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1、,Selected readings In English And American Litercatures Tracy_0823,Part one Old and Medieval English Literature,1.Old English Poetry and“Beowulf”(贝尔武夫)“Beowulf”the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon and English people Alliteration(头韵）2.Middle English Literature and the Canterbury TalesThe Romance(desc

2、ribing the life and adventures of a noble hero)Geoffrey Chaucer the“father of English poetry”,“The Canterbury Tales”is Chaucers masterpiece(stories narrated by Pilgrims)he introduced rhymed couplet to English poetry,instead of the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.(Couplet:A stanza of two lines,usu

3、ally rhyming.),King Arthur Arthur and His Round Table Knights,Sir Gawain and the Green Knights,The Renaissance,Renaissance(14851660)The Background:the society was in its transition from the feudalism to capitalism.Revival or rebirth of classical arts,culture and philosophy after the dark ages of med

4、ieval The key word for it is humanism,emphasized secular concerns,express the interests of the rising bourgeoisie.Shakespeare,Spenser,and Marlowe are all famous literary figures in this period,Utopia(socialism)The definition of Utopia is no place.,Thomas More(1478-1535),Edmund Spenser(1552-1599),The

5、 shepheardes CalwnderThe Faerie Queene,Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593),1.University wits,the greatest pioneer of English drama2.a)Tamburlaine b)Doctor Faustus c)the jew of malta3.Verse consisting of unrhymed lines,usually of iambic pentameter.无韵诗，素体诗,Francis Bacon培根(1561-1626),II.Bacons works“Advance

6、ment of Learning”学术的推进:“New Instrument”:新工具 the inductive method of reasoning 3.“New Atlantics”:an ideal society 新大西岛4.“Essays”/58 essays论说文集 A wide variety of subjects:love,truth,friendship,beauty,studies,riches His style:clearness,brevity,force of expression his essays is an important landmark in

7、the development of English prose,William Shakespeare,the greatest English poet and dramatist 154 sonnets,37 plays,including 14 comedies,12 tragedies,and 11 historical plays,2 long poems.But for such a great writer,we have very little definite knowledge about his life.,Shakespeares Tragedies,(1)Hamle

8、t(2)Othello(3)King Lear(4)Macbeth,to praise the friendship between Antonio and Bassanio,to idealize Portia a heroine of great beauty,wit and loyalty,to expose the insatiable greed and brutality(Shylock)hesitate between fact and fiction,language and actionTo be,or not to be-to live on in this world o

9、r to die;to suffer or to take action Soliloquy or monologue-fully reveal the inner conflict of the characters,poetry,1.Narrative poetry the epicthe romance popular ballads 2.Lyric poetry the elegy:a lyric poem lamenting the death of an individual.the ode:a lyric poem of considerable length to sing i

10、n honor a person or a thing.It is serious in subject and formal in style.3.Dramatic poetry:dialogue in the drama,Sonnet,A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes.Rhyme:abab cdcd efef gg3 quatrains(3 four-line stanza)+1 couplet(2 lines),The period of the English Bo

11、urgeois Revolution,Historical background:two revolutions:puritan revolution and glorious revolution the transition from the absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy 1.two literary schools of poets the school of Metaphysical the school of Cavaliers.2.the most important poet:John Milton,Metaphysic

12、al Poetry（玄学派诗歌)It is the poetry of John Donne and other seventeenth-century poets who wrote in a similar style.dislike traditional poemScholar,Highly abstract or theoretical;,John Milton约翰弥尔顿,(1)the last great poems Paradise Lost失乐园 Paradise Regained复乐园 Samson Agonistes.The two most essential thing

13、s:Puritanism and his republicanism.the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.the main idea of the poem is a revolt against Gods authority Satan is the real hero of the poem.Satan led a rebellion against God with his unconquerable will.,John Bunyan(1628-1688)班扬,Puritan

14、author His best known work,The Pilgrims Progress天路历程 a religious allegory,18世纪英国文学Cultural Background,1.Enlightenment Movement 启蒙运动A progressive intellectual movement Enlighteners considered“Enlightenment”or“education”of the people to be their chief objective.They believed in the power of reason(the

15、 age of reason)two groups:the moderate(Pope,Defoe,Addison)（温和派）support the principles of the existing social order)the radical(Swift,Fielding,Sheridan)（激进派）crisis Sentimentalism（感伤主义）,18世纪英国文学,Complex:An age of prose(Addisons essay Swifts satire Fieldings novel)1.Neo-classicism新古典A revival interest

16、in old classic works,order,logic(PopeAddisonSteel:model themselves after Greek and Latin authors)2.Sentimentalism(Gray Goldsmith Richardson Sterne:discontent with the social reality“Heart”)3.The beginning of modern novel Major novelists:Defoe SwiftFielding Richardson,4.Pre-romanticism in English poe

17、try5.English Drama(Sheridan:the school for Scandal),Neo-classicism新古典,A revival interest in old classic works,order,logic(model themselves after Greek and Latin authors)1.Alexander Pope蒲伯:Heroic couplet英雄双韵体 2.Joseph Addison艾迪生 and Sir Richard Steele斯梯尔:The Spectator旁观者 3.Samuel Johnson:Dictionary,A

18、lexander Pope蒲柏,Neo-classicism新古典Heroic couplet英雄双韵体 Lines of iambic pentameter rhyme in pairs Pope carried this to its last stage of perfectionAn Essay on Criticism,Sentimentalism,discontent with the social reality Thomas Gray格雷(poem)Laurence Sterne(novel),II.Thomas Gray(1716-1771),SentimentalismTh

19、e graveyard school墓园派,The beginning of modern novel,Smollett:First important sea novelist Laurence Sterne斯泰恩:Sentimentalism Samuel Richardson 理查生:Pamela,or Virtue Rewarded 帕美拉Clarissa Harlowe,or Virtue Triumphant 克拉丽莎1.Daniel Defoe迪福:Robinson Crusoe鲁宾逊漂流记Robinson is the very prototype of the empire

20、builder,the pioneer colonist.2.Jonathan Swift斯威夫特：a master satiristGullivers Travels 格列佛游记3.Henry Fielding：Father of English novel、The founder of English realistic novel Tom Jones汤姆琼斯,Romanticism in Britain,The New Literary Trend(1798-1832)1.Dissatisfaction with the society(1)A revolt against it(2)A

21、n escape from it2.An introspection into ones inner world(attention on spiritual and emotional life)3.The passions of man and the beauties of nature4.A period of poetical revival,(1)The Romantic period is an age of poetry.(Blake,Wordsworth,Coleridge,Byron,Shelley,Keats)(2)The Romantic period is a gre

22、at age of prose.Coleridge,Hazlitt,Lamb(3)This period is also a great age of novels.Walter ScottScotts historical novels combine a romantic atmosphere with a realistic depiction of historical background and common peoples life.Scott marked the transition from romanticism to the period realism.,Willia

23、m Blake布莱克,Symbolism,1.The earliest poems:Poetical sketches素描诗集 2.Songs of Innocence天真之歌 3.Songs of experience经验之歌 4.famous poem:The tigerLondonThe Chimney Sweeper,.Robert Burns(1759-1796),II.Burns Poems1.Written in the Scottish dialect on a variety of subjects Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect苏

24、格兰方言诗集 2.Songs of love and friendship-a new spirit of romanticism“A Red,Red Rose”一朵红红的玫瑰 3The rural theme/Beauties of nature“My Hearts in the Highlands”我的心呀在高原,Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)柯勒律治,Poetic and critic“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”1798古舟子咏“Kubla Khan”1816忽必烈汗 Wordsworth and Colerid

25、ges s抒情歌谣集,William Wordsworth威廉华兹华斯,Wordsworths poems1.“Lucy”-harmony between humanity and nature露西组诗(She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways）2.“The Solitary Reaper”-pathetic pictures of the labouring people孤寂的刈麦人 3.“I wondered lonely as a cloud”-deep love for nature,George Gordon,“Childe Harolds Pilgrim

26、age”1812恰罗德哈罗德游记“Don Juan”1812-1823 masterpiece唐璜 a great comic epic of the early 19th century.The“Byronic hero”is a proud,mysterious rebel figure of noble origin名诗：She Walks in Beauty;The Isles of Greece,Percy Bysshe Shelly雪莱(1792-1822),1.“Queen Mab”:麦布女王 His first long poem expresses almost all hi

27、s major political ideas.2.“Prometheus Unbound”:解放了的普罗米修斯 His masterpiece;a lyrical drama.3.Lyrics on nature and love:e.g.“Ode to the West Wind”;“To a Skylark”西风/云雀颂“If Winter comes,can Spring be far behind?”,John Keats(1795-1821),Not nobleDied of TBDied at 25,John Keatss Odes,.,Ode on Melancholy,It

28、reveals the contrast between the permanence of art and the transience of human passion.,Ode to a Nightingale夜莺颂,It reveals the contrast between the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony,Ode to Autumn秋颂,Ode on a Grecian Urn希腊古瓮颂,Ode to Psyche,The Development of Victorian Literatu

29、re,Victorian Literature,as a product of its age,naturally had its quality of magnitude and diversity.It was many-sided and complex,and reflected both romantically and realistically the great changes that were going on in peoples life and thought.the great period of the novel in BritainCritical reali

30、sts were all concerned about the fate of the common people,The Genres of Victorian Literature,1)The novel became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.Charles Dickens,William Makepeace Thackeray,Charlotte Bronte,Emily BronteElizabeth GaskellGeorge

31、Eliot,Robert Browning勃朗宁(1812-1889),the most original poet,who improve and mature the dramatic monologue戏剧独白,The Brownings,Wrote an admiring letter to Elizabeth Barret(an invalid,a poet,six years elder)famous romance secretely wedded,eloped to Italy in 1846Sonnets From the Portuguese(love poems to h

32、er husband)葡萄牙十四行诗 Robert The ring and book(poetic drama)My last Duchess(dramatic monologue)A poem in which a single character,addressing a silent listener,explains his actions at an important moment or crisis in his life Home Thoughts From Abroad,Alfred Tennyson(1809-1892),Poet LaureateA real artis

33、t invents dramatic monologue,Jane Austen简奥斯丁1775-1817,1.Northanger Abbey诺桑觉寺2.Sense and Sensibility理智与情感3.Pride and Prejudice傲慢与偏见4.Mansfield Park曼斯菲尔德庄园5.Emma爱玛6.Persuasion 劝导,Austens writing style,1.The founder of the novel which deals with unimportant middle-class people.2.Vivid pictures of every

34、day life of simple country society,the small world she lived in3.Delicate description of the daily talks and doings of young people4.Quiet irony and analysis of character,Charles Dickens(1812-1870),one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age famous for his forceful social criti

35、cismurban poor(Critical realists were all concerned about the fate of the common people)Character-portrayal is the most distinguishing feature of his works A mingling of humor and pathos 悲伤,Charles Dickens,The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club匹克威克外传Oliver Twist奥利弗退斯特American Notes美国札记The Old Cu

36、riosity Shop老古玩店Dombey and Son董贝父子David Copperfield大卫科波菲尔Hard Times艰难时世A Tale of Two Cities双城记Great Expectation远大前程,Thackeray(1811-63)萨克雷,Representative of critical realismdifferent from Dickens,Less interested in direct social criticism Showing peoples vanity and their deluded efforts to achieve we

37、alth and social status,萨克雷的主要作品,The book of Snobs(1846-47)势利者集 Vanity Fair(1847-48)名利场Pendennis(1848)潘登尼斯Henry Esmond(1852)亨利爱德芒德 纽卡姆一家 The Newcomes(1853)弗吉尼亚人 The Virginians(1857),Vanity Fair名利场,Vanity Fair is Thackerays masterpiece.The term vanity fair originates from the allegorical story The Pil

38、grims Progress,by John Bunyan.The sub-title of the book,“A Novel Without a Hero”(the characters are all flawed to a greater or lesser degree)The novel satirizes society in early 19th-century England(characterised by hypocrisy and opportunism).,George Eliot(1819-1880),Mary Ann Cross,insightful psycho

39、logical novels（心理小说）,Writing about life in small rural towns,乔治艾略特主要作品,亚当比德 Adam Bede(1859)弗洛斯河上的磨坊 The Mill on the Floss(1860)织工马南 Silas Marner(1861)米德尔玛契Middlemarch(1871-1872)-a portrait of life in a provincial town,is considered her masterpiece.As a woman of exceptional(特有的)intelligence and life

40、experience,she shows a particular concern for the destiny of women,The Bronte Sisters,Charlotte Bronte(1816-1855)Jane EyreShirleyProfessor,Anne Bronte安妮勃郎特 Agnes Grey艾格尼斯格雷,Emily Bronte爱米丽 勃郎特1818-1848Wuthering Heights呼啸山庄（Heathcliff）,简爱 Jane Eyre(1847),Jane Eyre Mr.Rochester The center theme:women

41、should have equal rights with man.（The position of woman in society）The problem of the bourgeois system of education;The problem of orphan;,Thomas Hardy,Works Under the Greenwood Tree(1872)绿茵下 Far from the Madding Crowd(1874)远离尘嚣 The Return of the Native(1878)还乡 The Mayor of Casterbridge(1886)卡斯特桥市长

42、 Tess of the DUrbervilles(1891)德伯家的苔丝 Jude the Obscure(1896)无名的裘德,His principal works are the Wessex novels,i.e.novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside.He truthfully depicts the impoverishment and decay of small farmers威塞克斯小说.His pessimistic philosophy seems to sho

43、w that mankind is subjected to the rule of some hostile and mysterious fate,which brings misfortune to human life.,English literature at the turn of the century,The turn of the century Oscar Wilde(1854-1900),John Galsworthy George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950),Oscar Wilde(1854-1900),Irish poet and dramati

44、st The literary school of decadence apostle of Aestheticism“art for arts sake”.,(his only novel)The Picture of Dorian Gray(1891)道林格雷的画像 剧作his comic masterpieces The Importance of Being Earnest(1895)埃耐斯特的重要性.Lady Windermeres Fan(1892)温德米尔夫人的扇子 An ideal Husband理想丈夫 童话 The Happy Prince.(his fairy tales

45、 especially)快乐王子,John Galsworthy(1867-1933高尔斯华绥,The first trilogy“The Forsyte Saga”福尔塞世家:The Man of Property(1906)有产业的人（It was a landmark in the development of Galsworthys art.It established his place in literature as a representative of bourgeois realism in the 20th century English novel.）In Chance

46、ry(1920)骑虎难下 To let(1921)出租;The second trilogy,“A Modern Comedy”:现代喜剧 The White Monkey(1924)白猿The Silver Spoon(1926)银匙Swan Song(1928)天鹅曲,Bernard Shaw,Shaw was an essay-writer，language scholar and critic，but is best-remembered as a playwright.problem plays.,Bernard Shaw,Widowers Houses鳏夫的房产 Mrs.Warre

47、ns Profession华伦夫人的职业 The Devils Disciple魔鬼的门徒 Man and Superman人与超人 Major Barbara巴巴拉少校 Heartbroken House伤心之家 The Apple Cart;苹果车,A Brief Introduction to Modern English Literature,The effects of the First World War:A new age in English literatureJames Joyce Virginia Woolf D.H.LawrenceW.Somerset Maugham

48、 Joseph Conrad T.S.EliotThe effects of the Second World War on English literatureWilliam Gloding Doris LessingTed Hughes,Traditional writer,Some writers show continuity with the Victorian tradition of the novel George Bernard Shaw（1856-1950），H.G.Wells（1866-1946），E.M.Forster（1879-1970）,H.G.Wells（1866

49、-1946）威尔斯,Wells is celebrated as a popularizer of science，but his best novels explore serious social and cultural themes，科幻小说：The Time Machine时间机器,E.M.Forster福斯特（1879-1970）,A Passage to India印度之行 Howards End 霍华德庄园 The Longest Journey最漫长的旅程 The Room With A View可以远眺的房间 Where Angels Fear to Tread天使们忘而却

50、步的地方,William Somerset Maugham(1874-1965)毛姆,Works1915Of Human Bandage人性枷锁 1919The Moon and Sixpence月亮与六便士 1930Cakes and Ale寻欢作乐 1944The Razors Edge刀锋1951short stories,Arnold Bennett，1867-1931,Naturalism Old Wives Tale 老妇谭,Joseph Conrad康拉德(1857-1924),by birth a Pole His experience as a sailor made the