英国文学史概述及作品选读翻译

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

问题 1 得 2 分，满分 2 分

The first poem in The Lyrical Ballads is Coleridge’s masterpiece_______.

所选答案：

A.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

正确答案：

A.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

反馈：

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

问题 2 得 2 分，满分 2 分

Of the following four novels by Austen_______is the most popular

and dramatic one.

所选答案： 正确答案：

Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice

反馈： Pride and Prejudice

问题 3 得 2 分，满分 2 分

. All the following about Romanticism are true EXCEPT .

所选答案：

C.

Romantici

《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—

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

美国文学史

American Literature in the colonical and Revolutionary:

1.Benjamin Franklin(本杰明.富兰克林) 2. hilip Freneau 菲利普·费瑞诺

Benjamin Franklin(本杰明.富兰克林) 1) \穷人查理德的年鉴(以笔名Richard Sunders)

2) “annual collection of proverbs “流行谚语集 (It soon became the most popular book

of its kind, largely because of Franklin's shrewd humor, and first spread his reputation) 3) The Way to Wealth (Father Abraham’s Sermon)致富之道(as the “perface to Poor Richard

Improved)

4) The Autobiography自传 (18世纪美国唯一流传至今的自传)

5) Founded the Junto, a club for

美国文学史

American Literature in the colonical and Revolutionary:

1.Benjamin Franklin(本杰明.富兰克林) 2. hilip Freneau 菲利普·费瑞诺

Benjamin Franklin(本杰明.富兰克林) 1) \穷人查理德的年鉴(以笔名Richard Sunders)

2) “annual collection of proverbs “流行谚语集 (It soon became the most popular book

of its kind, largely because of Franklin's shrewd humor, and first spread his reputation) 3) The Way to Wealth (Father Abraham’s Sermon)致富之道(as the “perface to Poor Richard

Improved)

4) The Autobiography自传 (18世纪美国唯一流传至今的自传)

5) Founded the Junto, a club for

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

《美国文学史及作品选读》教学大纲

一、课程说明

1. 课程代码： 107013831 2. 课程中文名称： 美国文学史及作品选读

3. 课程英文名称： History and Selected Readings of American Literature 4. 课程总学时数： 26 5. 课程学分数： 1.5

6. 授课对象： 英语专业本科学生 7. 本课程的性质、地位和作用

本课程为面向英语专业高年级（三年级）学生开设的一门专业选修课，在学科体系中居重要地位。要求学生以先修英语阅读、综合英语、英美文化和英美概况等课程为基础。通过教学，使学生对美国文学有一个概观了解，同时初步培养学生对美国文学作品的鉴赏能力，增强学生对西方文学及文化的了解。该课程有助于增强学生的语言基本功，丰富学生的人文知识、充实学生的文化修养，提高学生的精神素质。

二、教学基本要求 1. 本课程的目的、任务

美国文学史及文学作品包含着历史的记忆和哲学的睿智，是英语语言艺术的结晶。本课程旨在介绍美国文学各个时期的主要文化思潮，文学流派，主要作家及其代表作，使学生对美国文学的发展脉络有一个大概的了解和认识，提高他们

英国文学简史作家作品

1. The Old English Period Geoffrey Chaucer 杰佛雷?乔叟 1340-1400 Beowulf 贝奥武甫 Canterbury Tales坎特伯雷故事集 The Book of Duchess 公爵夫人颂 The House of Fame声誉之宫 The Parliament of Fowls 百鸟会议 Troilus and Criseyde特罗勒斯与克莱西 Thomas More 托马斯·莫尔 Utopia 乌托邦 2. The Pre-Elizabethan Period 3. The Elizabethan age Edmond Spenser 埃德蒙·斯宾塞 Philip Sidney 菲力普·锡德尼 The Shepherds’s Calender 牧羊人日历 The Faerie Queene 仙后 Astrophel and Stella爱星者与星星 Apology for Poetrie为诗辩护 The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia阿卡荻亚 Christopher Marlowe 克里斯托弗·马洛 Tamburlaine铁木耳