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专八英国文学考点
专八英国文学考点

英美文学知识考点\

一、对知名的英美文学家及其作品的重点考查

1. The novel Emma is written by________.(2005年真题第35题)

A. Mary Shelley

B. Charlotte Bronte

C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell

D. Jane Austen

2.Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte? (2007年真题第35题)

A. Oliver Twist

B. Middlemarch

C. Jane Eyre

D. Wuthering Heights

3.Death of a Salesman was written by________.(2007年真题第37题)

A. Arthur Miller

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. Ralph Ellison

D. James Baldwin

美国著名的剧作家,作品有Man Who Had All the Luck,Death of A Salesman,All My sons等,

4.The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by________. (2006年真题第36题)

A. Scott Fitzgerald

B. William Faulkner

C. Eugene O'Neil

D. Ernest Hemingway

他的主要作品还有:In Our Time,The Sun Also Rises,Farewell to Arms等

二、对英美文学流派及文学术语的重点考查

1.Which of following is NOT a romantic poet? (2005年真题第36题)

A. William Wordsworth

B. George Elliot

C. George G. Byron

D. Percy B. Shelley

2._____ is defined as an expression of human emotion which is condensed into fourteen lines (2006年第37题)

A. Free verse

B. Sonnet

C. Ode

D. Epigram

十四行诗(Sonnet )是欧洲的一种抒情诗体,诗句共有十四行,音译为“商籁体”,语源于普罗旺斯

Sonnet。原系中世纪民间流行并用于歌唱的一种短小诗歌。自欧洲进入文艺复兴时代之后,这种诗体获得

泛的运用。ABAB,CDCD,EFEF,GG。每行诗句有十个抑扬格音节,常常在最后一副对句中点明题意。

三、重点考查对主要文学家的概况及作品特点的了解

1.William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for________.(2005年真题第37题)

A. his poems

B. his plays

C. his short stories

D. his novels

2.William Butler Yeats was a(n) ______ poet and playwright. (2007年真题第36题)

A. American

B. Canadian

C. Irish

D. Australian

(1865-1939)是爱尔兰诗人,1923年获诺贝尔文学奖,主要诗集有《芦苇中的风》、《责任》、《塔》等。

3.Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century? (2006年真题第35题) 托马斯·斯特尔那斯·艾略特

A. T.S. Eliot

B. D.H. Lawrence

C. Theodore Dreiser

D. James Joyce

T.S. Eliot 是20世纪著名诗人、评论家、戏剧家,长诗―The Waste Land‖是他著作,。

英国文学知识简介(English Literature)

一、中古时期英语文学(Old and Medieval English Literature)

包括1) 古英语时期或盎格鲁--萨克森时期(449-1066)(The Old English Period or The Anglo-Saxon Period )

2) 中世纪(1066-ca.1485/ 1500)(The Medieval Period)

1.考核知识点和考核要求:

1) 英国中古时期主要的文学作品(《贝奥武甫》Beowulf,《高文爵士与绿色骑士》)Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2) 主要的作家、作家概况及其代表作品

2.英国中古时期的主要作家

杰弗里·乔叟Geoffrey Chaucer (首创―双韵体‖,英国文学史上首先用伦敦方言写作。

约翰·德莱顿(John Dryden)称其为―英国诗歌之父‖。代表作《坎特伯雷故事集》。The Canterbury Tales

二、英国文艺复兴时期文学(The Renaissance Period)(1500-1660)

1.考核知识点和考核要求:

1) 主要作家的创作思想、艺术特色、代表作品及其语言风格

2) 名词解释:十四行诗,文艺复兴,无韵诗

2.英国文艺复兴时期主要作家:

埃德蒙·斯宾塞Edmund Spenser (后人称之为―诗人的诗人‖。)

《仙后》The Faerie Queene

托马斯·莫尔Thomas More (欧洲早期空想社会主义的创始人,以其名著《乌托邦》而著名。Utopia

克里斯托夫·马洛Christopher Marlowe (《浮士德博士的悲剧》根据德国民间故事书写成;完善了无韵体诗。)

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus 《浮士德博士的悲剧》代表作

Tamburlaine the Great 《帖木儿大帝》

The Jew of Malta 《马耳他的犹太人》

威廉·莎士比亚William Shakespeare (英国著名剧作家、诗人,著有。)

―四大悲剧‖Hamlet 《哈姆雷特》Othello 《奥赛罗》King Lear 《李尔王》Macbeth 《麦克白》

The Merchant of Venice《威尼斯商人》Twelfth Night 《第十二夜》

A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream《仲夏夜之梦》As You Like it 《皆大欢喜》

Much Ado About Nothing 《无事生非》Romeo and Juliet《罗密欧与朱丽叶》

Henry IV, Part I, and Part II 《亨利四世》(史)

Henry V 《亨利五世》(史)

The Winter’s Tale 《冬天的故事》(传奇)

The Tempest 《暴风雨》(传奇)

Sonnets十四行诗

弗朗西斯·培根Francis Bacon (哲学家、散文家;在论述探究知识的著作中提出了知识就是力量这一著名

论断;近代唯物主义哲学的奠基人和近代实验科学的先驱。)Essays 《培根论说文集》本·琼生Ben Jonson (诗人,剧作家,批评家;性格喜剧Comedy of Humours)Volpone 《狐坡尼》十七世纪文学(资产阶级革命时期)

约翰·邓恩John Donne (―玄学派‖诗人Metaphysical Poetry)

约翰·弥尔顿John Milton(诗人、政论家;失明后写《失乐园》Paradise Lost、

《复乐园》、Paradise Regained《力士参孙》。Samson Agonistes)

《目盲自咏》“On His Blindness”《论出版自由》“Areopagitica”

约翰·班扬John Bunyan (代表作《天路历程》,宗教寓言,被誉为―具有永恒意义的百科全

书‖,是英国文学史上里程碑式著作。与但丁的《神曲》、奥古斯丁的《忏悔录》

并列为世界三大宗教题材文学杰作。The Pilgrim’s Progress

三、英国新古典主义时期文学(The Neoclassical Period)和十八世纪文学

1.考核知识点和考核要求:

1) 主要作家及其主要作品、作品的艺术特色及其文学流派。

2) 启蒙运动产生的背景。

2.英国新古典主义时期文学主要作家:

王政复辟时期

约翰·德莱顿John Dryden(批评家和戏剧家;在英国被封为第一位―桂冠诗人‖;最先提出―玄

学诗人‖一词;他创造的“英语双韵体”,成为英国诗歌的主要形式之一。)

十八世纪诗歌

亚历山大·蒲柏Alexander Pope (18世纪英国最伟大的诗人,其诗多用―英雄双韵体‖。词句工整、

精练、富有哲理性。)《批评论》An Essay on Criticism

《卷发遇劫记》The Rape of the Lock

《愚人记》Dunciad

十八世纪小说的崛起

丹尼尔·笛福Daniel Defoe(小说家,新闻记者,小册子作者;十八世纪英国现实主义小说的奠

基人。)《鲁滨逊漂流记》Robinson Crusoe 《摩尔·弗兰德斯》Moll Flanders 塞缪尔·理查森Samuel Richardson (小说开始审视―发生于内心的东西‖,代表作《帕米拉》《克拉丽

莎》。)《帕米拉》Pamela 《克拉丽莎》Clarissa

亨利·菲尔丁Henry Fielding (英国小说家,戏剧家,被誉为―英国小说之父‖。)

《约瑟夫·安德鲁》Joseph Andrews 《汤姆·琼斯》Tom Jones

乔纳森·斯威夫特Jonathan Swift(十八世纪杰出的政论家和讽刺小说家。高尔基称他为世界―伟大文

学创造者之一‖。)《格列佛游记》Gulliver’s Travels《书战》“The Battle of the

Books《木桶的故事》“The Tale of a Tub”《一个小小的建议》“A Modest Proposal”戏剧

理查德·布林斯利·谢里丹Richard Brinsley Sheridan (英国剧作家,政治家。18世纪唯一一位剧作家。《造

谣学校》是英国风俗喜剧最佳作品之一。The School for Scandal《情敌》The Rivals 塞缪尔·约翰逊Samuel Johnson(英国作家,批评家;英国文学史上重要的诗人、散文家、传记家

和健谈家,编纂的《英语大词典》Dictionary对英语发展做出了重大贡献。)四、英国浪漫主义文学(The Romantic Period)(1798-1830)

1.考核知识点和考核要求:

1)主要作家的创作思想、艺术特色、代表作品及其语言风格

2)名词解释:浪漫主义,―湖畔派诗人‖

2.英国浪漫主义时期的主要作家:

威廉·布莱克William Blake(十九世纪英国浪漫派诗人、画家、雕刻家;

代表作《素描诗集》、Poetical Sketches《经验之歌》、Songs of Experience《天

真之歌》。Songs of Innocence)《天堂与地狱的婚姻》The Marriage of Heaven and

Hell《伦敦》“London”《扫烟囱的孩子》“The Chimney Sweeper”《老虎》

“The Tyger”《羊羔》“The Lamb”

罗伯特·彭斯Robert Burns (苏格兰著名农民诗人。)

《红红的玫瑰》“A Red, Red Rose”《不管那一套》“For a’ That and a’ That”

威廉·华兹华斯William Wordsworth(与柯尔律治、骚塞同被称为―湖畔派‖诗人。The Lake Poets)

《抒情歌谣集》Lyrical Ballads 《序曲》The Prelude

《我好似一朵孤独的流云》―I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud‖

《惠敏斯特桥上有感》―Composed upon Westminster Bridge‖

《孤独的割麦女》―The Solitary Reaper‖

《丁登寺杂咏》―Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey‖

塞缪尔·泰勒·科勒律治Samuel Taylor Coleridge (―湖畔派诗人‖之一。)

《忽必烈汗》“Kubla Khan”《古舟子咏》“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

乔治·戈登·拜伦George Gordon Byron (拜伦式英雄Byronic heroes孤傲、狂热、浪漫,却充满了

反抗精神。内心充满了孤独与苦闷,却又蔑视群小。恰尔德·哈罗德是拜伦诗歌中

第一个―拜伦式英雄‖。)

《恰尔德·哈罗尔德游记》―Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage‖《唐·璜》Don Juan 波西·比希·雪莱Percy Bysshe Shelley (英国浪漫主义诗人。)Queen Mab 麦布女王

The Revolt of Islam伊斯兰的反叛Promethus Unbound解放了的普罗米修斯(诗

剧)The Cenci钦契一家(诗剧)―Ode to the West Wind‖西风颂“Adonais”阿多尼约翰·济慈John Keats (―美即是真,真即是美‖是他的著名诗句。)

Ode on a Grecian Urn希腊古瓮颂Ode on Melancholy忧郁颂

Ode to a Nightingale 夜莺颂Ode to Psyche 普赛克颂To Autumn 秋颂同时期的小说

简·奥斯汀Jane Austen (以女性作家特有的敏锐和细腻刻画英国乡村中产阶级的生活和

思想。预示现实主义小说的崛起)Sense and Sensibility理智与感情

Pride and Prejudice 傲慢与偏见Mansfield Park曼斯菲尔德庄园

Emma爱玛Northanger Abbey诺桑觉寺Persuasion劝导

沃尔特·司各特Walter Scott (浪漫主义历史小说为他赢得―西欧历史小说之父‖的声誉。)

Rob Roy罗伯·罗伊Ivanhoe 艾凡赫

五、维多利亚时期(The Victorian Period)

查尔斯·狄更斯Charles Dickens(批判现实主义小说家)

The Pickwick Papers 匹克威克外传Oliver Twist 奥列弗·特威斯特

David Copperfield大卫·科波菲尔Bleak House荒凉山庄Hard Times艰难时世

A tale of Two Cities双城记Great Expectations伟大的期望

A Christmas Carol圣诞颂歌

萨克雷William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair, or a Novel without a Hero 名利场

夏洛蒂/爱米丽/安妮·勃郎特Charlotte/Emily/Anne Bronte

Charlotte: Jane Eyre 简爱Shirley雪莉

Emily: Wuthering Heights 呼啸山庄

托马斯·哈代Thomas Hardy (小说多以农村生活为背景;自然主义小说家。Wessex novels;

novels of character and environment )Under the Greenwood Tree 《绿荫下》

Far from the Madding Crowd 《远离尘嚣》The Return of the Native 《还乡》

The Mayor of Casterbridge《卡斯特桥市长》Tess of the D’Urbervilles《德伯家的

苔丝》Jude the Obscure 《无名的裘德》

乔治·爱略特George Eliot

Adam Bede亚当·比德The Mill on the Floss弗罗斯河上的磨房

Silas Marner织工马南Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life 米德尔马契盖斯凯尔夫人Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 《Mary Barton》玛丽·巴顿

阿尔弗雷德·丁尼生Alfred Tennyson (维多利亚时代最具代表性的伟大诗人)

“Break, Break, Break”碎了,碎了,碎了“Ulysses”尤利西斯

“The Princess”公主In Memoriam悼念The Idylls of the King国王叙事诗勃朗宁夫妇The Brownings

Robert Browning ( dramatic monologue)

The Ring and the Book 环与书“My Last Duchess”我的已故的公爵夫人

“Home Thoughts, from Abroad”海外乡思

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “Sonnets from the Portuguese”葡萄牙十四行诗

奥斯卡·王尔德(The Aesthetic Movement: Art for Art’s Sake)

Lady Windermere’s Fan温德米尔夫人的扇子

The Importance of Being Earnest认真的重要Salome莎乐美.

The Picture of Dorian Gray 道林·格雷的画像

六.现代时期(The Modern Period)(1914-)

1.考核知识点和考核要求:

1)主要作家的创作思想、艺术特色、代表作品及其语言风格

2)名词解释:意象主义,象征主义,意识流

2.美国现代主义时期的主要作家:

乔治·萧伯纳George Bernard Shaw (英国杰出的批判现实主义剧作家, 1925 Nobel Prize)

Mrs. Warren’s Profession华伦夫人的职业Man and Superman 人与超人The Apple Cart 苹果车

Pygmalion 匹格马利翁Major Barbara 巴巴拉上校Heartbreak House 伤心之家

威廉·巴特勒叶芝William Butler Yeats (爱尔兰诗人,剧作家;The Irish nationalist movement 爱尔兰独立运动;The Irish Literary Revival 爱尔兰文艺复兴;The Irish Literary Theater, or the Abbey Theater 爱尔兰民

族剧团)Nobel Prize in 1923

The Wind Among the Reeds 芦苇中的风Responsibilities 责任The Tower 钟楼

The Winding Stair 盘旋的楼梯― The Lake Isle of Innisfree‖茵尼斯弗里岛

―Sailing to Byzantine‖驶向拜占庭―Easter, 1916‖复活节,1916 ―Second Coming‖第二次降临

―Leda and the Swan‖丽达与天鹅

托·斯·艾略特Thomas Sternes Eliot (诗人,剧作家,批评家, 1948 Nobel Prize)

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”阿尔弗雷德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌The Waste Land 荒原

“The Hollow Men”空心人The Four Quartets 四个四重奏

约瑟夫·康拉德Joseph Conrad

The Nigger of the Narcissus 白水仙号上的黑家伙Lord Jim 吉姆爷Heart of Darkness 黑暗之心大卫·赫伯特·劳伦斯David Herbert Lawrence(英国诗人,小说家,散文家)

Sons and Lovers 儿子与情人The Rainbow 虹Women in Love 恋爱中的女人

Lady Chatterley’s Lover 查泰莱夫人的情人

约翰·高尔斯华绥John Galsworthy (小说家,剧作家, 1932 Nobel Prize)

The Forsyte Saga 福尔赛世家(有产者The Man of Property,进退维谷In Chancery,招租人To Let)赫·乔·威尔斯Herbert George Wells (小说家,科学传奇)

The Time Machine 时间机器The Invisible Man 隐身人

威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆William Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage 人生的枷锁

詹姆斯·乔伊斯James Joyce (爱尔兰小说家,意识流小说的代表人物)

The Dubliners 都柏林人The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man 青年艺术家的肖像

Ulysses 尤利西斯Finnegan’s Wake 芬尼根守灵夜

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫Virginia Woolf(意识流小说的代表人物; Bloomsbury Group)

Mrs. Dalloway 达罗卫夫人To the Lighthouse 到灯塔去The Waves 海浪

The Common Reader 普通读者

爱·摩·福斯特Edward Morgan Forster

A Room with a View 看得见风景的房间Howards End 霍华德庄园A Passage to India 印度之行

奥尔都斯·赫胥黎Aldous Leonard Huxley Brave New World 奇妙的新世界

乔治·奥威尔George Orwell (政治讽刺小说) Animal Farm 动物庄园《1984》

七.二战后代表作家:术语:后现代主义,愤怒的青年

愤怒的青年Angry Young Men

约翰?奥兹伯恩John Osborne,剧作家:Look Back in Anger愤怒回望

金斯利·艾米斯Kingsley Amis,小说家:Lukcy Jim幸运的吉姆

塞缪尔·贝克特Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) (爱尔兰,荒诞派戏剧代表作家,剧作家,小说家1969 Nobel Prize )

Waiting For Godot《等待戈多》

威廉·戈尔丁William Golding (1911-1993) (小说家,作品具寓言风格,1983 Nobel Prize)Lord of the Flies 蝇王

多丽丝·莱辛Doris Lessing (1919-) (小说家,2007 Nobel Prize)

The Grass is Singing (1950) 野草在歌唱The Golden Notebook (1962) 金色笔记

V·S·奈保尔V. S. Naipaul (1932-) (印度裔小说家,小说及非虚构文学, 2001 Nobel Prize )

A House for Mr Biswas, 1961《毕司沃斯先生的房子》In a Free State, 1971《在自由的国度》

A Bend in the River, 1979《河湾》The Enigma of Arrival, 1987《抵达之谜》

哈罗德·品特Harold Pinter (1930-2008) ( 2005 Nobel Prize,被评论界誉为萧伯纳之后英国最重要的剧作家, 是20世纪下半叶国剧作家的杰出代表,他的名字甚至被用来代表英国戏剧创作的一个流派―品特派‖Pinteresque,品特

的早期作品经常被人们归入荒诞派戏剧。)

The Caretaker,1960《看房者》The Birthday Party,1958 《生日晚会》The Homecoming,1965《归家》W. H. 奥登W. H. Auden (1907-1973) 诗人。

菲利浦·拉金Philip Larkin(1922~1985),诗人。

The Less Deceived受骗较少的人The Whitsun Weddings降灵节婚礼High Windows高窗The North Ship北方船Church Going 泰德·休斯Ted Hughes(1930~1998)诗人The Hawk in the Rain《雨中鹰》

英语专八英美文学常识汇总

英语专八英美文学常识汇总

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英语专业八级 英国文学知识总结

1 Old and Medieval Period 1-1 the Anglo-Saxon Period Beowulf Caedmon – Caedmon’s Hymn Cynewulf – The Fates of the Apostles, Juliana, Elene 1-2 the Middle English Period Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Thomas Marlory – Le Morte D’Arthur (The Death of King Arthur) William Langland – Piers the Plowman Geoffrey Chaucer –The Canterbury Tales 1-3 the 15th Century The Robin Hood Ballads 2 The Renaissance Period 2-1 poem Thomas Wyatt Henry Howard Sir Philip Sidney – Astrophel and Stella, Apology for Poetry Edmund Spencer – The Shephearde’s Calendar, Epithalamion, The Faerie Queene 2-2 prose Thomas More – Utopia Francis Bacon – A History of the Life and Reign of King Henry Ⅶ, The Advancement of Learning, Essays(Of Studies, Of Travel, Of Wisdom), The New Atlantis John Lyly—Eupheus 2-3 drama Christopher Marlowe – Tamburlaine, The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta William Shakespeare – Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, The Twelfth Night Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest Historical plays: Henry Ⅳ, HenryⅤ Long narrative poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece

专八人文常识辅导材料(英国文学)

British Literature: A Concise History I. Review (P.162) 补充09 1. Ode to the West Wind was written by _____. (2009) A. William Blake. B. William Wordsworth. C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. D. Percy B. Shelley. 2. The novel Sons and Lovers was written by __. (2009) A. Thomas Hardy. B. John Galsworthy. C. D.H. Lawrence. D. James Joyce. 3. The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by ______. (2008) A. William Langland B. Geoffrey Chaucer C. William Shakespeare D. Alfred Tennyson 4. All of the following are well-known female writers in 20th-century Britain EXCEPT ______. (2008) A. George Eliot B. Iris Jean Murdoch C. Dons Lessing D. Muriel Spark 5. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte? (2007) A. Oliver Twist B. Middlemarch C. Jane Eyre D. Wuthering Heights 6. William Butler Yeats was a(n) ____ poet and

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