吴伟仁英国文学史期末复习重点Reviewppt课件.pptx
Outline of English literature,Beowulf,Three pagan tribes:_, _, and _ from Denmark and northern Germany around 450-600,Angles,Saxons,Jutes,the national epic irrelevant to the nation,The main characters:The main plot:The main feature:,Beowulf,Grendel& its mother,3 fights of Beowulf,alliteration,Romance,a pursuit inside, both physical and psychological adventure,main themes: chivalry, heroic qualities, knightly errand,targeted audience: the aristocracy,main romances:,Legend of King Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Robin Hood,Geoffrey Chaucer,1340(?)1400Father of English poetry John Dryden,A comprehensive contact with both the lower class and the nobility, which enables him to demonstrate vividly a full picture of the society at that time in his masterpiece _.,The Canterbury Tales,a two-fold narrative structureheroic couplet: a rhymed couplet in iambic pentameter,Renaissance,The background:emergence of capitalismconsolidation of the nationReligious revolution (Henry VIII),The definition: an intellectual movement which sprang from Italy in the 14th century and gradually spread all over Europe.Two features: preference for ancient Greek and Latin cultures humanism,Literature of Renaissance,Prose: Francis Bacon and his Essays, Thomas Moore and his Utopia Poems:Thomas Wyatt, 1st user of sonnet into EnglishEdmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (epic)Spenserian stanza: iambic pentameter in 1-13 lines and the last line iambic hexameter, usually with the rhyme scheme: ab ab bc bc cd cd ee,Shakespeare and his The Sonnets,The implied reader, the fair youthThree sequencesShakespearian stanza: 3 quatrain and one couplet in iambic pentameter, usually ab ab cd cd ef ef gg,PlaysChristopher Marloweblank verseThe Tragical History of Doctor Faustus,William Shakespeare4 comedies: As You Like it, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Merchant of Venice4 tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth,Characterization of Shakespeareexplicit exploration and brilliant descriptionThe interpretations of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice,Historical Background,The Glorious Revolution 1688The victory of the ParliamentConstitutional Monarchy,The inherited system of concepts:analogy and orderThe sovereign power of Kingallegorical or mythological narratives, sonnets, and pastoral lyrics.,The Metaphysical Poets 玄学派诗人,17th English poets for _, _and the colloquial style, led by _.,conceit,hyperbole,John Donne,John Donne and his PoemsA Valediction: The Forbidding Mourning,Souls are one, like a piece of gold, beating can only stretch it but not break itSouls are two like compass has two feet,John Milton,The 1st and 2nd defense of the English PeopleOn His BlindnessSamson AgonistesParadise Lost,1st English narrative poem that didnt rhymeblank verseEnjambmentanti-heroic (?) the question about sovereignty,John Bunyan,Nonconformista call/revelation from GodPilgrims Progress,religious allegoryHow does Christian get his salvation,The Enlightenment,A progressive intellectual movement that celebrates reason, equality, science and human ability to perfect themselves and their society.Neoclassicism: Addison, Steele, PopeSentimentalism: Goldsmith, Sterne, GrayPre-romanticism: Blake, Burns,Daniel Defoe,Robinson Crusoe and the interpretationColonizer?Pious believer who had sinned?,Jonathan Swift,Gullivers Travel question and doubt about humanityA Modest Proposalthe gap between author and narrator,1798-1832,the publication of _and the death of Walter Scott,Lyrical Ballads,The Lake Poets: _, _, and Southey.,William Wordsworth,Coleridge,Wordsworths definition of a good poem: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility,Tintern Abbey,I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high oer vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.,iambic tetrameter,personification,the loneliness of the poet and the comfort he gets from nature/daffodils,
