英国文学史及选读

《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—

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

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

2014英国文学简史

1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England.

A. William the Conqueror B. Julius Caesar C. Alfred the Great D. Claudius

2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .

A. Langland B. Wycliffe C. Gower D. Chaucer 3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.

A. novel B. drama C. romance D. essay 4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.

A. Sir Gawain and t

1. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line by ______. A. John Keats B. William Wordsworth

C. Percy Bysshe Shelley D. William Blake

2. I Wandered lonely as a Cloud is a ________.

A. lyrical poem B. lyrical prose C. romance in prose D. sonnet

3. At the turn of the 18th and 19th century, ______ appeared as a new literary trend in England.

A. Renaissance B. Reformation

C. Romanticism D. Sentimentalism

4. The Glorious Revolution in

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