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编辑于2021-06-04 22:49:29A Survey of English Literature
1.Old English literature (The Anglo-Saxon Period 449-1066)
Ⅰ.the beginning of English literature
⒈Britian: Roman Province for 400 years
⒉410, Roman Empire ↓, conquered by three Teutonic tribes-Germantic tribes →the Anglo-Saxon
⑴the Angles
⑵Saxons
⑶Jutes
⒊550, Anglo-Saxon firmly established
Ⅱ,literature
1.Two Division
Pagan
Christian
2.Form: Old English Poetry
3.Religious color
Ⅲ.work: The Story of Beowolf (the first English national epic)
Ⅳ.Epic/ Heroic Poetry
1.Meaning
2.Background
3.Story: ( The poem has 3182 lines. It describes the deeds of the Teutonic hero Beowolf.)
⑴the fight against Grendel
⑵the fight against Grendel's mother
⑶the fight against the fire Dragon-monsters, evil
4.Theme
5.Style:( Alliteration)
2.Medieval English literature (The Anglo-Norman Period 1066-1350)
Anglo-Norman Literature
Ⅰ.Medieval romances→knight
Work: (The romance of King Arthur-Arthurian Romance)
1.Introduction
2.There are many cycles of Arthurian romances, chief of which are those of
Gawain ( 高文爵士)
Launcelot (朗洛赛洛特)
Merlin ( 莫林)
the Quest of the Holy Grail 《圣杯之寻》(反映上层),and the Death of Arthur
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"《高文爵士与绿衣骑士》is the summit of legend
3.Theme
Ⅱ.Popular Ballads (大众民谣)
1.Introduction
⑴.narrative songs
⑵.kinds of ballads
①.historical
②.legendary
③.fantastical
④.lyrical
⑤.humorous
2,Historical backgrounds: (Religious faith)
3.Characteristics: (Oral currency, Simplicity, Climax of a plot)
4.Works: ( Reliques of Ancient English Poetry 《英诗辑古》 ---Bishop Thomas Percy 1729-1811)
5.Robin Hood (反映下层)
⑴.Character
⑵.Theme
Ⅲ。Geoffery Chaucer (1340-1400)
1.Introduction
⑴the "father of English Poetry" 英诗之父 (有名有姓的第一个作家)
⑵the founder of English realistic literature
⑶created Heroic Couplet (英雄双韵体)
⑷a representative of transitional period from the Medieval Period to the Age of Renaissance
2.Life
3,Work: (The Canterbury Tales)
⑴Introduction
⑵Structure
①.It consists of the General Prologue( 序言)and 24 tales
②.The General Prologue
a framework for the diverse stories
the audience of the characters of the pilgrims
③.The connection between each story is well-planned
⑶Theme: (Realism)
⑷Style
①.London dialect
②.Trenchant(尖刻的)irony
③.Free-thinking: characteristic of the age of Renaissance
④.The heroic couplet
3.The Period of Renaissance
Ⅰ.Striking features
1.The study and propagation of classical learning and art
2.Humanism was the essence of the Renaissance spirit(核心/实质:humanist)
Ⅱ.Humanists
1.Boccaccio(卜伽丘 1313-1375)
2.Spanish Humanist→Cervantes(塞万提斯)-DonQuixote《堂吉诃德》
3.English Humanist
Thomas More (1478-1535)
⑴.Utopia
①."ou" ( meaning "no")
②."topos"( meaning "place")
⑵.Limitations
Ⅲ.English Literature in the Renaissance Period: Drama& Poetry
1.Drama
Backgrounds
⑴.The highest glory of English Renaissance. The dramas hve no rivals at that time in the world.
⑵.But in the renaissance, all this began to change.
⑶."University wits"(大学才子)
①.Introduction
②.写作形式:blank verse(无韵诗行)
③.The rhymeless rambic pentameter(抑扬格:先抑后扬)
④.Their plays paved the way for the creation of many of Shakespeare's masterpieces. Thomas Kyd and Marlowe influenced his great tragedies; Robert Greene, Peele, Thomas Lodge and John Lyly influenced his comedies and romances.
Shakespeare
Ⅰ.Place and Influence
Why
1.One of the first founders of realism
2.Humanism, artistic skill
3.22 years→37 plays, 2 narrative poems and 154 sonnets
Critique
1.Ben Johnson
2.Karl Marx
Ⅱ.Life
1.The church and legal records
2.The folk traditions
3.The comments of his contemporaies ( no autobiography)
Ⅲ.Comedies ( in his early period)
1.Theme: (optimism)
2.Two groups of characters in his comedies
⑴.young men and young women
⑵.simple and shrewd clowns and other common people
3.Main comedies (16 comedies altogether)
⑴.Merchant of Venice 《威尼斯商人》
⑴.Background
①.The growing spirit of trade, commercialism.
②.Flattery of anti-Jewish feeling of England's population.
⑵.Characters
①.Shylock(夏洛克)
Greedy and cruel
Victim
②.Portia(鲍西娅)
Ideal women
A new woman of the Renaissance
Beautiful, cultured, courteous, active,clever, serious-minded and capable of rising to an emergency.
③.Antonio(安东尼奥)
A representative of the newrly uprising merchant class
A practical businessman, unselfishly risks his fortune and life to help his friend
He is s noble nature and he is more obviously a gentleman than a merchant.
⑶.Theme
①.Praise
The triumph of love( between Portia and Bassanio) and friendship( between Antonio and Bassanio) over insatiable greed and brutality (as represented by Shylock).
②.Condemn
Condemn the racial discrimination and religious persecution.
He shows his consistent hatred for the oppressors and sympathy for the oppressed.
⑵.A Midsummer Night's Dream
⑶.As You Like It
⑷.The Winter's Tale
⑸.The Twelve's night《第十二夜》
Ⅳ.Tragedies
1,Backgrounds
2.Theme
⑴.Express a profound dissatisfaction with life.
⑵.Show the struggle and conflicts between
①.good and evil
②.justice and injustice of the time
⑶.Condemns the dark and evil society
3.His main tragedies (11 tragedies) 4 great tragedies (四大悲剧)
⑴.Hamlet
①.Introduction (humanist人文主义者)
②.Theme: (shows the political chaos in the 17th century England)
③.Character-Hamlet
Virtues (penetratiry habit of mind善于沉思)
Limitations (Melancholy忧郁)
⑵.Othello
⑶.King Lear
⑷.Macbeth
Ⅴ.Historical Plays(历史剧)
Theme
Ⅵ. Features of Shakespeare's Dramatic Works
⒈Theme
⒉Progressive significance and limitation
⒊Character
⑴.Representatives of the people of his time
⑵.Each of his characters is a representative of a group of men
⒋Form
⑴.Poetry诗歌
⑵.Drama戏剧
⒌Language
Ⅶ.154 sonnets
⒈Represent the finest poetic craftsmanship of Renaissance poetry
⒉Shakespearean sonnet
⑴.14lines
①.3 quatrains(四行诗)
②.one couplet(对句)
⑵.Theme
①.They reveal the most sophisticated aspects of human nature---moral conflicts and psychological uncertainties
②.The immortality of art as being represented by poetry
③.The value of genuine friendship
④.The sorrows of feeling neglected in a corrupted world
⑶.Selected reading→Sonnet 18→Theme
4.The 17th Century: The Period of Revolution and Restoration
Ⅰ.Historical Background
1.The Outburst of the English Revolution
2.The bourgeois Dictatorship and the Restoration
3.Puritanism( The Religious Cloak of the Englsh Revolution)
⑴.thrift(精简,节约), sobriety(清醒,冷静,节制), hard work, and unceasing labor, but with no extravagant enjoyment of the fruits of labor.
⑵.to revolt against the feudal landlords, accumulation of capital.
Ⅱ.Literature of the Revolution Period
Ⅲ.Writer
⒈John Milton
Ⅰ.Life
Ⅱ.Work
⒈Paradise Lost(失乐园)
⑴.Introduction
①.Milton's masterpiece
②.It is a long epic consisting of 12 books, written in blank verse.
③.The stories were taken from the Old Testament:---the biblical legend of God, His Son, Adam and Eve.
⑵.Story
①.The fallen angles in hell plotting against God;
②.Satan's temptation of Eve;
③.The departure of Adam and Eve from Eden.
⑶.Theme and Characterization
①.The revolt against God's authority---an absolute monarch;
②.Satan is the real hero of the poem.
③.Adam and Eve embody Milton's belief in the powers of man.
⑷.Style
①.Blank verse
②.Grand style
⒉Paradise Regained(复乐园)
⒊Samson Agonistes(力士参孙)
⒉John Bunyan (1628-1687) (A typical puritanical writer)
Ⅰ.Life
⒈A poor uneducated despised tinker.
⒉Religious fanaticism, spiritual independence.
⒊He was put into prison for refused to obey the lae against religious meetings.
⒋In prison, made shoe-laces, reading the bible and writing.
Ⅱ.Work
The Pilgrim's Progress
⒈Introduction
⑴.A religious allegory
⑵.The style of writing in which characters, actions represent general truth, good and bad qualities.
⒉The Celestial City
⑴.The vision of an ideal happy society dreamed by a poor tinker in the 17th century.
⑵.Through a veil of religious mist.
Ⅲ.Story
⒈It tells of the spiritual pilgrim(精神历程) of a human soul in search of salvation(赎罪,拯救).
⒉The form of dream→Vanity Fair (The description of it is one of the most remarkable passage)
Ⅳ.Theme
⒈Reflect the religious ferment(动乱,狂乱) of the age.
⒉Filled with realistic descriptions, attacked the social reality.
⒊Spiritual suffering(精神上的折磨), aspiration for an ideal life(理想生活的渴望)
Ⅴ.Style
⒈The popular and simple language
⒉Lucid prose style and familiar images
5.The 18th century English literature (The Age of Enlightement 启蒙运动)
Ⅰ.The 18th century England
1.Social Development and Changes:
Industrial Revolution
2,Social Evils and Conflicts
⑴.The conflict between Capitalism and Feudalism
⑵.The conflict between the Ruling Class and the Oppressed Class
Ⅱ.The Enlightenment
⒈In Europe
⑴.It was, on the whole, an expression of struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism.(资产阶级反对封建阶级)
⑵.Science(启蒙靠的是“科学”,科学就是理智。
⒉In England
⑴.They just strived to end the revolution by clearing away the fedual ideas with the bourgeois ideology.
⑵.Works:《雾都孤儿》,《鲁宾逊漂流记》
Ⅲ,Literature
1.Classicism(古典主义)
⑴.Introduction
①.Considered Greek and Latin authors as their models
②.Tried to control literature by some fixed laws and rules drawn from Greek and Latin works.
⑵.Drama
①.Rhymed couplet
②.Three unities of time, place and action
③.Regularity in construction
④.The presentation of types rather than individuals.
⑶.Poetry
①.Follow the ancient divisions
②.Should be lyric, epic, didactic, satiric or dramatic
③.Each class should be guided by some special principles.
⑷.Prose
should be
①.Precise
②.Direct
③.Flexible
⑸.Purpose
①.To tidy up the capitalist social order
②.To smooth over social contradictions by morality and proclaiming
③.To afford a new code of social morality for the rising bourgeoisie.
⑹.Representatives
①.the essayists---Joseph Addison and Richard Steel
②.the poet---Alexander Pope
2.Modern Novel(现代小说)
Ⅰ.Introduction
⒈Speaks the truth with an uncompromising courage
⒉They paved the way for the great 19th century realistic writers like
⑴.Jane Austen
⑵.Water Scott
⑶.Charles Dickens
⑷.William Thackeray
Ⅱ.Representatives
⒈Jonathan Swift(乔纳斯·斯威夫特)(1667-1745)---Gulliver's Travels
Ⅰ.Life
⒈One of the greatest writers of satiric prose
⒉Hated all kinds of oppression
⒊Political, economical and religious
⒋Cherished great love for the people
Ⅱ.Works
⒈The Tale of Tub《一个澡盆的故事》
⒉" A Modest Proposal"《一个温和的建议》
⒊Gulliver's Travels《格列佛游记》
⑴.Story (4 parts)
①.The 1st part: Lilliput(小人国)
②.The 2nd part: the voyaye to Brobdinynag(大人国)
③.The 3rd part; the voyage to Laputa and several other places(飞岛国)
④.The 4th part: the voyage to the country of Houyhnhnms(慧骃国)
⑵.Theme
⒉Daniel Defoe(丹尼尔·笛福)---Robinson Crusoe
Ⅰ.Life
⒈A kind of jack-of-all trades
⒉Great in at least two occupations
⑴.journalism
⑵.authorship
Ⅱ.Style of novels
⒈Language
⒉Actions
Ⅲ.Work
Robinson Crusoe:( adventure story )
Ⅳ.Character
⒈Good qualities---courageous, persistent, vigorous, aggressive
⒉Advocate of slavery, expansion(殖民扩张)
⒊The representative of the English bourgeoisie at the earlier stagesof its development.
Ⅴ.Theme
⒈Celebrates the spirit of the new uprising bourgeoise(新兴资产阶级) in accumulation(积累)
⒉Praises the strength of human will to conquer the nature(人们征服自然的意志力)
⒊Henry Fielding---Tom Jones
⒋Oliver Goldsmith---The Vicar of Wakefield
3.Sentimentalism(感伤主义/伤感主义)
Ⅰ.Background
⒈The middle of the 18th century
⒉The power of reason the enlightenment stressed was not sufficient
Ⅱ.Characteristics
⒈Effusive emotion
⒉Pleasure in the wildness of nature
4.Pre-Romanticism(前浪漫主义)
⒈marked by
⑴.a strong protest against the bondage of Classicism
⑵.by a recognition of the claims of passion and emotion
⑶.by a renewed interest in medieval literature
⒉"Gothic novel"/ Gothic romance(哥特小说/哥特式浪漫故事)
⑴.Originated among the conservative groups(保守派) of men
⑵.Against Enlightenmentra's rationalism and commercialism(商业主义)
⑶."A novel of horrors(恐怖)"
⒊Poetry
Ⅰ.Willim Blake (1757-1827)
⒈Intoduction
⑴.A Pre-Romantic or forerunner of the Romantic poetry of the 19th century
⑵.Imagery and symbolism
⒉Works
⑴.The Songs of Innocence
⑵.The Songs of Experience
Ⅱ.Robert Burns (1759-1796)
⒈The greastest national poet of Scotland
⒉Life and Achievements
⑴.He got acquainted with old Scottish folk songs, ballads, and legends
⑵The Scots Museum and Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs
⑶.Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
⒊Work Division
⑴.Love and Friendship→A Red, Red Rose
Style
⒈Rhyme
①.ballad meter
②.iambic tetrameters
③.a b c b
⒉Repetition
⒊Alliteration
①.A Red, Red Rose
②.Luve's like a red, red rose
⑵.The Rural Life of the Scottish Peasants
⑶.The patriotism of his compatriots and their struggle for liberty
⑷.Satirical verse
⒋Feature's of Burn's Poetry
⑴.Beautiful lyricism and sincerity of emotions, hatred for lyranny and a profound sympathy for the down-trodden man
⑵.National poet of Scotland
6.Romantic English literature(真正的浪漫主义)
Ⅰ.Cultural Background
1.The Romantic Movement
2,Express: negative attitude toward→
⑴.the existing social
⑵.political conditions
Ⅱ.Two Groups of Romantic Poets
1.Passive or Escapist Romanticists(消极浪漫派)
Represented by
⑴.Wordsworth
⑵.Coleridge
⑶.Southey (Lake Poets)
2.Active Romanticists(积极浪漫派)
Represented by
⑴.Byron
⑵.Shelley(雪莱)
⑶.Keats
Ⅲ.Features of Romanticism
1.Feeling and imagination---advocate the freedom to express personal feelings
2.A love of nature
3.Individualism(个人主义)
4.Glorification of the commonplace(普通人)
5. lure(诱惑) of the exotic(稀奇古怪的/奇异的事物)
6.A revolt against authority or tradition(反对权威或传统)
Ⅳ.Poetry
1.Two notable forerunner of romantic poetry
⑴.William Blake
⑵.Robert Burns
2.Others: George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats as well as Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Ⅴ.Main writers and their works
1.William Wordsworth (1770-1850)(消极浪漫派)
Ⅰ.Life
Ⅱ.Features of his Poems
⒈Deep love for nature
"I wandered Lonely as a Cloud"《我好似一片孤独的流云》/《咏水仙》
Background
Analysis of Content
Theme
Song of
the harmony between things in nature
the harmony between nature and the poet himself
Structure
a b a b c c
iambic tetrameter
"My Heart Leaps Up"
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"《丁登寺旁》
⒉Searching and revealing the feelings of the common people
"The Solitary Reaper"《孤独的割麦女》
"We Are Seven"《我们是七个》
⒊Appealed directly to individual sensations
"all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."(好诗都是强烈感情的自然流露)
⒋Show harmony between humanity and nature
"She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways"《她住在人迹罕见的路旁》
"I Travelled among Unknown Men"《我在陌生人中孤独旅行》
⒌Language is simple and pure
2.George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)(积极浪漫派)
Ⅰ.LIfe and Background
An impoverished noble family(生于没落家庭)
Ⅱ.Idelogy
⒈Show a deep hatred for the tyranny
⒉Song of rebellious spirit
⒊Eager for democracy and liberty
not only in the form of poem
but also taking part in the struggle for the national independence of Greek and Italy
Ⅲ.Style
⒈The medieval, the outcast figure, love of nature, hatred of tyanny, preoccupation with the remote and savage
⒉Conitain many vivid and exotic descriptive passages on mountains, rivers, and seas.
Ⅳ.Theme
⒈Revolutionary zeal and democratic ideal
⒉Advocate
The fight against the tyranny and oppression for freedom
The struggle for national liberation
3.Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)(雪莱)(积极浪漫派)
Ⅰ.Life
⒈⒈"a strange"(古怪)
⒉"unsocial being"(与社会格格不入的人)
⒊"Mad Shelley"(疯子雪莱)
Ⅱ.Idelogy
⒈Loved the people and hated their oppressors and exploiters
⒉Called on the people to overthrow the rule of tyranny and injustice
⒊Prophesied a happy and free future for mankind
⒋Remained in this social and political ideal and fought for it all his life
⒌Revolutionary romanticism
Ⅲ.Works
⒈Queen Mab《仙后麦布》
⒉The Revolt of Islam《伊斯兰的反叛》
⒊Prometheus Unbound《解放了的普罗米修斯》
⒋Lyrics on
⑴.nature
"Ode to the West Wind"《西风颂》
terza rima (三行诗节隔句押韵法)
iambic pantameter lines arranged in tercets (三行联句)
⑵.love
"To a Shy-lark"《致云雀》
⑶.politics
"Song to the Men of England"《致英格兰人之歌》
4.John Keats (1795-1821)
Short poem
⑴."Ode to a Nightingale"《致夜莺》
⑵."Ode on a Grecian Um"《希腊古瓮颂》
⑶."To Autumn"
⑷."Bight Star"
7.The Victorian Age--Critical Realism (1836-1901)
Ⅰ.Contradictions
1.Contradictions at Home
⑴.The struggle between the workers and capitalists
⑵.Chartists Movement(宪章运动)
⑶.核心:争取选举权和被选举权
2.Contradictions at Aboad
Strengthened its policy of colonial expansion
Ⅱ.The mid-Victorian period (1850-1870)--a period of prosperity and relative stability
1.Economic prosperity
2.The established spiritual prop (The Victorian Values维多利亚道德价值观)
Ⅲ.The last 3 decades of the 19th century--the decline of the British Empire
Ⅳ.The Problem of Women
8.20th century English literature
Ⅰ.Literary Trend---Modernism
Ⅱ.Modernism
1.Background
The rise and growth of modernist movement
2.Characteristics
⑴.Irrational philosophy and idea of psychoanalysis
⑵.The major themes
①.distorted, alienated and ill relationships between:
man and nature
man and society
man and man
man and himself
②.marks a strong and conscious break with the past
③.emphasizes on the need to move away from the public to the private, from the objective to the subjective
④.upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the psychic time over the chronological one
Ⅲ.Modernist Fiction→mainly three characteristcs in modern novel
1.Joseph Conrad
2.James Joyce (1882-1941)
⑴.One of the most innovative novelists of the 20th century
⑵.One of the greatest masters of "the stream of consciousness".
⑶.His stream-of-consciousness technique marked the peak of modernist novelists.
3.D. H. Lawrence
4.Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
⑴.Introduction
①.One of the great innovative novelist of the 20th century
②.A great master of the stream-of consciousness novel
⑵.Literary Achievement--both a famous novelist and a critic
①.Major Novel
-Mrs. Dalloway
-To the Lighthouse
-Orlando
-The Waves
②.Critical Essay
"A Room of One"s Own
⑶.Theme
Personal identity
Personal relationships
5.D. M. Forster
Ⅳ.The new notions of the nature of consciousness
1."Stream-of-consciousness"(意识流)
2.意识流作品:Ulysses