英國文學(xué)史復(fù)習(xí)資料

1、1英國文學(xué)選讀復(fù)習(xí)資料 英國文學(xué)選讀復(fù)習(xí)資料I. Old English Literature & The Late Medieval AgesGeoffery Chaucer 杰弗里?喬叟 1343~1400(首創(chuàng)“雙韻體”，英國文學(xué)史上首先用倫敦方言寫作。約翰·德萊頓（John Dryden）稱其為“英國詩歌之父”。代表作（The Canterbury Tales《坎特伯雷故事集》。)The father of E

2、nglish poetry.writing style: wisdom, humor, humanity.坎特伯雷故事集：first time to use ‘heroic couplet’(雙韻體) by middle EnglishMedieval Ages’ popular Literary form: Romance(傳奇故事)II The Renaissance PeriodA period of drama and poet

3、ry. 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 ext

4、ending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.The most famous dramatists: Christopher MarloweWilliam ShakespeareBen Johnson.Francis Bacon 弗蘭西斯 弗蘭西斯?培根 培根 1561~1626（哲學(xué)家、散文家；在論述探究

5、知識的著作中提出了知識就是力量這一著名論斷；近代唯物主義哲學(xué)的奠基人和近代實驗科學(xué)的先驅(qū)。 ）Philosopher, scientist, lay the foundation for modern science. The first English essayist.?Writing style: brevity, compactness & powerfulness, well-arranging and enrichi

6、ng by Biblical allusions, metaphors and philosophy to man’s reason.①學(xué)術(shù)的推進②隨筆(famous quotas: )?The theme of Of Studies: uses and benefits of study and different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies.3The Age

7、of Enlightenment/Reason: the movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries, a progressive intellectual movement, reason (rationality), equality & science (the 18th century)小說崛起：In the m

8、id-century, the newly literary form, modern English novel raised (realistic novel 現(xiàn)實主義小說)Gothic novel(哥特式小說)：mystery, horror, castles (from middle part to the end of century)1. Jonathan Swift 喬納森 喬納森?斯威夫特 斯威夫特 1667~1745

9、（十八世紀杰出的政論家和諷刺小說家 a master satirist。 ）① 格列佛游記(fictional work)② 書戰(zhàn)③ 木桶的故事?④ 一個麻布商的書信2. Daniel Defoe 丹尼爾 丹尼爾?笛福 笛福 1660~1731（小說家，新聞記者，小冊子作者；十八世紀英國現(xiàn)實主義小說的奠基人。 ）?He is the first writer study of the lower-class people, his l

10、anguage is smooth, easy, colloquial and mostly vernacular, and he is the founder of realistic novel.魯賓遜漂流記It praise the fortitude of the human labor and the Puritan. Robinson grew from a naive and artless youth into a sh

11、rewd 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 t

12、here and finally gets relieved and returns to England.3. William Blake 威廉 威廉?布萊克 布萊克 1757~1827① 天真之歌A happy and innocent world from children’s eye.② 經(jīng)驗之歌A word of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melan