英国文学史及选读第一册

英国文学史及选读第一册PPT

John Milton(1608(1608-1774)

英国文学史及选读第一册PPT

ⅠLife and Work: ⒈ Boyhood: His father, a Puritan, a lover of music and literature a hard-working hardstudent; at 12 we find him already a scholar in spirit

英国文学史及选读第一册PPT

“When I was yet a child, No childish play To me was pleasing; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things.” (Notes: thence: from then on righteous: morally justifiable)

英国文学史及选

《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点

1. Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements （此处可能会有填空，选择等小题） 2. Romance （名词解释）

3. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’s story 4. Ballad（名词解释） 5. Character of Robin Hood

6. Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic couplet)

7. Heroic couplet (名词解释)8. Renaissance（名词解释）9.Thomas More—

Part 1 The Anglo—Saxon Period（449-1066）秧格鲁-撒

克逊时期

1.H istorical Background

Celts 400B.C. Romans 50B.C. Anglo—Saxons 450A.D Norman Invasion 1066A.D. Roman empire从albion撤军，teutonic tribes(包括angles, Saxons,jutes)（条顿人or日耳曼人）陆续登陆此地

2. Literature 1,pagan异教徒文学2 christian基督徒文学alliterative verse头韵诗

Epic: Beowulf贝奥武甫（Denmark背景）（the hall heorot 鹿庁，grendel:a monster half-human）

1) Oral origin, recited in court, handed down in generations until finally it was recorded by certain poet.上下部分由pagan写，插入由christian写

2) a mixture of history and legend

英国文学

英国文学史及选读

主讲人：王江 (重庆邮电大学外国语学院)

英国文学

History and Anthology of English Literature

英国文学

英国文学

英国文学

The Flea

Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou denies me is; Me it sucked first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be; Thou know’st that this cannot be said A sin, or shame, or loss of maidenhead, Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do. Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare, Where we almost, nay more th

英国文学

英国文学史及选读

主讲人：王江 (重庆邮电大学外国语学院)

英国文学

History and Anthology of English Literature

英国文学

英国文学

英国文学

The Flea

Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou denies me is; Me it sucked first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be; Thou know’st that this cannot be said A sin, or shame, or loss of maidenhead, Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do. Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare, Where we almost, nay more th

Part 1 The Anglo—Saxon Period（449-1066）秧格鲁-撒克逊时期

1. Historical Background

Celts 400B.C. Romans 50B.C. Anglo—Saxons 450A.D Norman Invasion 1066A.D.

Roman empire从albion撤军，teutonic tribes(包括angles, Saxons,jutes)（条顿人or日耳曼人）陆续登陆此地

2. Literature 1,pagan异教徒文学 2 christian基督徒文学 alliterative verse头韵诗 Epic: Beowulf贝奥武甫（Denmark背景）（the hall heorot鹿庁，grendel:a monster half-human）

1) Oral origin, recited in court, handed down in generations until finally it was recorded by certain poet.上下部分由pagan写，插入由christian写

2)

简明英国文学史

A Brief History of English Literature

Part I Old and Middle English Periods (450-1066)

Chapter 1

Old English Period and Beowulf

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Britons, a branch of Celts, came to the Isles in BC400 to BC300, at the early stage of the Iron Age

Julius Caesar of the Roman Empire defeated the Celts and ruled there from BC55 to AD 407

The Roman Empire declined, the Teutonic or Germanic tribes of Angles, Saxons and Jutes moved to live in the British Isles in about AD450

They drove the Celts to Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the Engli

Lecture1

Ⅰ. Assessment:

Class attendance, participation and presentation, 20% A term paper/Mid-Exam, 10% Final examination, 70%

Ⅱ. Recommended Novels for Reading (British)

18th-century

Gulliver’s Travels: Jonathan Swift; social satire/fantasy/; Part I, II, and IV interesting; language difficulty ***.

Robinson Crusoe: Daniel Defoe; an account of the process of the building of the British Empire in the 18th century; diary-like detailed description and narration; language difficulty **. 19th-century Great Expectations

Lecture1

Ⅰ. Assessment:

Class attendance, participation and presentation, 20% A term paper/Mid-Exam, 10% Final examination, 70%

Ⅱ. Recommended Novels for Reading (British)

18th-century

Gulliver’s Travels: Jonathan Swift; social satire/fantasy/; Part I, II, and IV interesting; language difficulty ***.

Robinson Crusoe: Daniel Defoe; an account of the process of the building of the British Empire in the 18th century; diary-like detailed description and narration; language difficulty **. 19th-century Great Expectations

7 English Literature in the 20th Century

Ⅰ. Essay questions.

1. Comment on the development of William Butler Yeats’ poetic career and characteristics of his poetry.

2. Make comments on George Bernard Shaw as a playwright. 3. Comment on John Galsworthy.

4. Comment on Virginia Woolf’s literary achievements.

5. Compared with Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence and other writers of transitional age in the 20th century, should E. M. Forster be labeled as a traditional writer or a modernist or a writer of transitional age? State you