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1、Review of English Literature,From Medieval to 19th century,Final Exam,I. Multiple Choice (25%)II. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in Column A. (25%)(Writers and works, Characters and works, literary terms)III Reading comprehension (30%) 3 textsIV. Make comment on the following ex
2、tracts with more than 150 words each (20%)( you can identify its theme, form or the authors and the literary movements they represent and explicating their respective characteristics ),Outline of History of English literature,Early and Medieval AgesEnglish RenaissanceThe period of the English Bourge
3、ois RevolutionThe 18th century/ Neo-classicismRomanticismCritical RealismThe 20th century,Part 1 Middle-Age Literature (5th C-1485),I. the Old English Period (449-1066) aboriginal : BritonsThe Roman ConquestThe Anglo-Saxon InvasionThe Christianization of the Anglo-SaxonsThe Danish Invasion The Norma
4、n Conquest II. The Middle English Period (1066-1485)The Norman ConquestThe All-prevailing Influence of the Medieval Church,No written literatureEnglish literature began “Beowulf”Religious poetryKing Alfred the Great the Anglo-Saxon ChronicleThe Romances; popular ballads; Piers the Plowman; Geoffrey
5、Chaucer;,History,literature,Beowulf,heroic epica long poem telling the story of the deeds of gods and great men and women, or the early history of a nation.national epic of the English peoplea folk legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons from Northern Europepassed from mouth to mouth for hundreds
6、of years before written down in the 10th century the most important work of the Old English literature. 3182 lines,Early and Medieval English Literature,Geoffrey Chaucer, the founder/father of English poetry, whose masterpiece is The Canterbury Tales, in which he presented to us a comprehensive real
7、istic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life,Literary career,3 Periods of CreationThe influence of French literature, (1360s -1372) chiefly translated from the French works, eg. “The Romaunt of Rose” 玫瑰传奇. “The Book of the Du
8、chess” 悼公爵夫人 the best work of the timeThe influence of Italian Renaissance (1372- 1386) mainly adapted works from Italian literature, eg; “Troilus and Criseide” 特洛勒斯和克里希德 The British Period: 1386 - 1400 (Mature Period) “The Canterbury Tales” 坎特伯雷故事集,his masterpiece and a representative works of the
9、Middle Ages.,Literary Terms,EpicAlliteration RomanceBaladHeroic couplet,Part 2: The English Renaissance (Late 15th century- early 17th century),Renaissance, in essence, is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas i
10、n medieval Europe and introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie, and to lift the restriction in all areas placed by the Roman Catholic Church authorities. Humanism is the essence / keynote of the Renaissance,Writers of Renaissance,William Shakespeare,Four Great Comed
11、iesA Midsummer Nights DreamTwelfth NightAs You Like itThe Merchant of Venice Four Great TragediesHamletMacbethKing LearOthello,“All the world s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.”,Literary Terms,HumanismThe Spenserian StanzaAllegoryessayBlank verseTragedyComedy,Part Three: The Period
12、 of the English Bourgeois Revolution ( 17th century),John Milton Paradise LostParadise RegainedSamson Agonistes (resemble Milton himself)John Donne Metaphysical poetThe Flea, A valediction: Forbidding MourningJohn BunyanThe Pilgrims Progress: religious allegory “Vanity Fair, Faithful, Hypocricy, Ign
13、orance”John DrydenAll For Love,Literary Terms,Metaphysical poetConceit,Enlightenment literature (late 17th centurymid 18th century),Glorious Revolution-comparatively peacefulNew Classicism: reason, forman age of prose rather than poetry.,An Overview of the 18th Literature,the Prosperity of Prose,Ste
14、ele, Addison, PopeSamuel Johnson,classicism: classicists,The Enlightenment,the Rising of Novels,Defoe, Fielding, Swift,realism: realists,the Decline of Drama,Goldsmith, Sheridan,sentimentalism: sentimentalists,Gray,the Development of Poetry,Blake, Burns,pre-romanticists,Alexander Pope 蒲伯,one of the
15、first to introduce rationalism to England, for him the supreme value was order.Elaborated certain regulations for the style of poetical works and brought the heroic couplet -five foot iambic rhymed in couplet to ultimate perfection.,Popes representative works, a poem written in heroic couplets(对句),
16、criticize the present poem lack of true taste & call on people to turn to the old Greek and Roman writers for guidance, true wit which is best set in a plain (simple & clear) style. a delightful burlesque of epic poetry, it ridicules the manners of the English nobility. The poem is based on an actua
17、l incident in which a young nobleman stole a lock of a ladys hair. suggests humankind is a part of nature and the diversity of living forms: Each beast, each insect, happy in its own: / Is Heaven unkind to Man, and Man alone?“ generally considered Popes best satiric work, as reflected in the corrupt
18、ness of government, social morals, education & even religion,Richard Steele and Joseph Addison,“The Tatler”& “The Spectator”, in which Steele and Addison created a new style of prose and paved the way for the rise of novel.,Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔约翰逊,one of the greatest figures of 18th-century English li



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