030904英国文学（2011英本，2013英语专升本）教学大纲-吴文南

《英国文学》课程教学大纲

课程编码： 030904

总学时：32学时，本科英语专业三年级第一学期开课 适用专业：2011级英语本科,2013英语专升本 先修课程：精读、泛读及其它专业基础课程 一、本课程地位、性质和任务：

本课程为英语专业高年级学科基础必修课程，旨在使学生对英国文学形成和发展的全貌有一个大致的了解；并通过阅读具有代表性的重点作品，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，提高学生的文学欣赏水平及其文学批评能力。本课程还同语言教学相结合，增强学生语言表达能力。

二、课程学时分配、教学要求及主要内容

(一) 课程学时分配一览表

总章节 主要内容 学时 讲授 讨论 习题 实验 其他 学时分配 History and Anthology of British Literature Introduction 2 2 2 2 Part I Beowulf PartII Sir Gawain and the 2 2 Green Knight Par III Part IV William Shakespeare，Francis Bacon John Donne, John 4 3 2 1.5 Geoffrey Chaucer 2 2 0.5 1 Part V Milton,John Bunyan Part Daniel Defoe, 10 8 2 1

VI Jonathan Swift, Thomas William Gray, Blake, 8 7 Gordon, 1 Robert Burns Part VII William Wordsworth, George Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jane Austen (二) 课程教学要求及主要内容

通过文学史的教学，拓宽学生的知识面，提高学生的文学修养，使学生了解英美文学各个历史时期的文学思潮、文学流派、主要作品；通过英美文学作品的教学，教养学生的语感，提高学生对英文原著的理解能力、鉴赏能力和自学能力。

通过文学史的简介，使学生了解英美文学各个历史时期的文学思潮、文学流派、主要作家及其主要作品。通过作品选读教学，使学生能借助工具书阅读英文原著，并能归纳作品的主题思想，写作风格，写出读书报告。通过课外学习，使学生的自学能力得到提高，为更广泛地进行课外阅读奠定基础。

Part I The Anglo-Saxon Period (449—1066)

教学目的和要求：

1．了解古英语文学的概况； 2．掌握古英语诗歌的特点。 教学重点和难点：

1．The classification and features of ancient English poetry 2．The epic Beowulf and its features 3．Alliteration and narration

4.alliterative analysis of Beowulf 教授内容：

1. Historical background

? Before410 A.D., Britain had been a Roman province. After the fall of the Roman Empire (410 A.D.), the aboriginal Celtic population was conquered by the Teutonic Tribes of Angles, Saxons and Jutes who named the central part of Albion Anglia, or England.

? About 449 Jutes left Denmark, landed in the Isle of Thanet. And Angled and Saxons followed.

? Angles, an important Teutonic tribe furnished their new home England. The dialects gradually grew into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or Old English.

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2. Literature characteristics

3.Representative achievement of Anglo-Saxon period—The Song of Beowulf 4. Writing Features of the Poem: 5.Literary terms: Alliteration, Epic

Part II The Anglo-Norman Period

教学目的和要求:

1．了解中世纪英语文学的发展状况；

2．掌握这一时期各种文学形式及代表人物的特点。 教学重点和难点：

1．The overall features of middle-age English literature, especially romance and ballads

2． The theme and origin of Sir Gawain and Greenkninght 3．Robin Hood

4．English poem briefing 5．Theme and stereotype

6．Rhythm and rhyme characteristics of English poem 教授内容：

1. Historical Background (what is the most important event in this period?)

(1). The Norman Conquest

(2). The Consequence of the Conquest 2. Medieval English Literature (1)The features of Romance (2) Romance Cycles

(3) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

? It is a verse romance of 2530 lines, derived from Celtic legend. ? A. Story: ? B. Analysis 3. Popular Ballads

? 1) Introduction:

? 2) Ballads of Robin Hood 4. Middle English Prose

? Thomas Malory is the only important prose writer in the fifteenth century. He wrote an important work called \Morte d'Arthur\(Death of Arthur) .

? Malory's tale begins with the mysterious birth of Arthur and ends with his equally mysterious death. 5. William Langland ? 1. Introduction

? 2. Piers the Plowman

Part III Geoffrey Chaucer

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教学目的和要求:

1．了解中世纪英语文学的发展状况；

2．掌握这一时期各种文学形式及代表人物的特点。 教学重点和难点：

1.Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

2.The structural features and religious meanings of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales 教授内容： Ⅰ. Life

II. Literary Career 1. The French Period 2 The Italian Period 3 The Mature Period

Ⅲ. The Canterbury Tales 1. The Framework

2. The General Prologue 3. The Tales

4. A Brief Analysis of the first stanza IV．Contributions

? 1. Forerunner of Humanism

2. The founder of English Realism

3. Father of English poetry (called by John Dryden) ? 4. Master of the English language

Part IV The Renaissance English Literature（ca.1485-1603）

教学目的和要求：

1．了解文艺复兴及人文思想的内涵； 2．了解文艺复兴英国文学的发展概况；

3．掌握这一时期诗歌、戏剧及散文的特征及代表作家及作品。 教学重点和难点：

1. The influence on English literature from renaissance

2. the overall characters of English renaissance literature including

poetry, drama and prose,etc；

3. William Shakespeare’s masterpieces

4．Sonnet and its characteristics十四行诗及无韵诗的特征； 5．Humanity 讲授内容：

I. Historical background

Ⅱ. Introduction to Renaissance Two features of renaissance:

1. It is a thirsting curiosity for the classical literature.

People learned to admire the Greek and Latin works as models

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of literary form.

2. It is the keen interest in the activities of humanity. III. English Literature in the Renaissance Period 3.1 Poetry in the Renaissance Period 1). Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

2). Philip Sidney (1554-86)：Astrophel and Stella

3). Edmund Spenser (1552 -1599)： “ The Faerie Queene” 3.2 Proses in the Renaissance Period 1). Thomas More (1477-1535)： Utopia 2). John Lyly (1553-1606) A) Euphues B) Writing Style of Euphues 3). Francis Bacon (1561-1626) A) Introduction B) Bacon's Works

C) Writing Style of Bacon's Essays

3.3 English Drama in the Renaissance Period 1). Shakespeare's Predecessors A) Lyly, Peele, Kyd, and Marlowe B) Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) C) Marlowe's Literary Achievement

2). Shakespeare’s contemporary and successor William Shakespeare (1564-1616) I Life

II Literary career

The first period (1590-1594) 1) historical play: 2）comedy: 3) tragedy:

The second period (1595-1600) 1) Six Comedies:

2) Five historical plays: 3) A Roman tragedy:

1. The third period (1601-1607) 1) Five tragedies: 2) Three comedies:

2. The fourth period (1608-1612) III His great Comedies IV His great Tragedies V Historical Plays

VI Shakespeare's Poetical Works

VII Features of Shakespeare's Dramatic Works

Part V The 17th Century English Literature: The Period of Revolution and

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