墓园挽歌)
William Blake
?Songs of Innocence: written for children, the best-known is The Lamb.
?Songs of Experience: the best-known are The Tiger, London and The Chimney-Sweeper.
? A Pre-Romantic or a forerunner of the Romantic poetry of the 19th century.
Robert Burns
?The greatest songwriter in the world. / the national poet of Scotland
? A Red, Red Rose / Auld Lang Syne / the Tree of Liberty
Romanticism浪漫主义
William Wordsworth
?Lake Poets / 1843, Poet Laureate桂冠诗人
?Lyrical Ballads（the break of classicism and the beginning of the Romantic Age）: Lines Composed a Few
Miles above Tintern Abbey《丁登寺旁》/ Lines Written in Early Spring《早春》/ I Wondered Lonely as
a Cloud / The Solitary Reaper
?自传体长诗：The Prelude
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
? A great poet and literary critic.
?The Rime of the Ancient Mariner《古舟子咏》/ Kubla Khan / Christabel
?第二代浪漫主义诗人
George Gordon Byron
?Byronic hero拜伦式的英雄
?She Walks in Beauty / When We Two Parted / Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage / Don Juan
Percy Bysshe Shelley
?Prometheus Unbound（drama）/ Ode to the West Wind / Love’s Philosophy
?Terza rima三行诗
John Keats
?Ode is the main form of poetry.
?Beauty is truth, truth beauty.—希腊古瓮颂，诗人对美的颂歌。
?Endymion《恩底弥翁》/ the Eve of Saint Agnes / Hyperion《赫披里昂》/ Ode on a Grecian Urn / Ode
to a Nightingale / Ode to Autumn
?Mid and Late 19th century----Victorian Period(criticism)维多利亚时期
Alfred Tennyson
?1850,Poet Laureate桂冠诗人
?Had a total mastery of the sounds and rhythms of the English language.
?Link descriptions of nature to the state of the mind
?The Princess / In Memoriam--elegy / Maud—monodrama / The Idylls of the King—epic
?The Eagle / Break, Break, Break
Robert Browning
?Dramatic monologue戏剧独白
?Men and Women / My Last Duchess / Meeting at Night
?Early 20th century现代时期英国文学
T. S. Eliot
?The Waste Land《荒原》/ Four Quartets《四个四重奏》
William Butler Yeats
?1923, Nobel Prize for literature.
?The Second Coming / Sailing to Byzantium / Leda and the Swan
James Joyce
?The founder of Stream of Consciousness意识流的创始人
?Araby / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Ulysses / Dubliners / Finnegan’s Wake
Virginia Woolf
?Mrs. Dalloway / To the Lighthouse / The Waves / A Room of One’s Own / Three Guineas《三个基尼》
D. H. Lawrence
?The Rocking-Horse Winner / Son and Lover / The Rainbow / Women in Love / Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Dylan Thomas
?Fern Hill《蕨山》
Philip Larkin
?The Trees
美国文学史：
?浪漫主义时期：
Ralph Waldo Emerson
?Leader of the Transcendentalism Movement超验主义运动的领导人
?Nature / The American Scholar / Essays(Self-Reliance) / Representative Men / English Traits
Nathaniel Hawthorne
?First great American writer of fiction第一个美国小说家
?The Scarlet Letter / Fanshawe《范肖》/ The House of the Seven Gables / The Blithedale Romance《福
谷传奇》/ Mosses from an Old Manse《古屋青苔》/The Marble Faun《玉石雕像》
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (19th century)
?葬在威斯敏斯特教堂的诗人角的非英籍诗人
?I shot an Arrow / a Psalm of Life《人生颂》---最著名的短诗/ Evangeline《伊凡吉琳》/ The Slave’s
Dream / My Lost Youth
Edgar Allan Poe
?The first American professional writer and the first writer of detective story in the world.
?To Helen / Sonnet—To Science / The Raven《乌鸦》/ Annabel Lee / The Fall of the House of Usher《厄舌
古厦的倒塌》---小说
Walt Whitman
? A great democratic poet, the first great American poet to use free verse in poetry.
?Leaves of Grass-----marked the birth of truly American poetry. America’s first genuine epic poem: / One’s
Self I Sing / O Captain! My Captain!(林肯被刺后)
Emily Dickinson
?To Make a Prairie… / Success Is Counted Sweetest / I’m Nobody! Who Are You?
?现实主义文学和自然主义19th century 70年代
Katherine Anne Porter
?The Jilting of Granny Weather all《被背弃的老祖母》
?20th century American Poets----现代主义文学
Ezra Pound
?The father of modern American poetry.美国现代诗歌之父
? A leading figure of imagism.意象派
?In a Station of the Metro / The Cantos《诗章》
Wallace Stevens
?Anec dote of the Jar
William Carlos Williams
?The Red Wheelbarrow《红色手推车》/ Spring and All《春天和一切》
Robert Frost
?Won the Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry 4 times
?The American ―unofficial poet laureate‖非官方的桂冠诗人
?Fire and Ice / Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening《雪夜林边驻脚》/ The Road Not Taken《未选择
的路》
Langston Hughes兰斯顿·休斯
?Dreams / Me and Mule / Border Line
Archibald MacLeish 阿奇博尔德·麦克利什
?Ars Poetica《诗艺》
Tennessee Williams
?The greatest American dramatists in the post-war period.
? A Streetcar Named Desire
Robert Lowell P254
?Skunk Hour《臭鼬的时刻》
Elizabeth Bishop
?In the Waiting Room
Theodore Roethke西奥多·罗特克
?The Waking
Allen Ginsberg
? A Supermarket in California
Sylvia Plath
?Point Shirley《雪莉角》
Robert Hayden
?Frederick Douglass《弗雷德里克·道格拉斯》
Robert Bly
?Driving Through Minnesota During the Hanoi Bombing《在轰炸河内时驾车穿越明尼苏达州》
Maya Angelou
?Still I Rise
Joseph Heller约瑟夫·海勒
?Catch-22
Toni Morrison
?Recitatif《宣叙》
《研究生英语英美文学欣赏》课程简介
《研究生英语英美文学欣赏》课程简介 课程编号： 课程名称：研究生英语英美文学欣赏 学时与学分：34学时/1学分 时间：2013-2 ---- 2013-7 教学对象：全日制非英语专业研究生 教师：刘晓燕等 课程描叙 一、课程性质和任务 本课程的目的是为培养理解和鉴赏英国和美国文学原著的能力而设置一门选修课程，旨在使学生掌握英国和美国文学源流和发展的基础上，通过阅读代表性的英国和美国文学作品，理解作品的内容，学会分析作品的艺术特色，并努力掌握正确评价文学作品的标准和方法，增强对作品中表现的社会生活和人物感情的理解，提高语言基本功和阅读文学作品的能力和鉴赏水平，提升整体人文素质。本课程的主要内容包括英国和美国文学史上代表作家的简要介绍和作品选读，结合英国和美国文学各个历史断代的主要历史背景，文学文化思潮和流派，社会政治、经济、文化等对英国和美国文学史上最具有影响、最具有代表性的作家的作品中的艺术特色、主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格和思想意义等进行深入地分析。 本课程主要为英美文学欣赏课，课堂讲授与研讨相结合。教师布置学生课前对作家生平、历史背景、和阅读材料进行研究，课堂上进行重点阅读和分析。本课程要求学生大量阅读，结合课堂上所讲授的英美文学的基本知识点和文学理论批评方法，体会经典文学作品的语言精妙之处、人物塑造方法、情节架构、文学修辞手法、写作技巧等等，并进而了解历史时代背景、文化知识、社会政经形势等。此外，本课程还要求学生能积极参与课堂讨论，鼓励新观点和新视角，能运用文学理论批评方法研究作品，学期中将不定期地布置相关作业，学期末将以学术论文的形式考查学习效果。 二、课程的教学内容及学时分配 第1学时英国文艺复兴时期简介 重点：文艺复兴；人文主义；主要作家和艺术特色 第2-3学时莎士比亚（I）（II） 重点：要重点理解莎士比亚思想和创作风格的变化，了解莎士比亚十四行诗的特点，品味莎士比亚作品的特色，能够对莎士比亚部分作品进行现代阐释。 第4学时弗朗西斯·培根和约翰·多恩 重点：理解培根的“论学习”的主要内容和修辞手法的运用；理解玄学派诗歌在16、17世纪的发展，其文艺宗旨与当时的文艺思潮的区别。
英美文学史 复习资料
美国文学史 1，Benjamin Franklin：merchant family，an apprentice in a printing house 2，Emerson：family：clergyman，philosophy of the soul，美国孔子，文明之父，transcendentalism（超验主义nature的出 版，nature is ennobling and individual is divine神圣的）chief spokesman, 最终除了你自己的思想头脑外,没有什么是神 圣的，the ame scholar（speech） 3，Ellen Poe：a poet and fiction writer，begin his literary by writing poets 4，Nathaniel Hawthorne：man and human history originates in puritanism（清教主义）,view ：there is evil in every heart，描写人性和社会的阴暗面，young goodman brown （desperate and gloomy）揭示每个人都有邪恶的秘密， rappaccini`s daughter(人性罪恶之源)，ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art，美国文学史上最受争议的 （ambivalent）,intellectuals us appears as villains(恶棍) in his story，the house of the seven gables，the marble faun，the blithedale romance，the scarlet letter（加尔文主义） 5，Walt Whitman：family：carpenter（木匠）free verse（自由诗体），leaves of grass(获得成功的原因：the democratic ideas)歌整体和部分，when the lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed
英国文学史及选读 复习要点总结
《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. 29. Laurence Sterne——“Tristram Shandy”项狄传 30. Richard Sheridan——“The School for Scandal” 31. Oliver Goldsmith——“The Traveller”(poem), “The Deserted V illage” (poem) (both two poems were written by heroic couplet), “The Vicar of Wakefield” (novel), “The Good-Natured Man” (comedy), “She stoops to Conquer” (comedy),
《英美文学资料》word版
《英美文学》（03119）复习大纲 第一部分英国文学 一、课程简介 本课程简要介绍英国各个历史断代的主要文学文化思潮,文学流派,主要作家; 本课程要求学生掌握英国文学史上各个时期的文学特点，出现的文学流派以及该时期一至两位重要作家的文学生涯,创作思想,艺术特色及代表作品；并要求学生做到在掌握有关知识理论的基础上使之转换这能力，即能用有关知识和理论来分析英国文学中的相关问题。 二、课程重点章节简介： 第一章:古代与中世纪英国文学 1. <<贝尔武夫>> 2. 乔叟及其代表作 第二章: 文艺复兴时期 1. 文艺复兴的定义 2. 萨士比亚的戏剧及十四行诗 3. 培根的代表作 第三章: 十七世纪英国文学 1.弥尔顿的代表作<<失乐园>>、诗剧<<力士参孙>>的主要内容及<<
失乐园>>选短
第四章: 启蒙运动时期 1.新古典主义 2.伤感主义 3.笛福及代表作 4.蒲伯及代表作 第五章: 浪漫主义时期 1.浪漫主义时期文学的特点 2.彭斯的创作特点及代表作 3.华兹华斯的创作特点及代表作 4.拜伦诗歌的特点及代表作 第六章: 维多利亚时期 1.维多利亚时期的文学特点 2.布朗蒂姐妹的代表作 第七章: 现代时期 1.现代主义文学 2.汤姆斯.哈代创作特点及代表作 3. D.H.劳伦斯创作特点及代表作 三、本课程重点和难点内容简介 第一章:古代与中世纪英国文学： 1．<<贝尔武夫>>简介及在英国文学史上的意义。
2．乔叟及其代表作《坎特伯雷故事集》对英国文学做出的贡献。3．名词解释“骑士抒情诗” 第二章: 文艺复兴时期： 1.文艺复兴时期的时间界定 2.“文艺复兴”的名词解释 3.“人文主义” 的名词解释 4.莎士比亚的“Sonnet 18”的主题 5.哈姆雷特的性格分析 6.英语解释《论学习》中的句子 第三章: 十七世纪英国文学： 1.英语解释弥尔顿《失乐园》选段中的句子 2.《失乐园》的主要内容和意义 3.《失乐园》中撒旦的人物分析 第四章: 启蒙运动时期： 1.启蒙运动时期的界定 2.新古典主义的基本主张和特色 3.伤感主义的名词解释 4.《鲁滨逊漂流记》中鲁滨逊的人物分析 5.蒲伯的《论批评》的主题
英美文学史(作家及作品)
English Literature Geoffrey Chaucer: the Father of English Poetry the Founder of English Realism the Master of modern English language The pioneer of the English Renaissance Beowulf: National epic of the Anglo-Saxons The story of Beowulf is a folk legend which reflects the feature of the tribal world.
英国文学史
Charlotte Bronte 24 Charlotte’s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life. In her mind, man’s life is composed of perpetual battle between sin and virtue, good and evil. Besides, she is a writer of realism combined with romanticism. On one hand, she presents a vivid realistic picture of the English society by exposing the cruelty, hypocrisy and other evils of the upper classes, and by showing the misery and suffering of the poor. On the other hand, her writings are marked throughout by an intensity of vision and of passion. Idylls of the King 53 Idyll is a short poem describing an incident of country life in terms of idealized innocence and contentment, or any such episode in a poem or prose work. The term is virtually synonymous with pastoral poem. The title of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, a sequence of Arthurian romance, bears little relation to the usual meaning. The Ring and the Book 64 The publication of the Ring and the Book established Browning’s position as one of the greatest English poets. My Last Duchess 63 Dramatic monologue is a kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the poet speaks to a silent “ audience” of one or more persons. Such poems reveal not the poet’s own thoughts but the mind of the impersonated character, whose personality is revealed unwittingly. It is in Browning’s hands that this poetic form reaches its maturity and perfection. “ Pippa Passes”, “ My Last Duchess,”The Bishuop Orders His Tomb”, “ The Ring and the Book” What does Wordsworth’s poem “ the Solitary Reaper” tell us about Romanticist? 1To romanticists. Poetry i s an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are. 2 Romanticists take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern. 3Romanticists are not patient people; they would leave before the revelation of the theme. 4 Poetry should present the apparent and tangible. 2. The Romantic period is an age of poetry. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron and Keats are the major poets. They started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, which was later regarded as _______. A. the poetic romance B. the poetic movement C. the poetic revolution D. the poetic reformation 4. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except __________. the using of everyday language spoken by the common people the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings the humble and rustic life as subject matter elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
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英美文学史名词解释 1.English Critical Realism English critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the early fifties. The realists first and foremost criticized the capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated (portrayed) the crying (extremely shocking) contradictions of bourgeois reality. The greatness of the English realists lies not only in their satirical portrayal of bourgeoisie and in the exposure of the greed and hypocrisy of the ruling classes, but also in their sympathy for the laboring people. Humor and satire are used to expose and criticize the seamy (dark) side of reality. The major contribution of the critical realists lies in their perfection of the novel. Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray are the most important representative of English critical realism. 2.The "Stream of Consciousness" The "stream of consciousness" is a psychological term indicating "the flux of conscious and subconscious thoughts and impressions moving in the mind at any given time independently of the person's will." In late 19th century,
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Comment on Walden In 1845, Thoreau decided to conduct an experiment of self-sufficiency by building his own house on the shores of Walden Pond and living off the food he grew on his farm. He sought to reduce his physical needs to a minimum, in order to free himself for study, thought, and observation of nature, himself. Walden can be many things and can be read on more than one level. But it is, first and foremost, a book about man, what he is, and what he should be and must be. Considered one of the all-time great books, Walden is a record of Thoreau's two year experiment of living at Walden Pond. The writer's chief emphasis is on the simplifications and enjoyment of life now. It is regarded as 1. a nature book.2. a do-it-yourself guide to simple life. 3. a satirical criticism of modern life and living. 4. a belletristic achievement 5. a spiritual book. The Scarlet Letter Symbolic meaning of the letter “A” :1.The scarlet letter “A” is the central symbol of the novel. At the beginning it symbolized the sin of Hester—“adultery”, 2.then gradually when Hester became accepted by the community, it stands for Hester’s intelligence and diligence—“able”. 3.At the end of the novel the symbol has evolved to represent the high virtues of Hester Prynne—“angel”. Comments on The Scarlet Letter:1.The theme of the story should be the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin on people. 2.Scarlet Letter is a cultural allegory, in which the author indirectly tells the future of Puritanism.3.Scarlet Letter is a sample in which American Romanticism adapted itself to American Puritanism.(Because of the strong influence of Puritanism in American society, Hawthorne only expressed his ideas on the sin indirectly by employing symbolism.) Symbolism in the novel Moby Dick A. the voyage itself is a metaphor for “search and discovery, the search for the ultimate truth of experience.” B. the Pequod is the ship of the American soul and consciousness. C. Moby Dick is a symbol of evil to some, of goodness to others, and of both to still others. D. The whiteness of Moby Dick is a paradoxical color, signifying death and corruption as well as purity, innocence and youth; it represents the final mystery of the universe. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Setting: unpopulated wildness an a dense forest along Mississippi River Characters:1.Ignorant uneducated black slave Jim2.Uneducated outcast white boy Huck Finn。Theme: Huck’s inner waving struggle between what he was taught and what he thought out of good-heart and humanity.Its Features：1.Profound portrait of Huckleberry Finn 2.Magic power with language, the use of vernacular. 3. Humor In a Station of the Metro1 by Ezra Pound The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough. Note: 1。a Paris subway station Analysis of this poem The poem’s form is similar to Japanese haiku, with considering its title as a verse-line. The word “apparition” has double meaning:1. “appearance”, something which can be clearly observed;2. something which seems real but perhaps is not real; something ghostly which cannot be clearly observed. Petals may refer to the faces in the crowd, while bough may refer to the railway in the Metro.
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英美文学欣赏知识点100句 1.The work that presented,for the first time in English literature,a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. 首次在英国文学，中世纪英国社会的全面逼真的画面，创造了从各行各业生动的人物整体画廊是杰弗里·乔叟的坎特伯雷故事集。 2. Geoffrey Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry. 乔叟被看作是英国诗歌之父。 3. The verse form of heroic couplet was introduced into English poetry and employed in the poem with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English literature by Geoffrey Chaucer. 3.英雄对联的诗体被引入英国诗歌和诗与真正的轻松和魅力，第一次在英国文学的杰弗里·乔叟的历史就业。 4. The Canterbury Tales presents a whole gallery of vivid characters,the team of pilgrims,people from all walks of life,including 31 members altogether. 4.坎特伯雷故事呈现生动的人物整体画廊，朝圣者的队伍，来自各行各业，其中包括31名成员共有人。 5. Generally,Renaissance refers to the intellectual movement during the period between 14th and mid-17th centuries,its essence was humanism. 5.一般来说，文艺复兴是指智力运动在14和中17世纪之间的时期，它的本质是人文精神。 6. English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama.
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Preview for William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 1.Identify the poetic form （01黄唯隽，02李景怡） 2. What is the dominant image? How does the speaker feel like about this image?Is the speaker’s mood changed at the sight of this image? （03黎露琼，04刘江雨） 3. What kind of figures of speech are used here? What is the feature of the language? （05周嘉慧，06罗慧） 4.How do you interpret “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility” ?(use some of the poetic lines) （07吴明珠，08阳灿） She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways Try to appreciate the poem (meter, rhyme, theme ,rhetorical devices, etc.). https://www.360docs.net/doc/487749028.html,pare William Wordsworth and Tao Yuanming. What are their similarities and dissimilarities? （09彭腾，10孙琴） Preview for Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice Questions for consideration: 6. Pride and Prejudice is also named “the first impression”, do you think that the first impression is very important for you to know others? （11段冬平，12张贵红） 7. Must a single man in possession of a good fortune, be in want of a wife? If your answer is “no”, how would you improve this “truth”? （13王瑞芳，14李亮） 8. What are your opinions on love and marriage? （15曾卉，16章晗）
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I. Old English Literature & The Late Medieval Ages