英国文学复习提纲
英国文学史资料British Writers and Works
I. Old English Literature & The Late Medieval Ages
Epic: long narrative poems that record the adventures or heroic deeds of a hero enacted in vast landscapes. The style of epic
is grand and elevated.
e.g. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
Artistic features:
https://www.360docs.net/doc/ae14609044.html,ing alliteration
Definition of alliteration: a rhetorical device, meaning
some words in a sentence begin with the same consonant sound
（头韵）
Some examples on P5
https://www.360docs.net/doc/ae14609044.html,ing metaphor and understatement
Definition of understatement: expressing something in a
controlled way Understatement is a typical way for Englishmen
to express their ideas
Geoffery Chaucer 杰弗里?乔叟1340(?)~1400
(首创“双韵体”，英国文学史上首先用伦敦方言写作。约翰·德莱顿（John Dryden）称其为“英国诗歌之父”。代表作《坎特伯雷故事集》。)
The father of English poetry.
writing style: wisdom, humor, humanity.
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first time to use ‘heroic couplet’(双韵体) by middle English
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Medieval Ages’ popular Literary form: Romance(传奇故事)
Famous three：King Arthur
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Beowulf
II The Renaissance Period
A period of drama and poetry. The Elizabethan drama is the real
mainstream of the English Renaissance.
Renaissance: the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
Three historical events of the Renaissance – rebirth or revival:
1.new discoveries in geography and astrology
2.the religious reformation and economic expansion
3.rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture
The most famous dramatists:
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Ben Johnson.
1.Edmund Spenser埃德蒙?斯宾塞1552~1599
（后人称之为“诗人的诗人”。） The poets’ poet.The first to be buried in the Poet’s corner of Westerminster Abbey
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The theme is not “Arms and the man”, but something more romantic “Fierce wars and faithfull loves”.
Artistic features:
https://www.360docs.net/doc/ae14609044.html,ing Spenserian Stanza
Definition of Spenserian Stanza:a stanza of nine lines ababbcbcc. Eight lines in iambic pentameter, and last
line in iambic hexameter.
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The theme is to lament over the loss of Rosalind.
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2. Thomas More托马斯?莫尔1478~1535
One of the greatest English humanists
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3. Francis Bacon弗兰西斯?培根1561~1626
（哲学家、散文家；在论述探究知识的著作中提出了知识就是力量这一著名论断；近代唯物主义哲学的奠基人和近代实验科学的先驱。）Philosopher, scientist, lay the foundation for modern science. The first English essayist.
Writing style: brevity, compactness&powerfulness, well-arranging and enriching by Biblical allusions, metaphors and philosophy to man’s reason.
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The theme of Of Studies: uses and benefits of study and
different ways adopted by different
people to pursue studies.
4. Ben Jonson
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5. Christopher Marlowe柯里斯托弗?马洛1564~1595
“University Wits”, the pioneer of English drama
（完善了无韵体诗。）
Blank verse: written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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6. William Shakespeare威廉?莎士比亚1564~1616
①Historical plays:Henry VI ; Henry IV : Richard III ; Henry
V ；Richard II；Henry VIII
②Four Comedies:
二夜; 仲夏夜之梦;
③Four Tragedies:
李尔王;
④Shakespeare Sonnet :154
Three quatrain and one couplet, ababcdcdefefgg
A sonnet is a lyric consisting of 14 lines,
usually in iambic pentameter restricted to a
definition rhyme scheme.
III The 17th Century
1. John Milton约翰?弥尔顿1608~1674
（诗人、政论家;失明后写《失乐园》、《复乐园》、《力士参孙》。）
①Epics:
②Dramatic poem: < Samson Agonistes>力士参孙
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This sonnet is written in iambic pentameter rhymed in abba abba
cde cde, typical of Italian sonnet.
Its theme is that people use their talent for God, and they serve
him best sho can endure the suffering best.
2. John Bunyan约翰?班扬1628~1688
（代表作《天路历程》，宗教寓言，被誉为“具有永恒意义的百科全书”，是英国文学史上里程碑式著作。与但丁的《神曲》、奥古斯丁的《忏悔录》并列为世界三大宗教题材文学杰作。）
Puritan poet(清教徒派诗人)
①Religionary Allegory:
3. John Donne
the Metaphysical poet(玄学派诗人).
Metaphysical Poetry(玄学诗)：（用语）the diction is simple, the imagery is from the actual, (形式)the form is frequently an argument with the poet’s beloved, with god, or with himself.（主题：love, religious, thought）
Artistic features:
1.conceits or imagery奇思妙喻
2.syllogism三段论
① Meditations 沉思录
The Flea 虱子
② Songs And Sonnets
Holy Sonnets
③Valediction:
IV The 18th Century
A revival of interest in the old classical works, order, logic, restrained emotion(抑制情感) and accuracy
The Age of Enlightenment/Reason:the movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centries, a progressive intellectual movement, reason(rationality), equality&science(the 18th century)小说崛起：In the mid-century, the newly literary form, modern English novel rised(realistic novel现实主义小说)
Gothic novel(哥特式小说)：mystery, horror, castles(from middle part to the end of century)
1. Alexander Pope亚历山大?蒲柏1688~1744
（18世纪英国最伟大的诗人，其诗多用“英雄双韵体”/ “ heroic couplets”。词句工整、精练、富有哲理性。）
One of the first to introduce rationalism to England.
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Artistic features:
https://www.360docs.net/doc/ae14609044.html,ing “heroic couplets”
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2. Samuel Johnson塞缪尔?约翰逊1709~1784
①Dictionary =英语大词
典
3. Jonathan Swift乔纳森?斯威夫特1667~1745
（十八世纪杰出的政论家和讽刺小说家a master satirist。）
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Four parts:
Lilliput 小人国 Brobdingnag 大人国
Flying Island 飞岛 Houyhnhnm 马岛
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③ 木桶的故事
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4. Daniel Defoe丹尼尔?笛福1660~1731
（小说家，新闻记者，小册子作者；十八世纪英国现实主义小说的奠基人。）
He is the first writer study of the lower-class people,hislanguage is smooth, easy, colloquial and mostly
vernacular, and he is the founder of realistic novel.
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It praise the fortitude of the human labor and the Puritan.
Robinson grew from a naive and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man,tempered by numerous trials in his eventful
life.
It is an adventure story, Robinson, narrates how he goes to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned on a lonely island,
struggles to live for 24-years there and finally gets
relieved and returns to England.
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5. Henry Fielding亨利?菲尔丁1707~1754
（英国小说家，戏剧家，被誉为“英国小说之父” 。）
He is called “Father of English novel”. He was the first to write a “Comic epic in prose”(散文体史诗), and the first to
give the modern novel its structure and style.
① novels:
② plays:
6. Oliver Goldsmith奥利弗?格尔德斯密斯1730~1774
① poems:
② novel:
7. Richard Brinsley Sheridan理查德?布林斯利?谢立丹1751~1816
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8. William Blake威廉?布莱克1757~1827
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A happy and innocent world from children’s eye.
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A word of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression
with a melancholy tone from men eyes.
Include:
Lamb is a symbol of peace and purity
Tyger is a symbol of dread and oiolence
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9. Robert Burns罗伯特?彭斯1759~1796
The greatest Scottish poet in the late 18th century.
Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect主要用苏格兰方言写的诗
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② 一朵红红的玫瑰
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④ 不管那一套
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V The Romantic Period
The romantic period began in 1798 the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s
Romanticism:It emphasize the specialqualitie of each
individual’s mind.(人应该是独立自由的个体) In it, emotion over reason, spontaneous emotion, a
change from the outer world of social civilization to
the inner world of the human spirit, poetry should be
free from all rules, imagination, nature, commonplace.
Two major novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen (realistic) and Walter Scott (romantic).
“The Lake Poets”湖畔诗人，who lived in the lake district.
William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Robert Southey
1. William Wordsworth威廉?华兹华斯1770~1850
（与柯尔律治、骚塞同被称为“湖畔派”诗人。 The Lake Poets）
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Theme:1.Nature embodies human beings in their diverse
circumstance. It is nature that give him
“strength and knowledge fullof peace”
2.It is bliss to recolled the beauty of nature
in poet mind while he is in solitude.
Comment:The poet is very cheerful with recalling the
beautiful sights. In the poem on the beauty
of nature, the reader is presented a vivid
picture of lively and lovely daffodils(水仙)
and poet’s philosophical ideas and mystical
thoughts.
③Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
④The Solitary Reaper孤独的割麦女
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2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge塞缪尔?泰勒?科尔律治1772~1834
The Lake Poets
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Artistic features:mysticism, demonism with strong
imagination, a strange territory
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3. George Gordon Byron乔治?戈登?拜伦1788~1824
（拜伦式英雄Byronic heroes孤傲、狂热、浪漫，却充满了反抗精神。
内心充满了孤独与苦闷，却又蔑视群小。恰尔德·哈罗德是拜伦诗歌中第一个“拜伦式英雄”。）
“Byronic hero”is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin, against tyrannical rules or moral principles.
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4. Persy Bysshe Shelley波西?比希?雪莱1792~1822
①Poetic Drama：
Theme: the drama celebraies man’s victory over tyranny
and oppression
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③Lyrics:
Theme: The author express his eagerness to enjoy the
boundless freedom from the reality. Compare the
west wind to destroyer of the old who drives the
last signs of life from the trees, and preserver
of the new who scatter the seads shich sill come
to life in the spring. This is a poem about renewal,
about the wind blowing life back into dead things,
implying not just an arc of life (which would end at death)
but a cycle, which only starts again when something dies.
Comment:Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" is
written in iambic pentameter. It contains five sonnet
length stanzas, each with a closing couplet. The rhyming
scheme form is aba bcb cdc ded ee. The tone is poignant.
Many will agree that this poem is an invocation for an
unseen force to take control and revive life.
Artistic features:
Using rerza rima(三行诗aba bcb cdc ded efe …)
5. John Keats约翰?济慈1795~1821
(“美即是真，真即是美”是他的著名诗句。)
① Four great odes:
②
Theme: The theme of John Keats' poem, "To Autumn", is that
change is both natural and beautiful. The poem
praises the glories of the fall season by using
almost every type of imagery to both charm and
appeal to the reader.
Comment: The speaker in the poem acknowledges that time
passes by, but also asserts that this change
usually yields something new and better than
what came before. Each of the poem's three
stanzas represents the evolving of two different
types of change. One type of change shown in the
poem is the change of periods in a day.
6. Jane Austen简?奥斯丁1775~1817
She compared her works to a fine engraving upon a literary piece of ivory only inches squire.
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【Elizabeth Bennet & Darcy】in the end false pride is
humbled and prejudice dissolved 【Collins & Charlotte Lucas】see the reality of marriage
as a necessary step if a woman is
to avoid the wretchedness of
aging spinsterhood
【Lydia & Wickham】shown the dangers of feckless
relationships unsupported by
money.
【Mr.&Mrs. Bennet, Mr. Collins, Lady Catherine de Burgh】
comic characters
7. Walter Scott沃尔特?斯科特1771~1832
(历史小说之父”)Father of history novels
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VI The Victorian Period
Common sense and moral propriety again became the predominant preoccupation. Critical realists were all concerned about the fate of the common people and everyday events.
1. Charles Dickens查尔斯?狄更斯1812~1870
（批判现实主义小说家）critical realist writer
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④ 圣诞颂歌
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2. William Makepeace Thackeray威廉?麦克匹斯?萨克雷1811~1863
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excerpt from
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3. Charlotte Bronte夏洛蒂?勃朗特1816~1855
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Jane Eyre, a plain little orphan, was sent to Lowood, a charity school. There she suffer a lot and 8 years later she
left school and became a boverness at Thornfield Hall. There
she falls in love with the master,Mr. Rochester.
It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society,
e.g. charity institution such as Lowood School
It is a successful introduction to the first governess heoine in the English novel, whom represents those
middle-class working women struggling for recognition of their
basic rights and equality as a human being.
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4. Emily Bronte艾米莉?勃朗特1818~1854
① < Wuthering Heights>呼啸山庄
A story about two familie and an intruding stranger.
【TheEarnshaw Family】Mr. Earnshaw, his wife, the son Hindley,
the daughter Catherine, Heathcliff
【The Linton Family】Mr.Linton, his wife, son Edgar, daughter
Isabella
② < Old Stoic>
5. George Eliot乔治?艾略特1819~1880
①
② < Adam Bede>亚当?比德
③ < Silas Marner>织工马南
④< Middlemarch>米德尔马契
6. Alfred Tennyson阿尔弗莱德?丁尼生1809~1892
（维多利亚时代最具代表性的伟大诗人）
Poet Laureate （桂冠诗人）
① < In Memoriam>悼念
To memorialize his friend
② < Break, Break, Break>冲击、冲击、冲击
③ < Idylls of the King>国王叙事诗
7. Robert Browning罗伯特?白朗宁1812~1889
① < My Last Dutchess>我已故的公爵夫人
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Elizabeth Barrett Browing:
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8. Robert Louis Stevenson
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9. Thomas Hardy托马斯?哈代1840~1928
（小说多以农村生活为背景；自然主义小说家。Wessex novels; novels of character and environment）
⑴ Novels
①
Theme:experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration
② < Jude The Obscure>无名的裘德
③ < Under The Greenwood Tree>绿荫下
④< Far From The Madding Crowd>远离尘嚣
⑤ < The Mayor Of Casterbridge>卡斯特桥市长
⑥< The Return of the Native>还乡
⑵Poems
Wessex Poems And Other Verses
Poems Of The Past And Present
The Dynasts 列国
VII 1900~1950 The 20th Century
Playwrights
① Oscar Wilde
② George Bernard Shaw
1. Oscar Wilde奥斯卡?王尔德1856~1900
（The Aesthetic Movement: Art for Art’s Sake）
① 4 Comedies:
② Novel:
③Fairy Stories:
2. George Bernard Shaw乔治?伯纳?萧1856~1950
(英国杰出的批判现实主义剧作家）critical realistic dramatist
⑴ Plays
① Plays Unpleasant
② Plays Pleasant
③Plays
Novelists (Realists)
1. Joseph Concrad
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②
1.Why the book’s title is Heart of Darkness?
The story happened in Congo, the heart of Africa, and the color of people’s skin in there is black. Most important point
about the title is to the evil in humans’ heart.
2.What is the symbolism of black and white
【Black / dark- 】death, evil, ignorance, mystery, savagery,
uncivilized
Middle Ages, when science and knowledge was
suppressed, as the Dark Ages.
According to Christianity, in the beginning of
time all was dark and God created light.
According to Heart of Darkness, before the
Romans came, England was dark. In the same way,
Africa was considered to be in the “dark
stage”.
【White / light】life, goodness, enlightenment, civilized,
religion.
Yet, in Concrad, the usual pattern is reverse and
darkness means truth(The truth within,
therefore dark and obscure.), whiteness means
falsehood. This contrast tells a political
truth about colonialism in the Congo.The
contrast also suggests a psychological truth
about Marlow and the Europeans mind.
White also suggests any number of unpleasant
moral truths. The trade in ivory is white and
dirty.Kurtz the white man is totally corrupt
https://www.360docs.net/doc/ae14609044.html,ment
The book implies that civilizations are created by the laws and codes that encourage men to achieve higher standards.
The law acts as a buffer to prevent men from reverting back
to their darker tendencies.
Civilization, however, must be learned. London itself, in the book a symbol of enlightenment, was once "one of the
darker places of the earth" before the Romans forced
civilization upon the Britons.But civilized society does not
get rid of primeval savage tendencies which lurk in the
background.
This savagery is seen in Kurtz. Marlow meets Kurtz and he finds a man that has totally thrown off the restraint of
civilization and has de-evolved into a primitive state.
4.Character
【Kurtz】 represents what every man will become if left to his own intrinsic desires without a protective, civilized
environment.
【Marlow】 represents the civilized soul that has not been drawn back into savagery by a dark, alienating jungle.
5.Narrative Structure
In Heart of Darkness, we have an outside narrator telling us a story he has heard from Marlow. The story Marlow tells
centers around Kurtz.However, most of what Marlow knows about
Kurtz, he has learned from others.They have good reason for
not being truthful to Marlow. Therefore Marlow has to piece
together much of Kurtz’s story.
2. William Somerset Maugham
3. Edward Morgan Foster (E.M.Foster)
Modernists
⑴ 3 Novelists
① James Joyce
② David Herbert Lawrence
③ Virgirnia Woolf
1. David Herbert Lawrence戴维?赫伯特?劳伦斯1885~1930
①
【Mrs. Morel】, daughter of a middle-class family, is "a woman
of character and refinement", a strong-willed, intelligent and
ambitious woman who is fascinated by a warm, vigorous and
sensuous coal miner, Walter Morel, and married beneath her own
class.Then, she was desponded at her husband and put her love
to her sons. She h opes that they will become outstanding
【Paul Morel】depends heavily on his mother’s love and help
to make sense of the world around him. He struggle to free from
his mother’s influence, but he failed. After his mother has
died and he is left alone, in despair.
Theme:
Lawrence was one of the first novelists to introduce themes of psychology into his works. He believed that the
healthy way of the individual’s psychological development lay
in the primacy of the life implulse, or in another term, the
sexual impulse.huaman sexuality was, to Lawrence, a symbol of
life force.by presenting the psychological experience of
indivudual human life and of human relationships, Lawrence has
opened up a wide new territory to the novel
Oedipus Complex is a thematic feature of D. H.
Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
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2. James Joyce詹姆斯?乔伊斯1882~1941
（爱尔兰小说家，意识流小说的代表人物）stream-of-consciousness
3. Virginia Woolf弗吉尼娅?沃尔芙1882~1941
（意识流小说的代表人物）stream-of-consciousness
① Novels
⑵ 2 Poets
① W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats )
② T.S. Eliot ( Thomas Sterns Eliot )
1.William Butler Yeats威廉?勃特勒?叶茨1865~1939
（爱尔兰诗人，剧作家； The Irish nationalist movement 爱尔兰独立运动； The Irish Literary Revival 爱尔兰文艺复兴； The Irish Literary Theater, or the Abbey Theater 爱尔兰民族剧团）
⑴ collections
①
②
⑵ Poems
2. Thomas Sterns Eliot（诗人，剧作家，批评家）
⑴ Poems
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⑵ Plays ①
VIII. Contemporary British Writings
(poets and novelists
before and after WWII)
Chapter 1 social, historical and intellectual background
?The international tension grew more and more acute.
?From WWI to WWII
? WWII 1939-1945
? After WWII
8.1 contemporary poetry
?A. W.H. Auden
?B. Dylan Thomas
?C. Hugh MacDiarmid
?D. Ted Hughes
A. W.H. Auden
?During the 1930s,the most active English poets were the "Auden Group". They saw the spread of depression in England and the rise of fascism in Europe.
?Wystan Hugh Auden: he is a left-wing poet
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B. Dylan Thomas
?H e has been called the last romantic poet or the new romantic poet of 20th century.
?D ylan Thomas
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C. Hugh MacDiarmid
?A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
?His principle of poetic creation:
?originating from the life, but rising higher than life.
D. Ted Hughes 1930-
特德·休斯
?The Hawk in the Rain 雨中鹰（poem）
8.2 Contemporary Novelists
?A. E. M. Forster
?B. Evelyn Waugh
?C. Graham Greene
?D. Aldous Huxley
?E. George Orwell
?F. William Golding
?G. Doris Lessing
?H. Margret Drabble
A. E. M. Forster
?Novelist, critic, essayist
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?These four were written to be "redolent of an age that was shaking off the shackles of Victorianism."
B. Evelyn Waugh
?N ovelist
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C. Graham Greene
?30 novels
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D. Aldous Huxley
?W orks:
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E. George Orwell
?L eft-wing intellectual, Novelist, essayist, journalist
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F. William Golding
?N ovelist; 1983 Nobel Prize Winner
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G. Doris Lessing
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H. Margret Drabble (1939 - )
?A Summer Bird Cage (1963)
?The Garrick Year (1964)
?The Millstone (1965)
?Jerusalem the Golden (1967)
?The Waterfall (1969)
?The Needle's Eye (1972)
?The Realms of Gold (1975)
?The Ice Age (1977)
?The Middle Ground (1980)
?A Natural Curiosity (1989)
?The Gates of Ivory (1991)
I. A.S. Byatt (1936- )
?The Game (1967)
?The Virgin in the Garden (1978)?The Possession: A Romance (1990)?Babel Tower (1997)
?The Biographer's Tale, 2000
?Portraits in Fiction, 2001
?The Bird Hand Book 2001
?A Whistling Woman, 2002
8.3 Contemporary Drama
?A. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
?B. Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
A. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
?Waiting for Godot (1953)
?Act Without Words (1956)
?Endgame (1957)
?Krapp's Last Tape (1958)
?Rough for Theatre (late 1950s) ?Happy Days (1961)
?Come and Go (1965)
?That Time (1975)
?Footfalls (1975)
?A Piece of Monologue (1980)
?Rockaby (1981)
?Catastrophe (1982)
B. Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
?The Birthday Party (1957)
?The Hothouse (1958/1980)
?The Dumb Waiter (1959)
?The Caretaker (1959)
?The Homecoming (1964)
? Betrayal (1978)
?Memory Plays:
?Landscape (1968)
?Night (1969)
?Old Times (1971)
?No Man's Land (1975)
?Betrayal (1978)
?Family Voices (1981)
英国文学期末考试题目(英语专业必备)
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英国文学期末考试题目英语专业必备
一．中古英语时期 ?Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and the most important specimen (范例、典范)of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language. ?The romance is a popular literary form in the medieval period（中世纪）. It uses verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or other heroic deeds. ?Geoffrey?Chaucer, one?of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales（《坎特伯雷故事集》）,was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature. ?Chaucer is considered as the father of English poetry and the founder of English realism. 二．文艺复兴Renaissance ?Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It marks a transition(过渡) from the medieval to the modern world. ?It started in Italy with the flowering of painting, sculpture（雕塑）and literature, and then spread to the rest of Europe. ?Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. ?This was England’s Golden Age in literature. Queen Elizabeth reigned over the country in this period. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is the Elizabethan drama. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England ? ?“Of Studies” is the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays. ?Thomas More ——Utopia ?Edmund Spenser——The Faerie Queene 相关练习 ? 1. Which is the oldest poem in the English language? ? A. Utopia B. Faerie Queene ? C. Beowulf D. Hamlet ? 2. _____ is the father of English poetry. ? A. Edmund Spenser B. William Shakespeare ? C. Francis Bacon D. Geoffrey Chaucer ? 3. ____ is not a playwright during the Renaissance period on England. ? A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer ? C. Christopher Marlowe D. Ben Johnson 三．莎士比亚William Shakespeare ?“All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”——William Shakespeare ?William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the world and the finest poet who has written in the English language. Shakespeare understood people more than any other writers. He could create characters that have
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Bartleby英国文学期末论文
Interpretation of “Bartleby” 2012 English Class, 1204402019, Crush Abstract Herman Melville?s tale “Bartleby”is one of those highly acclaimed symbolic short stories in the 19th century. Bartleby is an exploited worker in the capitalistic prison—Wall Street. To some critics, he is “a Thoreau-like practitioner of passive resistance”or “an autobiographical projection of Melville as alienated author.”1In this article, I am going to concentrate on the dark, ruthless commercial society and its defective capitalist values the narrator wants to reveal in “Bartleby”; specifically, I will illustrate how the narrator?s failure to understand the existence of Bartleby and to help him indicates the limitations of rationalism. Further more, I will also try to explain what does Bartleby really need, and how can people really save him from terrible forlornness. Key words Bartleby society limitation rationalism capitalist values Melville?s “Bartleby”is narrated by the first-person narrator, as he describes himself, is “a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best…one of those unambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury, or in any way draws down public applause; but in the cool tranquility of a snug retreat, do a snug business among rich men?s bonds and mortgages and title-deeds.” He is quite satisfied with his profitable life. He is proud of himself in his successful business and proudly attached that he was once employed and praised by John Jacob Astor: “All who know me consider me an eminently safe man. The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my next method.”The narrator is a typical business man of Wall Street—the epitome of the increasing urbanized, capital-driven society. The author does not set Wall Street as the backdrop randomly, but uses it 1(journal articles) Y on-jae Jung, “The Poe-esque Elements in Melville?s…Bartleby the Scrivener?”, Foreign Literature Studies 4 (2009), p. 63.
《英国文学选读》课程教学大纲
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英国文学试题
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“英国文学选读”课程研究论文写作规范和要求
Selected Readings of English Literature “英国文学选读”课程研究论文写作规范和要求 一、论文写作规范 1、逻辑思维训练： 整理引入眼帘的简单物件，按一定思路规则分类，注意物品的外延与内涵关系；大家在整理思路时，就要用我们做的逻辑思维训练方法： （1）把你所有的想法、本文要素、理论概论等等（大-小，简单-复杂，前-后）都写下来：就像写下屋子里所有物件； （2）仔细审视这些想法、要素、概念，试着按你一定的规律排列起来。注意这些想法或要素之间的关系，外延与内涵关系、因果关系、前后关系等等；（3）保留你最感兴趣，组织最合理的部分，细化成为你的论文主题。 2、写作基本原则 - 基本原则：读书要宽，下笔要窄 - 细读文学文本； - 读作家自己的文论、日记、信件，搜寻作家创作动机和理念作为直接证据- 读文学评论家的评论，搜集旁证 3、论文基本要素 1）标题 2）开篇章 3）文献综述（这次省略） 4）主题 5）问题切入点与理论视角 6）论证（相关文本论据、作者的非文本论据、其他论据） 7）结论 8）引用文献 二、论文题目（从以下所列的论文标题中选一个进行写作）
The Canterbury Tales: A Song of Spring Sonnet 18: A Song of Eternity On the Rhetoric Skills in Sonnet 18 On the Rhetoric Skills in The Canterbury Tales On the Themes of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 The View of Love in A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning The Use of Metaphor and Conceits in A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning On the Themes of Robinson Crusoe Satires and Symbols in Gulliver’s Travels 三、论文写作内容 1、开篇章Introduction / Opening Paragraph / Topic Sentence 交代时代背景、作家简介 2、论证与论据 论据：相关文本论据（被评论作品）、作者的非文本论据（作家本人的文论、日记、书信等）、其他论据（文学评论家的论著） 3、结语 总结你自己的论文中所假设的研究论题是否已经得到解决，得到什么样的结论。一般用完成时。 注意：不是总结该部作品；切忌不要又开始论证。 四、长度、参考文献 1、页数：5页（正文：小四号或者12号；1.5倍行距） 2、参考文献：4-5条英文论著来源（包括被评论作品）。各条文献按字母顺序排 列，小四号字。 3、采用MLA格式标注：包括文内参考文献标注和文尾的引用作品。 五、评分标准 Idea (40%) Structure (20%) Language (30%) Format (10%) Total (100%)
《英国文学史及选读》课程教学大纲
《英国文学史及选读》课程教学大纲 一．课程基本情况： 1．编号：01015065, 01015096 (翻译方向)； 02015055,02015106 (教育方向) 2．层次与学制：本科, 四年制 3．总学时：68 4．学期与周学时：第五，六学期；周学时: 2 5．学分：2 6．执笔人：夏丹 二、课程性质与任务： 本课程为英语（翻译，教育方向）专业必修课。 该门课程在英语专业人才培养中旨在使学生从英国历史、语言、文化发展的角度，掌握英国文学各个时期的主要文学、文化思潮，文学流派，主要作家及其代表作，同时帮助学生对英国文学的发展有深刻的了解和认识，并通过介绍一些最基本的文化理论和批评方法，对部分在思想上艺术上有代表性，有影响的作家及作品进行分析、导读，增强学生对英国文学的形成和发展的理解，提高他们对文学作品的鉴赏能力和文学修养。 三、课程的基本要求 1．课程的要求：学完本课程，学生应该掌握如下能力： ①对于英国文学史有整体性的把握； ②掌握分析和鉴赏文学作品的能力； ③独立完成千字左右的文学作品评析的英文论文； ④掌握文学概念和相关文学流派的专业知识。 2．质量标准：在第五学期完成英国文学史中从中古时期到启蒙时期的文学流派及相关作家，完成两篇以上的英文作品分析论文；第六学期完成从浪漫主义时期到现代主义文学相关内容的学习，并整体把握整个英国文学史的脉络，完成三篇以上的英文作品分析论文。同时检验学生是否了解、认识英国文学各个时期的主要文化、文学流派、主要作家及其代表作品，了解英国文学的发展历史，并能够用最基本的文化理论和批评方法，理解、分析文学作品，提高文学鉴赏力、语言表达能力，提高文学修养。 四、课程内容与学时分配 第五学期： 第一章序言 (2 学时) 使学生对英国文学史和主要流派具有提纲挈领的认识。 第二章中古世纪时期（2学时） 使学生掌握英国文学的起源及其形式和主要代表作品 第三章杰弗里?乔叟 (2学时)
英国文学选读知识总结
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) 乔叟He was born in 1343 in London. He died in 1400 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, thus founding the “Poets Corner”.The father of English Poetry and one of the greatest narrative poets of England.“The Canterbury Tales” (1387-1400) It is Chaucer?s masterpiece and one of the monumental works in English literature. Chaucer’s Contribution to English Literature Chaucer is regarded as the founder of English poetry and has been called “the founder of English realism.” He is the firs t great poet who wrote in the English language. He introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the “heroic couplet” (英雄双韵体) to English poetry.His masterpiece “The Canterbury T ales” is one of the monumental works in English literature 公爵夫人之书，百鸟议会，声誉之堂，特罗勒思和克里西德 Structure of a poem: A poem can be broken down into three parts: (1) Stanza (节) : a group of lines set off from the other lines in a poem. It is the poetic equivalent of a paragraph in prose. In traditional poems, the stanza usually contains a unit of thought.(2) The line (行) : a single line of poetry (3) The foot (音步) : a syllable or a group of 2 or 3 syllables. T o scan a line of poetry one counts the number of feet in a line. For a beginner, the easiest thing to do is to count the number of stresses. Typically a foot will contain a stressed and an unstressed syllable. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)playwright, poet, actor.Shakespeare and Aeschylus are the two greatest dramatic geniuses the world has ever known.—Carl Marks.The Great Tragedies: 《哈姆雷特》(Hamlet,1601 ) 《奥赛罗》(Othello, 1604) 《李尔王》(King Lear, 1605) 《麦克白》(Macbeth, 1606) The Great Comedies威尼斯商人》(The Merchant of Venice, 1596) 《仲夏夜之梦》(A Midsummer Night's Dream,1596) 《第十二夜》(Twelfth Night, 1600) 《皆大欢喜》(As You Like It, 1601) Shakespeare’s car eer as a dramatist may be divided into four major phases.: The First Period(1590-1594) This period is the period of his apprenticeship in play-writing. Works: Henry VI The Comedy of Errors《错误的喜剧》/《连环错》Love?s Labor?s Lost 《迷失的爱》/《空爱一场》/《爱的徒劳》Romeo and Juliet, etc. The Second Period (1595-1600) This period is his mature period, mainly a period of “great comedies” and mature historical plays. It includes 6 comedies, 5 historical plays and 1 Roman tragedy. His sonnets are also thought to be written in this period. The Third Period (1601-1607) The third period of Shakespeare?s dramatic career is mainly the period of “great tragedies” and “dark comedies”. It includes 5 tragedies, 3 comedies and 2 Roman tragedies.Major works written in this period:Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra The Fourth Period (1608-1612) The fourth period of Shakespeare?s work is the period of romantic drama. It includes 4 romances or “reconciliation（和解，复合）plays”. Shakespeare’s Literary Position:Shakespeare and the Authorized Version of the English Bible are the two greatest treasuries of the English language. Shakespeare has been universally acknowledged to be the summit of the English Renaissance, and one of the greatest writers in world literature. Hamlet:Hamle t is considered the summit of Shakespeare?s art. It is one of Shakespeare?s canon, and it is universally included in the list of the world?s greatest works.It?s written in the form of blank verse.blank verse : poetry in rhymeless iambic pentameter.（素体诗剧）The story, coming from an old Danish legend, is a tragedy of the “revenge” genre. Shakespeare incorporates into the medieval story other major humanistic themes, including love, justice, good and evil, and most notably, madness, and the spirit of the time Injustice, conspiracy, and betrayal in the society。1. first blow: father?s murder and mother?s re-marriage2.second blow: betrayal of his two former friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern3. third blow: betrayal of his girl friend OpheliaThe greatness o f the play: in praise of the noble quality of Prince Hamlet as a representative of humanist thinkers and his disillusionment with the corrupt and degenerated society in which he lived.