导图社区 英国文学
英国文学主要几个阶段,包含年份,特征,主要人物及作品等
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ⅠThe Old English Period and Middle English Period (450-1500)
Feature
In use of alliteration and rhythm with the form of metaphor and statement
Representative Personages
Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400)
William Langland (1332?-1400?)
Representative Works
《The Anglo-Saxon Chronic》
《Sir Gawain and the Green Knight》
《The Canterbury Tales》
《Piers Plowman》
ⅡThe Renaissance (1500-1660)
Feature
Aggressive Great varieties Advocating freedom
Representative Personages
Dante(1265-1321)
Petrarch(1304-1374)
Giovanni Boccaccio(1313-1375)
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593)
William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
Representative Works
《Divine Comedy》(1307-1321)
《Utopia》(1516)
《The Fairy Queen》
《The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus》(1604)
《A Midsummer Night's Dream》(1600)
《Hamlet》(1603)
《Romeo and Juliet》(1597)
Ⅲ The Neoclassical Period (1660-1785)
Feature
1. Highly praised the rationality, emphasized symmetry, abstinence and elegance. 2. Pursue the artistic form of perfection and harmony. 3. Tremendous social upheavals.
Representative Personages
John Milton(1608-1674)
Alexander Pope(1688-1744)
Jonathan Swift(1667-1745)
Daniel Defoe(1660-1731)
Representative Works
《L'Allegro》and《Ⅰl Penseroso》(1645)
《Paradise Lost》(1667)《Paradise Regained》(1671) 《Samson Agonistes》(1671)
《An Essay on Criticism》(1711) 《The Rape of the Lock》(1712,1714)
《Gulliver's Travels》(1762)
《Robinson Crusoe》(1719)
Ⅳ The Romantic Period (1785-1830)
Feature
A revolt against the proscribed rules of classicism Focus on imagination and feelings rather than reasons and intellect
Representative Personages
William Wordsworth(1770-1850) Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)
the Lake Poets
George Gordon Byron(1788-1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)
Second Generation
Representative Works
《Lyrical Ballads》(1798)
《Prometheus Unbouna》(1820)
《The masque of Anarchy》(1832)
《A Defense of Poetry》(1840)
Ⅴ The Victorian Period (1832-1901)
Feature
1. The popularity of novels( especially the novels of critical realism) 2. The prosperity of proses 3. Unconventional style
Representative Personages
Charles Dickens(1812-1870)
The greatest English Realist
Jane Austen(1775-1817)
Charlotte(1816-1855) Emily(1818-1848) Anne(1820-1849)
The three Bronte sisters
Mary Ann Evans(1819-1880)
Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)
Robot Louis Stevenson(1850-1894)
Neo-Romanticism
Oscar Wilde(1854-1900)
Aestheticism
Representative Works
《Great Expectations》(1860-1861) 《A tale of Two Cities》(1859)
《Sense and Sensibility》(1811) 《Pride and Prejudice》(1813) 《Emma》(1815)
《Jane Eyre》(1847) 《Wuthering Heights》(1847)
《Adam Bede》(1859) 《The Mill on the Floss》(1860) 《Silas Marner》(1861) 《Middlemarch》(1871-1872)
《 The Return of the Native》(1878) 《The Mayor of Casterbridge》(1886) 《Tess of the d'Urbervilles》(1891) 《Jude the Obscure》(1895)
《Treasure Isand》(1881) 《Kidnapped》(1886) 《Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde》(1886)
《The Picture of Dorian Gray》(1891) 《Salome》(1893)
Ⅵ The Modern Period (1914-1945)
Feature
1. Use the method of the subjective expression. 2. Opposite the method of the objective description. 3. Pursue the artistic expression of novelty and grotesque. 4. Focus on the connection between people and society nature,etc. 5. Use the metaphor, different punctuation and various spelling methods wildly to imply the expressions, feelings and the state of spirit of the person.
Schools of Literature
1. Symbolism 2. Surrealism 3. Futurism 4. Stream-of-consciousness novel
Representative of Personage and Works
Categories
Fiction
Joseph Conrad(1857-1924)
《Heart of Darkness》(1902)
Virginia Wolf(1882-1941)
《Mrs.Dalloway》(1952) 《To the Lighthouse》(1927) 《Orlando: A Biography》(1928) 《A Room of One's Own》(1929)
An influential feminist
James Joyce(1882-1941)
《Ulysses》(1922) 《Finnegans Wake》(1939)
D.H.Lawrence(1885-1930)
《Sons and Lovers》(1913) 《The Rainbow》(1915) 《Chatterley's Lover》(1928)
Poetry
William Butler Yeats(1865-1939) [Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923]
《The Wild Swans At Coole》 《Michael Robartes and the Dancer》 《The Tower》
T.S.Eliot(1888-1965) [Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948]
《The Waste Lanand》(1922) 《Four Quartets》(1943)
Drama
George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950) [The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925]
《Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant》(1898) 《Pygmalion》(1913) 《Saint Joan》(1924)
Ⅶ The Postmodern Period (1945- )
Feature
1. The principle of creation is uncertain.(Especially in language, figure, theme and plot) 2. The diversity of creative methods. 3. Language experiment. 4. Discourse game.
Schools of Literature
1. Existentialism Literature 2. Theatre of the Absurd 3. Nouveau Roman 4. "The Beat Generation" 5. Black Humor 6. Magic Realism
Representative Personages and Works
Categories
Fiction
George Orwell (1903-1950)
《Nineteen Eighty-Four》(1949)
William Golding(1911-1993) [The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983]
《Lord of the Flies》(1954)
V.S.Naipaul(1932- ) [The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001]
《The Middle Passage》(1962) 《The Mystic Masseur》(1957) 《In a Free State》(1971) 《A Bent in the River》(1979) 《Half a Life》(2001)
Indian Trilogy
《An Area of Darkness》(1964) 《India: A Wounded Civilization》(1977) 《India: A Million Mutinies Now》(1990)
Drama
Samuel Beckett(1906-1989) [The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969]
《Waiting for Godot》(1952)
Harold Pinter(1930-2008) [The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2005]
《The Birthday Party》(1959) 《The Caretaker》(1960) 《The Homecoming》(1965) 《Betrayal》(1978) 《Moonlight》(1993)